Terms & Privacy Policy

Franklinis.com (“FranklinIs”) is operated by its parent corporation Web Services Team Corporation. Use of the website signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions of use set forth in this document. If you do not agree to these terms, you may not access or otherwise use this website.

User Definition: The term “You”, “Your”, “”Customer” and “User” may be used interchangeably in this Agreement and refers to the individuals or entities that utilize services of FranklinIs for the purpose of using or purchasing services provided by FranklinIs and services provided to related entities or persons. The term “Customer” includes all persons, firms, or entities that are end-users of the Services and all persons, firms, or entities which control, or which are controlled by the same person, firm or entity, which controls such purchase of the Services.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this website any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material, or any other material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under the law.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

On occasion we ask for personal data on this website. The information is used to fulfill requests such as brochures by mail or to use special features of the site such as the media gallery. By voluntarily providing personal information, you are consenting to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

You may choose not to use any service that requires the use of your personal information in a manner not described in this Privacy Policy. Your use of Franklinis.com will be considered as your consent to the use of your personal information in the way described.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Image, Photo, and Content

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Materials. By registering your business, advertising with us, or otherwise engaging with Franklinis.com as a business, creating a business or personal user account or submitting any images, photographs, videos, logos, artwork, written content, or other materials (“User Content”) to Franklinis.com, you grant Franklinis.com (aka Web Services Team Corporation), its affiliates, partners, and sponsors a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, display, and create derivative works from such User Content, in any and all media now known or later developed, for any editorial, marketing, advertising, promotional, or commercial purpose. You also grant Franklinis.com the right to locate, gather, curate, and use any photographs, images, videos, logos, descriptions, or other materials related to your business — whether sourced from your website, social media, public listings, or any other publicly available source — for any editorial, marketing, advertising, or promotional purpose, including The Sizzle Awards and other Franklinis.com programs. You represent that you own or have all necessary rights to the User Content and that its use will not violate the rights of any third party. You waive any right to compensation, attribution, or prior approval. If you do not have rights to specific third-party materials associated with your business, please notify us and we will work in good faith to address your concern.

No Obligation to Use. Franklinis.com retains full editorial discretion and is not obligated to use any submitted or curated materials.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who We Share Your Data With

As a matter of policy, your personal contact information will not be sold or rented to unaffiliated third parties. However, by using our website, registering, voting, subscribing, or otherwise providing your information as described in the “Marketing Communications and Consent” section above, you agree that Franklinis.com may use your information to send you marketing communications and may share your information with our affiliates, advertising partners, sponsors, and event partners for marketing purposes related to Franklinis.com products, services, events, and partner offerings.

Users that have provided their information through our website may, from time to time, receive information, updates about new website features, promotional offers, sponsored content, event invitations, and other marketing communications. If you wish to be removed from our marketing lists, click on the unsubscribe link in any email, reply STOP to any text message, or contact us. Please allow two weeks for our lists to be updated.

Additionally, we do not share data that is not already visible to the public on the website, except as described in this policy or as required by law.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can edit or delete that information yourself as our accounts are self-managed. You may request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, but this may take up to 90 days to process. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How We Protect Your Data

We exercise reasonable care to protect your non-public personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be one hundred percent secure. So while we strive to protect your non-public personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from us. This is especially true for information you transmit to us via e-mail. We have no way of protecting that information until it reaches us. Once received, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information.

We may disclose information, including non-public personal information, in special cases when we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with the legal process such as, but not limited to, situations when we are required to do so by federal, state, or local laws and regulations or when we receive a subpoena or are ordered by a court to do so; (b) protect and defend our rights; or (c) act to protect the interests of our users or others. Additionally, we may, without notice to you, provide aggregate statistics about web traffic by visitors to the website(s), such as volume, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personal information.

Third-Party Links

Franklinis.com may contain links to other sites, including those of our business partners. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by other sites and those other sites have not agreed to our privacy policy. Visit those sites for information regarding their privacy policy prior to providing personal information.

The links we provide are there for your reference and convenience. We do not control any of these websites, nor are we responsible for their content. Web Services Team Corporation (operator of Franklinis.com) does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators by including these links on Franklinis.com. If you decide to access any of these websites, you do so entirely at your own risk and you should be aware that upon using these links you will leave Franklinis.com.

Our Rights to Modify

Franklinis.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove any portion of this Agreement, in whole or in part, at any time. Modification of changes in the Agreement will be posted on the website. We may change, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the website at any time, including the availability of any website feature, database, or content. We may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the website without notice or liability. By using this website you agree to be bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to determine the current terms of use to which you are bound.

Marketing Communications and Consent

By accessing, registering an account or using Franklinis.com — including but not limited to voting in our polls or awards programs (such as the Williamson County Sizzle Awards), registering your business, creating a user account, subscribing to our newsletters, submitting your email address or other contact information through any form, advertising with us, entering contests or giveaways, or otherwise interacting with our website, content, or services — you acknowledge, agree, and expressly consent that Franklinis.com (aka Web Services Team Corporation) and its affiliates, partners, and sponsors may contact you for marketing and promotional purposes.

