Terms of Use
IMPORTANT: These Terms of Use contain an arbitration clause and class action waiver, which govern how disputes with Blue Bottle Coffee will be resolved. These provisions affect your legal rights, so please read them, and these entire Terms of Use, carefully.
Welcome to Blue Bottle Coffee! We built our website and mobile app (collectively, our "Services") to share information about our company, our cafes and our coffees; to make available guides that show you how to brew delicious coffees at home; to provide updates related to our company; to allow you to purchase our coffees and other products and have them shipped directly to you; and to allow you to place orders from our cafes directly from your mobile phone.
Overview
Acceptance
We may revise and update these Terms from time to time. All changes are effective immediately when we post them. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of revised Terms means that you accept and agree to the changes.
Privacy
Trademarks
Other Intellectual Property Rights
These terms permit you to use our Services for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store or transmit any of the material on our Services, except as follows:
- You may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials.
- You may store files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display enhancement purposes.
- You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of our Services for your own personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, publication or distribution.
Permitted and Prohibited Uses
- Use our Services in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair or interfere with any other party's use of our Services.
- Use any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access our Services for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on our Services.
- Use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of our Services.
- Introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt any parts of our Services, the server on which our Services are stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our Services.
- Attack our Services via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
- Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Services.
Reliance on Services Information
Purchasing Our Products
Blue Bottle Coffee does not itself process payment for any of our products or services. To facilitate payment for our products and services via a payment card, we use Stripe, Inc. and its affiliates (“Stripe”), a third-party payment processor. If you make a payment for our products or services via a payment card, you may be subject to Stripe’s terms and conditions and other policies available at https://stripe.com/legal and Stripe’s privacy policy available at
https://stripe.com/privacy.
Changes to the Services
Linking to the Services
Links from the Services
Disclaimer of Warranties
YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES, THEIR CONTENT AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH OUR SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. OUR SERVICES, THEIR CONTENT AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY OR AVAILABILITY OF OUR SERVICES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT OUR SERVICES, THEIR CONTENT OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH OUR SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT OUR SERVICES OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS OR THAT OUR SERVICES OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH OUR SERVICES WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Limitation on Liability
Indemnification
Proposition 65 Warning
The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, popularly known as Proposition 65, is a California law intended to protect California citizens from chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm and to inform citizens about exposures to such chemicals. One such chemical is acrylamide, which may be present in coffee, including the coffee sold by Blue Bottle Coffee. Acrylamide is a naturally occurring byproduct formed when certain sugars and an amino acid react to high temperatures, such as when coffee is roasted. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not determined that the low levels of acrylamide naturally found in roasted coffee have any public health impact. Your personal cancer risk is affected by a wide variety of factors. For more information on acrylamide, please consult the FDA’s website at fda.gov. For more information about both acrylamide and Proposition 65, please visit www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65.html.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
Dispute Resolution and Binding Arbitration
YOU AND BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE AGREE TO RESOLVE ANY CLAIM, DISPUTE OR CONTROVERSY ARISING FROM OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING YOUR PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS THROUGH THE SERVICES, EXCLUDING ANY CLAIM, DISPUTE OR CONTROVERSY THAT QUALIFIES FOR SMALL CLAIMS COURT, EXCLUSIVELY AND FINALLY BY BINDING, BILATERAL ARBITRATION BEFORE A NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR RATHER THAN IN COURT BY A JUDGE OR A JURY.
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, or any other statute, regulation, or legal or equitable theory.
Arbitration Rules:
The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") in accordance with the Consumer Arbitration Rules (the "AAA Rules") then in effect, except as modified by this section. The Federal Arbitration Act will govern the interpretation and enforcement of this section. The arbitrator will have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to arbitrability and/or enforceability of this arbitration provision, including any unconscionability challenge or any other challenge that the arbitration provision or the agreement is void, voidable or otherwise invalid. The arbitrator will be empowered to grant whatever relief would be available in court under law or in equity. Any award of the arbitrator(s) will be final and binding on each of the parties, and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. If you prevail on any claim that affords the prevailing party attorneys’ fees, the arbitrator may award reasonable fees to you under the standards for fee shifting provided by law.
Small Claims Court:
You may elect to pursue your claim in small-claims court rather than arbitration if you provide us with written notice of your intention do so. The small-claims court proceeding will be limited solely to your individual dispute or controversy.
Class Action Waiver:
You agree to an arbitration on an individual basis. In any dispute, NEITHER YOU NOR BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE WILL BE ENTITLED TO JOIN OR CONSOLIDATE CLAIMS BY OR AGAINST OTHER CUSTOMERS IN COURT OR IN ARBITRATION OR OTHERWISE PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLAIM AS A CLASS REPRESENTATIVE, CLASS MEMBER OR IN A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL CAPACITY. The arbitral tribunal may not consolidate more than one person’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding. The arbitral tribunal has no power to consider the enforceability of this class arbitration waiver and any challenge to the class arbitration waiver may only be raised in a court of competent jurisdiction. If any provision of this arbitration agreement is found unenforceable, the unenforceable provision will be severed and the remaining arbitration terms will be enforced.
Waiver and Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, such provision will be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of these terms will continue in full force and effect.
Recurring Subscriptions
Your subscription may be cancelled at any time via our website, through the phone, or via email communication with our customer support team. If cancelling via phone or email, please contact us at least 72 hours before the date you are scheduled to be charged next.
You will be charged the same amount for each order that is generated from your subscription unless configuration changes are made to the subscription, or you cancel and then resume that subscription.
The term of your subscription is continuous.
Entire Agreement
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Last modified: May 27, 2019