PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY. BY CLICKING “ACCEPTED AND AGREED TO,” YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
This End-User Subscription and License Agreement (this “Agreement”) is a legally binding contract between Flash Pass, LLC, a Wisconsin limited liability company (“Vendor”) and an individual end user of Vendor’s App, as defined below (“You,” “Your”). Vendor hosts an application that allows You to purchase single or recurring car wash credits, which can be redeemed by using the application at participating car wash locations (the “App”). You agree that when you access or use the App, You will do so subject to this Agreement. DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE APP IF YOU ARE UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT.
This Agreement is effective as of the date You click “Accepted and Agreed To” (the “Effective Date”).
1. USE OF THE APP IN GENERAL.
1.1. Eligibility. You represent and warrant that You are 18 years old or older, and You recognize and agree that You must be 18 years old or older to use the App. If you have registered for a family plan, You represent and warrant that all users of the App will be at least the age of 13, or will otherwise utilize the App only with your consent and subject to your supervision.
1.2. App Subscription. During the Term (as defined in Section 9.1 below), You will be registered for a Single Wash account (“Account”), which uses geofencing technology to allow you to utilize the App to make purchases at participating nearby car washes. You may access and use the App solely for the purpose of purchasing digital car wash credits to be used at participating car washes.
1.3. App Revisions. Vendor may revise the features and functions of the App at any time.
1.4. Payment and Subscription Fees. You acknowledge that you will be required to maintain current credit card payment information as part of Your Account. You agree to pay Vendor the fee or fees set forth in the App for the purchase you are choosing to make. You acknowledge that if you are selecting a subscription, the fee will be assessed automatically going forward unless and until cancelled as allowed pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the App. Vendor will not be required to refund fees under any circumstances. In the event Vendor is unable to receive payment from you for reasons such as card expiration, non-sufficient funds, or change in information, your Account will be placed on hold and/or disabled, and you will not be able to use the App until such time as your information is updated. You will compensate Vendor for any charges or fees incurred as a result of a NSF event. You acknowledge that the cost of a car wash may vary by location; therefore, it is Your responsibility to review posted car wash prices prior to utilizing the App at a car wash. Promotional Subscriptions must be deactivated prior to the monthly renewal in order to prevent an automatic renewal and avoid a charge. The Subscription cannot be combined with any other programs or discounts, including but not limited to, pre-paid washes, vouchers, house accounts or coupons. It also does not apply to special event pricing. Promotional Subscriptions may be limited to single Flash Pass locations. Pricing and participation may vary. See your local operator for more information.
1.5. Single Vehicle Use. Unless otherwise agreed, you may use the App for only one vehicle.
2. THE APP.
2.1. License. Vendor hereby grants You a nonexclusive license to use the App on Your mobile device, provided You comply with the restrictions set forth below in Section 2.2 (Restrictions on Software Rights). The license in the preceding sentence does not include use by any third party, and You shall not permit any such use.
2.2. Restrictions on Software Rights. Copies of the App created or transferred pursuant to this Agreement are licensed, not sold, and You receive no title to or ownership of any copy or of the App itself. Furthermore, You receive no rights to the App other than those specifically granted in Section 2.1 above. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, You shall not: (a) modify, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or sublicense the App; (b) use the App in any way forbidden by Section 4.1 below; or (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive any of the App’s source code.
3.1. Permission from You. You grant Vendor permission to access, process and otherwise use Your Content (as defined below) in order to provide Vendor’s products and/or services to You, to track and analyze Your use of the App. You agree that Your Content is not subject to any third party confidentiality agreement or otherwise prohibited from disclosure to Vendor. As between the parties, You retain ownership of your Content. (“Content” means text, images, photos, audio or video files, and other forms of data or communication. “Your Content” means Content submitted or transmitted by You, including personal contact information and payment data.) Specifically, Your Content also includes information regarding your location, and information relating to your smart phone, understanding that in order for the App to appropriately function, you must enable your smart phone to allow the App to know your location – disabling this feature will render the App non-functional. Your Content does not include any Content that incorporates Vendor’s Intellectual Property that is subsequently shared by you through the App or another third party application.
