Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Terms of Use

Effective Date: January 7, 2025

Welcome and thank you for your interest in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (referred to in these Terms as “RODEOHOUSTON,” “HLSR” “we,” “us,” or “our”). Your use of www.rodeohouston.com and www.hlsr.com and the RODEOHOUSTON mobile application and any of the pages contained therein (collectively the “Sites”) is subject to the following Terms of Use Agreement. Access and use of the Sites is provided to visitors and users of our websites and mobile apps for the purpose of providing information to you. The following Terms are a legal contract between you (“you,” “your,” “visitor,”” and “User”) and HLSR regarding your use of the Sites.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING,

BROWSING, OR USING THE SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING TERMS IN THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE PRIVACY POLICY (COLLECTIVELY, THE “TERMS” OR “AGREEMENT”). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITES.

SITE DESCRIPTION

HLSR operates the Sites to enable users of the Sites to participate in our activities or learn more about us including to: create accounts, register on the Sites, participate in auctions, events, competitions, scholarships, grants, obtain information about RODEOHOUSTON, educational content and newsletters, purchase tickets and official merchandise and to allow users to donate to HLSR.

PRIVACY POLICY

Please carefully read the HLSR Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms (and which are part of our contract with you) and to which you acknowledge you have read and understand, for information relating to HLSR’s collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information.

MODIFICATION OF TERMS

HLSR reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, remove, or otherwise alter the Terms at any time. We will make reasonable efforts to provide notice to you of such modifications, such as by posting a notice on the Sites, and such amended terms will be effective against you when we have posted such notice and the effective date. However, changes made for legal reasons will be effective immediately. Accordingly, you should review the Site and these Terms regularly to keep yourself apprised of any future changes. Your use of the Sites following any modifications will be deemed to establish your agreement with such new terms and conditions. If you do not agree, please do not use the Sites.

SITE ACCESS LICENSE

HLSR grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and make personal, noncommercial use of the Sites, and not to download (other than page caching or unless otherwise allowed by the HLSR or permitted by law) or to modify all or any portion of the Sites.

This license does NOT include any of the following: any commercial use of the Sites; any derivative use of the Sites; any use of artificial intelligence tools or models for the purposes of generating text, images or any other material, content, output or derivative works based on or using HLSR content or materials, whether or not in the same or similar style as the HLSR content and materials; any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. The Sites and/or any portion of the Sites may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without HLSR’s express prior written consent. You shall not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout or form) of HLSR, its content providers or its affiliates without express prior written consent. You shall not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing our name or trademarks without our express prior written consent. Any unauthorized use automatically terminates the permissions and/or licenses granted by us to you.

PROHIBITED CONDUCT

You are expressly prohibited from any conduct on the Sites that: (1) threatens the security, integrity, or availability of the Sites; (2) provides or facilitates access to the Sites by unauthorized users or services; and/or (3) results in prohibited duplication, transmission, or exposure of the Sites (as defined below). You shall not use the Sites in violation of these Terms, or any applicable local, state, national, or international law or regulation. Nor shall you use the Sites in a manner which threatens the security, stability, or integrity of the Sites or networks connected to the Sites (“Service Network”). Without limiting the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that you will not take any action to:

• post any comment to the Sites, or any social media page operated by HLSR that includes profanity, hate speech, personal attacks, or comments that are libelous, defamatory, discriminatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise illegal (including violations of copyright and trademark laws). While HLSR welcomes comments, we reserve the right to block or remove a post, comment or posting privileges of commenters who violate these standards of decorum at any time and any opinions expressed in the comments are not necessarily those of HLSR;
• impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; including using another person’s account credentials (including passwords) or making your account or registration credentials available to others;
• use or attempt to use any “deep-link,” “scraper,” “robot,” “bot,” “spider,” “data mining,” “computer code,” or any other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, AI/ML, process or methodology or manual process having similar processes or functionality, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of the Sites, any data or content found on or accessed through the Sites;
• introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful;
• attack our Sites via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack (a breach of this provision would commit a criminal offense and we will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them, and in the event of such a breach, your right to use the Sites will cease immediately);
• violate any measure employed to limit or prevent access to the Sites or otherwise obtain or attempt to obtain through any means any content, functionality, or other information which has not been intentionally made available to you either by visible display on the Sites or access through a visible link on the Sites;
• decompile, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to obtain the source code of the Sites;
• attempt, in any manner to gain unauthorized access to the Service Network, attempt to gain unauthorized access to our Sites, the server on which our websites are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Service Network, or otherwise violate the security of the Service Network or access encrypted codes;
• interfere with or disrupt (or attempt to interfere with or disrupt) the proper working of the Sites or Service Network, or violate any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of the Service Network;
• take or attempt any action that, in the sole and absolute discretion of HLSR imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load or burden on the Service Network, disrupts the normal flow of data, or threatens the stability of the Sites or Service Network; or
• engage in any conduct which, in HLSR’s sole and absolute discretion, diminishes the exempt purpose value of the Sites, infringes any proprietary rights in the Sites, or otherwise violates these Terms.

