Registration Terms

Introduction

The POPSUGAR Dabble community enables you to receive samples from brands. A service like POPSUGAR Dabble (which, in this document, we’ll also refer to as “the Service”) requires people to interact with each other (us included) within some kind of framework designed to keep everybody safe and free from harm. In essence, that framework is provided by these Registration Terms, which we’ll refer to as “the Terms”.

POPSUGAR Dabble is delivered by SoPost Limited, a company incorporated in England under registered number 08216668. SoPost Limited’s registered office is at The Core Bath Lane, Newcastle Helix, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, NE4 5TF. Our U.S. entity is SoPost Inc., and is based at 110 Greene St, Suite 9C, New York, NY 10012 (collectively, “SoPost”, “we”, “our”, “us”). We provide the Service using the POPSUGAR brand under license from POPSUGAR Media Inc., a company located at 111 Sutter Street, 16th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94101 (“POPSUGAR”). Likewise, when we use words like “you” and “your”, we are referring to you, whom, we hope, will soon be our registered user. When we refer to the “Website” we are referring to one that we host at dabble.popsugar.com, and any subdomains that we create.

These Terms govern your use of the Service as well as the Website.

Anybody can access the POPSUGAR Dabble website, but in order to request a sample, you do need to be aged 18 or over and register to create a POPSUGAR Dabble account. If you register, you must do so on the basis of these Terms. So, if you want to request a sample, you must register and to register you must accept these Terms as they are set out in this document.

Acceptance; Your Registration; Your Registration Account Details

There’s not much that you need to do to complete your registration. Just complete a simple form on our Website with your personal details including a postal address to which we can send your samples, and tell us a little about your lifestyle and beauty preferences so we can send you the most relevant products and updates. You may also consent to use linking your social media account. We will handle that information in accordance with our Privacy Notice, which forms part of these Terms and thereby, our contract with you.

You will also need to check the box that is your confirmation that you accept these Terms. If you don’t do that, you won’t be able to complete your registration and that would be a shame. But if you do check the box and submit your registration to us, please bear in mind that you are entering into a contract with us (and not POPSUGAR or the brands from whom the samples will come) and that contract is, of course, based on these Terms. If you register and subsequently decide not to use the Service, there’s nothing you are required to do (and if you wish, you can have your registration terminated). But since you are entering into a contract with us, it would be sensible to have a careful read of these Terms just to make sure you are as happy as we are about it all.

Once you register with us, we suggest you print off a copy of these Terms for your records. If you do, please bear in mind, however, that the Terms might change in the future, especially since we may add functionality to the Service over time. For that reason, when you complete your registration to use POPSUGAR Dabble, you will be asked to accept the current version of the Terms.

We must be able to identify you as an individual from the information contained within your profile and to that extent at least, and by agreeing to these Terms, you confirm that your account information is truthful, complete and accurate and that you will keep it up to date. Submission of false, misleading, inaccurate, incomplete, obsolete, or other information prohibited under these terms of use may result in immediate termination of your registration.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your registration, including, but not limited to, the restriction of access to your device and/or your registration. You agree to accept responsibility for any and all activities that occur under your registration, including, but not limited to, any activity that occurs as a result of your failure to keep secure and maintain the confidentiality of your registration. It is your sole responsibility to control the dissemination and use of your authorized link, control access to and use of your registration, and notify us when you desire to cancel your registration on the Website. You may not use anyone else’s authorized link or account at any time on the Website. We will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these requirements and you may be held liable for any losses incurred by us or any other user of the Website if your failure to keep your account information secure and confidential results in someone else’s use of your registration or registration information. If you know of or suspect that anyone other than you knows your registration information, you must promptly notify us at hello@sopost.com.

You must confirm that you are at least 18 years of age and capable of entering into binding contracts. Assuming then that you are aged 18 or over, your registration on these Terms gives rise to a contract between you and us that is indeed binding on both you and us and those that may later inherit from us the benefit of the contracts that we have formed with you and others like you. You may not transfer or sell your rights under this contract to anybody else nor may you use it as security for anything. The nature of running a Service like POPSUGAR Dabble means that we may, for some reason, have to ‘assign’ the contract that we’ve formed with you to another business (for example, as part of a restructure or if POPSUGAR Dabble is bought by another company).

