Terms of Service
Terms
These Terms of Service (these “Terms”) apply to squaredmgmt.com, the booking engine hosted at squaredmanagement.guestybookings.com, any subdomain of these sites, any applications for mobile devices, and any other websites operated by Squared Management LLC or any subsidiary or affiliated entity on which these Terms are posted or linked (collectively, the “Website”).
The Website is operated by Squared Management LLC, referred to in these Terms as “we,” “us,” “our,” or “Squared Management”. The terms “you” and “your” refer to the person using or accessing the Website.
By using or accessing the Website in any manner, you agree to comply with and be legally bound by these Terms. If you do not fully agree to these Terms without modification, you are not authorized to use or access the Website. You should carefully review these Terms, which constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Squared Management.
You are not authorized to access the Website unless you are at least 18 years old and are able to enter into legally binding contracts.
Changes to Terms
We reserve the right to change, add to, or otherwise modify these Terms in the future without prior notice. When we make changes, we will revise the “Effective as of” date at the bottom of this Policy. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. Your continued use of the Website after any changes to these Terms will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Terms; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by those Terms.
Limited License to Access and Use the Website
Provided you comply with these Terms, Squared Management grants you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, and non-exclusive right to access and use the Website for the following purposes: searching for a vacation or short-term rental; booking or inquiring about booking a vacation or long-term rental; if you are a property owner or prospective owner, researching or inquiring about using Squared Management services; accessing the booking engine hosted at squaredmanagement.guestybookings.com to book or inquire about a rental; researching vacation destinations; taking any of the above actions for another person for whom you are legally authorized to act; or any other purpose that is clearly stated and expressly permitted on the Website.
Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy
Squared Management values your privacy. Please review our current Privacy Policy, which also governs your use of and access to the Website and is incorporated by reference into these Terms.
Prohibited Activity
Any use of the Website for any purpose that is not expressly permitted or otherwise in accordance with these Terms is prohibited. Prohibited uses of the Website include, without limitation, the uses listed below. In connection with the use of or access to the Website, you agree not to:
- Use the Website or its contents for any commercial purpose, except as specifically authorized by us.
- Copy, transmit, upload, or store any part of the content of the Website for any purpose not expressly permitted by these Terms.
- Use the Website or its contents to violate, circumvent, or infringe the rights of Squared Management or any other person or entity, including without limitation any intellectual property, contract, privacy, or publicity right.
- Deep-link to any portion of the Website without our express written consent.
- Use any robot, script, scraper, spider, or other manual or automated means or process to access, scrape, copy, crawl, collect, monitor, or aggregate the content of the Website or any portion of the Website, except as expressly permitted by us (provided however that a limited exception to the foregoing prohibited action is granted to bona fide, general-purpose search engines that use tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Website, provided they do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses using an easily identifiable agent and otherwise comply with these Terms).
- “Frame,” “mirror,” or otherwise replicate or incorporate any portion or aspect of the Website, including without limitation Squared Management’s name, logo, trademarks, or proprietary information, into any other website without our express written consent.
- Sell, offer to sell, transfer, or license any portion of the Website or its contents in any form to third parties without our express written consent.
- Use the Website in a manner or for a purpose that violates any national, state or provincial, local, or other law or regulation, or any order of a court.
- Use the Website in a fraudulent manner or under false pretenses, including without limitation making a reservation or reservation inquiry under a false name or address or incorrect age, using a method of payment that you are not authorized to use to pay for accommodation, or taking action that may be considered phishing.
- Use the Website to identify, contact, or solicit a homeowner or guest for the purpose of (1) booking or soliciting a booking of a home independent of the services offered by Squared Management or (2) soliciting an owner or guest to use any third-party service that is competitive with Squared Management.
- Use the Website to post or transmit material that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous or defamatory, obscene, indecent, or sexually explicit, that discriminates or promotes discrimination against any individual or group, or that promotes illegal activities.
- Attempt to modify, adapt, decipher, translate, decompile, disassemble, edit, or reverse engineer any of the software used by us in connection with the Website.
- Take any action that, in our sole discretion, adversely affects or could adversely affect the performance or function of the Website or any system used by us on the Website, or that places an unreasonable load on our servers or infrastructure.
- Solicit, encourage, or assist any person in doing, or attempting to do, any of the foregoing actions.
Proprietary Rights and Ownership
All contents of the Website are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws of the United States and foreign countries and by international conventions. You acknowledge and agree that the contents of the Website are the exclusive intellectual property of Squared Management or the applicable rights owner.
User Accounts
To access certain services via the Website, we may permit or require you to register for a Squared Management user account. If you choose to register, you agree to provide us with true, accurate, current, and complete information, and to update such information if it changes. You agree (1) to safeguard your Squared Management login identification and password; (2) not to disclose your login identification or password to any third party without our express written permission; (3) to take sole responsibility for any activity taken under your Squared Management account, whether or not you specifically authorized the activity; and (4) to notify us immediately and select a new login identification and password if you believe your password for a Squared Management account or an email account you have used to register with Squared Management has been compromised, or if we notify you that we suspect unauthorized activity on your account. We reserve the right to terminate any user account, at any time, in our sole discretion.