3.2. Rights in Your Content. You represent and warrant that You own Your Content or have received a valid license to Your Content and that submitting or transmitting Your Content to or through the App will not violate the rights of any third party, including intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights. Vendor is under no obligation to review or screen Your Content or other App users’ Content.
3.3. Privacy Policy. Vendor will take commercially reasonable steps to maintain the privacy of Your Content from third parties. You acknowledge that Vendor does not store or maintain payment information, which such information is separately and securely maintained by a third party vendor, whom you consent to maintain and store such information.
3.4. Risk of Exposure. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT SHARING YOUR INFORMATION DIGITALLY INVOLVES RISKS OF UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OR EXPOSURE AND THAT, IN SUBMITTING YOUR CONTENT TO OR TRANSMITTING IT THROUGH THE APP, YOU ASSUME THESE RISKS. Vendor offers no representation, warranty, or guarantee that Your Content will not be exposed or disclosed through the App or through errors or the actions of third parties.
3.5. Right to Retain, Delete or Suspend Access. You agree that You shall not rely on the App for backup or storage of Your Content. Vendor may retain Your Content even if You are no longer using the App but is not required to provide copies of Your Content to You. Vendor may permanently delete or erase Your Content or suspend Your access to Your Content through the App at any time and for any reason.
3.6. Aggregate & Anonymized Data. Vendor may use, reproduce, sell, publicize, or otherwise exploit Aggregate Data in any way, in its sole discretion. (“Aggregate Data” refers to Your Content with personally identifiable information removed.)
4. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES & RESTRICTIONS.
4.1. Acceptable Use. You agree that you shall not: (a) provide App passwords or other log-in information to any third party; (b) share non-public App features or Content with any third party; (c) access the App in order to build a competitive product or service, to build a product using similar ideas, features, functions or graphics of the App, or to copy any ideas, features, functions or graphics of the App; or (d) engage in web scraping or data scraping on or related to the App, including without limitation collection of information through any software that simulates human activity or any bot or web crawler. If Vendor suspects that You have violated the requirements of this Subsection 4.1, Vendor may suspend Your access to the App without advanced notice, in addition to other remedies Vendor may have. Vendor is not obligated to take any action against You or any other App user or other third party for violating this Agreement, but Vendor is free to take any such action it sees fit.
4.2. Unauthorized Access. You agree to take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized access to the App, including by protecting Your passwords and other log-in information. You shall notify Vendor immediately if You know of or suspect unauthorized use of the App or breach of its security.
4.3. Utilization of Car Washes. By using the App, You also agree that you will comply with all rules imposed by each car wash you utilize. Specifically, you will not engage in lewd or lascivious acts in the car wash, and you will ensure that your vehicle is appropriately prepared to enter the car wash (windows up, top up, “car wash mode” set, etc.). Neither Vendor nor any car was owner will be liable for your misuse of a car wash.
4.4. Compliance with Laws. In using the App, You shall comply with all applicable laws, including laws governing the protection of personally identifiable information and other laws applicable to the protection of Your Content.
4.5. App Access. You are responsible and liable for: (a) Your use of the App, including unauthorized conduct and conduct that would violate this Agreement or the requirements of this Agreement; and (b) any use of the App through Your account or passwords, whether authorized or not.
4.6. Communications from Vendor. You consent to receive calls, emails, and/or text messages from Vendor in connection with Your use of the App. Standard text messaging charges required by Your mobile carrier will apply to text messages we send You.
5. IP & FEEDBACK.
5.1. IP Rights in the App. Vendor retains all right, title, and interest in and to the App, including without limitation the App and all other all software used to provide the App and all graphics, user interfaces, logos, trademarks reproduced through the App, as well as all Content other than Your Content. This Agreement does not grant You any intellectual property license or rights in or to the App or any of its components, except to the limited extent that this Agreement specifically sets forth Your license rights to the App or the Documentation. You recognize that the App,its components, and applicable trademarks are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.