The POPSUGAR Dabble community is currently only available in the United States, and you will only be able to register with a U.S. delivery address.

You can terminate your registration at any time. To terminate your registration, please log in to your account (go to "Settings" -> "Privacy" -> "Delete account") and submit the deletion request. From here, your account will be deleted and you will no longer be able to access or use the Service.

Your Use of POPSUGAR Dabble; How You May Use the Website and the Service

As a platform technology, POPSUGAR Dabble is what its users make it. That said, there are core purposes for it (as outlined in the Introduction above) that encompass everything that we and our users do with it.

You agree that you will abide by these Terms and our purposes and, if you are a registered user of the Service, you agree that you will not, under any circumstances, use your registration for actions that do not fall within those core purposes outlined above.

The Website and the Service are for your personal, non-commercial and lawful use only. Other than as expressly permitted in these Terms, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, perform, publish, license, modify, translate, adapt, create derivative works from, transfer, sell, or otherwise exploit the Website or the Service or any content, information, software, products or services obtained from the Website or the Service, for any commercial purpose or enterprise. You may not use the Website or the Service, or any content within the Website or the Service, for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms, or to solicit the performance of an illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of SoPost or other individuals or entities.

The Website

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you may access the Website and display and use the contents of the Website and we grant to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the content and services made available on the Website. You may not (a) decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Website or any portion thereof, or (b) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, any portion thereof or any other computer systems or social media or mobile platforms through the Website. You agree that you will not use the Website in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Website. Use of any of our Website made available through a third-party platform is also subject to the platform’s applicable terms and conditions.

The Service

We are delighted when our users share offers they find through the Service with their friends and we encourage you to do that. However, whilst sharing with friends is great, piggybacking on the services we provide in order to build your own business is very much not. You agree that whilst you may share offers with friends for personal purposes, you will not share our offers on a commercial scale and/or for business purposes, whether within a closed group or list of individuals or to the public at large. If you do so nonetheless, you acknowledge that we may pursue legal action in order to recover from you damages for the losses that we or our brand partners have suffered at your hands.

You will not use your registration for the distribution of unsolicited and unwanted communications (whether commercial or otherwise), which you might know as ‘spam’. Spam is a real nuisance and it makes us and our users very unhappy, so if you distribute spam through POPSUGAR Dabble, we’ll terminate your registration immediately and won’t allow you to use our Service in the future.

Finally, we only allow one sample per person per campaign and where necessary, we may need to impose a limit of one sample per household per campaign. So, if you’re using a social media account or email address to claim a sample, you warrant that the account or email address you’re using is your own, which you created in the regular course of things - specifically, we’re talking here about using multiple accounts and/or multiple identities for the purpose of requesting multiple product samples. Doing this sort of thing is cheating and deprives others of a fair chance to receive samples they would like to request so if you do it, we’ll ban you from using POPSUGAR Dabble and we may pursue you for damages for breach of contract should your actions harm a campaign we are running for a brand partner. To counteract this, you promise only to use one account for the duration of your relationship with us.

If you use the Service for commercial purposes without engaging with us formally as a brand partner or authorized distributor, we will terminate your registration immediately and we may commence an action for breach of contract against you should we be of the view that your actions have harmed us or our brand partners.

Reviews

In using the Service, you’ll have the chance to write reviews. You may also choose to share content and offers that you like and in doing so, you may add your own comments or post to your social media accounts. In doing so, you promise that the content you upload won’t deliberately offend. Yes, we have all told jokes that backfired or were misjudged or perhaps didn’t go down as well as we intended. That’s not what we’re talking about. What we are chiefly concerned with here is content that is offensive, obscene, abusive, libelous, false, deliberately misleading, or is otherwise illegal. For short, let’s call this “Unlawful Content”. If you do use POPSUGAR Dabble to distribute Unlawful Content, we reserve the right to remove it immediately and to suspend or even terminate your account and we may not let you know that we have done this. If we do contact you, we may allow you to explain why you have uploaded the Unlawful Content but if your explanation is unconvincing or you take an unreasonably long time to respond, we may, at our discretion, terminate your registration. If you behave in this way, you may leave us with no alternative but to refer the incident to the authorities. Unless specifically otherwise stated, you agree that by submitting reviews to us, (i) such reviews shall be deemed to be non-confidential, and (ii) you grant to us, our successors, affiliates, representatives and agents a perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid-up, irrevocable, transferable, worldwide right and license to use, transmit, copy, reproduce, publicly display or perform, create derivative works of, or otherwise use such reviews, without compensation, acknowledgement or notice to you. You also represent and warrant to us that you have the necessary permissions and rights to provide such reviews to us.