AI Chatbots: We may use chatbots that are powered by AI to respond to respond to your questions, to provide customer support, recommend topics to you, or for other purposes related to your use of the Sites. These recommendations or your chatbot use do not result in any profiling or significant decisions that will impact you. 

CONSENT TO COMMUNICATIONS

HLSR may contact you via the contact information you provide to us to create an account, register on the Sites, participate in activities, auctions, competitions, grants and scholarships, make a donation, request information, or when you sign up for a newsletter, the HLSR mailing list, or through information provided through your initiation of contact (e.g., through the “Contact Us” feature of the Site). By providing such contact information, you consent to receive communications from HLSR via that contact information. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information about how we use your Personal Information.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

“Intellectual Property Rights” for purposes of these Terms means all intellectual property rights worldwide arising under statutory or common law, and whether or not perfected, including, without limitation, all (i) patents, patent applications, and patent rights; (ii) rights associated with works of authorship including copyrights, copyright applications, and copyright registrations; (iii) rights relating to the protection of trade secrets and Proprietary Information (defined below); (iv) any other proprietary rights relating to intangible property; (v) divisions, continuations, renewals, reissues and extensions of the foregoing (as and to the extent applicable) now existing, hereafter filed, issued or acquired; and (vi) all goodwill associated with any of the foregoing.  All right, title, and interest in and to the Sites and Intellectual Property Rights, are and will remain exclusively with the HLSR.

You acknowledge and agree that the Sites contain proprietary and confidential Information (“Proprietary Information”) including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, icons, images, and the arrangement and compilation of such content, computer programs, documentation, and information of or containing proprietary information relating to the computing programs, is protected by applicable U.S. and/or international copyright, patent, and/or trade secret laws and other laws. Regarding computer programs such as those that are part of the Site, you expressly agree that you will not decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reverse engineer such computer programs or cause or enable others to do so. Except as expressly permitted by HLSR, you agree not to copy, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, repost, publicly display, use for any commercial purposes, or create derivative works based on the Site, in whole or in part, without the prior express written permission of HLSR.

Trademarks. Nothing in these Terms establishes a license for you to use the HLSR’s source identifiers, involving any of its or its affiliates including HLSR brands, marks, or logos, without the prior written consent of the .

THIRD PARTY SITES, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; LINKS

The Sites may contain links to the websites of third parties, including social media sites. HLSR is not responsible for and has no liability for the functionality, actions, inactions, privacy settings, privacy policies, terms, or content of any such websites. Before accessing any third-party website or sharing content via a social site, HLSR strongly recommends that you review and understand the terms and conditions and privacy policies of such third-party website. Any links to third-party websites do not constitute an endorsement by HLSR of the third-party website, products, or services. Your use of third-party websites and resources is at your own risk.

DONATIONS; PAYMENT PROCESSORS

All donations or any other payments made in connection with the Sites will be processed by a third-party, who is our service provider and is processing your donation and payment card data in compliance with the HLSR Privacy Policy and applicable laws. HLSR collects or stores payment card information in accordance with PCI-DSS requirements.

TERM AND TERMINATION

These Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Sites unless your access to the Sites is terminated as provided in these Terms, in which case you no longer have the right to use the Sites. HLSR, in its sole discretion, may terminate your access and use of the Sites or your account immediately at any time, for any reason, with no penalty, and at such time you will have no further right to use the Sites.

INDEMNITY

You agree to the extent permissible by applicable law to indemnify and hold HLSR and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, employees, as well as their successors and assigns, harmless from all losses, damages, liabilities, deficiencies, claims, actions, judgments, settlements, interests, awards, penalties, fines, costs, or expenses of any kind, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising from or in connection with your use of the Sites, or your breach of these Terms, including the foregoing representations, warranties, and covenants, or any term of any document it incorporates by reference, or your violation of any law, any contract or the rights of a third party, including without limitation, attorneys fees, and costs.

