THE MISSING PIECE TAMPA WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

 

1.                  NOTICE REGARDING FRANCHISE OFFERS OR SALES

 

This information is not intended as an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, a franchise. It is for information purposes only. There are approximately 14 countries and 15 US states that regulate the offer and sale of franchises. The countries are Australia, Brazil, Canada (provinces of Alberta and Ontario), China, France, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, and the United States of America. The US states are California, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. If you are a resident of one of these states or countries, are receiving this message in one of these states or countries, or intend to operate a franchise in any of these states or countries, we will not offer you a franchise unless and until we have complied with any applicable pre-sale registration and/or disclosure requirements in the applicable jurisdiction.

 

This offering is not an offering of a franchise. In New York (USA), an offering of a franchise can only be made by a prospectus that has been previously filed and registered with the Department of Law of the State of New York. The application for registration of an offering prospectus or the acceptance and filing thereof by the Department of Law as required by the New York law does not constitute approval of the offering or the sale of such franchise by the Department of Law or the attorney general of New York.

 

OUR WEBSITE HAS NOT BEEN REVIEWED OR APPROVED BY THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORPORATIONS. ANY COMPLAINTS CONCERNING THE CONTENT OF THIS WEBSITE MAY BE DIRECTED TO THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORPORATIONS AT www.corp.ca.gov.

 

Likewise, our website has not been reviewed or approved by any other federal or state governmental or regulatory agency.

 

None of the communications made through this Web Site should be construed as an offer to sell any The Missing Piece® Franchise, nor is any such communication directed to, the residents of any jurisdiction requiring registration of the franchise before it is offered and sold in that jurisdiction. No The Missing Piece® Franchises will be sold to any resident of any such jurisdiction until the offering has been exempted from the requirements of, or duly registered in and declared effective by, such jurisdiction and the required Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (if any) has been delivered to the prospective franchisee before the sale in compliance with applicable law. If you have any questions concerning the registration status of The Missing Piece® Franchises in your jurisdiction, please contact us at barbara@tmpstores.com.

 

2.                  TERMS OF USE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

 

Welcome to the web site ("Site") of The Missing Piece Franchising, LLC ("TMPF", the "Company" "we" or "us"), www.tmpstores.com, (collectively, the "Site" or "Web Site"). We have set out below certain terms and conditions for use of this Site. You agree to be bound by these terms if you use our Site. If you do not agree with this Terms and Conditions statement, do not use this Site. Be sure to check this page periodically for updates, as your continued use of the Site signifies your acceptance of any changed items.

 

Please note that the headings contained in this Terms and Condition statement are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not in any way define or affect the meaning, construction, or scope of any of the provisions contained in this Terms and Conditions statement.

 

THE MISSING PIECE® stores are owned and operated either by the Company or by an independent franchisee. The Company licenses independent franchisees to provide THE MISSING PIECE® products and services to the public.

 

THE MISSING PIECE® name, design, logos and related marks are registered trademarks/service marks of The Missing Piece Franchising, LLC. All rights reserved.

 

Our Site and all of its contents (including, without limitation, articles, text, photographs, images, illustrations, graphics, video material, audio material, and software — collectively, the "intellectual property"), are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws of the United States, as well as international conventions and the laws of other countries. The intellectual property is owned or controlled by the Company or the party credited as the provider of the intellectual property. Additionally, the Site itself is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation.

 

No portion of this Site may be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose that is not expressly permitted by the Company.

 

You may browse through the Site and occasionally download small amounts of materials appearing on the Site that are of personal interest to you for personal, non-commercial use. You must keep intact all copyright, trademark and other notices contained in your personal copies. You may not reproduce or allow others to reproduce your personal copies of downloaded materials, nor may you make them available electronically. You may not save or archive a significant portion of the material appearing on the Site. You may not attempt to alter or modify the content posted on the Site. Except as expressly set forth in this paragraph, you may not copy, download, display, distribute, publish, enter into a database, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, post, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or in any way exploit any of our intellectual property or the Site itself.

 

3.                  USE OF SITE

 

You may not use this Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by this Terms and Conditions statement, or cause damage on or through this Site. You promise that none of your communications with or through the Site will violate any applicable local, state, national or international law. You further promise that none of your communications with or through the Site will infringe upon the rights of any third party or contain defamatory, libelous, abusive or obscene material. You agree not to affect/interrupt or to attempt to affect/interrupt the operation of this Site in any manner.