5.2. Feedback. Vendor has not agreed to and does not agree to treat as confidential any Feedback (as defined below) that You provide to Vendor, and nothing in this Agreement or in the parties’ dealings arising out of or related to this Agreement will restrict Vendor’s right to use, profit from, disclose, publish, keep secret, or otherwise exploit Feedback, without compensating or crediting You. You hereby grant Vendor a perpetual, irrevocable right and license to exploit Feedback in any and every way. (“Feedback” refers to any suggestion or idea for improving or otherwise modifying any of Vendor’s products or services.)
6.1. Warranty Disclaimers. YOU AGREE THAT YOU ACCEPT THE APP “AS IS” AND AS AVAILABLE, WITH NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY ARISING FROM STATUTE, COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING: (a) VENDOR HAS NO OBLIGATION TO INDEMNIFY OR DEFEND YOU AGAINST CLAIMS RELATED TO INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; (b) VENDOR DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL PERFORM WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERROR; (c) VENDOR DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE APP IS SECURE FROM HACKING OR OTHER UNAUTHORIZED INTRUSION OR THAT YOUR CONTENT WILL REMAIN PRIVATE OR SECURE; AND (d) VENDOR DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY CONCERNING PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHER USERS OF THE APP OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES.
6.2. Third Party Sites and Content. You understand that the App may contain or send You links to third party websites, applications or features not owned or controlled by Vendor (“Third Party Sites”), and that links to Third Party Sites may also appear in Content available to You through the App. The App may also enable interactions between the App and a Third Party Site through applications that connect the App, or Your profile on the App, with a Third Party Site. Through Third Party Sites You may be able to access Content from third parties that Vendor does not control and/or share Your Content with others. YOU ACCESS THIRD PARTY SITES ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK, AND VENDOR WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR YOUR USE OF OR ACCESS TO THIRD PARTY SITES AND/OR THIRD PARTY CONTENT.)
7. INDEMNIFICATION. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Vendor and the Vendor Associates (as defined below) against any “Indemnified Claim,” meaning any third party claim, suit, or proceeding arising out of, related to, or alleging: (a) infringement or violation of third party intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights by Content submitted to or transmitted through the App from Your account, including without limitation by Your Content; and (b) claims that use of the App through Your account harasses, defames, or defrauds a third party, infringes or misappropriates copyright, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights, or violates the CAN-Spam Act of 2003 or any other law or restriction on electronic advertising. Your obligations set forth in this Article 7 include retention and payment of attorneys and payment of court costs, as well as settlement at Your expense and payment of judgments. Vendor will have the right, not to be exercised unreasonably, to reject any settlement or compromise that requires that it admit wrongdoing or liability or subjects it to any ongoing affirmative obligations. (The “Vendor Associates” are Vendor’s officers, directors, shareholders, parents, subsidiaries, agents, successors, and assigns.)
8.1. Dollar Cap. VENDOR’S CUMULATIVE LIABILTY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT EXCEED $1,000.00.
8.2. Excluded Damages. IN NO EVENT WILL VENDOR BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OR FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT.
8.3. Clarifications & Disclaimers. THE LIABILITIES LIMITED BY THIS ARTICLE 8 APPLY: (a) TO LIABILITY FOR NEGLIGENCE; (b) REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT PRODUCT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE; (c) EVEN IF VENDOR IS ADVISED IN ADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THE DAMAGES IN QUESTION AND EVEN IF SUCH DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE; AND (d) EVEN IF YOUR REMEDIES FAIL OF THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. If applicable law limits the application of the provisions of this Article 8, Vendor’s liability will be limited to the maximum extent permissible. For the avoidance of doubt, Vendor’s liability limits and other rights set forth in this Article 8 apply likewise to Vendor’s affiliates, licensors, suppliers, advertisers, agents, sponsors, directors, officers, employees, consultants, and other representatives.
9.1. Term. The term of this Agreement (the “Term”) will commence on the Effective Date and continue until terminated by either You or Vendor.
