Terms of Service

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms.

If you use the Site on behalf of a business or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

Vendors are also subject to Part B.

When a Vendor is required to accept these Terms during signup or activation, acceptance will be obtained through an unchecked checkbox presented for affirmative selection, such as:

“I have read and agree to the Terms of Service.”

By selecting that checkbox and continuing with signup or activation, the Vendor affirmatively agrees to the version of the Terms presented at that time.

Next Level Shows records the date and time of acceptance and the version identifier associated with that acceptance.

Next Level Shows may revise these Terms from time to time.

Each version will identify its effective date and version number. Revised Terms apply prospectively from their stated effective date.

For public visitors, continued use of the Site after revised Terms take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the extent permitted by law.

For Vendors, Next Level Shows may require affirmative acceptance of revised Terms where appropriate. A change that legally requires separate notice, consent, or another procedure will not be applied in a manner inconsistent with that requirement.

A revision to these Terms does not retroactively change the rules governing a dispute that arose before the revised Terms became effective unless the parties validly agree otherwise.

You may use the Site only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

A person creating or controlling a Vendor account must have legal capacity to enter into these Terms and, where acting for a business, authority to act for that business.

Some Vendors appearing in the directory may deal in products that are subject to age restrictions, licensing requirements, background checks, waiting periods, or other legal restrictions.

Access to or use of the Site does not establish that a person is legally eligible to purchase, possess, receive, or transfer any particular product.

A person considering an in-person transaction is responsible for satisfying all applicable eligibility requirements.

Florida First Premium Vendors operates an online directory showcasing Vendors associated with or attending events, including Next Level Shows events in Florida.

Those events may include gun and knife shows, military shows, western shows, antique shows, and craft shows.

The Site may display:

• Vendor profiles;
• Next Level Shows events and event series;
• events that Vendors identify as external shows;
• Vendor contact information;
• Vendor websites and social-media links; and
• Vendor-created promotions, promo codes, and in-booth offers.

The Site is not a marketplace through which members of the public purchase goods or services from Vendors.

Visitors do not use the Site to:

• purchase Vendor products;
• book Vendor services;
• purchase event tickets;
• submit payment for Vendor goods;
• arrange product shipment; or
• complete Vendor transactions.

Next Level Shows does not collect payment from public visitors for Vendor products.

Actual purchasing and selling between a Vendor and a customer occurs in person at physical shows and directly between those parties.

Next Level Shows is not the buyer, seller, dealer, broker, transferor, transferee, or contracting party in those transactions.

Any transaction, representation, warranty, refund, return, exchange, product condition, product legality, or other obligation arising between a Vendor and a customer is solely between those parties.

Appearance in the directory does not constitute an endorsement, certification, approval, warranty, or guarantee by Next Level Shows concerning a Vendor, its owners or employees, its products, its services, its business practices, or its legal compliance.

An initial review of a Vendor listing before activation does not change this rule.

Next Level Shows does not use the Site to sell, offer, solicit, broker, transfer, ship, or facilitate the sale or transfer of firearms, ammunition, or other regulated products.

The Site does not provide checkout, ordering, shipping, payment-processing, or product-transfer functionality for public purchases of those items.

Nothing on the Site should be interpreted or relied upon as a legally binding offer by Next Level Shows to sell or transfer a firearm, ammunition, weapon, or other regulated product.

Vendor-generated promotional information appearing in the directory is supplied by the Vendor and does not make Next Level Shows a party to a transaction.

Any actual firearm, ammunition, weapon, or regulated-product transaction takes place directly between the relevant customer and Vendor in person outside the Site.

The customer and Vendor are solely responsible for determining whether a proposed transaction is lawful.

Customers and Vendors are solely responsible for compliance with all federal, state, and local laws applicable to a transaction, including, where applicable:

• Federal Firearms License requirements;
• background-check requirements;
• eligibility and prohibited-person rules;
• minimum-age requirements;
• waiting periods;
• identification requirements;
• recordkeeping requirements;
• transfer restrictions; and
• restrictions applicable to particular firearms, ammunition, accessories, weapons, or other regulated items.

The Site does not determine whether any person is legally permitted to buy, sell, possess, receive, or transfer any item.

A substantial portion of the Site’s information is supplied directly by Vendors.

Vendor information may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, changed, or removed without advance notice.

Visitors should verify important information directly with the Vendor before relying on it.

Event information may change.

Information concerning an external show identified by a Vendor is provided through Vendor-supplied content and does not mean that the external show is operated or controlled by Next Level Shows.

