Legal terms

Effective 2026-10-02. These Legal Terms are a binding agreement between you and AVXIM ILLINOIS INC ("curio.luxe", "we", "us"), which operates www.curio.luxe and its pages, features, e-mails and AI concierge (together, the "Service").

1. Acceptance of these terms

By accessing or using the Service, creating an account, or signing up for e-mail, you agree to these Legal Terms and to the documents they incorporate. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, and able to form a binding contract. If you use the Service for an organisation, you agree for it and confirm you are authorised to do so.

2. What these terms include, and which one governs

These Legal Terms incorporate the Privacy policy, the Cookie policy, the Affiliate disclosure and the Editorial policy. The Terms of use page is a plain-language summary; if it, or any other page, says anything different from these Legal Terms, these Legal Terms govern. Brands, retailers and affiliate networks that partner with us are also bound by the Partner terms, which govern on partnership matters.

3. What the Service is, and what it is not

curio.luxe is an independent publisher. We find, describe and link to products, promotions and offers that are sold by third-party retailers and brands ("Merchants"). We do not sell, stock, ship, price, authenticate, warrant or take payment for any product, and we are not a party to any purchase. We are not an authorised dealer, agent, reseller or representative of any brand or Merchant named on the Service, and nothing on the Service suggests that a brand or Merchant endorses or sponsors us unless we say so expressly.

4. Merchants, products, prices and offers

• The Merchant is responsible. Every purchase is a contract between you and the Merchant, on the Merchant's terms. Questions about orders, payment, delivery, returns, refunds, warranties, product safety, authenticity and condition go to the Merchant. Any claim about a product (including for defects, injury or loss) is against the Merchant or manufacturer, not curio.luxe.
• Information can change or be wrong. Prices, availability, pictures, descriptions, sizes, discounts, codes, start and end dates and other details come from Merchants, their pages, feeds and e-mails, and may be incomplete, outdated or inaccurate. We re-check on a schedule, but we do not guarantee any of it. The Merchant's own page at the time of purchase governs.
• Offers and codes. Promotions and codes are the Merchant's. They may be limited, conditional, regional, changed or withdrawn at any time, and may not work. We are not liable if an offer or code is unavailable, refused or different from what we showed.
• Links to other sites. Links take you to sites we do not control. Your use of them is at your own risk and subject to their terms and privacy policies. A link is not an endorsement or a guarantee of that site, its security or its content.

5. Affiliate relationships and editorial independence

We may earn a commission when you buy through a link on the Service, at no extra cost to you. Links may pass through affiliate networks that record the click. We disclose these relationships as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides require; see the Affiliate disclosure. A commission does not change your price, and you have no claim to any commission.

6. The AI concierge and our content are information, not advice

The Service, including the AI concierge, buying guides, blog posts, rankings and comparisons, is for general information only. Content produced with the help of artificial intelligence can be incomplete, outdated or wrong. Nothing on the Service is professional advice of any kind, including financial, investment, appraisal, valuation, authentication, legal, tax, medical, health or safety advice. Do not rely on it as such. Before buying, check the product, its authenticity, its suitability and its price with the Merchant and, where appropriate, a qualified professional. Wellness, beauty, health and pet products are listed as Merchants describe them; we do not test them or evaluate their claims, and nothing here is a statement that a product diagnoses, treats, cures or prevents any disease. Talk to a physician or veterinarian before using one.

7. Luxury, pre-owned and investment pieces

We do not authenticate, grade, appraise or inspect any item. Words such as "genuine", "authentic", "investment grade", "pre-owned" or "verified" describe what the Merchant states or what our automated checks of the Merchant's page found (for example, that the link and picture load); they are not a guarantee of authenticity, condition, provenance or value. Past or estimated values do not predict future value.

8. Accounts

You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information, for keeping your password secret, and for everything done through your account. Tell us at once at affiliates@curioluxe.net if you suspect unauthorised use. We may refuse, suspend or close any account, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe it is used in breach of these terms, unlawfully, or in a way that may harm the Service, other users or us.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to, and not to help anyone else to:

• break any law or anyone's rights, or use the Service for fraud, deception or harassment;
• copy, scrape, crawl, harvest or index the Service by automated means, other than search-engine crawlers that obey our robots.txt, or build a competing database from it;
• interfere with, overload, probe, test or bypass the security or operation of the Service, or introduce malware;
• manipulate clicks, rankings, reviews, comments or affiliate tracking, or generate artificial traffic;
• impersonate anyone, misstate an affiliation, or create accounts by automated means;
• upload content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, obscene, hateful, misleading or that contains personal data of others without consent;
• reverse-engineer the Service except where the law expressly allows it; or
• use the Service or its content to train, test or improve any artificial-intelligence model without our written permission.

10. Content you submit

You are responsible for comments, messages, reviews and anything else you submit ("User Content"). You keep ownership of it, and you grant AVXIM ILLINOIS INC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and sublicensable licence to host, copy, display, adapt, publish and distribute it in connection with the Service. You confirm you have the rights to grant this licence and that your User Content does not infringe anyone's rights or break any law. We may review, refuse, edit or remove User Content at our discretion, but we have no duty to monitor it. User Content reflects the views of its author, not ours. Where the law provides it, including Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. § 230), we are not liable for content provided by others. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without obligation to you.

11. Intellectual property and brand names

The Service, its software, design, text, selection and arrangement, and the curio.luxe name and marks belong to AVXIM ILLINOIS INC or its licensors and are protected by law. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use, under these terms. All other rights are reserved. You may link to any public page.

Product names, brand names, logos, product pictures and other trademarks shown on the Service belong to their owners. We show them only to identify the products, brands and Merchants we describe and link to, which is a nominative use; their display is not a claim of ownership, affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement. Some logos are taken from the brand's own site or from Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia and are credited where shown. A brand owner who wants a name, logo or picture removed or changed can write to affiliates@curioluxe.net; we will act promptly.

12. Copyright complaints (notice and takedown)

We respect copyright and respond to notices that meet the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). To report material on the Service that you believe infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our copyright agent at affiliates@curioluxe.net or AVXIM ILLINOIS INC, PO BOX 11, 440 W COLFAX ST, PALATINE, IL 60067-2537, marked "Copyright notice", including:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the copyrighted work (or a representative list, if several);
• identification of the material you say infringes, with its address (URL) on the Service;
• your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.

If material you posted was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address containing the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), including your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found). We may restore the material as that section provides. We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of repeat infringers. A notice or counter-notice that knowingly misrepresents facts may expose its sender to liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

13. How we contact you: e-mail only, never text messages

curio.luxe does not send text messages (SMS or MMS) to shoppers or visitors and has no text-messaging feature for them; we will never ask for your phone number to send offers, alerts or reminders. E-mail is the only channel, and only when you ask for it: the weekly letter on the blog or a price-drop or restock alert from a product page. You can opt out at any time in the "Stop the e-mails" section of the blog or with the one-click link in every e-mail. You agree that agreements, notices and other communications we provide electronically satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing (including under the U.S. E-SIGN Act).

14. Privacy

Our Privacy policy explains what we collect and how we use it. By using the Service you acknowledge it.

15. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT, LINKS, OFFERS, PRICES, PRODUCT INFORMATION AND AI-GENERATED OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AVXIM ILLINOIS INC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT ANY PRODUCT, MERCHANT, OFFER OR THIRD-PARTY SITE, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THESE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

16. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) AVXIM ILLINOIS INC, ITS AFFILIATES AND THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, SAVINGS, DATA, GOODWILL OR OPPORTUNITY, OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, ANY PRODUCT OR PURCHASE, ANY MERCHANT OR THIRD-PARTY SITE, OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY; AND (B) OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US, IF ANY, IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THESE LIMITS ARE AN ESSENTIAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN AND APPLY EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, such as liability for fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or, where the law so provides, for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

17. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless AVXIM ILLINOIS INC, its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, contractors and agents from and against any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, penalties, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: your use or misuse of the Service; your User Content; your breach of these terms; or your violation of any law or of anyone's rights. We may assume the exclusive defence of any matter subject to indemnity, and you will cooperate with us.

