LPA TERMS OF SERVICE and MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT

By applying for membership in The Landlord Protection Agency or ordering products, the Applicant agrees to be bound by this Agreement and the Terms and Conditions herein.

This Agreement between The LPA (The Landlord Protection Agency, Inc.) and you (the "Applicant") contains the following terms and conditions:

The Applicant agrees to comply with The LPA's code of ethics as best as possible.

Immediate & Secure Access to products and member services: The Applicant will have immediate online access to The Landlord Protection Agency, Inc. products and downloads as soon as the order has been submitted and paid by credit card.

No Refund Policy: Membership materials, product downloads and access to confidential databases are immediately accessible at the time of approving this agreement and completing the order. LPA membership materials and products are Copyrighted Intellectual Property. Since immediate access to all products and features is delivered via the internet at the time the order is completed, all fees paid to The Landlord Protection Agency (The LPA) are non-refundable, except in the case of duplicate orders. Duplicate form orders or duplicate membership orders from the same applicant will be promptly voided or credited to the applicant. A duplicate order is when the same product is ordered and paid for more than once within the same 60 days.
When a membership is for more than 1 year, the applicant will receive The LPA CD of Essential Forms ($149.99 if purchased separately) in addition to immediate and unlimited downloads and access to other LPA members only benefits. Multiple year memberships are heavily discounted. For example: A request to convert a multiple year membership to a 1 year membership price + the retail cost of the CD, calculates to a higher price than the multiple year membership.

Credit Report Affiliates: The Landlord Protection Agency provides access links to credit bureau websites that represent authorized resellers of credit reports from the major credit bureaus. "LPA Powered by ClearScreening" is the LPA's affiliate link to ClearScreening credit services. Some of these sites also report to the credit bureaus as well. Our credit reporting affiliates are separate companies from The LPA and require a separate membership for credit reporting not to be confused with the services or membership of The Landlord Protection Agency. In most cases, there is no fee to sign up with our credit report affiliates.

Free Bonus Features: Member applicant acknowledges that Free Bonus features, such as The Property Management program are an added bonus to LPA membership and such free features are not subject to cause a claim for refund of membership. The Phase I Property Management program The LPA is developing is still under development and subject to improvements and modifications even while LPA members have use of the system. The Property Management program The LPA is developing is not downloadable and can only be accessed through the LPA web site with an internet connection. The LPA makes no representation as to the dependability or results the Free Bonus Property Management Software program will achieve for you and it is not guaranteed.

The Applicant will not hold The Landlord Protection Agency, Inc. responsible for the download of materials purchased. The Applicant will be supplied a Download Button on the receipt page when purchasing individual downloadable forms and will also receive forms via e-mail attachment on request. All credit card purchase form orders will remain on the site for easy retrieval for 60 days from the date of purchase. Instructions for retrieval are located on the receipt page and in the HELP section.

The Applicant will not hold The Landlord Protection Agency, Inc. responsible for the download of materials purchased. As indicated on the site, all forms are in MS Word format. Other word processing formats are available on the site for logged in LPA members at http://www.thelpa.com/lpa/altforms.html. If you purchased forms and your computer is not equipped with MS Word, you may request the forms be e-mailed in an alternate version, although it is agreed the order is non-refundable.

The LPA's National Tenant rating Bureau or Deadbeat Database is a private service for members of the LPA. The confidential information contained in tenant profiles is not shared with credit bureaus or outside parties other than paid members of the Landlord Protection Agency.
By filling out the Tenant History Report, the reporting member agrees to assume full responsibility for the truth and accuracy of the positive or negative information on any tenant or former tenant report.
Furthermore, the reporting member guarantees and assumes complete sole liability regarding any claims challenging the content in any profile report and for all claims made against The Landlord Protection Agency, Inc. and its agents as a result thereof. The reporting member agrees to indemnify and hold The Landlord Protection Agency, Inc., its employees and its agents harmless from any costs, expenses (including reasonable attorney fees), liabilities and damages resulting from or caused by the information reported by the member. LPA members are strongly urged to keep records substantiating any of the information reported on any tenants or former tenants.

Advertising
Ads purchased and placed on the LPA website are subject to approval by The LPA before being added to the site. Advertiser agrees that advertising content may be edited to comply with the tone and theme of the LPA website, subject to the discretion of The LPA. Advertiser agrees that ads purchased and published on the LPA website are not refundable.

Postal Billing Payment Method: The LPA will grant Membership access, send Membership welcome package or e-mail forms ordered immediately upon receiving payment.

Do not share your username & password. The applicant / member agrees to keep his or her access code or username and password private and not share it with other individuals. The login information (username & password) will be kept by the Applicant in a safe place to refer to when needed.

The Applicant warrants to The Landlord Protection Agency (the LPA) that the details submitted by the Applicant to The LPA are true and correct to the best of your knowledge, and that future additions or alterations to those details will be true and correct.

The Applicant agrees to use the services provided by The LPA as permitted by applicable local, state and federal laws. The Applicant will not use these services to conduct any illegal business or activity or solicit the performance of any activity that is prohibited by law.

