TVSMS Terms and Conditions
IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THESE MY FAITH VOTES SMS TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY MY FAITH VOTES ("WE" OR “US") TEXT MESSAGING PROGRAM. BY SIGNING UP FOR ONE OR MORE OF MY FAITH VOTES' TEXT MESSAGING PROGRAMS, YOU AGREE TO ABIDE BY AND BE BOUND TO THESE MY FAITH VOTES SMS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. FURTHERMORE. THESE MY FAITH VOTES SMS TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAIN AN ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER, WHICH AFFECTS HOW DISPUTES WITH My Faith Votes ARE RESOLVED.
By signing up for one or more text messaging programs at the telephone number(s) that you provide. You may opt-out of these communications at any time. Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of any financial transaction.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
My Faith Votes text messages are intended to provide you with original content, such as articles, video interviews, prayer guides, our weekly newsletters, Intersect, our weekly devotional, and donation opportunities to support My Faith Votes.
My Voter Hub text messages will send you reminders on elections taking place where you live, the ability to check your registration status, find your local polling location, and research your ballot.
If you are one of our Action Partners, you will receive text messages about opportunities to volunteer in your neighborhood, ongoing information regarding opportunities that you signed up for, and calls for prayers.
Message Frequency
Message frequency varies.
COST
Message and data rates may apply to each text message sent or received in connection with My Faith Votes text messages, as provided in your mobile telephone service rate plan (please contact your mobile telephone carrier for pricing plans), in addition to any applicable roaming charges. My Fath Votes does not impose a separate fee for sending My Faith Votes text messages; however, you are responsible for any fees imposed by your mobile carrier of any kind whatsoever.
HOW TO OPT-IN
To opt-in to receive text messages from a My Faith Votes text messaging program(s), please follow the instructions provided by the specific program from which you wish to receive messages. For example, you may be asked to reply in the affirmative in the manner indicated in an initial text message (e.g., Y or Yes).
HOW TO OPT-OUT
To stop receiving text messages from a specific My Faith Votes text messaging program, text STOP to the five-digit short code for the text messaging program from which you no longer wish to receive messages (i.e., the five-digit number from which its text messages are being sent). You acknowledge that you may then receive one (1) final message from My Faith Votes confirming your opt-out of that text messaging program. Following such confirmation message, no additional text messages associated with that program will be sent to you unless you re-activate your subscription. This will only opt you out of the specific text messaging program associated with that five-digit short code. You will remain opted in to other My Faith Votes text messaging programs.
Access or Delivery to Mobile Network is Not Guaranteed
It is your responsibility to determine if your mobile carrier supports text messaging and if your mobile device is capable of receiving text messages. Your receipt of our text messages is subject to the terms and conditions of your agreement(s) with your mobile carrier.
Delivery of information and content to a mobile device may fail due to a variety of circumstances or conditions. You understand and acknowledge that network services, including but not limited to mobile network services, are outside of My Faith Votes’s control, and My Faith Votes is not responsible or liable for issues arising from such network services (e.g., delayed or undelivered messages or the security of any messages).
SUPPORTED CARRIERS
Supported carriers may change from time to time, but currently include AT&T, Sprint/Boost,/Virgin, T-Mobile/MetroPCS, Verizon Wireless, CellCom USA, C Spire Wireless, U.S. Cellular, Carolina West Wireless (CWW), and Google Voice, among others.
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
T-Mobile® is not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Support/Help
To request more information, text HELP to the five-digit short code for the text messaging program about which you have questions (i.e., the five-digit number from which its text messages are being sent). You may also receive help by contacting My Faith Votes Care Team by email at careteam@myfaithvotes.org.
Changes to Terms and Conditions
My Faith Votes may revise, modify, or amend these My Faith Votes SMS Terms and Conditions at any time. Any such revision, modification, or amendment shall take effect when it is posted to My Faith Votes’s website (https://www.myfaithvotes.org). You agree to review these My Faith Votes SMS Terms and Conditions periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes. Your continued consent to receive My Faith Votes text messages will indicate your acceptance of those changes.
Termination of Text Messaging
We may suspend or terminate your receipt of My Faith Votes text messages if we believe you are in breach of these My Faith Votes SMS Terms and Conditions. Your receipt of My Faith Votes text messages is also subject to termination in the event that your mobile telephone service terminates or lapses. My Faith Votes reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, all or any part of My Faith Votes text messages, with or without notice.
Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. Please see (https://www.myfaithvotes.org/privacy-policy) to review our privacy statement.
Arbitration and Class Action Waiver
Please read this carefully. It affects your rights.
Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your receipt or use of My Faith Votes text messages will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than court.
Any and all controversies, disputes, demands, counts, claims, or causes of action (including the interpretation and scope of this clause, and the arbitrability of the controversy, dispute, demand, counts, claim, or cause of action) between you and My Faith Votes or My Faith Votes' employees, agents, successors, or assigns, shall exclusively be settled through binding and confidential arbitration, except that you or My Faith Votes may take claims to small claims court if the dispute qualifies for hearing by such court. In addition, each party retains the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party's copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property rights.
This agreement to arbitrate is intended to be broadly interpreted, and expressly includes claims brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227 et seq., or any other statute, regulation, or legal or equitable theory. You and My Faith Votes hereby agree that the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. 1, et seq. (“FAA”) applies to this agreement to arbitrate, and governs all questions of whether a dispute is subject to arbitration. Unless you and we agree otherwise in writing, arbitration shall be administered by the JAMS International Arbitration Rules in effect at the time of filing of the arbitration (the “JAMS Rules”). However, just as a court would, the arbitrator or arbitrators must honor the terms and limitations in these My Faith Votes Terms and Conditions, and can award damages and relief (including any attorneys’ fees) authorized by law and/or the JAMS Rules. The arbitration decision and award is final and binding, with some exceptions under the FAA, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. There is no judge or jury in arbitration and arbitration procedures are simpler and more limited than rules applicable in court. YOU AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, YOU AND My Faith Votes ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT, INCLUDING RIGHTS TO RECEIVE A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT, CLASS-WIDE ARBITRATION, PRIVATE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ACTION, OR ANY OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THIS AGREEMENT DOES NOT ALLOW FOR CLASS ARBITRATIONS EVEN IF THE PROCEDURES OR RULES OF JAMS WOULD. RATHER, YOU AND WE ARE ONLY ENTITLED TO PURSUE ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL, BILATERAL BASIS. FURTHER, AND UNLESS YOU AND My Faith Votes AGREE OTHERWISE IN WRITING, THE ARBITRATOR(S) MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE INDIVIDUAL PARTY’S CLAIMS WITH ANY OTHER PARTY’S CLAIMS, AND MAY NOT OTHERWISE PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF A REPRESENTATIVE OR COLLECTIVE PROCEEDING.
Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the JAMS Rules. Arbitration under this agreement shall be held in the United States county where you live or work, Illinois, or any other location we mutually agree to, subject to Texas law. The arbitration may award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court (including injunctive relief). Any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
This agreement to arbitrate does not preclude you from bringing issues to the attention of federal, state, or local agencies. Such agencies can, if the law allows, seek relief against us on your behalf.
OPT-OUT OF AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE: You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing My Faith Votes by using the contact us form at https://www.myfaithvotes.org/contact-us and providing the requested information as follows: (1) your name, (2) your address, (3) your phone number, (4) the URL containing the Arbitration and Class Action Waiver provision for My Faith Votes.
SMS Terms and Conditions, and (5) clear statement that you wish to opt out of this arbitration provision. This opt-out notice must be emailed no later than 30 days after the date you first accept these My Faith Votes Terms and Conditions.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, we are not responsible and will not be liable for any damages of any nature, including without limitation any incidental, special or consequential damages (such as lost profits or lost business opportunities), punitive damages or attorney’s fees.
Applicable Law
Except as otherwise provided herein, your use of this service under this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Texas.
Severability
If any term of these My Faith Votes Terms and Conditions is to any extent illegal, otherwise invalid, or incapable of being enforced, such term shall be excluded to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability; all other terms hereof shall remain in full force and effect; and, to the extent permitted and possible, the invalid or unenforceable term shall be deemed replaced by a term that is valid and enforceable and that comes closest to expressing the intention of such invalid or unenforceable term. If application of this severability provision should materially and adversely affect the economic substance of the transactions contemplated hereby, the party adversely impacted shall be entitled to compensation for such adverse impact, provided the reason for the invalidity or unenforceability of a term is not due to serious misconduct by the party seeking such compensation.
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