Intellectual Property

You may have heard of the term “intellectual property”. Intellectual property is the term used to describe things that can be owned but which are not physical in nature. The owner of intellectual property doesn’t own something that is tangible but instead has the right to control how that intangible thing is used, hence the term “intellectual property rights”. Trade marks, patents and copyright are well-known and commonplace forms of intellectual property, but there are lots more. And if you use somebody else’s intellectual property rights without their permission (which is often referred to as a “license”), you’ve “infringed” their rights.

On that basis we confirm to you that we (being SoPost operating under license from POPSUGAR) own the framework and content that makes up POPSUGAR Dabble. That includes all the ‘copy’, the code, the look and feel and the trade marks and graphics that you use in making use of your registration (in accordance with these Terms). We build databases that contain details of the offers that we circulate, the people to whom those offers are circulated and the people to whom we subsequently deliver samples. We invest a lot of time and money into building and maintaining those databases and making sure that the data within them is as correct as it can possibly be. They are therefore the subject of database right that is owned by us, which we license to you only so that you can make use of our services for personal purposes. Were we to use your things without asking, you would get very unhappy. So please don’t try to use any of the intellectual property that we provide for purposes that are not intended or envisaged by these Terms. You can use our intellectual property in order to make use of our service as provided for in these Terms but for nothing else and you may not use our intellectual property for commercial purposes under any circumstances.

You will not (i) remove, delete, alter, or obscure any trademarks or any notices of copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property or proprietary rights from the Website or the Service, including any copy thereof; or (ii) rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer or otherwise make available the Website or the Service, or any features or functionality of the Website or the Service, to any third party for any reason, including, without limitation, by making the Website or the Service available on a network where it is capable of being accessed by more than one device at a time.

We confirm that we have the right to distribute the samples for which you have registered to receive, though that is not necessarily to say that those samples are lawful wherever you happen to live and if you’re in doubt, you should check your local law for yourself, just to be sure.

Samples

Samples that you receive via the POPSUGAR Dabble community are for your personal use only. It’s a bit difficult to imagine how the samples that we distribute could be turned into a business but technology allows us to do all sorts of things now that weren’t possible 20 years ago, so just to be completely clear, USING POPSUGAR DABBLE FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS COMPLETELY FORBIDDEN - unless, of course, you happen to be one of our brand partners or one of our authorized distributors. Nothing in these Terms should be interpreted so as to apply any form of legal obligation or duty upon us to supply samples (or any particular sample) to you. You acknowledge that the receipt of samples is a “gratuitous benefit” - in other words, it’s something for which you’ve paid nothing and for which we are not contractually obliged to you to provide. We may not be able to deliver a sample that you request and this could be for a number of reasons. It may be that we had a limited stock and you didn’t request it before we ran out. Or maybe we thought we had more than we did, perhaps because we have realized that some of our stock is damaged in some way. Or it may simply be that you don’t fit the profile of the types of consumers that the brand in question has asked us to target. Or it could be any one of a dozen or more other reasons. Whatever the reason, we will try to let you know that we’re not going to be able to deliver the sample as soon as we can within reason but we will not be obliged to explain why this is nor will we enter into and prolonged debate about it. We do promise, though, that we will approach the question of who gets a sample fairly and ethically, albeit within the bounds of what we are obliged to do for our brand partners.

Businesses

If you wish to engage with POPSUGAR Dabble as a business, we have other terms and conditions that apply to that. Contact us at hello@sopost.com to find out more on this or have a look elsewhere on the Website.

