Terms and Conditions

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE for Detroit Home Connect. The City of Detroit has worked with developers and property management staff to ensure the accuracy of information on this website. However, due to the changing nature of property information, please contact the property for the most up to date details on any housing opportunity. The City of Detroit does not certify the authenticity of information provided by third parties. See more information below. These Terms were most recently updated on, and are effective as of: May 1, 2022

SECTION 1: DEFINITIONS

For purposes of these Terms and Conditions of Use the following words or phrases have the meanings respectively ascribed to them as set forth herein: City means the City of Detroit, Michigan acting through its Housing and Revitalization Department, including its officers, employees, agents, and contractors. Content means all information, data, metadata, and other content that is contained in, available from, provided by, submitted to, or generated by the Website, including but not limited to: text, data, software, sounds, photographs, video, graphics, or other material, whether or not presented to you. Detroit Home Connect means the Website and all of its Content. Privacy Policy means the privacy policy for use of the Website, available at the location identified in Section 4 of these Terms. Prohibited Content includes any Content that is or could reasonably be construed as:

1. Intentionally false, misleading, or deceptive;
2. Libelous, defamatory, or slanderous;
3. Profane or containing gratuitous violence;
4. Obscene, pornographic, profane, or gratuitously depicting violent or sexual activity;
5. Incitement or encouragement of, involvement in, or conspiracy to commit any criminal or otherwise illegal activity, or to take action that could foreseeably incur legal liability;
6. In violation of any patent, copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property right;
7. Intentionally insulting, demeaning, disparaging, discriminatory, abusive, or hostile to any individual, identifiable group of individuals, or their traditions, customs, common practices, or distinctive characteristics;
8. Threatening, harassing, bullying, or abusive;
9. So objectionable under prevailing community standards as to foreseeably result in distress, harm, or suffering to others; or
10. Gratuitously disparaging of Detroit Home Connect or the City, or any part thereof, or indicating, suggesting, or implying that any product, service, individual, or entity is endorsed or recommended by Detroit Home Connect the Website for any purpose.

Services means all functions, features, and capabilities of the Website that enable any activities or other use of the Website. Services may include but are not limited to: review, reproduce, or disseminate Content; submit or post communications or other information to the Website or to any third party via the Website, receive communications or other information from the Website or to any third party via the Website. Terms means the complete current version of the terms and conditions of use set forth herein. Third Party means an individual or entity other than the City. You must acknowledge and understand that the Website, including all Content and Services, is provided to you strictly for informational purposes only, solely as a matter of convenience, and you agree to use the Website solely for such informational purposes. To that end, you must acknowledge and understand that the Website, including all Content and Services, is subject to change at any time without notice. The City expressly disclaims any and all responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or timeliness, or lack thereof, of any Content, even if such content was accurately provided to it. Assessing the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or timeliness of all Content is solely your responsibility. You must understand that the Website, including all Content and Services, does NOT constitute and is NOT intended to serve as legal or financial advice in any capacity, or as advice for any particular purpose, and you agree to not use or rely upon the Website as such. You must acknowledge, understand and agree that although Website, including certain Content and Services, may describe various governmental functions or activities or summarize governmental information, including public laws, rules, regulations, orders, notices, records, or other publications, NONE of the Content constitutes or represents, and you agree to not use or rely upon the Website, including any Content and Services, an official representation of governmental activities or official governmental publication, unless it is clearly and expressly marked as such. You must understand and agree that although certain Services may enable or facilitate Users’ engagement or other form of communication with governmental entities, departments or officials, NONE of the Services constitutes or represents, and must not be used or relied upon as, an official means of communication for any governmental purpose. Acceptance of any engagement or communication made by means of the Website or any Services is at the City’s sole discretion. You may provide links to the Website, whether from another website, social media post, or other publication in any medium. You agree that doing so in any instance is subject to all of the following conditions: (a) the link directs to the Website’s homepage, located at “https://homeconnect.detroitmi.gov”; (b) you do not remove or obscure, by framing or otherwise, any portion of the Website, including advertisements, links to these Terms, copyright notices, or other notices on the Web Site; (c) you provide prior written notice to the City of such link by sending an email to: detroithomeconnect@detroitmi.gov and (d) you acknowledge that the City may request that you refrain or discontinue providing links to the Website at any time and for any reason in its sole and absolute discretion, and you agree to refrain from or immediately discontinue providing links to the Website upon such request by the City. You understand that the City is not a consumer reporting agency and none of the Content or Services provided via the Website constitute a “consumer report” as such term is defined in the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. sec. 1681 et seq. The Content available to you must not be used as a factor in consumer debt collection decisioning, establishing a consumer’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, government benefits, or housing, or for any other purpose authorized under the FCRA. You agree to refrain from using Website, including its Content and Services, for any purpose authorized under the FCRA or in relation to taking an adverse action relating to a consumer application.

