Dictionary.com Store Terms Of Service

 Welcome to The DICTIONARY.COM Store (“Store”) website (“Site”), owned by and operated on behalf of DICTIONARY.COM, LLC  (“DICTIONARY.COM ”, “we”, “us” or the “Company”)).

 These Store terms of service (“Store Terms”) serve as an agreement between you and DICTIONARY.COM and govern your access to and use of the Store Site and services and your purchase of any Store products (collectively, “Services”).  By using our Site or Services, you agree to these Terms.

SECTION 15 OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAIN A BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER THAT REQUIRE THAT DISPUTES BE RESOLVED BY FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, NOT A CLASS-WIDE OR CONSOLIDATED BASIS. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION, YOU MAY OPT OUT OF THE ARBITRATION PROVISION BY FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED IN SECTION 15.  PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.

We may amend these Store Terms at any time in our sole discretion, effective upon posting the amended Terms at this URL where the prior version of these Terms was posted or by communicating these changes through any contact method we have established with you. Your use of the Sites or Services following the date on which such amended Terms are published will constitute agreement to such amendments. However, if you cease using the Sites or Services upon such publication, your relationship with us will continue to be controlled by the previous version of these Terms. You agree that you will periodically check this page for updates to these Terms and read the messages we send you to inform you of any changes.

1. Using Our Sites, Stores, User Conduct, and User Content

Eligibility: In order to become a “Registered User” (by creating an account), DICTIONARY.COM requires an individual to be at least eighteen (18) years old and not have a previous account terminated by DICTIONARY.COM or otherwise have had his or her access to the Sites terminated by DICTIONARY.COM. It is a violation of the Agreement to provide false or misleading information to DICTIONARY.COM in connection with the creation of an account. If you would like to report an account registered for a minor, please email support@dictionary.com

User Responsibilities: You are solely responsible for complying with these Terms, your use of our Sites or Services, any interactions with other users, and for any consequences thereof.

User Content:  When you use our Site and Services, you may be able to upload or submit content or other material (whether comments, ideas, images, links, documents, text, writings, photographs, graphics, videos, or files) to us or through the Sites or Services (collectively, “User Content”). User Content you submit may be viewable by the public or other users of the Sites or Services and through third party services and websites.  You should only provide User Content that you are comfortable sharing publicly or with others under these Terms, and that does not violate any third-party’s rights of any kind, including without limitation, any intellectual property rights, rights of privacy, or publicity rights.

By submitting or posting any User Content, you grant to DICTIONARY.COM and its affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable and transferable license to copy, publish, translate, modify, reformat, create derivative works from, distribute, reproduce, sell, display, transmit, publish, broadcast, host, archive, store, cache, use or otherwise exploit all or any portion of the User Content, as well as your name, persona and likeness included in any User Content and your social media account handle, username, real name, profile picture and/or any other information associated with the User Content, in any commercial or noncommercial manner whatsoever, in whole or in part, in any and all distribution channels, forms, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, including but not limited to in Stores, on products, printed marketing materials, emails, web pages, social media accounts and for any other marketing, advertising, public relations, sales or promotional purposes with or without attribution and without further notice to you. Neither you, nor any other person or entity, will have the right to (i) receive any royalty or consideration of any kind for the use of the User Content pursuant to these Terms or (ii) inspect or approve the editorial copy or other material that may be used in connection with the User Content.

DICTIONARY.COM will be free to use any ideas, suggestions, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such User Content for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products that incorporate or otherwise rely upon such User Content. DICTIONARY.COM shall have no obligation to monitor User Content, use or display User Content, compensate you for submitting User Content or respond to any User Content. DICTIONARY.COM retains the right, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, to remove, revise or refuse to post any User Content for any reason or no reason. Subject to the licenses granted in these Terms, you retain ownership of any copyright and other rights you may have in the User Content.

By submitting or posting User Content on the Site, on your social media accounts or through any tools or applications we provide for posting or sharing your User Content with us, you represent and warrant that (i) you own or control any and all rights in and to the User Content, and the right to grant all of the rights and licenses in these Terms, and if you are not the holder of such rights, the holder of such rights has completely and effectively waived all such rights and irrevocably granted you the right to grant the licenses stated above without the need for payment to you or any other person or entity; (ii) you have obtained permission from any individuals that appear in the User Content to use, and grant others the right to use, their name, image, voice and/or likeness without the need for payment to you or any other person or entity; (iii) you are 18 years of age or older; and (iv) the User Content does not (a) contain false or misleading information, (b) infringe on the intellectual property, privacy, publicity, statutory, contractual or other rights of any third party, (c) contain any libelous, defamatory, obscene, offensive, threatening or otherwise harassing or hateful content, (d) contain any addresses, email addresses, phone numbers or any contact information or (e) contain computer viruses, worms or other harmful files. Upon request by DICTIONARY.COM, you will furnish DICTIONARY.COM any documentation, substantiation or releases necessary to verify your compliance with these Terms. You are solely responsible for the User Content and you hereby agree to indemnify and hold DICTIONARY.COM and its employees, agents, affiliates, assigns and licensees harmless from any and all damages, claims, expenses, costs or fees arising from or in connection with a breach of any of the foregoing representations or your violation of any law or rights of a third party.

