Agreement between the buyer and VL Group LLC D.B.A Lee’s Exotics (referred to as Lee’s Exotics). www.leesbirds.com

Welcome to www.leesbirds.com. This website (referred to as the site) is comprised of various web pages operated by Lee’s Exotics www.leesbirds.com is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Your use of www.leesbirds.com constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.

www.leesbirds.com was built with intension to educate and also functions as an E-Commerce Site.

Electronic Communications

Visiting www.leesbirds.com or sending emails to Lee’s Exotics, constitutes electronic communication. You consent to receive electronic communication and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Personal Information

Lee’s Exotics does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from anyone. The only information that is collected, is completely voluntary. Should you sign up for our newsletter, only your first name and email address will be used to send you the occasional newsletter and sale offers. We do not sell information for any reason whatsoever. If you are under 18, you may use www.leesbirds.com only with permission of a parent or guardian.

Cancellation/Refund Policy

Once your order is placed, we do not allow any cancellations of orders. If you wish to purchase additional live animals after your order has been placed, you will need to give us a call at least 24 hours before your order is scheduled to ship. 

BE ADVISED,  ALL LIVE ANIMAL SALES ARE FINAL!  Your payment method will be charged the full sales amount upon checking out.  By submitting payment in any form, you are accepting our terms and conditions and you the consumer agree not to reverse or charge back the amount you transact on your card for your purchase(s). Should your check bounce for any reason, you will be responsible for any bank fees that Lees Exotic Birds incurs because of it. 

Live Arrival Guarantee for Delta 

If a bird has perished upon arrival, the customer is required to file a claim with the associate at the counter upon pickup and collect their name and copy of claim number. Any amount awarded to you, will be awarded to you directly by Delta. Should you choose to replace a perished bird, shipping costs are solely the customer’s responsibility.  To honor our guarantee, we require the following: 1. your birds be picked up within 60 minutes of their arrival, 2. notification must be made to Lees Exotic Birds while still at the Delta counter and 3. a photo of the perished animal must be provided within 12 hours of arrival. 

Shipping Through USPS

When selecting shipping through USPS, please be advised that there is no live guarantee provided. Lee’s Exotics is not responsible for the condition of live animal shipments once they have been dropped off at the post office. If an animal perishes during shipping, the buyer may file a claim directly with USPS. 

Availability, Errors and Inaccuracies

We reserve the right to change or update information and to correct errors, inaccuracies, or omissions at any time without prior notice.

Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services

www.leesbirds.com may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Lee’s Exotics and Lee’s Exotics is not responsible for the contents of any linked site, including without limitation any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Lee’s Exotics is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Lee’s Exotics of the site or any association with its operators.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use  www.leesbirds.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the site, you warrant to Lee’s Exotics that you will not use the site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the site.

All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of Lees Exotic Birds or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.

You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site. Lee’s Exotics content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of Lee’s Exotics and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Lees Exotic Birds or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

Use of Communication Services

You agree that when using a communication service, you will not: defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information; upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents; upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer; advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such communication service specifically allows such messages; conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters; download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner; falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded; restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services; violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; violate any applicable laws or regulations.

Lee’s Exotics has no obligation to monitor the communication services. However, Lee’s Exotics reserves the right to review materials posted to a communication service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Lee’s Exotics reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the communication services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

Lee’s Exotics reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Lee’s Exotics sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. Lee’s Exotics does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any communication service and, therefore, Lee’s Exotics specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the communication services and any actions resulting from your participation in any communication service. 

Materials uploaded to a communication service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials.

Materials Provided to www.leesbirds.com or Posted on Lee’s Exotics Web Page
Lee’s Exotics does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to www.leesbirds.com (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Lee’s Exotics Site or our associated services (collectively “Submissions”). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your submission you are granting Lee’s Exotics to use your submission in connection with the operation of their internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your submission; and to publish your name in connection with your submission.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your submission, as provided herein. Lee’s Exotics is under no obligation to post or use any submission you may provide and may remove any submission at any time in Lee’s Exotics sole discretion. By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the submissions.

International Users

The Service is controlled, operated and administered by Lee’s Exotics from our offices within the USA. If you access the service from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use Lee’s Exotics content accessed through www.leesbirds.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Lee’s Exotics, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the site or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Lee’s Exotics reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Lee’s Exotics in asserting any available defenses.

Arbitration

In the event the parties are not able to resolve any dispute between them arising out of or concerning these Terms and Conditions, or any provisions hereof, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise at law or in equity for damages or any other relief, then such dispute shall be resolved only by final and binding arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, conducted by a single neutral arbitrator and administered by the American Arbitration Association, or a similar arbitration service selected by the parties, in a location mutually agreed upon by the parties. The arbitrator’s award shall be final, and judgment may be entered upon it in any court having jurisdiction. In the event that any legal or equitable action, proceeding or arbitration arises out of or concerns these Terms and Conditions, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its costs and reasonable attorney’s fees. The parties agree to arbitrate all disputes and claims in regards to these Terms and Conditions or any disputes arising as a result of these Terms and Conditions, whether directly or indirectly, including Tort claims that are a result of these Terms and Conditions. The parties agree that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this provision. The entire dispute, including the scope and enforceability of this arbitration provision shall be determined by the Arbitrator. This arbitration provision shall survive the termination of these Terms and Conditions.

Class Action Waiver

Any arbitration under these Terms and Conditions will take place on an individual basis; class arbitrations and class/representative/collective actions are not permitted. The parties agree that a party may bring claims against the other only in each’s individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any putative class, collective and/ or representative proceeding, such as in the form of a private attorney general action against the other.

Further, unless both you and Lee’s Exotics agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

Liability Disclaimer

The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. Lee’s Exotics or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the site at any time.

Lees Exotic Birds and/or its suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics contained on the site for any purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all such information, software, products, services and related graphics are provided “as is” without warranty or condition of any kind. Lee’s Exotics and/or its suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, services and related graphics, including all implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Lee’s Exotics and/or its suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the site, with the delay or inability to use the site or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the site, or otherwise arising out of the use of the site, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if lees exotic birds or any of its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the site, or with any of these terms of use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the site.

Termination/Access Restriction

Lee’s Exotics reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Florida and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Florida in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the site. Use of the site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Lee’s Exotics as a result of this agreement or use of the site. Lee’s Exotics performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Lee’s Exotics right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the site or information provided to or gathered by Lee’s Exotics with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.

Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Lee’s Exotics with respect to the site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Lee’s Exotics with respect to the site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.  Effective 2/19/2021

Changes to Terms

Lee’s Exotics reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which www.leesbirds.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. Lee’s Exotics encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.

Contact Us

Lee’s Exotics always welcomes your questions or comments.

Lee’s Exotics

P.O Box 69

Okeechobee, FL 34973

Email Address: [email protected]

Phone number: 88-675-3004