1. Credit cards will not be billed automatically by The Landlord Protection Agency, unless specifically requested by the applicant/ LPA member..
2. The Landlord Protection Agency will only accept credit card form of payment for immediate online access for membership services or for the immediate download of paid products, such as Essential Forms.
3. Disclaimer of warranties- you expressly agree that entering or using of materials of the Landlord Protection Agency, Inc. Is at your own risk. No warranty, representation, condition, undertaking or term - express or implied, statutory or otherwise - including but not limited to the condition, quality, durability, performance, accuracy, reliability, non-infringement, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose or use of The Landlord Protection Agency materials is given or assumed by the Landlord Protection Agency. All such warranties, representations, conditions, undertakings and terms are hereby excluded. The Landlord Protection Agency makes no warranty that The LPA site will meet your requirements, or that The LPA site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free;

   The Landlord Protection Agency, Inc. Makes no representations as to the suitability of the information available on or through The LPA web site, including but not limited to user created ads or Deadbeat Database/ NTRB entries, for any purpose nor about its legitimacy, legality, validity, accuracy, correctness, reliability, quality, stability, completeness or currentness. All such information on the user created ads or Deadbeat Database/ NTRB entries is provided by the users. The information available on or through The LPA site user created ads or Deadbeat Database/ NTRB entries is not reviewed, controlled or examined by The Landlord Protection Agency in any way before it appears on The LPA web site. The Landlord Protection Agency does not endorse, verify or otherwise certify the contents of any such information. Users are solely responsible for the contents of their submissions and may be held legally liable or accountable for the contents of their submissions (including without limitation in connection with infringement of intellectual property rights of any other party).

   The Landlord Protection Agency, Inc. does not warrant or guarantee: (a) that any information available on or through The LPA web site will be free of infection by viruses, worms, trojan horses or anything else manifesting contaminating or destructive properties; (b) that the information available on or through The LPA web site will not contain adult-oriented material, or material which some individuals may deem objectionable; or (c) that the functions or services performed by The LPA will be uninterrupted or error-free or that defects in The LPA site will be corrected. It is the sole responsibility of the user to isolate software and information, execute anti-contamination software and otherwise take steps to ensure that software or information, if contaminated or infected, will not damage user's information or system.

4. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
   In no event shall the Landlord Protection Agency be liable to any party for any damages, including without limitation any direct, indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of programs or information, loss of profits or goodwill or loss of use of facilities or equipment), or any other damages arising - in any way, shape or form - out of the availability, use, reliance on, inability to utilize or improper use of The LPA site even if The LPA shall have been advised of the possibility of such damages or is negligent, and regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, the above exclusions of incidental and consequential damages may not apply to you.

In no event shall the Landlord Protection Agency, Inc. be liable to any party for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions with respect to The LPA site or the information or the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof, for any damage arising from or for the results obtained from the use of information available on or through the LPA site.

The Landlord Protection Agency reserves the right to modify or to make additions it's policies or to the website and it's products and services at any time without notice.

You expressly agree that the Landlord Protection Agency shall not be responsible or liable for any loss of data, nor shall The LPA be required to return any lost data, resulting from network or system outages, file corruption or any other reasons.

You expressly agree that The Landlord Protection Agency shall not be liable for any conduct by users of the LPA site. the LPA shall not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, usefulness or availability of any information transmitted, uploaded, posted or made available on or through the LPA site.

You expressly agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Landlord Protection Agency, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders and other partners, and its and their respective employees, from and against any and all damages, liabilities, actions, causes of action, suits, claims, demands, losses, costs and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys' fees and disbursements and court costs) arising from or in connection with your Information, your use of or connection to The LPA site, your violation of these Terms of Service or your violation of any rights of any third party. These Terms of Service do not grant to you or any other user any license or right in or to any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary right of The LPA.

Security and Private Information Policy

The Landlord Protection Agency has created a state-of-the-art, real-time transaction system, that uses industry standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, as well as private links to international banking networks, to ensure your information is quickly and securely authorized and processed.

Your credit card information is protected in two ways. First of all, as a result of the SSL-based encryption, your card number is ALWAYS secure during transmission. A visual means of confirming this is for you to watch the small padlock icon in your browser. While on any page where financial information is to be entered, this icon will change to a locked state, denoting a secure page. This security measure is privately audited by an independent third-party, Thawte, whose icon you can click on from any secured page to confirm its secure status. This site is secured with a Thawte Digital Certificate. A Thawte icon is at the bottom of the LPA homepage and at the bottom of the Essential Forms and Membership ordering page. When in secure mode, anyone trying to eavesdrop on communications between your computer and our server will only see encrypted (scrambled) data. Secure mode is always activated whenever personal information is being exchanged.

Secondly, our private links to banking networks ensure that your sensitive information is ALWAYS secure once we have received it. All the information traveling on our banking network is guaranteed 100% secure.

The Landlord Protection Agency actively works with international banking institutions and law enforcement to discover and prosecute cases of fraudulent credit card use. All connections to, and transactions within The Landlord Protection Agency are logged and regularly audited. WE USE ALL MEANS AVAILABLE TO US TO PURSUE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AGAINST PERSONS ATTEMPTING FRAUD OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OUR SYSTEMS, IN ALL ICPO/INTERPOL JURISDICTIONS.

Private Information Policy

We appreciate that many users do not feel comfortable providing their real address, due to the the high incidence of junk mail we all suffer from. Our privacy guarantee specifically states that we will NOT share, barter, sell, or trade your confidential information with ANYONE, under ANY circumstances (except in the case of legal proceedings). From time to time, The LPA may use your personal information to contact you by electronic mail concerning our services. These communications are intended to inform you of important information regarding your account, or about general services provided by The LPA. If you do not want to receive email from us regarding new services, please click the "unsubscribe" link which is included at the bottom of any email you receive from The Landlord Protection Agency. However, in order to fulfill our service obligations to you, we will continue to send you e-mails regarding your account administration, as well as any necessary information, such as renewal instructions.