User Conduct: In exchange for your being able to use the Sites, you agree to be bound by the following obligations:

You may not: (i) Use false information or an account owned or controlled by another person with the intent to mislead other users maliciously by impersonating that person or for any other reason; (ii) use as a User ID a name subject to any rights of a person other than yourself without appropriate authorization or in violation of these Terms; or (iii) otherwise submit false or misleading information to the us. 

3. No Changes to the Software/Prohibited Uses.

You may not and may not allow any third party to:

modify, adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or structure, sequence and organization of the Sites or any portion of any website on which the Services are offered (except where the foregoing is required by applicable local law, and then only to the extent so required under such laws); use the Sites in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Sites or another user’s use of the Sites; remove, obscure or change any copyright, trademark, hyperlink or other proprietary rights notices (“Notices”) contained in or on the Sites or any website on which the Service is offered, Company code embeddable or embedded on a third party web site, and/or Company software; submit any content or material that falsely express or imply that such content or material is sponsored or endorsed by the Company; or use the Sites or Services s to violate the security of any computer network or transfer or store illegal material.

4. Usage Rules.

You agree that your use of and conduct on the Sites (including any commenting feature), and your User Content shall be lawful and will not: 

violate the contractual, personal, intellectual property or other rights of any party, or promote or constitute illegal activity; be in violation of these Terms, any local, state, federal or international law, rule or regulation or the rules of conduct posted with respect to any individual feature of the Services; create user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses or mislead others as to the origins of your communications; trick, defraud or mislead the Company or other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as passwords; make improper use of the Company’s support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct; engage in promoting any pyramid schemes or other multi-tiered marketing schemes or engage in promoting any websites or services that are deemed spam, malware, or contain objectionable material in the Company’s sole discretion; create or transmit unwanted electronic communications such as “spam,” to other users or members of the Sites or otherwise interfere with other users’ or members’ enjoyment of the Sites; disseminate or transmit viruses, worms, Trojan horses, RATs, keyboard loggers, time bombs, spyware, adware, cancelbots, passive collection mechanisms (“PCMs”), or any other malicious or invasive code or program or upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including, without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats (“gifs”), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies or other similar devices; copy or adapt the Service’s software including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript or other code; reverse engineer, decompile, reverse assemble, modify or attempt to discover any software (source code or object code) that the Service create to generate web pages or any software or other products or processes accessible through the Sites; except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use or launch, develop or distribute any automated system, including, without limitation, any spider, robot (or “bot”), cheat utility, scraper or offline reader that accesses the Service, or use or launch any unauthorized script or other software; cover or obscure any notice, banner, advertisement or other branding on the Sites; disguise the source of your Content or other information you submit to the Sites; interfere with or circumvent any security feature of the Service or any feature that restricts or enforces limitations on use of or access to the Sites or Content.

5. Site and Product License.

All right, title, and interest in and to the Sites and Services, including any products offered in the Stores, is and shall remain the exclusive property of DICTIONARY.COM and its licensors. The Sites, Services, and the products are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United States and foreign countries. Nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use the DICTIONARY.COM name or any of the DICTIONARY.COM website names, trademarks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features.

Subject to your acceptance of these Terms, DICTIONARY.COM grants you a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, freely revocable license to use the Sites and Services for your personal, noncommercial (i.e. you may not use the Sites to provide or serve or permit others to provide or serve ads or contests or sweepstakes) use only and as permitted by the features of the Sites and Services. DICTIONARY.COM reserves all rights not expressly granted herein in the Sites and Services and the DICTIONARY.COM Content. DICTIONARY.COM reserves the right to terminate your license to use the Sites and Services at any time and for any or no reason or in the future to charge for commercial usage.

6. Accuracy, Completeness, and Timeliness of Information.

We have made every effort to display as accurately as possible the colors and images of our products that appear on the Site.  We cannot guarantee that your computer monitor’s display of any color will be accurate.  We are not responsible if information on our Sites is not accurate, complete, or current.  The information on this Site is provided for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions. 