Vendors may publish promotional codes, discounts, in-booth specials, validity dates, redemption conditions, and other offers.

Those offers are created by the Vendor.

An offer may expire, change, be withdrawn, contain errors, or become unavailable.

Visitors should verify an offer directly with the Vendor before relying on it.

Next Level Shows does not guarantee that a Vendor will honor an offer or that any advertised product, service, discount, or promotion will be available.

You may use the Site for lawful purposes consistent with its function as a public Vendor directory.

You may not:

• use the Site in violation of applicable law;
• impersonate another person or business;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to an account, server, system, or restricted portion of the Site;
• interfere with or disrupt the security or operation of the Site;
• introduce malware, malicious code, or harmful material;
• use automated systems in a manner that places an unreasonable burden on the Site or attempts to circumvent technical restrictions;
• use Site content to commit fraud, deception, harassment, or another unlawful act;
• attempt to obtain another person’s authentication credentials or sign-in links; or
• assist another person in doing any of the foregoing.

Next Level Shows may restrict access to the Site where reasonably necessary to address misuse, security issues, or violations of these Terms.

Except for Vendor Content and third-party materials, the Site and its contents are owned by or licensed to Next Level Shows and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

No ownership rights are transferred to you by permitting you to use the Site.

You may use the Site for its intended purposes. You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, commercially exploit, or create unauthorized derivative uses of Next Level Shows-owned Site content except with permission or as permitted by law.

Vendors retain ownership of intellectual-property rights they hold in the content they submit to the Site.

The rights Vendors grant Next Level Shows to use that content are described in Part B.

Third-party names, trademarks, photographs, logos, and other materials remain the property of their respective owners.

If you believe material appearing on the Site infringes a copyright that you own or are authorized to enforce, you may send a written copyright notice to:

A notice should include:

1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act for the owner;
2. identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed or, where multiple works are involved, a representative list;
3. identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient for Next Level Shows to locate it;
4. your name and information reasonably sufficient for Next Level Shows to contact you;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Where appropriate, Next Level Shows may remove or disable access to material identified in a copyright complaint.

Next Level Shows may provide information concerning the complaint to the Vendor or other user who submitted the affected material.

Next Level Shows may restrict or terminate accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

If content you submitted is removed or disabled because of a copyright complaint and you believe the removal resulted from mistake or misidentification, you may send a written counter-notice to [email protected] containing:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the removed or disabled material and the location where it appeared before removal;
3. a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled because of mistake or misidentification;
4. your name, address, and telephone number;
5. a statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the appropriate United States federal district court as required by applicable copyright law; and
6. a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original copyright notice or that person’s agent.

Where applicable legal requirements are satisfied, material may be restored unless the complaining party timely informs Next Level Shows that it has filed an appropriate court action.

Vendor listings may contain links to Vendor websites, social-media profiles, external shows, and other third-party services.

Next Level Shows does not control those third parties and is not responsible for their content, availability, security, products, services, or practices.

Your dealings with a third party are between you and that third party.

Vendor card payments are handled through Stripe-hosted payment services.

Stripe acts as a third-party payment processor. Stripe is not the provider of the Florida First Premium Vendors directory subscription.

The Site does not display card-entry fields and does not receive, transmit, or store Vendor card numbers.

Stripe’s own terms and policies may apply to use of its payment services.

Vendor-uploaded images are stored and served using Cloudflare Images.

Use of third-party infrastructure does not transfer ownership of Vendor Content to Next Level Shows.

Information concerning collection and handling of personal information is addressed separately in the Site’s Privacy Policy.

These Terms do not constitute a privacy policy.

Except as stated below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising from or relating to these Terms, the Site, or the relationship between you and Next Level Shows will be resolved through binding individual arbitration rather than in court.

The arbitration will be conducted before a single neutral arbitrator.

The parties will attempt in good faith to agree upon the arbitrator and reasonable procedures for conducting the arbitration.

If the parties cannot agree upon an arbitrator within 30 days after a written demand for arbitration is made, either party may ask a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint an arbitrator as permitted by applicable law.

The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this arbitration agreement where applicable.

Unless the parties agree otherwise or applicable law requires otherwise, the arbitration may occur remotely or in Polk County, Florida.

ARBITRATION WILL TAKE PLACE ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS.

NEITHER PARTY MAY BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, COLLECTIVE ACTION, CONSOLIDATED ACTION, MASS ACTION, PRIVATE-ATTORNEY-GENERAL ACTION, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING TO THE EXTENT SUCH A WAIVER IS PERMITTED BY LAW.

