Terms of Service

UsedHotDogs.com is a satirical race-weekend marketplace concept operated by LidLaunch LLC d/b/a HatLaunch. The listings on this site are entertainment. No hot dog, beverage or other food item is actually sold, transferred or brokered through this site, not by us and not between visitors. These terms explain what you can and cannot do here, and what we are and are not responsible for.

1. Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and LidLaunch LLC, an Illinois limited liability company doing business as HatLaunch (“HatLaunch,” “we,” “us,” “our”), which operates usedhotdogs.com (the “Site”).

By accessing or using the Site, signing up for our messages, or entering one of our promotions, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

2. What UsedHotDogs.com actually is

UsedHotDogs.com is a marketing and entertainment concept created by HatLaunch, a custom headwear company. It presents itself as a marketplace for partially eaten race-day concessions. It is a joke, told straight.

The Site's real purposes are to entertain, to promote the HatLaunch brand and its custom headwear business, and to collect voluntary signups for email and text updates and for giveaways.

Product listings, prices, seat locations, seller ratings, condition descriptions, listing counts and activity indicators shown on the Site are fictional and illustrative. They do not represent real inventory, real people, real transactions or real availability.

3. No food is sold, transferred or brokered

You must not attempt to use the Site, or any communication channel we provide, to arrange the real-world transfer of food or beverages between people. Doing so would be a violation of these Terms, and depending on where you are, of food safety law, health codes, venue policy and alcohol control law.

Eating food handled by a stranger carries real risk of foodborne illness. Please do not do it. HatLaunch is not a food business, does not handle food, and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any illness, injury, allergic reaction or other harm arising from anyone acting out the concept this Site depicts.

References to age verification, 21+ status and ID on the Site are part of the fiction and are not a real age-verification system. We do not sell alcohol.

4. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site, at least 18 to sign up for our email or text messages or to enter a promotion, and old enough to form a binding contract in your jurisdiction to place a merchandise order. The Site is intended for users in the United States.

5. Your account and submissions

If you submit anything to us, including an email address, a phone number, a survey answer, artwork for a custom order, a photo, a comment, or any other content (“Submission”), you confirm that it is accurate, that it is yours to submit, and that submitting it does not infringe anyone else's rights.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, adapt and display your Submission for the purpose of operating the Site, fulfilling your order, and administering any promotion you entered. For artwork you send us for a custom product, that licence covers producing your order. We will not use a customer's private artwork in our own advertising without asking first.

You keep ownership of your Submissions. You are responsible for keeping your own copies; we are not an archive.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Site to arrange the real transfer of food, beverages or alcohol;
• enter a promotion more times than its rules allow, or use bots, scripts, disposable-address generators or multiple identities to do so;
• scrape, spider, harvest or bulk-download any part of the Site, or use it to train a machine learning model, without our written permission;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Site, or interfere with its operation;
• impersonate HatLaunch, UsedHotDogs.com, any other person, or any racing series, team, driver, venue or sponsor;
• submit anything unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, obscene, or infringing;
• reproduce the Site's design, copy or branding to create something that could be mistaken for it;
• use the Site in a way that suggests an affiliation or endorsement that does not exist.

We may suspend or block access, remove content, and void promotion entries for any violation, at our discretion and without notice.

7. Merchandise orders

Where the Site offers real, physical merchandise, including custom headwear and branded goods, those items are produced and fulfilled by HatLaunch, and the order is governed by the HatLaunch commercial terms in addition to these Terms:

• HatLaunch Terms & Conditions
• Terms of Sale & Delivery
• Returns

Where those terms and these Terms conflict on a matter concerning a physical order, the HatLaunch commercial terms control. Prices, availability and lead times for real merchandise are as stated at checkout and may change before an order is accepted. We may cancel and refund any order priced in obvious error.

8. Giveaways and promotions

Every giveaway, sweepstakes or contest we run is governed by its own official rules, which are published before entries open and control over these Terms for that promotion. See the current official rules.

No purchase is necessary to enter or win any promotion we run. A purchase does not improve your chance of winning. Every drawing we run has a free entry route with identical odds. All promotions are void where prohibited.

9. Email and text communications

By signing up you agree to receive email from UsedHotDogs.com, and, if you separately opt in with your mobile number, recurring automated marketing text messages. Consent to texts is not a condition of any purchase. Message frequency varies; message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to cancel or HELP for help. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy.

We also send transactional messages, including order confirmations, shipping notices and prize notifications, which are not marketing and which you cannot opt out of while an order or prize claim is open.

10. Intellectual property

The Site and everything in it, including the UsedHotDogs.com and HatLaunch names and logos, the badge mark, the illustrations, photography, copy, layout, and the underlying code, are owned by LidLaunch LLC or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other law.

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable licence to view and use the Site for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. That licence does not include any right to copy, modify, distribute, sell, licence or create derivative works from any part of the Site, or to use our marks in any way likely to cause confusion about who is speaking.

If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, send a DMCA notice with the required elements to support@hatlaunch.com or to the postal address in section 17.

11. Third-party names, marks and events

Any third-party names, trademarks, event names or venue names that appear on the Site are the property of their respective owners and are used only to describe, in a nominative and factual way, where or when something is happening. Their appearance does not imply any endorsement, sponsorship, licence or association in either direction.

Where we attend or appear at an event, we do so as a visitor, vendor or exhibitor. Attending an event does not make us a partner of the event.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT ON IT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, or that any content on it is accurate. As stated in sections 2 and 3, the marketplace content is fictional and no one should rely on it as a representation of anything real.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LIDLAUNCH LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE WERE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SITE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless LidLaunch LLC and its members, officers, employees and agents from any claim, demand, loss, liability or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your use of the Site, your Submissions, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict of law rules. You and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Site will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Madison County, Illinois, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Any claim must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, to the extent the law allows such a limit.

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

16. Changes to the site and these terms

We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the Site at any time. We may also update these Terms; when we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page, and material changes will be announced on the Site before they take effect. Continuing to use the Site after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

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