9.2. Termination. Either party may terminate this Agreement for any reason at any time. You may terminate this Agreement by closing Your Account as instructed in the App. Should You terminate your subscription, Your Account will remain active up to the commencement of the next billing term. Vendor may terminate by notifying You in writing [including without limitation via text to Your mobile device] and suspending Your account. In the event You terminate Your Account, you will not be entitled to any refund of unused car wash credits. In the event Vendor terminates Your Account, a refund of any unused car wash credits will be given at the sole discretion of Vendor.
9.3. Effects of Termination. Upon termination of this Agreement, You shall cease all use of the App. The following provisions will survive termination of this Agreement: Articles 5 (IP & Feedback), 6 (Disclaimers), 7 (Indemnification), 8 (Limitation of Liability), and 10 (Miscellaneous); and any other provision of this Agreement that must survive to fulfill its essential purpose.
10.1. Independent Contractors. The parties are independent contractors. Neither party is the agent of the other, and neither may make commitments on the other’s behalf.
10.2. Notices. Vendor may send written notices to You by email [or by text to Your mobile device] at the email address [or mobile number] provided by You, and such notices will be deemed received 24 hours after they are sent. You may send notices pursuant to this Agreement to Vendor by email to support@myflashpass.com, and such notices will be deemed received 72 hours after they are sent. In addition, You are on notice and agree that: (a) for claims of copyright infringement, the complaining party may contact the Vendor by using the above address; and (b) Vendor will terminate the accounts of subscribers who are repeat copyright infringers.
10.3. Assignment & Successors. You may not assign this Agreement or any of Your rights or obligations under this Agreement without Vendor’s express written consent. Except to the extent forbidden in this Section 10.3, this Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties’ respective successors and assigns.
10.4. Severability. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the parties hereby waive any provision of law that would render any clause of this Agreement invalid or otherwise unenforceable in any respect. In the event that a provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, such provision will be interpreted to fulfill its intended purpose to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect.
10.5. No Waiver. Neither party will be deemed to have waived any of its rights under this Agreement by lapse of time or by any statement or representation other than by an authorized representative in an explicit written waiver. No waiver of a breach of this Agreement will constitute a waiver of any other breach of this Agreement.
10.6. Choice of Law & Jurisdiction: This Agreement will be governed solely by the internal laws of the State of Wisconsin, including without limitation applicable federal law, without reference to: (a) any conflicts of law principle that would apply the substantive laws of another jurisdiction to the parties’ rights or duties; (b) the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods; or (c) other international laws. To the extent that arbitration is not required herein, the parties consent to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the circuit courts of Brown County, Wisconsin. The circuit court may not consolidate the claims of more than one person and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative, collective, or class proceeding. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU AND VENDOR ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION OR REPRES
10.7. Conflicts. In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and any Vendor policy posted online, including without limitation the, the terms of this Agreement will govern.
10.8. Entire Agreement. This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement of the parties and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous writings, negotiations, and discussions with respect to its subject matter. Neither party has relied upon any such prior or contemporaneous communications.
10.9. Amendment. Vendor may amend this Agreement from time to time by posting an amended version at its website and sending You written notice thereof. Such amendment will be deemed accepted and become effective 30 days after such notice (the “Proposed Amendment Date”) unless You first give Vendor written notice of rejection of the amendment. In the event of such rejection, this Agreement will continue under its original provisions for 30 days following the Proposed Amendment Date (unless either You or Vendor first terminates this Agreement pursuant to Article 9, Term & Termination). Your continued use of the App following the effective date of an amendment will confirm Your consent to the Amendment. This Agreement may not be amended in any other way except through a written agreement by authorized representatives of each party. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.9, Vendor may revise the AUP, DMCA Policy and Privacy Policy at any time by posting a new version of either at Vendor’s website, and such new version will become effective on the date it is posted; provided if such amendment materially reduces Your rights or protections, notice and consent will be subject to the requirements above in this Section 10.9.