AN ARBITRATOR MAY AWARD RELIEF ONLY TO THE INDIVIDUAL PARTY SEEKING RELIEF AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO RESOLVE THAT PARTY’S INDIVIDUAL CLAIM.

Either party may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court of competent jurisdiction if the claim qualifies for that court and remains an individual proceeding.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FOR ANY DISPUTE THAT PROCEEDS IN COURT RATHER THAN ARBITRATION, YOU AND NEXT LEVEL SHOWS EACH KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY.

You may opt out of the arbitration agreement and class-action waiver in this Section by sending written notice no later than 30 days after the date you first become bound by this version of the Terms.

The notice must:

• state that you are opting out of arbitration under the Florida First Premium Vendors Terms of Service;
• provide your full name;
• if applicable, identify the Vendor business associated with your account; and
• provide the email address associated with your Vendor account, if applicable.

Send the written opt-out notice by email to:

Opting out of arbitration does not opt you out of the remainder of these Terms.

These Terms and disputes arising from them are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where federal law governs a particular issue.

For a dispute that is not subject to arbitration and is not brought in an appropriate small-claims court, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the applicable state and federal courts having jurisdiction over Polk County, Florida, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

If a provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law or severed where necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

These Terms, together with any additional terms expressly incorporated into them and, for Vendors, the applicable plan terms presented at purchase, constitute the agreement between you and Next Level Shows concerning the Site.

The separate Privacy Policy governs privacy matters.

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without the consent of Next Level Shows.

Next Level Shows may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or transfer of the business or service, subject to applicable law.

A failure or delay in enforcing a provision of these Terms does not waive that provision or any other right.

Headings are provided for convenience.

The plain-English summary at the beginning of these Terms is non-binding. If it conflicts with the numbered provisions, the numbered provisions control.

This Part B applies to Vendors in addition to Part A.

By creating, activating, managing, or maintaining a Vendor account or purchasing a Vendor plan, you agree to Part A and Part B.

If Part B conflicts with Part A regarding the Vendor relationship, Part B controls.

A Vendor must provide accurate and current information concerning its business and account.

The Vendor is responsible for correcting information that becomes inaccurate.

A new Vendor listing is subject to an initial review by Next Level Shows before its first public activation.

The listing becomes active only after it has been approved by Next Level Shows.

The review may consider whether the listing is appropriate for inclusion in the directory.

Initial review does not constitute certification, endorsement, legal review, verification of all submitted information, or an ongoing obligation to monitor the Vendor.

After initial activation, Vendor changes to listing content may publish directly to the public Site without prior staff review or approval.

Next Level Shows does not undertake to inspect every edit before publication.

Vendor accounts may be accessed using:

• a sign-in link sent to the Vendor’s email address; or
• an optional password, if the Vendor chooses to create one.

A password is not required.

Email access is an authentication method for Vendor accounts.

Anyone who gains access to the Vendor’s email inbox may be able to request or use a sign-in link and access the Vendor account.

The Vendor is responsible for maintaining the security of the email account associated with its Vendor account, including appropriate control over who can access that inbox.

Setting a password does not eliminate the need to secure the associated email account.

The Site does not use a conventional password-reset process.

If a Vendor uses the “forgot password” process, the Site sends an email sign-in link rather than resetting the password.

A successful Vendor sign-in creates a session lasting 14 days. After that period, the Vendor must sign in again.

Vendor accounts support two roles:

• Owner; and
• Editor.

Editors may manage listing content.

Only Owners may access or change billing information or billing functions.

The Vendor is responsible for determining who is permitted to act as an Owner or Editor and for activity undertaken through accounts and access that the Vendor authorizes.

A Vendor should promptly address unauthorized access to its associated email account and Vendor account.

Florida First Premium Vendors currently offers:

• a recurring plan costing US$100 per month;
• a recurring plan costing US$200 per month; and
• a US$150 one-time plan associated with a single show.

The applicable plan and price are displayed during signup or purchase.

Card-paying Vendors complete payment through Stripe-hosted Checkout.

The Site does not display payment-card entry fields and Next Level Shows does not receive, transmit, or store Vendor card numbers.

Stripe processes the payment information.

Stripe is a payment processor and is not the provider of the Florida First Premium Vendors listing service.

A Vendor may begin using card billing or change to card billing from within its Vendor account where that option is available.

Next Level Shows may also invite a Vendor to participate through an offline process.

Under that process:

• staff send the Vendor an invitation;
• the Vendor pays by cash, check, or bank transfer; and
• staff manually activate the account.