Third-Party Links

We are not responsible for the content of any other websites linked to the Website. Your linking to any other website is at your own risk, and you should be aware that, unless otherwise indicated, these Terms no longer govern. Please be mindful of this as you link to other outside websites. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any outside website to which you navigate.

Updates to the Service; Changes to these Terms

At any given time, we reckon we have a pretty good idea as to how well the functionality we’ve provided for POPSUGAR Dabble is working. We’re working on new features and occasionally, we may want to replace older features with new, better ones. It is inevitable that every now and again, we will provide features or functionality that seemed like a really good idea at the time but which, for whatever reason, don’t really catch on with our users. So when this happens, we reserve the right under these Terms to add or remove functionality and features. We will try to give you some advance notice of this but from time to time, this might not be possible. For example, if something breaks and it is complicated to fix and not sufficiently popular to warrant dropping everything to fix, we may decide to withdraw it immediately. That withdrawal may be temporary or it may be that we withdraw it permanently, and we have the right to decide what’s best in the circumstances.

It might be that the new functionality requires changes or additions to these Terms or the Privacy Notice, so when we launch new features, you might want to check to see whether we’ve made any changes to either. If we do have to amend either the Terms or the Privacy Notice, we will notify you of this and the date upon which the new versions will be effective. If you choose to continue to use your POPSUGAR Dabble account after that, you will do so on the basis of the new documentation.

Limitations of Liability; Warranty Disclaimers

Consumers enjoy protection under a variety of laws in different jurisdictions around the world and, if you are using POPSUGAR Dabble as a consumer. Under applicable law, it may be unlawful for us to attempt to exclude or limit liability for personal injury or death arising from our negligence or for any loss you suffer as a result of our fraud or for any statement we make fraudulently intending you to rely on it in entering into this contract with us.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, and bearing in mind always the exceptions we have mentioned in the previous paragraph, there are certain types of liability that we are permitted by law to limit or exclude and, accordingly, NEITHER SOPOST NOR POPSUGAR WILL BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS, DAMAGE OR EXPENSE (INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, BUSINESS OR GOODWILL) THAT YOU MIGHT SUFFER AS A RESULT OF USING THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE, HOWEVER THAT LOSS DAMAGE OR EXPENSE MIGHT ARISE, AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE OR WE WERE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

In addition, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FAILURE TO PERFORM OR FOR THE DELAY IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY OF OUR OBLIGATIONS UNDER THESE TERMS THAT IS CAUSED BY EVENTS THAT ARE BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL. This might include a failure of an internet service provider to deliver notifications to you, for instance.

Your use of the Website and Service is at your sole risk. THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY MATERIALS, INFORMATION, CONTENT, FUNCTIONS, PRODUCTS, TEXT, GRAPHICS AND LINKS THEREON, AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, AND ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, NON-INTERFERENCE, DATA ACCURACY, SYSTEM INTEGRATION, AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM TRADE USAGE, COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT (A) THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE WILL FUNCTION UNINTERRUPTED, SECURELY OR BE AVAILABLE AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME OR LOCATION; (B) ANY ERRORS OR DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; (C) THE WEBSITE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; OR (D) THE RESULTS OF USING THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. WE DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE OR WITH RESPECT TO ITS OR THE SERVICE’S COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, TRUTHFULNESS, AVAILABILITY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THEM. YOU AGREE THAT WE, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, MAY IMMEDIATELY TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY REASON.

In signing up to these Terms, we need you to understand that POPSUGAR Dabble is a platform through which consumers like you can get access to product samples. We’re not responsible for any of the campaigns that we facilitate. If you have a problem with the nature, quality or content of any campaign that we deliver for a brand partner, whilst we may perhaps be sympathetic to you, there will be nothing at all that we can do to help and you should address any grievance of this nature you have to the brand on whose behalf the campaign is being delivered.

These limitations and exclusions of liability will survive the termination of your registration (which, in turn, would terminate our contract with you).