 

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, franchisees, agents, licensors, business associates, and suppliers harmless from and against any actual or threatened claims, actions or demands, causes of action, damages, losses, expenses, liabilities and settlements including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees and costs of suit, resulting from, or alleged to result from, or arising out of or in connection with, your use of the Site, including without limitation your use of the Site in a manner that violates or is alleged to violate this Terms and Conditions statement or any applicable law.

 

4.                  DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

 

The Company does not guarantee the accuracy of information found on the Site. Your reliance on information found on the Site is at your own risk.

 

THE SITE, AND ALL ITS CONTENTS, IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE COMPANY AND ITS FRANCHISEES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THE RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES, DATA ACCURACY, SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, OR QUIET ENJOYMENT.

 

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE COMPANY, ITS FRANCHISEES, AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS OR ANY OTHERS INVOLVED IN CREATING THE SITE AND ITS CONTENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY CIRCUMSTANCE INVOLVING THE SITE OR ITS CONTENT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THIS SITE, LOST DATA, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, BREACH OF SECURITY, LINE FAILURE, DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY USER OF THIS SITE, OR COMPUTER VIRUS, WORM, TROJAN HORSE OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENT), EVEN IF YOU HAVE ADVISED THE COMPANY IN ADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

 

THE COMPANY, ITS FRANCHISEES, SUPPLIERS AND SERVICES PROVIDERS DO NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR TIMELINESS, CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. WHILE WE MAKE REASONABLE EFFORTS TO PROVIDE ACCURATE AND TIMELY INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY ON THIS SITE, YOU SHOULD NOT ASSUME THAT THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IS ALWAYS UP TO DATE OR THAT THIS SITE CONTAINS ALL THE RELEVANT INFORMATION AVAILABLE ABOUT OUR COMPANY. THE COMPANY UNDERTAKES NO OBLIGATION TO VERIFY OR MAINTAIN THE CURRENCY OF SUCH INFORMATION. IN PARTICULAR, IF YOU ARE MAKING AN INVESTMENT DECISION, PLEASE CONSULT A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT SOURCES, INCLUDING RELEVANT FILINGS WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.

 

Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, some of the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. However, in no event shall the Company’s aggregate liability to you or any third party for damages, losses, and causes of action exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this Site or $100, whichever is lesser. You agree to bring any and all actions within one year from the date of the accrual of the cause of action, and that actions brought after this date will be barred.

 

5.                  LINKS TO OTHER SITES

 

Our Site may provide links to web sites not operated by the Company. Access to any other sites linked to this Site is at your own risk. Such links do not imply, nor should you infer, the Company association, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of material on any other site, and the Company assumes no responsibility for third-party web sites, including but not limited to any content contained on such websites. For example, the Company does not vouch for, or make any judgment or warranty with respect to, the accuracy, reliability or availability of the information or the goods or services offered on third-party web sites, even if someone from our Company is quoted or leaves a comment.

 

Although the Company may open a new browser window when you click on a link to a third party's site, we do not guarantee that you will receive this alert when you leave our Site. It is your responsibility to determine when you have left this Site.

 

Unless otherwise set forth in a written agreement between you and the Company, you may link your web site to the home page of our Site, provided that you adhere to the following linking policy: (i) any link to the Web Site must be a text only link and clearly marked "THE MISSING PIECE FRANCHISING," (ii) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with the Company names and trademarks, (iii) the link must "point" to the URL www.tmpstores.com and not to other pages within the Web Site, (iv) the appearance, position and other attributes of the link may not create the false appearance that your organization or entity is sponsored by, affiliated with, or associated with the Company, (v) when selected by a user, the link must display the Web Site on full-screen and not within a "frame" on the linking Site, and (vi) the Company reserves the right to revoke its consent to the link at any time and in its sole discretion.

 

6.                  E-MAIL

 

E-mail submissions over the Internet may not be secure. Please consider this fact before e-mailing any personal or confidential information.

 

7.                  FEEDBACK AND SUBMISSIONS

 

Any material, information or ideas you submit to this Site will be deemed a grant of a royalty free, exclusive, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right and license to use, reproduce, cache, modify, display, publicly perform, transmit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and distribute these materials throughout the universe in any medium and through any methods of distribution, transmission and display whether now known or hereafter devised. In addition, you warrant that all publicity rights and so-called "moral rights" have been waived. If any court determines that the Company does not retain exclusive ownership of any such material, information, or ideas, then the Company retains a non-exclusive license to use them.

