Terms And Conditions
Last updated June 5, 2022.
PIGGYBACK NETWORK TERMS OF USE
PLEASE READ THE STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS BELOW AND ALL OTHER TERMS OF USE APPLICABLE TO YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM AND PIGGYBACK SERVICES, AS WELL AS ALL PRIVACY POLICY REFERENCED HEREIN CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES, AND OBLIGATIONS. ARBITRATION NOTICE: YOU AGREE THAT DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND COMPANY WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A LAWSUIT, A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT OR CLASS-WIDE ARBITRATION. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONSULT THE “DISPUTE RESOLUTION; BINDING ARBITRATION” SECTION BELOW.
STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS; MODIFICATION OF TERMS
Company may change or amend the Terms of Use at any time at its sole and absolute discretion. We encourage you to fully review the Terms of Use carefully and to check the Terms of Use periodically for any updates or changes. If Company makes a material change or amendment to the Terms of Use it will provide a notification of such changes or amendments on the Platform, which changes or amendments will be effective automatically upon the posting of such notification. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. Notwithstanding the terms of this paragraph, no revisions to the Terms of Use will apply to any dispute between you and Company that arose prior to the effective date of such revision.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PLATFORM IS MERELY A TECHNOLOGY SERVICE; THAT COMPANY DOES NOT PROVIDE YOU WITH ANY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, AND THAT YOUR ABILITY TO OBTAIN TRANSPORTATION SERVICES THROUGH THE PLATFORM DOES NOT ESTABLISH COMPANY AS A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER OR AS A PROVIDER OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES.
IF ANY PROVISION OF THE TERMS OF USE OR ANY FUTURE CHANGES ARE UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, DO NOT USE OR CONTINUE TO USE THE PLATFORM AND DO NOT CREATE AN ACCOUNT. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE PLATFORM FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF ANY NOTICE OF ANY CHANGE TO THE TERMS OF USE SHALL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE AND AGREEMENT TO SUCH CHANGE.
- DESCRIPTION OF PLATFORM
Drivers are not employees of Company, but rather provide the transportation services (the “PiggyBack Services”) directly to you. Although Company conducts certain screening of Drivers as described within PiggyBack’s Background Check Process (the “Driver Screening”), any agreement regarding the PiggyBack Services is strictly between you and the Driver, and Company is not responsible or liable for the PiggyBack Services or for the conduct, acts or omissions of any Driver. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by Company in a separate, signed written agreement with you, the Platform is made available solely for your personal, noncommercial use, and you are authorized to access and use the Platform (including the Platform IP, defined below) solely for your personal use in connection with obtaining PiggyBack Services. Company and/or Drivers reserve the right to refuse services to any passenger or passenger’s legal guardian, at their sole discretion for any cause.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Company will facilitate the credit/payment between you and the Driver who provides the PiggyBack Services in accordance with the Terms of Use.
- ELIGIBILITY; AUTHORIZATION
- PAYMENT TERMS
- PLATFORM LICENSE
As between any User and Company, Company retains all right, title and interest in and to the Platform, throughout the world, in perpetuity, including, without limitation, (i) all text, graphics, typefaces, formatting, graphs, designs, editorial content, HTML, look and feel, software, and data, (ii) all business processes, procedures, methods, and techniques used in the Platform, (iii) all Platform Content, (iv) all associated trade secret rights and other intellectual property and proprietary rights recognized anywhere in the world, and (v) the coordination, selection, arrangement and enhancement of such Platform Content as a Collective Work under the United States Copyright Act, as amended (collectively, “Platform IP”), and nothing contained herein shall be construed as creating or granting to any User any right, title or interest in and to such Platform IP other than the express license granted therein pursuant to the Term of use. Platform IP is protected in all forms, media and technologies now known or hereinafter developed as well as by the domestic and international laws of copyright, trademarks, patents, and other proprietary rights and laws.
The Company trademarks, service marks, and logos (the “Company Trademarks”) used and displayed on the Platform are Company’s registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks. Other product and service names located on the Platform may be trademarks or service marks owned by third parties (the “Third-Party Trademarks,” and, collectively with the Company Trademarks, the “Trademarks”). Except as otherwise permitted by law, you may not use the Trademarks to disparage Company or the applicable third-party, Company’s or a third- party’s products or services (including, without limitation, the Platform), or in any manner (using commercially reasonable judgment) that may damage any goodwill in the Trademarks. You may not use any Trademarks as part of a link to or from the Platform without Company’s prior express written consent. All goodwill generated from the use of any Trademark will inure solely to the benefit of Company or the applicable third-party owner thereof.
- PROHIBITED CONDUCT
Without limiting the foregoing, while using the Platform, you may not conduct any of the following activities:
- Engage in any harassing, threatening, intimidating, predatory, violent or stalking conduct;
- Use or attempt to use another User’s Account without authorization from that User and Company or arrange or attempt to arrange rides for any Passenger for whom you are not authorized to do so;
- Use the Platform in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect or inhibit other Users from fully enjoying the Platform or that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the functioning of the Platform in any manner;
- Reverse engineer any aspect of the Platform or do anything that might discover source code or bypass or circumvent measures employed to prevent or limit access to any part of the Platform;
- Attempt to circumvent any content-filtering techniques we employ or attempt to access any feature or area of the Platform that you are not authorized to access;
- Develop or use any third-party applications that interact with the Platform without our prior written consent, including any scripts designed to scrape or extract data from the Platform;
- Use any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods on the Platform; or
- Use the Platform or the PiggyBack Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, or engage in, encourage or promote any activity that violates the Terms of Use or any laws or regulations.
- Is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, false, misleading, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or fraudulent;
- May infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party;
- Contains or depicts any statements, remarks or claims that do not reflect your honest views and experiences;
- Impersonates, or misrepresents your affiliation with, any person or entity;
- Contains any unsolicited promotions, political campaigning, advertising or solicitations;
- Contains any private or personal information of a third party without such third party’s consent including, without limitation, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses;
- Contains any viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files or content; or
- Is, in our sole judgment, objectionable or that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Platform, or that may expose Company or others to any harm or liability of any kind.
- REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
You represent and warrant that that you have the right, authority and capacity to enter into, and to be bound by, the Terms of Use and to abide by the terms and conditions of the Terms of Use, and that you will so abide.
You represent and warrant that: (i) (1) all Registration Data and (2) all User content and other information that you submit onto the Platform, is true, accurate, current and complete; (ii) that you are the sole owner of all right, title and interest in, or have obtained all necessary rights and licenses from the applicable third-party owner of, any User content or other information you submit or upload onto the Platform to grant Company the rights set forth herein, free and clear any of further payment or attribution requirements; and (iii) that such User content and other information, when used for the purposes in which it is submitted onto the Platform, does not infringe upon the rights of any third-party, including, without limitation, contract rights, intellectual property rights, propriety rights and rights of publicity/privacy. You acknowledge and agree that you shall be solely responsible for all Registration Data, User content and other information that you post, upload, link to, publish, exchange, or display onto the Platform and that Company reserves the right to reject, refuse to post, edit, modify, remove all or a portion of any such Registration Data, User content or other information from the Platform that Company determines, in its sole discretion, does not comply with the Terms of Use, or for any other reason, without notice or liability to you.
You represent and warrant that any User content, Registration Data, and other information that you upload to the Platform: (i) will not be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items; (ii) will not violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation (including without limitation those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising); (iii) will not be defamatory, libelous, unlawfully threatening, or unlawfully harassing; (iv) will not contain any viruses, Trojan Horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; or (v) will not create liability for Company or cause Company to lose (in whole or in part) the services of its Internet service providers (ISPs) or other partners or suppliers.
- UNLAWFUL ACTIVITY; SUSPENSION AND/OR TERMINATION OF PLATFORM ACCESS
We further reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability to you, to disable your Account, suspend or terminate your use of, or access to, the Platform (either in whole or in part) at any time for any reason with any conditions, including, but not limited to, if we believe that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the Terms of Use or any applicable law or that you have engaged in conduct that we determine to be inappropriate or unacceptable in our sole discretion, including, without limitation, any violation of the restrictions set forth in Section 6 hereof. We may also disable your Account, suspend or terminate your access to the Platform, if you file any claim against Company or file any claim that involves the Platform. We also reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to seek and obtain any other remedies available to us pursuant to any applicable laws and regulations or at equity as a result of your breach of the Terms of Use or any other act or omission by you that gives rise to a claim by Company, and our disabling of your Account, our suspension or termination of your use of, or access to, the Platform shall be without prejudice to, and shall not be deemed a waiver of, the foregoing. If we terminate, limit, or suspend your right to use the Platform, you are prohibited, without Company’s prior written consent, from registering and creating a new Account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third-party, even if you may be acting on behalf of the third-party. In the event your right to use the Platform terminated, limited, or suspended, the Terms of Use will remain in effect and enforceable against you.
You may terminate the Terms of Use at any time by deleting your Account and ceasing all use of the Platform. Please note that, deleting the Platform from your computer or mobile device will not delete your Account. If you wish to delete your Account, please login to your Account on the Site or click the Account profile icon in the App, and once inside your Account profile, select "Delete Account". Please note that if you delete your Account, all Registration Data, PiggyBack Credits, and User content will automatically be deleted. We are not responsible for any loss or harm related to your inability to access or use the Platform.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, all sections of the Terms of Use which by their nature should survive the expiration or termination shall continue in full force and effect subsequent to and notwithstanding the expiration or termination of the Terms of Use.
- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ANY COMPANY PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE PLATFORM, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THE SAME. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF, NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING EXCLUSIONS, IT IS DETERMINED THAT ANY COMPANY PARTY IS LIABLE FOR DAMAGES, IN NO EVENT WILL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY, WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00).
ANY DISPUTE YOU HAVE WITH ANY THIRD-PARTY ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM, INCLUDING, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE AND NOT LIMITATION, ANY CARRIER, COPYRIGHT OWNER OR OTHER USER, IS DIRECTLY BETWEEN YOU AND SUCH THIRD-PARTY, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY RELEASE THE COMPANY PARTIES FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH DISPUTES.
YOU AND COMPANY AGREE THAT ANY PROCEEDINGS TO RESOLVE OR LITIGATE ANY DISPUTE WILL BE CONDUCTED SOLELY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, AND THAT NEITHER YOU NOR COMPANY WILL SEEK TO HAVE ANY DISPUTE HEARD AS A CLASS ACTION, A REPRESENTATIVE ACTION, A COLLECTIVE ACTION, A PRIVATE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ACTION, OR IN ANY PROCEEDING IN WHICH YOU OR COMPANY ACTS OR PROPOSES TO ACT IN A REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY. YOU AND COMPANY FURTHER AGREE THAT NO PROCEEDING WILL BE JOINED, CONSOLIDATED, OR COMBINED WITH ANOTHER PROCEEDING WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF YOU, COMPANY, AND ALL PARTIES TO ANY SUCH PROCEEDING.
- INDEMNIFICATION
- DISCLAIMERS
FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, COMPANY DOES NOT PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, AND COMPANY IS NOT A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER. IT IS UP TO THE DRIVER TO OFFER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, WHICH MAY BE REQUESTED BY A USER THROUGH THE USE OF THE PLATFORM. ANY DECISION BY A USER OR PASSENGER TO ACCEPT TRANSPORTATION FROM A DRIVER IS A DECISION MADE IN SUCH USER’S OR PASSENGER’S SOLE DISCRETION.
COMPMANY OFFERS INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY TO CONNECT USERS AND DRIVERS WITH EACH OTHER, BUT DOES NOT AND DOES NOT INTEND TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES OR ACT IN ANY MANNER AS A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER, AND HAS NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES OR OTHER SERVICES PROVIDED TO ANY USER OR PASSENGER BY ANY DRIVER PROVIDING PIGGYBACK SERVICES.
ALTHOUGH COMPANY CONDUCTS CERTAIN DRIVER SCREENINGS AS DESCRIBED AT PIGGYBACK’S BACKGROUND CHECK PROCESS, AND ALTHOUGH ONLY DRIVERS WHO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE THE DRIVER SCREENING PROCESS, AS DETERMINED IN COMPANY’S DISCRETION, ARE PERMITTED TO USE THE PLATFORM TO PROVIDE PIGGYBACK SERVICES, NO SCREENING PROCESS IS PERFECT. AS A RESULT, COMPANY CANNOT AND DOES NOT GUARANTEE, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING, THE ACCURACY OR EFFICACY OF THE DRIVER SCREENING PROCESS OR THE SUITABILITY, SAFETY, ABILITY, RELIABILITY, OR ACCURACY OF ANY DRIVER, THE PIGGYBACK SERVICES PROVIDED BY ANY DRIVER, OR THE CONDITION OF THE VEHICLES IN WHICH ANY PIGGYBACK SERVICES ARE PERFORMED.
IT IS SOLELY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DETERMINE IF A DRIVER WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS.
COMPANY WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND A DRIVER. BY USING THE PLATFORM, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU MAY BE EXPOSED TO SITUATIONS INVOLVING A DRIVER THAT ARE POTENTIALLY UNSAFE, OFFENSIVE, HARMFUL TO MINORS, OR OTHERWISE OBJECTIONABLE, AND THAT USE OF DRIVER ARRANGED OR SCHEDULED USING THE PLATFORM IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND JUDGMENT. COMPANY WILL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO YOUR TRANSACTIONS OR RELATIONSHIP WITH DRIVER OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY FAILURE OR ERROR WITH RESPECT TO ANY DRIVER SCREENINGS.