Reviews and User Content
We may, in our sole discretion, permit you to post, submit, upload, or transmit via the Website a review or other content generated by you. If you post, submit, upload, or transmit a review or other content to us via the Website or for potential use on the Website (collectively, “Submissions”), you grant Squared Management a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable and fully sub-licensable worldwide license (1) to use, reproduce, translate, modify, adapt, access, view, distribute, publish, transmit, publicly display, and create derivative works from the Submissions in any media, now known or hereafter devised, for any purpose, and (2) to use the name that you submit in connection with the Submissions. You agree and acknowledge that we may choose to provide attribution of Submissions, at our sole discretion. You further grant Squared Management the right to pursue at law any person or entity that violates your or our rights in the Submissions by breaching these Terms. Squared Management does not claim any right of ownership in the Submissions, and nothing in these Terms shall be deemed to remove or restrict any rights you have in the Submissions.
By making any Submissions to, via, or for the Website, you represent and warrant that (1) you have full rights to the content of the Submissions, either because you are the sole and exclusive owner of such content or because you have been granted all necessary rights, licenses, or consents to such content, and (2) that the Submissions do not violate any provision of these Terms.
Squared Management has the absolute discretion (but not the obligation) to pre-screen, remove, or edit any reviews or other user-generated content that may be posted on the Website. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the accuracy, non-infringement, or legality of any review or other user-generated content that may appear on the Website.
Transaction Specific Terms
If you choose to reserve a vacation rental through the Website, to use Squared Management to provide rental management or marketing and booking services on your behalf, or to undertake certain other transactions that may be accessible from the Website, you acknowledge and agree that you may be required to enter into one or more separate agreements or waivers, which may contain different or additional terms and conditions (“Transaction Specific Terms”). If a conflict exists between these Terms and the Transaction Specific Terms, the Transaction Specific Terms will control.
Foreign Currencies and International Transactions
The booking engine on our Website includes a currency selector. Fees for vacation rentals may be displayed in various currencies for informational purposes. You will be notified of the currency in which you will be charged for a vacation rental, and the amount of any currency conversion fee. You will be responsible for any currency conversion processing costs or international transaction fees your credit card provider charges.
Liability and Warranty Disclaimer
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. THIS SECTION LIMITS SQUARED MANAGEMENT’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ISSUES THAT MAY ARISE IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE.
IF YOU CHOOSE TO ACCESS, DISPLAY, OR USE THE SITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE INFORMATION PUBLISHED ON THE SITE MAY CONTAIN ERRORS, INCLUDING RESERVATION AVAILABILITY ERRORS, PRICING ERRORS, AND INACCURATE OR INCOMPLETE DESCRIPTIONS OF ACCOMMODATIONS OR LOCATIONS. SQUARED MANAGEMENT DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION PUBLISHED ON THIS SITE AND DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES IN SUCH INFORMATION. THE SITE IS OFFERED “AS IS” WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, SQUARED MANAGEMENT SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. SQUARED MANAGEMENT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE ON A SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE BASIS.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AGREE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU BEAR THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SITE. IN NO CASE SHALL SQUARED MANAGEMENT LLC OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES OR AFFILIATES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL OR BODILY INJURY, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO, DISPLAY OF, OR USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON A THEORY OF WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, AND EVEN IF SQUARED MANAGEMENT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
IF SQUARED MANAGEMENT IS FOUND LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT ARISES OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE, THEN IN NO EVENT SHALL SQUARED MANAGEMENT’S LIABILITY, IN THE AGGREGATE, EXCEED ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($100) OR ITS EQUIVALENT IN FOREIGN CURRENCY.
THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN REFLECTS THE ALLOCATION OF RISK BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND IS A FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND SQUARED MANAGEMENT.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, hold harmless, and release Squared Management LLC and its affiliates, and any of their officers, directors, employees, agents, or rental owners, from and against all claims, causes of action, liabilities, demands, damages, or other costs or expenses of any kind, specifically including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, brought by third parties as a result of or in any way connected with (1) your violation of these Terms, (2) your violation of the law or any rights of third parties, or (3) your access to or use of the Website.
Jurisdiction and Governing Law; Class Action Waiver
These Terms are governed by, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of Missouri, USA, without regard to principles of conflicts of law. You and we consent to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the federal or state courts located in Missouri for all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of or access to the Website. Use of the Website is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including without limitation this paragraph.
YOU AND WE AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDINGS WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.
Assignment
You may not assign these Terms without Squared Management’s express written consent. Any attempt by you to assign these Terms without consent will be void and without effect. Squared Management may assign these Terms or any of its rights or interests in these Terms at any time, in its sole discretion, without your consent.
General Provisions
These Terms (together with any other terms and conditions referenced herein, and any different or additional terms that apply to specific transactions) constitute the entire agreement between you and Squared Management with respect to your use of and access to the Website, and supersede all prior or contemporaneous electronic, oral or written understandings or communications between you and Squared Management with respect to the Website.
Any failure by Squared Management to enforce any provision of these terms shall not be construed as a waiver of future enforcement of that provision or of any of Squared Management’s rights and privileges.
If any provision of these Terms is held invalid pursuant to applicable law, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent possible, and the other portions will be deemed valid, and so far as is reasonable and possible, the intent of the parties hereto will be given full effect.
Terms of Service Help
If you have questions or comments about these Terms, you may contact us by email at support@squaredmgmt.com or write to us at:
Squared Management LLC
117 S Lexington St Ste 100 Harrisonville, MO 64701-2444
Effective as of June 26th, 2024