DISCLAIMERS; NO WARRANTIES

HLSR SITES AND ANY SOFTWARE OR ANY OTHER PRODUCTS OR SERVICES MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SITES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE,” AND WITH ALL FAULTS BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, HLSR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SITES, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, AVAILABILITY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND TITLE, NONIINFRINGEMENT, AND WARRANTIES THAT MAY ARISE OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, USAGE, OR TRADE PRACTICE. WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE FOREGOING, HLSR PROVIDES NO WARRANTY OR UNDERTAKING, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND THAT THE SITES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, ACHIEVE ANY INTENDED RESULTS, BE COMPATIBLE, OR WORK WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE, APPLICATION, SYSTEM, OR SERVICES, OR COMPUTING DEVICE, OR OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION, MEET ANY PERFORMANCE OR RELIABILITY STANDARDS, OR BE ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY ERRORS OR DEFECTS CAN OR WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM HLSR OR THROUGH THE SITES WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HEREIN. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE, ACCESS, DOWNLOAD, OR OTHERWISE OBTAINING OF CONTENT, WEBSITE MATERIALS, SOFTWARE, OR DATA THROUGH THE SITES IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PROPERTY (INCLUDING YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM) OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS THEREFROM.

SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE AND JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION. 

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND DAMAGES

EXCEPT AS SET FORTH HEREIN, HLSR AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, AS WELL AS THEIR SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGN, SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY ARISING FROM NEGLIGENT ACTIONS OR INACTIONS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO ANY LOSS DUE TO PERSONAL INJURY, PROPERTY DAMAGE, ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, SAVINGS, OR GOODWILL, LOSS OR INACCURACY OF DATA, OR ANY INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, LOSS, COST, EXPENSE (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, PRODUCT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE) THAT RESULT FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO YOUR INABILITY TO USE THE SITES FOR ANY REASON (E.G., ANY INTERRUPTION OF SERVICE, COMPUTER VIRUS) FOR USE OF THE SITES, EVEN IF HLSR OR AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF HLSR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY THIRD PARTY.

GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Texas, without regard to the choice of law provisions thereof. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms shall be held exclusively in the courts of Houston, Texas. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and venue in such courts. Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to the use of the Sites must be commenced within one (1) year after it arises, except to the extent such limitation is not enforceable. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each party to these Terms waives its or his or her right to a jury trial with respect to any dispute or other controversy arising from hereunder or your use of or access to the Sites. 

MISCELLANEOUS

Changes to these Terms. HLSR may change these Terms from time to time. When these changes are made, HLSR will make a new version of these Terms available on the Sites. You understand and agree that your use of the Sites after the date on which these Terms have changed constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

Waiver. The failure of HLSR to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver of any provision of the Terms will be effective only if in writing and signed by HLSR.

Severability. If any provision of the Terms is held to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be limited or eliminated from the Terms to the minimum extent necessary and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Contact Information. Questions or inquiries regarding these Terms should be directed to: [email protected]. 

SMS SERVICE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Opt in to receive SMS/text messages from Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo by texting to any of the following: RODEOHOUSTON short code; RODEO to 70677; Rodeo (SMS Message). Approx. 8 msgs/mo. Message and Data Rates May Apply.

By opting in, you consent to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo delivering SMS text messages, including marketing messages, using an automatic telephone dialing system to the mobile number you provide. Consent to receive marketing text messages is not required as a condition of purchasing any goods or services from HLSR or participating in any HLSR competitions, events or programs

STOP Information

To stop or opt out of SMS messages, text STOP to 70677 in reply to a text message you receive from us. You may receive a subsequent message confirming your opt-out request. Message and Data Rates May Apply.

HELP Information

For additional information, text HELP to 70677 or contact [email protected] or call 832.667.1000. Message and Data Rates May Apply. 

Supported Carriers

United States Participating Carriers Include AT&T, T-Mobile®, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Boost, U.S. Cellular®, MetroPCS®, InterOp, Cellcom, C Spire Wireless, Cricket, Virgin Mobile and others. 

T-Mobile® is not liable for delayed or undelivered SMS messages.

Information shared with our SMS providers may include your first and last name, address, landline and/or mobile phone number, email address, your carrier’s name, and the date, time and content of your messages, as well as other information that you provide to us. We may use this information to contact you and to provide the information or services you request from us.

By opting in or otherwise using the service, you acknowledge and agree that we will have the right to change and/or terminate the service at any time, with or without cause and/or advance notice. We will not be liable for any delays in the receipt of any SMS messages as delivery is subject to effective transmission from your mobile service operator. SMS MESSAGE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED.