Guidelines for using The Chix Vendor Village website, directories, community features, and related online services.
These Terms of Use govern access to and use of The Chix Vendor Village website and related online features, directories, community spaces, promotional content, and services.
By accessing or using The Chix Vendor Village website, you agree to these Terms of Use and any other policies that apply to your use of the site.
If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use the website.
Use the Village in a lawful, respectful, and appropriate way.
Purchases are completed directly with independent Village vendors.
Do not copy, misuse, or republish protected Village or vendor content.
Community areas and interactive features should be used as intended.
The Chix Vendor Village is a community-driven virtual marketplace, small business directory, and promotional platform designed to connect shoppers with independent makers, artists, authors, crafters, creators, and small business owners.
The Village may provide business listings, storefront pages, links, promotional features, community activities, informational content, event information, and other features intended to support discovery and community engagement.
Businesses featured in The Chix Vendor Village are independently owned and operated unless specifically stated otherwise.
When you click a vendor's website, social media account, marketplace listing, shopping page, or other external link, you may leave The Chix Vendor Village website and enter a third-party website or service.
Purchases, payments, shipping arrangements, returns, refunds, exchanges, product questions, customer service, and other transactions are handled directly between the customer and the applicable vendor.
Customers should review each vendor's own policies, terms, product information, shipping terms, refund rules, and privacy practices before completing a purchase.
The Village may contain links to third-party websites, social platforms, payment processors, marketplaces, event platforms, applications, or other external services.
These links are provided for convenience and discovery. The Chix Vendor Village does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for their content, availability, security, privacy practices, policies, products, services, or business practices.
A link from the Village does not necessarily mean that The Chix Vendor Village endorses every statement, product, service, or practice associated with that external site.
Use of third-party websites and services is subject to the terms and policies of those third parties.
We work to keep information on The Chix Vendor Village website useful and current. However, errors, outdated information, omissions, broken links, or changes may occasionally occur.
Vendor information is often supplied by the vendors themselves. Vendors are responsible for providing accurate information about their businesses, products, services, links, policies, and other submitted materials.
We may correct, update, reorganize, or remove website content when needed.
Business details, availability, pricing, and policies may change directly through the vendor.
Website content is provided for general informational and promotional purposes and should not be treated as a guarantee that any vendor, product, service, price, event, promotion, or feature will remain available.
You may use The Chix Vendor Village for lawful personal, informational, shopping, community, and business-related purposes consistent with these Terms of Use.
When using the site, you agree not to interfere with the normal operation, security, integrity, or accessibility of the Village.
You may not use The Chix Vendor Village website or its features for unlawful, abusive, harmful, deceptive, or disruptive purposes.
The Village may offer interactive features such as comments, questions, photo submissions, community activities, polls, reviews, event participation, shared posts, or other ways for visitors and members to contribute content.
By submitting content to a Village community feature, you confirm that you have the right to submit that content and that your submission does not violate applicable law or another person's rights.
You remain responsible for content you submit.
The Chix Vendor Village may moderate, hide, remove, or decline user-submitted content when it violates Village policies or is inappropriate for the applicable feature.
When you voluntarily submit content for display or participation within The Chix Vendor Village, you grant The Chix Vendor Village permission to use that submitted content as reasonably necessary to operate, display, moderate, promote, or support the applicable Village feature.
This permission may include displaying submitted photos, comments, business information, testimonials, promotional materials, or other content within Village website pages, community features, social promotions, email promotions, or related Village marketing.
Vendor promotional content is also subject to the applicable Vendor Agreement and membership policies.
The Chix Vendor Village website may contain logos, graphics, illustrations, written content, designs, photographs, page layouts, branding, custom artwork, icons, code, and other materials owned by The Chix Vendor Village, Chakra Chix, participating vendors, licensors, or other rights holders.
Nothing on the site grants users ownership of that content.
Unless permission is provided or use is otherwise permitted by law, users may not reproduce, republish, sell, modify, distribute, falsely claim ownership of, or commercially exploit protected Village or vendor content.
Village logos, artwork, designs, and branding may not be used to falsely imply authorization or affiliation.
Vendor logos, photos, artwork, writing, and products remain subject to the vendor's applicable rights.
Intellectual property concerns may also be handled under the Village Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy.
Certain Village features may require an account, login, membership, invitation, or other form of access.
Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their login credentials and for activity conducted through their accounts.
You should not knowingly share access credentials in a way that bypasses membership restrictions, account permissions, or other access controls.
If you believe an account has been accessed without authorization, please contact The Chix Vendor Village promptly.
We aim to keep The Chix Vendor Village available and functioning, but uninterrupted access cannot be guaranteed.
The website or individual features may occasionally be unavailable because of maintenance, updates, hosting interruptions, internet outages, software issues, security concerns, third-party service failures, technical problems, or circumstances outside our reasonable control.
The Village may change, suspend, update, replace, or discontinue website features when reasonably necessary.
Temporary outages or changes do not create a guarantee of compensation, refunds, sales, traffic, or other business results except where otherwise required by law or expressly provided under a separate applicable agreement.
The Chix Vendor Village provides discovery, promotional, informational, and community opportunities.
Use of the Village does not guarantee any particular result.
Individual experiences and business results depend on many circumstances outside the control of The Chix Vendor Village.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, The Chix Vendor Village website, directories, informational content, community features, and related services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
We do not guarantee that the site will always be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, complete, current, or suitable for every particular purpose.
Nothing on the website should be interpreted as legal, financial, medical, tax, or other professional advice unless expressly stated otherwise by a qualified professional acting in that capacity.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, The Chix Vendor Village, Chakra Chix, and their applicable owners, affiliates, employees, volunteers, partners, and representatives will not be responsible for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or similar damages arising from use of the Village website.
This may include damages or losses relating to:
Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
The Chix Vendor Village may update, improve, reorganize, modify, or discontinue website features as the Village evolves.
These Terms of Use may also be updated periodically to reflect changes in the website, services, community features, legal requirements, or Village operations.
The current version will be posted on the website with the applicable revision date.
Continued use of the website after updated terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.
If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.
If you have questions about these Terms of Use or about using The Chix Vendor Village website, please contact us using the contact information provided on our website.
By accessing or using The Chix Vendor Village website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms of Use.