ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

Marks4Antiques.com is a California-based company, and the following Terms & Conditions govern all access to and use of this website (the “Site”) and any associated services. By accessing or using this Site, you acknowledge and agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions, which form a legally binding agreement between you and Marks4Antiques.com.

Your right to use the services offered on this Site is personal to you. This right is non-transferable and is limited to accessing, browsing, and viewing the Site and its materials for your individual, non-commercial use, subject to your full compliance with these Terms & Conditions.

These Terms & Conditions also apply to any new features, enhancements, or additional services introduced on the Site, unless explicitly stated otherwise. Marks4Antiques.com reserves the right to modify, update, or discontinue any portion of the Terms & Conditions at any time without prior notice. Continued use of the Site following any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised terms.

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RESTRICTIONS

The process, methodology, and underlying systems employed by this Site are protected by applicable laws and are the subject of a pending patent. All rights are expressly reserved. Marks4Antiques.com is a registered trademark in the United States. Other trademarks, service marks, trade names, product names, or logos displayed on this Site are the property of their respective owners.

Any reproduction, duplication, modification, distribution, republication, or other use of Marks4Antiques.com content or third-party marks appearing on this Site—without the prior express written consent of the respective owner—is strictly prohibited.

This includes but is not limited to: proprietary databases, lookup tools, content formatting, pricing histories, semantic structures, and image presentation methodologies used on the Site. Unauthorized use of any part of the Site or its content may violate copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws, and may subject you to legal liability.

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USE OF INFORMATION & PRIVACY POLICY

Marks4Antiques.com respects your privacy. We do not share, sell, rent, or disclose your personal information to third parties. Any information collected in connection with your membership is used solely for validating your account, processing payments, and communicating with you directly regarding our services. Your data will not be sold or made available to any external party.

If you submit or upload material to the Site — including comments, suggestions, feedback, images, or other content (collectively, “Information”) — you grant Marks4Antiques.com a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, sublicense, and create derivative works based on such Information, in any medium now known or later developed. You also represent and warrant that you either own or have full rights to such Information, and that all so-called “moral rights” have been waived.

This license enables us to display, enhance, and incorporate user-contributed content to improve the quality and functionality of our services while ensuring legal protection for all parties involved.

SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS

Your membership will automatically renew on a monthly or annual basis, depending on the subscription plan you selected at sign-up. For your convenience, we will charge the applicable subscription fee to the payment method you provided (e.g., PayPal or Credit Card) unless and until you cancel your membership.

To avoid being charged for the next billing cycle, you must cancel your membership before the renewal date. Once your payment method has been charged, refunds are not available.

You may cancel your membership at any time. Upon cancellation, your access will remain active until the end of the current billing period, after which your subscription will not renew.

To cancel your membership through PayPal:

1. Log in to your PayPal account.
2. Locate your subscription under recurring payments.
3. Click the “Details” link.
4. Select “Cancel Subscription” and confirm your cancellation.

Please note: We do not have access to your PayPal account or the ability to cancel on your behalf.

If you paid by Credit Card through Stripe or 2Checkout, please visit our Contact Page and submit your cancellation request through the secure form provided. Our team will confirm your cancellation within 48 hours.

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USE OF CONTENT AND COPYRIGHT

Our services contain information, text, software, photographs and other material (collectively, the "Content") that are protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights of Marks4Antiques.com or third parties and as cited. All Content used or made available through our services or on our sites is copyrighted as a collective work and/or compilation of Marks4Antiques.com pursuant to applicable copyright law. Marks4Antiques.com owns the copyright in the selection, coordination, presentation, arrangement and method of storing and accessing of such Content, as well as in the content original to Marks4Antiques.com. You must comply with any additional copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any Content available on or accessed through our services. Marks4Antiques.com does not grant permission to users of its services to reproduce images of original works of art or other copyrighted content.

All Content included with our services or on our sites is provided for your own use. In no case shall you republish the Content in any form without express written permission of Marks4Antiques.com.

Marks4Antiques.com does not buy or sell items, information, opinions or any of its Content, whether contained or displayed on our sites or disseminated through any form of communication to its subscribed or potential members. Our membership fees are used solely to pay for expenses associated with maintaining our equipment and software, arranging, storing and displaying of information in a user-friendly format, improve or enhance our Content, pay our specialists and staff to provide further research as with our Help Guarantee features on our Marks4Ceramics.com and Marks4Silver.com services, and the marketing of our services. Content not original to Marks4Antiques.com is clearly cited as to the original source and is provided free of charge.

Image Use and Fair Use Policy

Some images displayed on Marks4Antiques.com are sourced from third-party auction houses and similar public sales records. These images are resized, displayed in lower resolution, clearly attributed to their original source, and are used solely for informational, research, and educational purposes. They are not intended for resale, reproduction, or download and are used in accordance with the principles of fair use under U.S. copyright law. If you believe an image has been used inappropriately, please notify us using the form at https://marks4antiques.com/contact-us.

Data Ownership and Compilation Rights

Marks4Antiques.com does not claim ownership of factual content such as sales prices, auction dates, object dimensions, or manufacturer names. However, we retain full copyright in the compilation, arrangement, semantic classification, contextual enhancement, and software infrastructure used to organize and deliver such data. Our proprietary methods for categorization, display, and access are protected as original works under U.S. copyright law.

AI Use and Automated Access Restrictions

Marks4Antiques.com welcomes reference or citation of our content in AI-assisted search tools, summaries, and related informational services that help users discover our research. However, automated access — including scraping, crawling, or harvesting of our content or data for reproduction, aggregation, or AI model training — is strictly prohibited without our express written permission. This does not apply to standard indexing by reputable search engines or to fair-use citation linking.

Notice and Takedown Procedure

Marks4Antiques.com respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material on this site infringes upon your copyright or other rights, please submit a detailed message using our contact form at https://marks4antiques.com/contact-us. Include a description of the specific content, where it appears on our site, and sufficient proof of ownership or authorization. We will promptly investigate and take appropriate action.

DISCLAIMER; NO WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

This Site and all content provided through it are offered on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Marks4Antiques.com makes no representations or warranties of any kind — express or implied — regarding the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or suitability of the Site or its content. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Marks4Antiques.com expressly disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Neither Marks4Antiques.com nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, employees, agents, affiliates, content providers, sponsors, or licensors shall be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use or inability to use this Site, including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages.

This limitation of liability applies to all causes of action, including but not limited to damages caused by reliance on any information obtained from Marks4Antiques.com, loss of data, loss of profits or revenue, loss of or damage to property, service interruptions, system failure, deletion or corruption of files, email issues, network delays, or any other performance failure — even if Marks4Antiques.com has been advised of the possibility of such damages. It also applies to any damages resulting from unauthorized access, hacking, or other security breaches.

In jurisdictions that do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for certain types of damages, Marks4Antiques.com’s liability will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

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GENERAL PROVISIONS

These Terms & Conditions represent the entire agreement between each user and Marks4Antiques.com regarding the use of the Site, and they supersede all prior communications, representations, understandings, or agreements, whether written or oral. Any modifications to these terms must be made by Marks4Antiques.com and will be posted on this Site.

This Site is controlled and operated by Marks4Antiques.com from the State of California, United States. By using this Site, you agree that any disputes or claims shall be governed by the laws of the United States and the State of California, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal action arising out of your use of this Site shall be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction located in California.

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