Terms of Service

Terms of Service

Last Updated: January 19, 2020

Welcome to Sophisticated Style!

These Terms of Service constitute an agreement between Sophisticated Style and you. We recommend that you print out a copy of these Terms of Service for your records.

By using the Sites, you affirm that you are able and legally competent to agree to and comply with these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these Terms of Service or if you are not legally competent to agree to them, then you may not use the Site.

Please note that these Terms of Service contain provisions that govern the resolution of claims between Sophisticated Style and you. Please see the Legal Disputes section for complete details.

Privacy & Security

To the extent there is a conflict between the terms of the Privacy Policy and these Terms of Service, the Terms of Service govern.

Information security is important to Sophisticated Style. We have established appropriate physical, electronic and managerial safeguards to protect the information that we collect from or about our users. Sophisticated Style does, however, reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as Sophisticated Style deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

Changes

Sophisticated Style reserves the right, at any time, to change these Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy and/or the Sites. Your use of the Sites following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms of Service and/or Privacy Policy as revised. The revised Terms of Service and/or Privacy Policy supersede all previous versions, notices or statements regarding the Sites. If we request, you agree to sign a non-electronic version of these Terms of Service.

We will notify you of any change to these Terms of Service by updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this webpage.

Intellectual Property Rights

Sophisticated Style contains valuable trademarks and service marks owned and used by Sophisticated Style, including but not limited to, the Sophisticated Style design logo. Any use of the Sophisticated Style Marks without the prior written permission of Sophisticated Style is strictly prohibited. The arrangement and layout of the Sites, including but not limited to, the Sophisticated Style Marks, images, text, graphics, buttons, screenshots, music, digitally downloadable files, and other content or material (collectively, the "Site Content"), are the sole and exclusive property of Sophisticated Style.

UNAUTHORIZED COPYING, REPRODUCTION, MODIFYING, REPUBLISHING, UPLOADING, DOWNLOADING, POSTING, TRANSMITTING, MAKING DERIVATIVE WORKS OF OR DUPLICATING ALL OR ANY PART OF THE SITES IS PROHIBITED.

Sophisticated Style uses a network of distributors and other such third parties to supply some of the products and content advertised on the Sites. 

User-Generated Content

From time to time, the Sites permit the submission of content, such as comments, blogs and product reviews, generated by you and other users ("User Content").

You are solely responsible for your own User Content and the consequences of posting or publishing it. Any User Content or other material, information or ideas that you submit too or post or publish on the Sites is non-confidential and non-proprietary.

By submitting User Content, you represent and warrant to Sophisticated Style that: (i) your User Content does not violate any copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property right, any right of privacy or publicity of any third party or any applicable law, rule or regulation, (ii) you own or have the legal right to use and authorize Sophisticated Style to use your User Content, including written consent to use of any product or the name, voice, likeness or any other applicable personal rights of each identifiable person featured or referenced in your User Content.

As between you and Sophisticated Style, you will retain all of your ownership rights in and to your User Content. By submitting User Content to Sophisticated Style, you hereby grant to Sophisticated Style a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) and transferable right and license to use, reproduce, distribute, edit, modify, translate, reformat, prepare derivative works based upon, display publicly, perform publicly and otherwise exploit (including but not limited to over the Internet, broadcast television or any other uses or media) your User Content, in whole or in part, including future rights that Sophisticated Style (or its successor) may otherwise become entitled to that do not yet exist, as well as new uses, media, means and forms of exploitation throughout the universe exploiting current or future technology yet to be developed. You also hereby grant each user of the Sites a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the Sites and to use, access, watch, reproduce, distribute, transmit, forward, display and perform such User Content in whole or in part, to the extent permitted by the Sites under these Terms of Service.

Sophisticated Style does not endorse any User Content or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein. Sophisticated Style reserves the right but is not obligated to monitor User Content or other content sent to or through the Sites. Sophisticated Style has the right to refuse, remove, edit or delete any User Content and/or to terminate any user's access to the Sites for any reason. Sophisticated Style takes no responsibility for User Content.