 

8.                  VIOLATIONS AND ADDITIONAL TERMS

 

The Company reserves the right to seek all remedies available at law and in equity for violations of this Terms and Conditions statement, including suspending or blocking your access to the Site.

 

Certain products or services offered by this Site, and certain areas within this Site, may be governed by additional terms of use and/or other agreements ("Additional Terms") presented in conjunction with those products, services or areas. You must agree to these Additional Terms before using those products, services or areas. The Additional Terms and this Terms and Conditions statement both apply. In the event of an irreconcilable inconsistency between the Additional Terms and this Terms and Conditions, the Additional Terms control.

 

9.                  NO WAIVER

 

No delay or failure by the Company to enforce any of these Terms and Conditions shall constitute a waiver of any of our rights under these Terms and Conditions. Neither the receipt of any funds by the Company nor the reliance of any person on our actions shall be deemed to constitute a waiver of any part of these Terms and Conditions. Only a specific, written waiver signed by an authorized representative of the Company shall have any legal effect.

 

10.              CO-BRANDED AREAS OF THIS SITE

 

Your correspondence or business dealings with, or purchase of products or services from, the companies that operate our co-branded web sites linked to this Site or web pages found on this Site, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such Company. You agree that the Company shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a result of such dealings or as a result of the presence of a co-branded offer on this Site.

 

11.              EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

 

The Company is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability (so long as such disability can be reasonably accommodated) or any other status protected by applicable law. The Company encourages all qualified applicants to apply. The Company does not assume responsibility for the hiring practices of The Missing Piece® franchisees.

 

12.              SEVERABILITY

 

If any clause or provision set forth in this Terms and Conditions statement is determined to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under present or future law, the clause or provision shall be deemed to be deleted without affecting the enforceability of all remaining clauses or provisions.

 

13.              PRIVACY POLICY

 

The Company recognizes its obligation to adhere to the highest standards of integrity for visitors to its website located at www.tmpstores.com. We have developed certain privacy practices in order to maintain these standards and to comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations, including the Children’s Online Privacy Practices Act ("COPPA"). If you have any questions or comments about this site, or the Privacy Policy, you should contact the our Webmaster at candace@tmpstores.com or call Candace Blackburn at 813-835-6747.

 

The Company does not require visitors to submit personal information to visit the Web Site; however, we may require visitors to submit personal information to register for specific online promotions or to participate in certain online programs, surveys, auctions or other transactions or activities. On a particular Company registration page, we may request the visitor’s date of birth, gender, email address, telephone number, and/or other contact and demographic information related to the particular promotion, program, auction, survey or transaction. During the registration process, the Company will calculate the visitor’s age via DBD entry field. The Company will not knowingly collect personal information from children 13 years of age or younger on the Web Site. When you disclose personal information on the Web Site, you are representing to The Company that you are 14 years of age or older. If a person 13 years of age or younger has provided personal information to the Company, a parent or guardian should contact us at candace@tmpstores.com so that the Company can remove such personal information from the Company active database. The Company reserves the right to limit participation in particular programs or promotions to visitors 18 years of age or older.

 

The personal information that you provide will be available to the Company, our affiliates, agents, representatives, franchisees and trusted service providers and contractors, as appropriate, to be used for the purposes indicated or inferred at the time you voluntarily provide such personal information. The Company might also use your personal information, alone or in combination with the information submitted by other users, to improve the Web Site’s navigation or infrastructure and in internal marketing analyses or reviews. Companies that have access to your personal information are required to protect such personal information and to use such personal information only to carry out the activities or services they are performing for you or for the Company. Additionally, unless you notify us to the contrary, The Company might use your personal information in the future to provide you with special offers from The Company or its affiliates. The Company does not sell, rent, individually post or otherwise disclose any personal information about visitors to unrelated third parties for marketing purposes. If you do not wish to allow the Company to use your personal information in the future to provide you with special offers from the Company or its affiliates, please contact the Company in the manner identified below. By submitting personal information, you grant to the Company a license to use such personal information for the purposes described in this section.

 

If you choose to opt-out from allowing the Company to use your personal information in the future to provide you with special offers from the Company or its affiliates, simply click the “Opt-out” box at the time you provide personal information or contact the Company directly at candace@tmpstores.com. Upon receipt and processing of an "opt-out" request, The Company will, within a commercially reasonable amount of time, remove your information from any listings used to provide you with special offers from the Company or its affiliates in the future.