7. Availability
   

We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to limit the sales of our products to any person, geographic region, or jurisdiction.  We may exercise this right on a case-by-case basis.  We reserve the right to limit the quantities of any products or Services that we offer.  All descriptions of products or product pricing are subject to change at any time without notice, at our sole discretion.  We reserve the right to discontinue any product at any time.  Any offer for any product or Service made on this Site is void where prohibited.  We do not warrant that the quality of any products, Services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you will meet your expectations, or that any errors in the Service will be corrected.

8. Our Right to Refuse or Cancel Any Order.

We reserve the right to refuse any order you place with us.  We may, in our sole discretion, limit or cancel quantities purchased per person, per household, or per order.  These restrictions may include orders placed by or under the same customer account, the same credit card, and/or orders that use the same billing and/or shipping address.  In the event that we make any change to or cancel an order, we may attempt to notify you by contacting the email, billing address, and/or phone number provided at the time the order was made.  We reserve the right to limit or prohibit orders that, in our sole judgment, appear to be placed by dealers, resellers, or distributors.

9. Return and Refund Policy.

Returns and Refunds

We will offer refunds for items purchased through the Dictionary.com Store if they are defective or damaged. If you receive a damaged or defective item and need to exchange it for the same item, send us an email at <support@dictionary.com> with a photo of your damaged or defective item.  Any claims for misprinted/damaged/defective items must be submitted within 30 days after the product has been received.  In some instances, we might not be able to replace the item, in which case we will issue you a refund.  Refunds will be made in the form of the original payment unless we agree to credit a different payment type within our sole discretion.  We will not accept a return or issue a refund for any products for any other reason accept those set forth in this Section 9.  If you return an item, you will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs. Shipping costs are non-refundable.  Once we receive and inspect the photo of your return, we will notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund or request for a replacement.  If you are approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within 14 days, or a replacement will be sent to you within standard shipping times.

If you have any questions about your return or request for refund, email us at <support@dictionary.com>.

Missing Orders

If a product or package was reported as delivered by the carrier to the correct shipping address, but the recipient reports to not have received it, we will not replace or refund the order. 

10. Copyright Policy

DICTIONARY.COM respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users and visitors to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our copyright agent the following information required by the  Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). The text of the Act can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site. 

To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a written communication (by email with an attached and signed PDF or by U.S. mail) that sets forth the items specified below.

Spam blockers sometimes devour important emails from strangers! To enable us to address your concerns, please provide the following information:

• For each allegedly infringing image, video, music, or piece of text that you wish to have removed from one of our sites, provide the exact permanent URL for the page containing the material.
• Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you: an email address is preferred, as well as a telephone contact number.
• For images, provide the following information detailing your claim to ownership of the copyright in the allegedly infringing image, video, music, or piece of text: Proof of copyright in the image, video, music, or piece of text concerned, namely proof of registration; OR, absent such registration, a detailed description and evidence to support your claim that you own the copyright in the image, video, music, or piece of text. We will not comply with requests to remove an image, video, music, or piece of text where the complainant cannot prove that they own the copyright in the Content in question.
• Include the following statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.”
• Sign the document and send it to DICTIONARY.COM c/o Rock Holdings, LLC, Legal / DMCA Complaints, P.O. Box 44587, Detroit, MI 48244, with subject line: Legal / DMCA Complaints, or send it via email to Legal Department, DICTIONARY.COM, RocketIPTeam@rocketcentral.com, with subject line: Legal / DMCA Complaints.

Please note that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you materially misrepresent that any material on our sites is infringing your copyrights. We also reserve the right to publish your letter on the DICTIONARY.COM site(s).

11. Termination.

DICTIONARY.COM may, without prior notice, change the Sites or Services, stop providing access to the Sites and Service or features of the Sites or Services to you or to users generally, or create usage limits for the Sites or Services. We may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend your access to the Sites or Services without notice and liability for any reason or no reason, including if, in our sole determination, you violate any provision of these Terms.

Upon termination of your access to or ability to use the Sites or Services, including but not limited to suspension of your account, your right to use or access that Service and any Content will cease. All provisions of this Agreement that by their nature should survive termination, shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, arbitration provisions, and limitations of liability. Termination of your access to and use of the Sites or Services shall not relieve you of any obligations arising or accruing prior to such termination or limit any liability which you otherwise may have to DICTIONARY.COM or any third party.