This consent includes, but is not limited to, communications via:

Email
Text message (SMS/MMS)
Phone calls
Direct mail
Push notifications
Targeted digital advertising
Any other means of communication now known or developed in the future

These communications may include newsletters, promotional offers, advertising from our business partners and sponsors, event invitations, surveys, voting reminders, contest information, and updates about Franklinis.com products and services.

You understand that consent to receive these communications is granted by your continued use of our website and services. Standard message and data rates may apply for any text-based communications.

You may opt out at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any email, replying STOP to text messages, or contacting us at contact@franklinis.com. Opting out of marketing communications will not affect transactional or account-related communications necessary to provide our services. Please allow up to one week for our lists to be updated.

Billing Related Services

The activation, payment for, or utilization of a billable service with FranklinIs signifies that you have read, understand, acknowledge and agree to be bound by these terms.

All services are paid in advance and are non-refundable. Your agreed payment term shall automatically renew in an increment equal to the term you were currently paying for and will continue to auto renew as indicated unless and until terminated by either party. In the event you terminate your paid services in advance, you may lose access to certain paid features however free features on FranklinIs will continue to be available.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which is hereby acknowledged, FranklinIs and Customer agree as follows:

1. Compensation. Customer shall pay to FranklinIs payments per the fees agreed online. Customer shall pay FranklinIs electronically via auto-draft for all Services (Credit Card or ACH) whether one-time or monthly fees. There may be infrequent exceptions where no notice of payment received is given. Withdrawals may vary due to adjustments in Services or Service utilization. I recognize that Service Provider may, at its sole discretion, terminate the plan and Services immediately if any transactions are not honored when presented for payment. Customer acknowledges that all payments are non-refundable without exception.

2. Remedies. The Service Provider shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorney fees incurred in connection with the enforcement of this Agreement.

3. Governing Law and Venue. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee and venue for any disputes involving or arising from this matter shall be the state trial courts of Williamson County Tennessee. Both parties waive their rights to a trial by jury in connection with this Agreement.

4. Confidentiality. Customer agrees that this Agreement shall remain strictly confidential and that there will be no statements (public or private) made with respect to this Agreement. Both parties also agree that they will not solicit each other’s staff in any form and will not make, cause, encourage, or assist to be made, any statements, comments or remarks, whether verbal, written or in electronic form, which are derogatory, defamatory, slanderous, or libelous to the other or about their respective business, principals, employees, directors, customers or agents.

The Parties acknowledge and agree that because of the unique nature of this agreements confidentiality and that it is difficult or impossible to determine with precision the amount of damages that would or might be incurred by as a result of violating this Section it is understood and agreed by the Parties that a minimum sum of $25,000 would be paid by the party that violates this Section 4 to the other party and are in the nature of liquidated damages, and not a penalty, and are fair and reasonable, and payment represents a minimal reasonable estimate of fair compensation for the losses that may reasonably be anticipated.

5. Payment Information. Service Provider is authorized to transact recurring and one-time electronic payment transactions to the account you provided for all services, including subsequent payments or changes for services. Transactions will be processed at the time payment is due. This preauthorized payment agreement will remain in effect through the term of this agreement. Customer acknowledges and waives all rights to any charge-back/reverse of any past paid invoices and agrees to pay $10,000 in liquidated damages to FranklinIs if a charge-back/reversal of any payment occurs. Cancellation of a service does not cancel the recurring payment authorization.

6. Term of Services. For services ordered online through Franklinis.com, the effective start of the term for Ads or Directories is the date on which the first payment for any of these services was received. The term is then equal to the term ordered which is annual for directories and either monthly, 6 months or annual for Ads (“Ordered Term”). The Ordered Term shall automatically renew 30 days prior, but not more than 60 days prior, to the end of the active term in an increment equal to the Ordered Term and will continue to auto renew as indicated unless and until terminated by either party in accordance with the notice provisions as set forth herein. All Sections of this Agreement will survive termination of this Agreement unless otherwise ordered by court.

7. Subscription Information. To order and receive any of the services, Customer acknowledges that Customer is 18 years of age or older and either (i) Customer has legal authority to enter into this Agreement or (ii) represent a corporation, partnership or other legal entity duly formed (and incorporated where applicable) in good standing and Customer has the legal authority and power to enter into this Agreement on behalf of such entity. Customer must provide FranklinIs with a valid credit card, debit card or other FranklinIs approved payment methods for the Services, Customer email, Customer phone number and Customer billing address. Customer represents that all information Customer provided during the subscription process is accurate and complete and that Customer will update such information with FranklinIs should any of it change. FranklinIs will charge its own fees according to the billing plan of the services Customer selected. FranklinIs may accept or reject any subscriber to the Services in its sole discretion.

Social Media Comments

We reserve the right to delete, ban, and block any user, at our sole discretion, especially if a user posts potentially harmful, rude, or outright hateful speech in any online comment or forum.

Contact Us

If you have questions about our terms or privacy policy, e-mail: contact@franklinis.com or write to:

Franklinis
Attn: Editor
200 Seaboard Ln, Franklin, TN 37067