 

The Company may also collect non-personal information from our online visitors, such as the visitor’s type of browser, page hits, number of visits, web pages viewed, operating system and domain names, and may use cookies to obtain other non-personal information. Cookies are pieces of data sent from a web server to a web browser that enables a web server to identify users that visit a site hosted by that server. The Web Site may use cookies in order to identify you to our site so that the Web Site (i.e., the Company) can provide more customized information and services to you. In general, if you choose, you can disable the use of cookies by reviewing your browser’s performance and options. The non-personal information we collect enables us to track the total number of visitors to each of our sites in an aggregate form, and is used by The Company to improve and update our sites, products and services. Aggregate (non-personal) information may be shared with third parties. By using the Web Site, you grant the Company a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple users) license to use, reproduce, store, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute and transmit such non-personal information for any purpose, and waive any moral rights and publicity rights in such non-personal information. The Company does not tie this non-personal information to your personal information.

 

If visitors send us any comments, suggestions, information, ideas, concepts, knowledge or techniques, the Company is free to use the information worldwide, in perpetuity, without acknowledgement or compensation, for any purpose, including developing, manufacturing or marketing products and/or modifying or improving our web site(s).

 

This Privacy Policy may be modified by the Company at any time by updating this posting. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy each time you use or access the Web Site.

 

14.              ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to any applicable statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances or other laws, including without limitation the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, P.L. 106-229 (the “E-Sign Act”) or other similar statutes, YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, CONTRACTS, APPLICATIONS AND OTHER RECORDS AND ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF NOTICES, POLICIES AND RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS INITIATED OR COMPLETED THROUGH THIS Site. Further, you hereby waive any rights or requirements under any statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances or other laws in any jurisdiction which require an original signature or delivery or retention of nonelectronic records, or to payments or the granting of credits by other than electronic means. You may obtain a copy of this Agreement by printing it now at no additional cost to you or by contacting us later at candace@tmpstores.com. We may charge you up to $5 per copy of this Agreement if we send a copy to you at a later date.

 

BY CLICKING THE BUTTON MARKED [I ACCEPT] OR BY ANY OTHER ACT ON YOUR PART TO USE, DOWNLOAD, ACCESS, COPY, PURCHASE OR LICENSE THE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THIS SITE IN ANY WAY, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES INCORPORATED INTO IT.

 

IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT OR DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND ALL OF THE AGREEMENTS POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT ARE INCORPORATED INTO IT, CLICK ON THE BUTTON MARKED [I DO NOT ACCEPT].

 

15.              FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

Matters discussed on this Site relating to future events or our future performance, including any discussion, express or implied, of our anticipated growth, operating results, future earnings per share, plans and objectives, contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are often identified by the words "believe", "positioned", "estimate", "project", "target", "continue", "intend", "expect", "future", "anticipates", and similar expressions that are not statements of historical fact. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Our actual results and timing of certain events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, those set forth under the "Risk Factors" section in our most recent Form 10-K (if any) as updated by Form 10-Q(s) thereafter (if any), and in our other public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (if any). It is routine for internal projections and expectations to change as the year or each quarter in the year progresses, and therefore it should be clearly understood that all forward-looking statements and the internal projections and beliefs upon which we base our expectations included on this Site are made only as of the date made and may change. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

 

16.              GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

 

The Web Site is operated by The Missing Piece Franchising, LLC. The laws of the State of Florida shall govern this Terms and Conditions statement, without reference to its choice of law rules. The Company makes no representation that the information in the Site is appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to the Web Site from territories where the content of the Web Site may be illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access the Web Site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. This Terms and Conditions statement and all policies and documents incorporated herein by reference constitute the entire agreement between the Company and you with respect to the subject matter herein.

 

This Terms and Conditions statement and any disputes arising under or related to this Terms and Conditions statement to this Site will be governed by U.S. federal law and the laws of the State of Florida, without reference to its conflict of law principles. Any such dispute shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts in Hillsborough County, Florida, where we have our headquarters. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the State of Florida for any legal proceeding involving the Site, regardless of who initiated the proceeding.

This English-language Terms and Conditions statement is the Company’s official agreement with users of this Site. In case of any inconsistency between this English-language Terms and Conditions statement and its translation into another language, this English-language document shall control.

 

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