12. Indemnity.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless DICTIONARY.COM and its subsidiaries, agents, licensors, managers, and other affiliated companies, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Sites or Services, including any data transmitted, submitted, or otherwise provided by you; (ii) your violation of any provision of these Terms, including without limitation your breach of any of the representations and warranties above; (iii) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any right of privacy or intellectual property rights; (iv) your violation of any applicable law, rule or regulation; (v) any claim or damages that arise as a result of any User Content you submit or that is submitted via your account; or (vi) any other party’s access and use of the Sites or Services through your account.  

13. Warranty, Disclaimer, and Limitations of Liability

Your access to and use of the Sites, Services, or any Content is at your own risk.

THE SITES AND SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE “AS IS”: YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE SITES AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DICTIONARY.COM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Dictionary.com makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the Sites or Services, including any representation or warranty that the use of the Sites or Services will (a) be timely, uninterrupted or error-free or operate in combination with any other hardware, software, system or data, (b) meet your requirements or expectations, (c) be free from errors or that defects will be corrected, or (d) be free of viruses or other harmful components. DICTIONARY.COM also makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to Content; User Content, in particular, is provided by and is solely the responsibility of the users providing that Content. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from DICTIONARY.COM or through the Sites, will create any warranty not expressly made herein.

Release From Liability: You release, to the fullest extent permitted by law, DICTIONARY.COM , its affiliated entities, parent companies, subsidiaries, directors, officers, shareholders, employees, representatives, consultants, agents, suppliers, and/or distributors from responsibility, liability, claims, demands, and/or damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with the following: (i) Disputes between users, including those between you and other users; (ii) Third party sites and services, including Content found on such sites and services; (iii) Disputes concerning any use of or action taken using your account by you or a third party; (iv) Claims relating to the unauthorized access to any data communications or Content stored under or relating to your account, including unauthorized use or alteration of such communications or your Content.

Limitation of Liability: TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, DICTIONARY.COM , ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES, PARENT COMPANIES, SUBSIDIARIES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES, CONSULTANTS, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, AND/OR DISTRIBUTORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR: (A) ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER; (B) LOSS OF: PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, USE, GOOD-WILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES; (C) DAMAGES RELATING TO YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE SITES; (D) DAMAGES RELATING TO ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY OR SUBSCRIBER USING THE SITES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OR CONTENT; AND/OR (E) DAMAGES IN ANY MANNER RELATING TO ANY CONTENT. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES TO ALL CLAIMS, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER OR NOT DICTIONARY.COM HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, AND FURTHER WHERE A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF DICTIONARY.COM AND ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES, CONSULTANTS, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, AND/OR DISTRIBUTORS, FOR ANY CLAIM UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF TWENTY DOLLARS (USD$20) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US TO USE THE APPLICABLE SITE(S) OR SERVICES.

14. Waiver, Severability & Entire Agreement

Waiver: The failure of Dictionary.com to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision.

Severability: In the event that any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.

Entire Agreement: These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire and exclusive agreement between Dictionary.com and you regarding use of the Sites (excluding any services for which you have a separate written agreement with Dictionary.com that is explicitly in addition or in place of these Terms), and these Terms supersede and replace any prior agreements between Dictionary.com and you regarding use of the Sites.

15. DISPUTE RESOLUTION; BINDING ARBITRATION

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT REQUIRES YOU TO ARBITRATE CERTAIN DISPUTES AND CLAIMS WITH DICTIONARY.COM AND LIMITS THE MANNER IN WHICH YOU CAN SEEK RELIEF FROM US, UNLESS YOU OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION BY FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS SET FORTH BELOW. NO CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTIONS OR ARBITRATIONS ARE ALLOWED UNDER THIS ARBITRATION PROVISION. IN ADDITION, ARBITRATION PRECLUDES YOU FROM SUING IN COURT OR HAVING A JURY TRIAL.