In making sure that our users are happy and that the Service is working efficiently, we may review the data being transmitted by you or any of our other users. This does NOT mean, however, that we are under any duty to do this and we do not and will not assume any responsibility for this.

You also need to be aware that viruses can be transmitted via websites, not just email. So if you want to make sure that your systems are safe from infection, you should run suitable security software because WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY VIRUS INFECTION OR OTHER HARM CAUSED TO YOUR SYSTEMS THROUGH YOUR USE OF POPSUGAR DABBLE OR WHEN FOLLOWING ANY LINKS TO WEBSITES RUN BY OTHER PEOPLE.

Waiver

There may come occasions where we choose not to insist on your total compliance with your obligations under these Terms or that, where you’ve breached the Terms, that we don’t make use of our rights to take action against you. This does NOT mean, however, that we are waiving those rights. We can take action against you later if we choose to and at any time during the lifetime of your registration (or indeed, where necessary, at any time after the termination of your registration), we can return to the issue and insist on your compliance.

Electronic Communications

From time to time, we will have to give you information relating to your use of the Service. This might be information about new functionality or old functionality that we are going to withdraw. It might be to let you know that we have made changes to these Terms or the Privacy Notice. We will send this information to you in the form of notifications via our Website. We might also send an email to the address you have given us when registering (which is why we need you to keep that email address up-to-date) or in some other form of electronic communication. The communications between you and us use electronic means, whether through the Website or via email. For contractual purposes, you (i) consent to receive communications from us in an electronic form; and (ii) agree that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were in a writing.

Notices

If, for some reason, you need to communicate with us for contractual purposes, you can send us a letter by post to the U.S. office address (which you will find in the second paragraph of the Introduction above).

Information that we send to you or you send to us for contractual reasons we’ll call “Notices” for the purposes of these Terms. There may be times when we all need to know when such a Notice was received. To make things easy, those Notices will be deemed to be received as follows. A Notice sent by us to you by way of notification through an app will be deemed as having been served immediately. A Notice sent by us to you via a notification sent to your account via our Website only or an email sent by you to us or us to you, will be regarded as having been received the day AFTER it is sent, just to give everyone a reasonable chance to pick it up. If a Notice is sent in either direction by letter, that Notice will be regarded as having been received (assuming that it was properly stamped and sent by first class mail) three working days AFTER the day on which it was sent, or in the case of a letter sent from overseas by airmail, ten days AFTER the day on which it was sent.

Severability

It might just be that at some point in the future, a court or some other authority has cause to review these Terms and in so doing, rules that some or other part of them is invalid, unlawful or unenforceable. Obviously, that could cause a bit of a problem, certainly for us and possibly also for you. So, in the very unlikely event that something like that happens, there will be two consequences. First, you and SoPost acknowledge that the rest of the Terms will remain in place between the parties and that the contract will survive intact with the problematic element removed. Second, the authority or court taking action may compose a replacement for the stricken terms that do as good a job as reasonably possible as the job previously done by those terms or, where the authority or court taking action declines to do so, you agree that we may replace those terms ourselves with something else that complies with the ruling.

Entire Agreement

Everything relevant to our contractual relationship with you with respect to our Website and the Service is set out either in these Terms or in the Privacy Notice. We have no earlier contractual arrangement or understanding with you of any sort. If there is anything that you seek to rely on in creating your registration, please disregard it right now, because in submitting your registration and accepting these Terms, you must acknowledge that in registering to use POPSUGAR Dabble, you haven’t relied upon any statement made or promise given by us, whether stated plainly or implied from our conduct UNLESS that representation or statement is repeated either in these Terms or in the Privacy Notice. These Terms, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be delegated, transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by SoPost without restriction. Any purported delegation, transfer or assignment by you shall be null and void.

Governing Law, Jurisdiction and Venue

If you are a user of the Website and/or the Service in the United States, these Terms and the relationship between you and SoPost will be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of Delaware.

Contact Us

If you come across any evidence to suggest that anybody else is using the Service in breach of these Terms, it would be a terrific help if you would let us know so that we can take action to stop them. Please contact us at hello@sopost.com.

If you have any comments or questions about the Website, the Service or these Terms, please contact us hello@sopost.com.