County of Los Angeles
Department of Public Health Online Payment Service
TERMS OF USE
- Thank you for visiting the Department of Public Health Online Payment service website (the "Website". This Website
is operated by the County of Los Angeles ("LACO", "County", "we", "us", or "our"). We ask that you carefully
review these Terms of Use and all documents referenced in or linked from these Terms of Use (collectively,
"Terms of Use") before using our Website. These Terms of Use establish a binding agreement that governs
your use of this Website. These Terms of Use, together with the Privacy & Security Policy governs your
use of this Website. The Terms of Payment govern your use of this Website to pay for your County of Los Angeles - Public Health license or permit with a credit/debit card. You agree to be bound by all portions of these
Terms of Use applicable to your use of this Website. If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, you may
not use this Website.
- Please review our Privacy & Security Policy which also governs your use of our Website.
The Privacy & Security Policy is incorporated into the body of these Terms of Use.
- If you use this Website to to pay for your County of Los Angeles - Public Health license or permit with a credit/debit
card, such use is also governed by the Terms of Payment (Additional Terms). Such Additional Terms are incorporated
into these Terms of Use by this reference.
- Unless otherwise noted, this Website, including without limitation, all text, programs, products, processes,
technology, information, content and other materials, together with all copyrights, trademarks, trade dress and/or
other intellectual property therein (collectively, Content), and the compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement,
and assembly) are owned by us, or by third parties who have licensed such Content to us. Such Content is protected
by U.S. and International copyright laws. We, on behalf of ourselves and licensors, expressly reserve all rights,
including without limitation, intellectual property rights, in this Website and all Content and compilation of
Content. Access to this Website does not confer, and shall not be considered as conferring, upon you or any other
user of the Website any license to other rights to the Website, the Content or the compilation of Content.
- Any notice or other type of information that is provided to you in connection with using this Website,
such as these Terms of Use, Additional Terms the Privacy & Security Policy , amendments to any of these documents,
payment or purchase confirmations, and other information (collectively, Communications), may be posted on this
Website or, where applicable, sent to your email address. We are not obligated to provide any Communications to you in paper
form.
- We provide the Website to you on an "as is" basis without any warranties of any kind, whether express or
implied. To the extent permissible under applicable law, we hereby disclaim all warranties, express or implied,
including but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and
non-infringement. Without limiting the foregoing, we do not make any representations or warranties that (a) the
information or other materials available on the Website will be error-free, (b) defects in the Website will be
corrected, (c) the Website or its servers are free of viruses or other harmful components and/or (d) the Website
will be secure, accessible continuously and without interruption. Further, we do not make any representations or
warranties regarding the use, accuracy, reliability, and/or completeness of the information or other materials
available on the Website.
- We may provide links from the Website to other websites as a convenience to our visitors. We have no control
over the content posted at those linked websites, all of which have separate terms of use and privacy policies.
We make no representation about the use, accuracy, reliability, and/or completeness of any information or other
material available thereon. Links to third party websites are not intended to and do not imply affiliation with
or sponsorship or endorsement of these websites or of the third parties operating such websites. Once you link to
another website, you are subject to the terms of use, Privacy & Security Policy of that website and use of that
website at your own risk.
- We have not reviewed all the third party websites linked to or framing this website and are not responsible
for the contents of any pages contained on such third party websites. By entering this website, you acknowledge
and agree that the County of Los Angeles has not reviewed all the third party websites linked to or framing this
website and is not responsible for the content of any pages of such third party websites. We do not make any
representations or warranties as to the security of any information (including, without limitation, credit card and
other personal information) you may have or might be requested to give to any third party, and you hereby irrevocably
waive any claim against us with respect to such third party websites and their content. You use and visit any other
websites at your own risk.
- You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Website, including, without
limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for you or logging onto a server or an account which you are not
authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or
authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network,
including without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Website, "overloading", "flooding", "spamming", "mail-bombing"
or "crashing"; or (d) sending unsolicited email, including promotions and/or advertising of products and services. Violations of
system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. We will investigate occurrences that may involve such
violations and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations. You agree not to
use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Website or any activity
being conducted on this Website. You agree, further not to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism
(including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search this Website other
than the search engine and search agents available on this Website and other generally available third party web browsers (e.g.,
Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc).
- We do not accept any liability for any conduct, acts or omissions occurring on this Website. Under no
circumstances will we be liable to you for any direct, consequential, incidental or special damages, including
any lost profits or loss of data, even if you claim to have notified us about such damages, or for any claims by
any third parties.
- You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless, at your own expense, from and against any liability,
fees (including attorney's fees) and/or costs arising out of or relating to your breach or violation of
these Terms of Use.
- You agree that jurisdiction over and venue in any legal proceeding directly or indirectly arising out of
or relating to the Terms of Use or the ownership, operation or maintenance of this Website, shall be resolved
exclusively in the County of Los Angeles, California. All such disputes shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of California.
- You agree that we may modify or add to these Terms of Use at our sole discretion, without notice to you,
and that your right to access this Website is conditioned upon your compliance with the most current version of
these Terms of Use. You further agree that we may modify all or any portion of this Website and/or any service
available on this Website without notice or cause at any time.
- We may terminate all or any portion of these Terms of Use and/or all or any portion of this Website without
prior notice or cause at any time. You agree not to use all the applicable portions of this Website for any reason
if at any time we terminate your access to all or any portion of this Website, we terminate all or any portion of
these Terms of Use, or you do not agree to all or any portion of these Terms of Use. If at any time you do not
agree with any portion of the body of these Terms of Use or the Privacy & Security Policy , you must immediately
cease using this Website. Further, if at any time you are attempting to use this Website to pay by credit/debit
card, and if you do not agree with any applicable portion of the Additional Terms, you must, when prompted, select
the "Cancel" button and immediately cease using this Website to make such payment. The provisions of Sections 4, 10
through 16 shall survive any termination of these Terms of Use.
- These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us relating to your access to and use of this
Website and supersede any prior or contemporaneous representations or agreements. These Terms of Use shall govern our
legal rights and obligations. Any rights not otherwise expressly granted by these Terms of Use are reserved by us.
This Agreement may not be modified, either expressly or by implication, except as set forth in Section 13 above.
- If any provision of these Terms of Use is deemed invalid or for some reason unenforceable, then that provision
shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not in any way affect the validity or enforcement of the
remainder of these Terms of Use not deemed invalid or unenforceable.
Last Updated: 06/30/2014