• No Representative Actions. You and DICTIONARY.COM agree that any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or our Services is personal to you and DICTIONARY.COM and that any dispute will be resolved solely through individual action, and will not be brought as a class arbitration, class action or any other type of representative proceeding.
• Arbitration of Disputes. Except for small claims disputes in which you or DICTIONARY.COM seeks to bring an individual action in small claims court located in the county of your billing address or disputes in which you or DICTIONARY.COM seeks injunctive or other equitable relief for the alleged infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property, you and DICTIONARY.COM waive your rights to a jury trial and to have any other dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or our Services, including claims related to privacy and data security, (collectively, “Disputes”) resolved in court. Instead, for any Dispute that you have against DICTIONARY.COM you agree to first contact DICTIONARY.COM and attempt to resolve the claim informally by sending a written notice of your claim (“Notice”) to DICTIONARY.COM by email at [insert legal email] or by certified mail addressed to [insert legal department address]. The Notice must (i) include your name, residence address, email address, and telephone number; (ii) describe the nature and basis of the Dispute; and (iii) set forth the specific relief sought. Our notice to you will be similar in form to that described above. If you and DICTIONARY.COM cannot reach an agreement to resolve the Dispute within thirty (30) days after such Notice is received, then either party may submit the Dispute to binding arbitration administered by JAMS or, under the limited circumstances set forth above, in court. All Disputes submitted to JAMS will be resolved through confidential, binding arbitration before one arbitrator. Arbitration proceedings will be held in unless you are a consumer, in which case you may elect to hold the arbitration in your county of residence. For purposes of this Section 15, a “consumer” means a person using the Services for personal, family, or household purposes.  You and DICTIONARY.COM agree that Disputes will be held in accordance with the JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures (“JAMS Rules”). The most recent version of the JAMS Rules are available on the JAMS website and are hereby incorporated by reference. You either acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand the JAMS Rules or waive your opportunity to read the JAMS Rules and waive any claim that the JAMS Rules are unfair or should not apply for any reason.
• You and DICTIONARY.COM agree that these Terms affect interstate commerce and that the enforceability of this Section 15 will be substantively and procedurally governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. (the “FAA”), to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. As limited by the FAA, these Terms and the JAMS Rules, the arbitrator will have exclusive authority to make all procedural and substantive decisions regarding any Dispute and to grant any remedy that would otherwise be available in court, including the power to determine the question of arbitrability. The arbitrator may conduct only an individual arbitration and may not consolidate more than one individual’s claims, preside over any type of class or representative proceeding, or preside over any proceeding involving more than one individual.
• The arbitration will allow for the discovery or exchange of non-privileged information relevant to the Dispute. The arbitrator, DICTIONARY.COM, and you will maintain the confidentiality of any arbitration proceedings, judgments, and awards, including information gathered, prepared, and presented for purposes of the arbitration or related to the Dispute(s) therein. The arbitrator will have the authority to make appropriate rulings to safeguard confidentiality, unless the law provides to the contrary. The duty of confidentiality does not apply to the extent that disclosure is necessary to prepare for or conduct the arbitration hearing on the merits, in connection with a court application for a preliminary remedy or in connection with a judicial challenge to an arbitration award or its enforcement, or to the extent that disclosure is otherwise required by law or judicial decision. 
• You and DICTIONARY.COM agree that for any arbitration you initiate, you will pay the filing fee (up to a maximum of $250 if you are a consumer), and DICTIONARY.COM will pay the remaining JAMS fees and costs. For any arbitration initiated by DICTIONARY.COM, DICTIONARY.COM will pay all JAMS fees and costs. You and DICTIONARY.COM agree that the state or federal courts of the State of Michigan and the United States sitting in Wayne County, Michigan have exclusive jurisdiction over any appeals and the enforcement of an arbitration award.
• Any Dispute must be filed within one year after the relevant claim arose; otherwise, the Dispute is permanently barred, which means that you and DICTIONARY.COM will not have the right to assert the claim.
• You have the right to opt out of binding arbitration within 30 days of the date you first accepted the terms of this Section 15 by emailing support@dictionary.com. In order to be effective, the opt-out notice must include your full name and address and clearly indicate your intent to opt out of binding arbitration. By not opting out of binding arbitration, you are agreeing to resolve Disputes in accordance with Section 15.
• If any portion of this Section 15 is found to be unenforceable or unlawful for any reason, (i) the unenforceable or unlawful provision shall be severed from these Terms; (ii) severance of the unenforceable or unlawful provision shall have no impact whatsoever on the remainder of this Section 15 or the parties’ ability to compel arbitration of any remaining claims on an individual basis pursuant to this Section 15; and (iii) to the extent that any claims must therefore proceed on a class, collective, consolidated, or representative basis, such claims must be litigated in a civil court of competent jurisdiction and not in arbitration, and the parties agree that litigation of those claims shall be stayed pending the outcome of any individual claims in arbitration. Further, if any part of this Section 15 is found to prohibit an individual claim seeking public injunctive relief, that provision will have no effect to the extent such relief is allowed to be sought out of arbitration, and the remainder of this Section 15 will be enforceable.

16. Additional Information and Contact Information

Under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California consumers are entitled to the following specific consumer rights notice relating to resolving a consumer complaint: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite N-112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone at 1 (800) 952-5210.

If you need to contact Dictionary.com for inquiries about the Store, our contact information is below:

support@dictionary.com