Offline-paying Vendors are not automatically charged through Stripe.

The one-time plan costs US$150.

It applies to a single show and does not automatically renew.

The one-time plan becomes active after the Vendor and its listing have been reviewed and approved by Next Level Shows.

One-time plan purchases are non-refundable except where a refund is required by law.

A Vendor who selects a recurring monthly card plan is purchasing an automatically renewing subscription.

Depending on the selected plan, the recurring subscription price is either:

• US$100 per month; or
• US$200 per month.

The specific plan and recurring amount selected by the Vendor will be displayed before payment information is submitted.

Unless cancelled, the monthly subscription automatically renews at the end of each monthly billing period and the applicable subscription fee is charged again through Stripe.

Renewal continues each month until the Vendor cancels.

Before a Vendor begins a recurring monthly card subscription, the purchasing flow must clearly identify the material recurring-billing terms, including:

• that the subscription automatically renews;
• that renewal occurs monthly;
• whether the recurring charge is $100 per month or $200 per month;
• that recurring billing continues until cancelled;
• how to cancel; and
• when cancellation becomes effective.

Those renewal terms form part of the Vendor’s agreement with Next Level Shows.

A Vendor must affirmatively agree to the applicable terms before recurring card billing begins.

The applicable automatic-renewal terms must be presented before the Vendor authorizes the recurring purchase.

Next Level Shows records the Vendor’s acceptance timestamp and the Terms version associated with the acceptance process.

A card-paying Vendor may cancel its monthly subscription at any time through the Stripe Customer Portal, which is accessible from the billing area of the Vendor account.

The cancellation process is available online.

Authentication may be required to access the Vendor account and Stripe Customer Portal.

Cancellation does not immediately terminate a period that has already been paid for.

Cancellation takes effect at the end of the Vendor’s then-current paid monthly billing period.

The Vendor’s subscription and public listing remain active through that date unless the listing or account is separately suspended or terminated under these Terms.

No additional monthly renewal should occur after the cancellation becomes effective.

The $150 one-time single-show plan does not automatically renew.

Vendors paying through the offline cash, check, or bank-transfer process are not automatically billed unless they later separately enroll in recurring card billing.

Next Level Shows may change Vendor plan prices prospectively.

A new price does not retroactively change amounts already paid.

A changed recurring subscription price will not be charged to an existing Vendor except in a manner permitted by applicable law.

Where applicable law requires advance disclosure, notice, affirmative consent, cancellation information, or another procedure before a recurring fee changes, the price change will be implemented subject to that requirement.

A Vendor may cancel a recurring monthly card subscription through the Stripe Customer Portal as described in Section 21.

Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid billing period.

Except where required by law, monthly subscription charges already paid are non-refundable.

Cancelling during a monthly billing period does not create a prorated refund or credit for the unused portion of that billing period.

Instead, the Vendor continues receiving the paid subscription service through the end of that billing period.

The US$150 one-time single-show plan is non-refundable, except where a refund is required by applicable law.

The one-time plan becomes active after the Vendor and its listing are approved by Next Level Shows.

If a required payment is not successfully completed and a Vendor subscription becomes inactive or lapses, Next Level Shows may stop providing the paid public-listing service.

When a recurring paid subscription lapses or reaches the effective date of cancellation, the Vendor’s public listing is hidden.

Hiding a Vendor’s public business listing does not, by itself, disable the Vendor’s individual account login.

A Vendor whose listing is hidden because its paid status lapsed or ended may still sign in to the account so that the Vendor can manage billing and restore paid service.

The status of a public Vendor listing and the status of an individual user’s login are separate.

Next Level Shows may separately restrict or disable an individual login under Section 30 where appropriate.

“Vendor Content” includes content submitted, entered, selected, linked, or uploaded by a Vendor for use in its listing, including:

• business name;
• business description and formatted text;
• contact information;
• website links;
• logos;
• banners;
• gallery photographs;
• menu images;
• categories;
• tags;
• social-media links;
• Next Level Shows attendance information;
• external-show information; and
• Vendor-created offers, promotions, promo codes, discount details, validity dates, and redemption terms.

As between the Vendor and Next Level Shows, the Vendor retains ownership of its Vendor Content.

These Terms do not transfer ownership of Vendor Content to Next Level Shows.

The Vendor grants Next Level Shows a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to:

• host;
• store;
• reproduce;
• copy;
• resize;
• crop where reasonably necessary for display;
• adapt for display;
• transmit; and
• publicly display

Vendor Content for purposes of operating, maintaining, displaying, marketing, and promoting the Florida First Premium Vendors directory and its events.