SECTION 2: INTRODUCTION

Thank you for accessing Detroit Home Connect! Please be aware that by accessing the Website, you are a User of the Website. These Terms constitute a legal binding agreement between the City and each User of the Website, including you. These Terms govern the use by Users of all aspects of the Website, unless otherwise specified herein. As a User, it is your responsibility to read and understand these Terms as a condition of your use of the Website.

SECTION 3: YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS

Your accessing of the Website constitutes your agreement to be bound by these Terms in their entirety without exception or reservation. If you do not agree to these Terms, your sole recourse is to immediately cease use of the Website. The City’s continued operation of the Website for your use, and your continued use of the Website constitutes mutual consideration under this agreement.

These Terms may be amended, revised, or otherwise updated at any time without prior notice to you. Unless otherwise stated therein, all updates to these Terms will become immediately effective upon their publication on the Website. Your access and continued use of the Website following any update to these Terms constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to these Terms, as updated.

SECTION 4: PRIVACY POLICY

The City takes the issue of your privacy very seriously and has developed a Privacy Policy that comprehensively governs the submission, use, dissemination, and protection of personal information submitted through the Website. The Privacy Policy is available here and is fully incorporated by reference into these Terms.

SECTION 5: LIMITATIONS ON USE

You must understand that, unless otherwise noted, all Content may be protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws that are owned, controlled or licensed by the City, or by the party credited as the creator or provider of the Content. You agree that you may use the Content solely for your personal use or in the regular course of your research and other related work, including the incorporation of portions of the Content in your own work product. In doing so, you must keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. You must not copy, distribute, display, perform, reproduce, republish, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell all or any portion of the Content, except to the extent permissible under all applicable intellectual property law, regulations and protections.

You agree that you must not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or any manual process to monitor or copy the Website or the Content, or any portion thereof, or replicate any of the Services.

You must acknowledge and understand that the Website, including all Content and Services, is provided to you strictly for informational purposes only, solely as a matter of convenience, and you agree to use the Website solely for such informational purposes. To that end, you must acknowledge and understand that the Website, including all Content and Services, is subject to change at any time without notice. The City expressly disclaims any and all responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or timeliness, or lack thereof, of any Content, even if such content was accurately provided to it. Assessing the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or timeliness of all Content is solely your responsibility.

You must understand that the Website, including all Content and Services, does NOT constitute and is NOT intended to serve as legal or financial advice in any capacity, or as advice for any particular purpose, and you agree to not use or rely upon the Website as such.

You must acknowledge, understand and agree that although Website, including certain Content and Services, may describe various governmental functions or activities or summarize governmental information, including public laws, rules, regulations, orders, notices, records, or other publications, NONE of the Content constitutes or represents, and you agree to not use or rely upon the Website, including any Content and Services, an official representation of governmental activities or official governmental publication, unless it is clearly and expressly marked as such. You must understand and agree that although certain Services may enable or facilitate Users’ engagement or other form of communication with governmental entities, departments or officials, NONE of the Services constitutes or represents, and must not be used or relied upon as, an official means of communication for any governmental purpose. Acceptance of any engagement or communication made by means of the Website or any Services is at the City’s sole discretion.

You may provide links to the Website, whether from another website, social media post, or other publication in any medium. You agree that doing so in any instance is subject to all of the following conditions: (a) the link directs to the Website’s homepage, located here; (b) you do not remove or obscure, by framing or otherwise, any portion of the Website, including advertisements, links to these Terms, copyright notices, or other notices on the Web Site; (c) you provide prior written notice to the City of such link by sending an email to: detroithomeconnect@detroitmi.gov and (d) you acknowledge that the City may request that you refrain or discontinue providing links to the Website at any time and for any reason in its sole and absolute discretion, and you agree to refrain from or immediately discontinue providing links to the Website upon such request by the City.

You understand that the City is not a consumer reporting agency and none of the Content or Services provided via the Website constitute a “consumer report” as such term is defined in the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. sec. 1681 et seq. The Content available to you must not be used as a factor in consumer debt collection decisioning, establishing a consumer’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, government benefits, or housing, or for any other purpose authorized under the FCRA. You agree to refrain from using Website, including its Content and Services, for any purpose authorized under the FCRA or in relation to taking an adverse action relating to a consumer application.

SECTION 6: USER ACCOUNTS

Access to certain Content, Services, or other portions of the Website may require your registration and creation of a User account. You must understand that the particular portions of the Website for which registration is required is in the City’s sole discretion and may change at any time. By your registration, you agree that all registration information is accurate and complete. It is your responsibility to inform the City of any inaccuracies or changes to that information. You must acknowledge, understand and agree that your User account is for your individual use only, and that you are strictly prohibited from permitting, allowing, authorizing, assisting, or otherwise enabling (a) any User other than you to access any portion of the Website requiring registration through your account, or (b) any multiple Users on a network or otherwise, to access any portion of the Website requiring registration through any single User account, whether or not such account is yours. You are responsible for preventing all such unauthorized use. If you believe there has been unauthorized use of your or another User account, you agree to immediately notify the City by sending an e-mail to detroithomeconnect@detroitmi.gov. You must understand that the City and the Website enables Users to register for and maintain accounts as a Service merely for their convenience. You agree that neither you nor any other User has any right to the creation or maintenance of any such account and the City bears no obligation to create or maintain such an account for any User, including you. You agree that the City may refuse to allow the creation a new account and may suspend, terminate, or modify the terms of any existing User account at any time for any reason in its sole discretion, whether or not for violation of these Terms.

SECTION 7: USER CONTENT

The Website may provide certain Services by which Users can create User Content and submit such Content to the Website. By submitting any Content to the Website, you agree to grant, and warrant that you have all such rights as are legally required to expressly grant, to the City a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, sub-license, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content, in whole or in part, and to incorporate such Content into other works in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed, throughout the world. You must not submit to the Website any Content that constitutes or could foreseeably constitute Prohibited Content. Further, you must not submit to the Website any Content that you do not have a legal right to transmit under all applicable laws, including, but not limited to intellectual property laws, or under any applicable contractual or fiduciary relationship, including but not limited to proprietary or confidential information or information that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. You warrant to the City that no Content submitted by you to the Website contains any content described in this paragraph. The City does not pre-screen Content submitted by you or any User and accepts no obligation to do so, but reserves the absolute right, in its sole discretion, to refuse or remove any Content, whether or not it constitutes Prohibited User Content. You must accept full and exclusive responsibility for all Content that you upload, post or otherwise submit to the Website.

SECTION 8: THIRD PARTY CONTENT AND LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

Third Party Content may appear on the Website or may be accessible via links that appear on the Website. The City hereby expressly disclaims any responsibility for, and will assume no liability for, any Third Party Content, including, but not limited to, such Third Party Content that constitutes, or could in the future constitute, Prohibited Content. You must understand that no Third Party Content is endorsed by the City and does not necessarily reflect the beliefs, opinions, or positions of the City any User, and you agree to refrain from attributing any Third Party Content to the City any User.

SECTION 9: MODIFICATIONS TO WEBSITE, CONTENT, OR SERVICES

The City reserves the right to create, modify, expand, restrict, suspend, or discontinue, all either temporarily or permanently, the Website, including any Content and Services, at any time in its sole discretion for any reason or no reason at all, and without notice. You must understand, acknowledge and agree that the City disclaims all liability to you or any third party for any such actions related to the Website, including its Content and Services, and you agree to refrain from imposing or taking any action in pursuit of imposing such liability on the City in relation to any such action.

SECTION 10: TERMINATION

You agree that the City may, at any time and without notice, terminate or restrict your use of or access to the Website, including any Content and Services, in its sole discretion for any reason, including without limitation, its belief that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms, or no reason at all. The provisions of Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability, and Indemnification shall survive such termination.

SECTION 11: DISCLAIMER

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT AND SERVICES, IS PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS, AS-AVAILABLE BASIS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, THE OWNERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. THE OWNERS DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEB SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT IT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVER(S) THAT MAKES THE WEBSITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THE OWNERS DO NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE CONTENT OR SERVICES ON THE WEBSITE IN TERMS OF ITS CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, OR OTHERWISE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST FOR ANY AND ALL CONSEQUENCES, INCLUDING, DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR ANY LOSS THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY CONTENT FROM THE WEBSITE. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

SECTION 12: LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE, WILL THE CITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE, EVEN IF THE CITY OR AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE THEREOF MAY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, TO THE FULL EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

SECTION 13: INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the City, as well as its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, partners, owners, employees, licensors, licensees, suppliers, and any Third Party Content providers to the Website from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation by you of these Terms or from your use of the Website.

SECTION 14: MISCELLANEOUS