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    Terms and Conditions
     
    Agreement between User and www.prairiestateknives.com
    Welcome to www.prairiestateknives.com. The www.prairiestateknives.com website (the "Site") is comprised of various web pages operated by Prairie State Knives. www.prairiestateknives.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.prairiestateknives.com constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.
     
    www.prairiestateknives.com is an E-Commerce Site.
     
    Knives & Outdoor Equipment


    Prohibited Uses.

    (a) You may only use the Website and purchase Products for legal purposes (the “Purpose”). 

    (b) You shall not use the Website or Products: (i) to harass, intimidate, embarrass, or threaten any person, (ii) for any illegal, libelous, obscene, pornographic, or illegal purpose, or (iii) in a manner that violates any laws, rules, or regulations. 

    (c) You shall not copy, modify, creative derivate works of, or reverse engineer, in whole in or part, Prairiestateknive.com (i) Website, including its components or contents, in whole or part, (ii) Products, or (iii) trademarks, service marks, trade dress, patents, patents pending, copyrights, and other intellectual property, including, without limitation, photographic images (the foregoing in (a) – (c) collectively, the “Intellectual Property”).

    (d) Except as expressly stated in this Agreement, prairiestateknives.com does not grant you any license or ownership rights, including in the Intellectual Property, and all rights not expressly granted by prairiestateknives.com to you under this Agreement are expressly reserved to prairiestateknives.com

    Orders. You must be at least 18 years old to order any knife Products and at least 21 years old to order restricted products. Restricted products are marked on the Website. Some items on the Website may be illegal in your or other areas for possession by those under the age of 21. You shall be responsible to check all applicable federal, state, and local laws concerning the purchase, ownership, use, and possession of any Products sold to you on the Website.

    8. Automatic Knife Laws & Assisted Knife Laws. The Switchblade Act, (Pub.L. 85-623, 72 Stat. 562, enacted on August 12, 1958, and codified in 15 U.S.C. § 1241–1245), as may be amended, (the “Act”) prohibits shipment of automatic knives across state lines, with the following exceptions:

    (a) to civilian or Armed Forces supply or procurement officers and employees of the Federal Government ordering, procuring, or purchasing such knives in connection with the activities of the Federal Government;

    (b) to supply or procurement officers of the National Guard, the Air National guard, or militia of a state, territory or the District of Columbia ordering, procuring, or purchasing such knives in the connection with the activities of such organization;

    (c) to supply or procurement officers or employees of the municipal government of the District of Columbia or the government of any State or Territory, or any county, city or other political subdivision of a State or Territory;

    (d) to manufacturers of such knives or bona fide dealers therein in connection with any shipment made pursuant of an order from any person designated in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c).

    Sections 1242 and 1243 of the Act shall not apply to:

    (e) any common carrier or contract carrier, with respect to any switchblade knife shipped, transported, or delivered for shipment in interstate commerce in the ordinary course of business;

    (f) the manufacture, sale, transportation, distribution, possession, or introduction into interstate commerce, of switchblade knives pursuant to contract with the Armed Forces.

    (g) the Armed Forces or any member or employee thereof acting in the performance of his duty;

    (h) the possession, and transportation upon his person, of any switchblade knife with a blade three inches or less in length by any individual who has only one arm; or

    (i) a knife that contains a spring, detent, or other mechanism designed to create a bias toward closure of the blade and that requires exertion applied to the blade by hand wrist, or arm to overcome the bias toward closure to assist in opening the knife.

    prairiestateknives.com will not sell to any individual or group outside the State of Utah without the above conditions being met. This does not apply to automatic knives manufactured, distributed, purchased or sold within the State of Utah. Proper identification may be required before the order is shipped in cases where restricted items are purchased.

    Legal Disclaimers. prairiestateknives.com offers no legal advice regarding laws applicable to your purchase of Products. We have provided general information herein to you of federal laws that may affect your purchase. It is your responsibility, as the buyer, and not Blade HQ, as the seller, to ascertain and obey all applicable international, federal, state, and local laws regarding your purchase and use of Products.

     
    Privacy
    Your use of www.prairiestateknives.com is subject to Prairie State Knives's Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices.
     
    Electronic Communications
    Visiting www.prairiestateknives.com or sending emails to Prairie State Knives constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications 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.
     
    Your Account
    If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that Prairie State Knives is not responsible for third party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. Prairie State Knives and its associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.
     
    Children Under Thirteen
    Prairie State Knives does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may use www.prairiestateknives.com only with permission of a parent or guardian.
     
    Cancellation/Refund Policy
    All orders that are requested to be canceled by the buyer via email or phone before they ship will be charged a cancellation/restocking fee of $25 (Buyers Remorse Fee). We accept returns but have special requirements to do so. We do not accept returns that are not in Brand New condition.  Returns must be received at our location in unused, brand new condition, with all packaging  intact. Prairiestateknives.com customers must obtain a Return Authorization # before attempting to return any merchandise. Certain Manufacturers insist on defective or damaged merchandise being returned directly to them. To return a defective item start here. 
    Prairiestateknives.com will not be obligated to accept any returns of product submitted more than 30 days after shipment of such products to customer.
     
    Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services
    www.prairiestateknives.com may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Prairie State Knives and Prairie State Knives 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. Prairie State Knives is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Prairie State Knives of the site or any association with its operators.
     
    Certain services made available via www.prairiestateknives.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the www.prairiestateknives.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that Prairie State Knives may share such information and data with any third party with whom Prairie State Knives has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of www.prairiestateknives.com users and customers.
     
    No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property
    You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use www.prairiestateknives.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to Prairie State Knives 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 Prairie State Knives 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. Prairie State Knives 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 Prairie State Knives 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 Prairie State Knives or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.
     
    International Users
    The Service is controlled, operated and administered by Prairie State Knives 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 the Prairie State Knives Content accessed through www.prairiestateknives.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 Prairie State Knives, 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. Prairie State Knives 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 Prairie State Knives 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 Prairie State Knives 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. PRAIRIE STATE KNIVES AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME.
     
    PRAIRIE STATE KNIVES 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. PRAIRIE STATE KNIVES 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 PRAIRIE STATE KNIVES 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 PRAIRIE STATE KNIVES 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
    Prairie State Knives 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 Illinois and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Illinois 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 Prairie State Knives as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. Prairie State Knives's performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Prairie State Knives's 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 Prairie State Knives 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 Prairie State Knives with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Prairie State Knives 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.
     
    Changes to Terms
    Prairie State Knives reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which www.prairiestateknives.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. Prairie State Knives encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.
     
    Contact Us
    Prairie State Knives welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms:
     
    Prairie State Knives
    1103 cambridge drive
    washington, Illinois 61571
     
     
    Email Address:
    info@prairiestateknives.com
     
    Telephone number:(309) 512-8087
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    Effective as of February 01, 2020