The licence includes the right to use service providers and content-delivery infrastructure needed to perform those activities, including Cloudflare Images.

When Vendor Content is removed from the service, Next Level Shows will not rely on this licence to create new public uses of that removed content except where otherwise authorized.

The licence may continue for a reasonable period as necessary for:

• cached copies;
• backup copies;
• archival copies;
• technical systems that do not immediately delete all copies;
• legal or recordkeeping requirements; and
• promotional materials already created or distributed before removal.

Material stored in a third-party cache or archive outside the direct control of Next Level Shows may remain available until that third party refreshes or removes its copy.

The Vendor represents and warrants that it owns or has obtained all rights, permissions, licences, and authorizations necessary to submit its Vendor Content and grant the licence in Section 25.

This includes rights necessary for photographs, logos, trademarks, artwork, menu images, written materials, and other submitted content.

The Vendor represents and warrants that its Vendor Content is materially accurate and is not intentionally false, deceptive, or misleading.

The Vendor is responsible for updating information that becomes inaccurate or outdated.

The Vendor represents and warrants that its Vendor Content does not unlawfully infringe or misappropriate copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity, privacy rights, or other third-party rights.

The Vendor represents and warrants that its Vendor Content and use of the Site comply with applicable law.

The Vendor remains solely responsible for the legality of its products, services, offers, sales practices, transactions, licensing, and conduct at physical events.

Vendors control and publish their own listing content subject to these Terms.

After initial activation, Vendor edits are not routinely pre-screened before appearing publicly.

A Vendor may not submit content that:

• is unlawful;
• is knowingly false, fraudulent, or materially misleading;
• infringes intellectual-property or other third-party rights;
• impersonates another business or person;
• contains malware or malicious code;
• unlawfully discloses another person’s confidential or personal information;
• falsely states or implies that Next Level Shows endorses, guarantees, sells, brokers, or is a party to a Vendor transaction;
• attempts to use the Site itself to complete a transaction that the Site does not support; or
• otherwise materially violates these Terms.

Nothing in this Section prohibits lawful directory information about products or lawful in-booth promotions merely because the products may be legally regulated.

Next Level Shows is not obligated to continuously monitor, investigate, verify, or pre-screen Vendor Content.

Next Level Shows reserves the right, but not the obligation, to remove, hide, restrict, or edit Vendor Content at any time where Next Level Shows determines that action is appropriate.

That action may occur with or without advance notice.

The exercise of this right does not create a general duty to monitor Vendor Content.

An initial review or later moderation action does not constitute endorsement, verification, certification, or approval of a Vendor or its content.

Vendors may publish promo codes, discounts, specials, redemption terms, validity periods, and similar promotions.

These are promises and representations made by the Vendor to the public, not by Next Level Shows.

The Vendor is solely responsible for:

• setting the terms of its offer;
• ensuring the offer is lawful;
• accurately describing the offer;
• establishing availability and expiration dates;
• complying with advertised redemption terms; and
• resolving complaints or disputes concerning the offer.

Next Level Shows does not become a party to a Vendor offer merely because the offer appears in the directory.

Next Level Shows does not guarantee that an offer will be honored, available, accurate, lawful, or suitable for a particular customer.

A Vendor may stop future monthly recurring charges by cancelling its card subscription as described in Section 21.

A Vendor may also stop using its account.

Next Level Shows may suspend, hide, restrict, or terminate a Vendor listing or Vendor account where it reasonably determines that action is appropriate, including for:

• violation of these Terms;
• nonpayment or lapse of paid service;
• suspected fraud or account misuse;
• unlawful content or conduct;
• infringement claims;
• security concerns; or
• conduct creating material legal or operational risk to the Site or Next Level Shows.

Suspending or hiding the public business listing does not necessarily disable every individual login associated with the Vendor.

Likewise, Next Level Shows may disable a particular user’s login without permanently deleting the Vendor business listing.

For an ordinary monthly cancellation that does not involve a separate suspension or termination for cause:

• paid service continues until the end of the current paid period;
• the listing is hidden when that paid period ends; and
• the Vendor may continue signing in to manage billing.

Fees already paid remain subject to Section 23.

Termination or suspension does not automatically create a refund except where required by law or expressly provided in these Terms.

Provisions that by their nature should continue after termination remain effective, including provisions concerning intellectual-property rights, cached or archived content, payment obligations already incurred, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and governing law.