- FEEDBACK
- PLATFORM ACCESS REQUIREMENTS; UPDATES AND MAINTENANCE
It is your responsibility to ensure that your computer or mobile device complies with the requirements for accessibility. Your use of the Platform may vary in functionality, availability and quality depending on the type of the device and the operating system that you use and Company accepts no responsibility for any lack of functionality that is due to your equipment (including your device, internet connection, operating system or settings and software).
It is your responsibility to pay for all costs and expenses that you may incur while using the Platform (including, but not limited to, all telephone call or line charges or Internet data service access charges).
Your access to the Platform may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of Company’s control including, but not limited to, telecommunications and/or wireless network service disruptions, computer or mobile device viruses and bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, and server, equipment or software defects. Company is not responsible and will have no liability for any failures of the Internet or any data or telecommunications equipment, system or network used in connection with the Platform. In addition, perfect security does not exist on the Internet; Company cannot and does not guarantee that any Registration Data or other personally identifiable information submitted to the Platform and selected by you to remain private (as applicable) will not become public under any circumstances.
Company may in the future update the Platform for repair or maintenance purposes or to change any tools, products, services, functionalities, or features thereof (an “Update”). Company shall not be liable to any User in any way as a result of any temporary or permanent suspension of the Platform or any tools, products, services, functionalities, or features thereof arising from or in connection with an Update. Furthermore, Company is under no obligation to undergo an Update of the Platform to the extent any Platform Content, User Content and/or other tool, product, service, functionality, or feature thereof is out of date. The terms of the License granted to you hereunder shall apply in full to any Update. Following an Update, you may not be able to use the Platform until you have downloaded the latest version and accepted any new terms.
- DISPUTE RESOLUTION; BINDING ARBITRATION
Except for small claims disputes in which you or Company seek to bring an individual action in small claims court located in the county of your billing address or disputes in which you or Company seeks injunctive or other equitable relief for the alleged unlawful use of intellectual property, you and Company waive your rights to a jury trial and to have any dispute arising out of or related to the Terms of Use resolved in court. Instead, all claims or disputes arising out of or relating to the Terms of Use will be resolved through confidential binding arbitration held in Cook County, Illinois in accordance with the Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures (“Rules”) of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (“JAMS”), which are available on the JAMS website and hereby incorporated by reference. You either acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand the rules of JAMS or waive your opportunity to read the rules of JAMS and any claim that the rules of JAMS are unfair or should not apply for any reason.
You and Company agree that any dispute arising out of or related to the Terms of Use is personal to you and Company and that any dispute will be resolved solely through individual arbitration and will not be brought as a class arbitration, class action or any other type of representative proceeding.
You and Company agree that the Terms of Use affect interstate commerce and that the enforceability of this Section will be substantively and procedurally governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. (the “FAA”), to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. As limited by the FAA, the Terms of Use and the JAMS Rules, the arbitrator will have exclusive authority to make all procedural and substantive decisions regarding any dispute and to grant any remedy that would otherwise be available in court; provided, however, that the arbitrator does not have the authority to conduct a class arbitration or a representative action, which is prohibited by the Terms of Use. The arbitrator may only conduct an individual arbitration and may not consolidate more than one individual’s claims, preside over any type of class or representative proceeding or preside over any proceeding involving more than one individual. You and Company agree that for any arbitration you initiate, you will pay the filing fee and Company will pay the remaining JAMS fees and costs. For any arbitration initiated by Company, Company will pay all JAMS fees and costs. You and Company agree that the state or federal courts of the State of Illinois and the United States sitting in Cook County, Illinois have exclusive jurisdiction over any appeals and the enforcement of an arbitration award.
ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE TERMS OF USE OR THE PLATFORM MUST BE FILED WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER SUCH CLAIM AROSE; OTHERWISE, THE CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU AND COMPANY WILL NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASSERT THE CLAIM.
You have the right to opt out of binding arbitration within thirty (30) days of the date you first accepted the Terms of Use by emailing Company at concierge@piggybacknetwork.com. In order to be effective, the opt out notice must include your full name and clearly indicate your intent to opt out of binding arbitration. By opting out of binding arbitration, you are agreeing to resolve disputes in accordance with Section.
- GOVERNING LAW
You agree that regardless of any applicable statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to your use of the Platform or the Terms of Use must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever and fully barred.
- PRIVACY
- ASSIGNMENT
- WAIVER AND SEVERABILITY; ENTIRE AGREEMENT
- CONTACT US
PiggyBack Network Inc.,
10357 S. Leavitt St
Chicago, IL 60643