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These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of stoughtonwaterproofing.com (the "Site"), operated by Stoughton Waterproofing ("we," "us," or "our").
By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.
1. About the Site
The Site publishes educational articles about basement waterproofing, foundation issues, drainage, moisture control, and related home maintenance topics.
We also provide roofing services, including residential and commercial roofing, repairs, gutter installation, storm damage restoration, and inspections. If you need roofing work of any kind, wherever you are, contact us and we will tell you whether we can help in your area.
These Terms govern your use of the Site. Any service work we carry out is governed by a separate written agreement between you and us. See our Disclaimer for how our published content relates to work on a specific property.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old to use this Site. By using the Site you represent that you meet this requirement.
3. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the Site for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable law
- Copy, reproduce, republish, or redistribute Site content without written permission
- Scrape, crawl, or harvest content using automated means without permission
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, its servers, or connected systems
- Introduce viruses, malware, or other harmful code
- Interfere with or disrupt the Site's operation or other users' access to it
- Post comments that are unlawful, defamatory, harassing, obscene, fraudulent, or infringing
- Use the Site to send spam or unsolicited commercial communications
- Impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation with any entity
- Remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices
We reserve the right to remove content and restrict access at our discretion.
4. Intellectual property
All content on the Site, including articles, text, layout, graphics, and design, is owned by Stoughton Waterproofing or used with permission, and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.
You may read, print, and share links to our content for personal, non commercial use, and quote brief excerpts with clear attribution and a link to the original page.
You may not republish articles in whole or in substantial part, use our content to train machine learning models without permission, sell or license our content, or present our content as your own.
For permission requests, email info@stoughtonwaterproofing.com.
Third party trademarks and product names mentioned on the Site remain the property of their respective owners.
5. User comments
If you submit a comment, you:
- Retain ownership of your comment
- Grant us a non exclusive, royalty free, worldwide licence to display, reproduce, and moderate it in connection with the Site
- Confirm that the comment is your own work and does not infringe anyone's rights
- Accept that we may edit, refuse to publish, or remove any comment at our discretion
Comments reflect the views of their authors and not those of Stoughton Waterproofing. We do not verify the accuracy of user comments and are not responsible for their content.
Please do not post personal information, promotional links, or anything you would not want to be publicly visible.
6. Third party content and links
The Site contains links to third party websites and references third party products, standards, and organisations. These are provided for reference only.
We do not control third party sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, privacy practices, or any transaction you enter into with them. Links do not constitute endorsement.
7. Advertising and affiliate relationships
The Site displays advertising, including through Google AdSense, and may contain affiliate links. See our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer for details.
8. No warranties
The Site and its content are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non infringement.
We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, error free, secure, or free of viruses.
9. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Stoughton Waterproofing and its owners, authors, and contributors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to your use of the Site or your reliance on its content. This includes property damage, personal injury, business interruption, and loss of data or profits, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Where liability cannot be excluded by law, our total aggregate liability shall not exceed one hundred United States dollars (USD $100.00).
10. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Stoughton Waterproofing, its owners, authors, and contributors from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your use of the Site, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any rights of a third party.
11. Availability and changes to the Site
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Site or any part of it at any time without notice. We may update, revise, or remove content at any time.
12. Changes to these Terms
We may revise these Terms at any time. Changes take effect when posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. Your continued use of the Site after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
13. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles. You agree that any dispute arising from these Terms or from your use of the Site shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Massachusetts.
This clause does not remove any statutory consumer rights you may have under the laws of your own country of residence.
14. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.
15. Entire agreement
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer, constitute the entire agreement between you and Stoughton Waterproofing regarding your use of the Site.
16. Contact
Email: info@stoughtonwaterproofing.com Phone: +1 (469) 429-1445 Address: Stoughton, MA 02072, United States