Social Media Tag Usage

BY USING #SophisticatedStyle, @Sophisticated AND ANY OTHER SIMILAR SOCIAL MEDIA TAG IN ANY WAY RELATED TO ANY OF THE SITES, EACH USER AGREES TO PROVIDE WAYFAIR WITH AN UNRESTRICTED, IRREVOCABLE, ROYALTY-FREE, PERPETUAL, FULLY PAID-UP, TRANSFERABLE, WORLDWIDE LICENSE TO USE THE UPLOADED IMAGE(S) IN ANY AND ALL MARKETING MATERIALS, ON SPONSORS WEBSITES, AND THROUGH ALL SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS. EACH USER REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT UPLOADED IMAGES DO NOT INFRINGE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARK RIGHTS.

Acceptable Use Policy

By submitting User Content and otherwise using Sophisticated Style, you agree not to: (i) submit any User Content that is protected by or otherwise subject to any third party intellectual property or proprietary rights (including any privacy and publicity rights) unless you own or have permission from the rightful owner of such rights to post such User Content and to grant Sophisticated Style all of the rights granted herein; (ii) upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (iii) use the Sophisticated Style to harm any person or entity, including Sophisticated Style; (iv) impersonate any person or entity, including but not limited to, a representative of Sophisticated Style, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (v) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted to or through the Sophisticated Style; (vi) upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail or any other form of solicitation; (vii) upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any content that contains computer viruses or other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of Sophisticated Style, or any other computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; (viii) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international laws, rules or regulations, including but not limited to those promulgated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; (ix) collect, store or use personal information about other users of Sophisticated Style without their consent; (x) use Sophisticated Style (including through submission of User Content) to disparage or make unsubstantiated claims about any person, third party or its/their products or services; (y) use Sophisticated Style in any manner that could overburden or impair; (z) use any device, software or instrumentality to interfere with the proper working of Sophisticated Style or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of our network.

You also agree that you will not violate or attempt to violate the security of Sophisticated Style. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Sophisticated Style reserves the right to investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who have participated in such violations.

Communications with Sophisticated Style

For all communications made to or with Sophisticated Style, including but not limited to feedback, questions, comments, suggestions and the like: (i) you will have no right to confidentiality in your communications and Sophisticated Style will have no obligation to protect your communications from disclosure; (ii) Sophisticated Style will be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute your communications to others without limitation; and (iii) Sophisticated Style will be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, content or techniques contained in your communications for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, the development, production and marketing of products and services that incorporate such information.

Right to Access

YOU MUST BE AT LEAST AGE 13 TO USE THE SITES. By using the Sites, you affirm that you are over age 13. If you are under age 13, you may not access or use the Sites.

IF YOU ARE A PARENT OR GUARDIAN THAT PROVIDES CONSENT TO YOUR TEENAGER'S REGISTRATION WITH AND USE OF THE SITES, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS IN RESPECT OF SUCH TEENAGER'S USE OF THE SITES.

General Information

No waiver of any provision or any breach of this Agreement will constitute a waiver of any other provisions or any other or further breach. In the event that any provision of this Agreement is determined to be illegal or unenforceable, the balance of the Agreement shall continue to be fully valid, binding, and enforceable. These Terms of Service set forth the entire Agreement between you and Wayfair with respect to use of the Sites and supersede any prior agreements between you and Wayfair relating to such subject matter. The Terms are not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by you except with Wayfair's prior written consent. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder will be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by these Terms of Service. Any heading, caption or section title contained herein is inserted only as a matter of convenience and in no way defines or explains any section or provision hereof. Wayfair's performance of these Terms of Service is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in these Terms of Service is in derogation of Wayfair's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Sites or information provided to or gathered by Wayfair with respect to such use. A printed version of these Terms of Service and of any notices given in electronic form will be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to these Terms of Service to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. The parties agree that all correspondence relating to these Terms of Service must be written in the English language.

Questions?

If you have questions, comments or complaints about these Terms or the Sites, please click our contact us link in our footer.