18. Release for disputes with Merchants and other third parties

Your dealings with Merchants, brands, affiliate networks and other users are solely between you and them. To the extent permitted by law, you release AVXIM ILLINOIS INC and its affiliates and their personnel from claims, demands and damages of every kind, known and unknown, arising out of or connected with any such dispute. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code § 1542, which says: "A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party." Residents of other jurisdictions waive any similar law.

19. Dispute resolution: individual arbitration and class-action waiver

19.1 Informal resolution first. Before starting an arbitration or court case, the party with a dispute must send the other a written notice describing the dispute and the relief sought (to us at affiliates@curioluxe.net and AVXIM ILLINOIS INC, PO BOX 11, 440 W COLFAX ST, PALATINE, IL 60067-2537; to you at the e-mail address we have for you). The parties will try in good faith to resolve it for 60 days, including, if either asks, an individual telephone or video conference. Any limitation period is paused during those 60 days. This step is a condition of starting a case.

19.2 Agreement to arbitrate. Except as Sections 19.4 and 19.5 provide, you and AVXIM ILLINOIS INC agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service, these terms, any product, purchase, link, communication or advertising, or the relationship between us, whether in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation or any other theory, and whether arising before or after you agreed to these terms (a "Dispute"), will be resolved only by final and binding individual arbitration. This agreement is governed by the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.).

19.3 Rules, place and costs. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules and, where the AAA determines they apply to a group of filings, its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, as in effect when the arbitration is filed (available at adr.org). A single arbitrator will decide the Dispute. Unless the parties agree otherwise, any hearing will take place by video or telephone or in the county where you live, and a Dispute for US$10,000 or less may be decided on written submissions. Payment of filing, administration and arbitrator fees will follow the AAA rules, under which we pay the business's share; if you show the arbitrator that the costs would be prohibitive for you compared with litigation, we will pay as much of them as the arbitrator finds necessary to prevent that. Each party bears its own attorneys' fees unless the law or the arbitrator's award provides otherwise. The arbitrator may award on an individual basis any relief available in court, and the award may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

19.4 Small claims. Either party may instead bring an individual action in small-claims court for a Dispute within that court's jurisdiction, for as long as it stays there on an individual basis.

19.5 Intellectual property. Either party may bring an action in court to stop actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of its copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents or other intellectual property.

19.6 CLASS-ACTION AND JURY-TRIAL WAIVER. YOU AND AVXIM ILLINOIS INC MAY BRING A DISPUTE ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS OR PRESIDE OVER ANY CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, AND MAY AWARD RELIEF ONLY IN FAVOUR OF THE INDIVIDUAL PARTY SEEKING IT AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT NEEDED FOR THAT PARTY'S INDIVIDUAL CLAIM. YOU AND AVXIM ILLINOIS INC WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL. If a court decides that any part of this Section 19.6 cannot be enforced as to a particular claim or remedy (such as public injunctive relief), that claim or remedy will be severed and decided by a court after the individual arbitration of all other claims has ended, and it will not be arbitrated on a class or representative basis.

19.7 Who decides. The arbitrator decides all questions about the scope, interpretation, applicability, enforceability and formation of this agreement to arbitrate, except that a court decides questions about Section 19.6 (the class-action waiver), about Sections 19.4 and 19.5, and about whether the informal-resolution step in Section 19.1 was completed.

19.8 Changes. If we change this Section 19, we will give at least 30 days' notice by posting the change here (and by e-mail if we have your address). A change will not apply to a Dispute of which either party had already given notice before the change took effect.

19.9 Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this agreement to arbitrate within 30 days after you first accept these Legal Terms, by e-mailing affiliates@curioluxe.net with the subject "Arbitration opt-out" and your name and the e-mail address you use with the Service. Opting out does not affect any other part of these terms or any earlier arbitration agreement with us.

19.10 Survival and severability. This Section 19 survives the end of your use of the Service. Except as Section 19.6 provides, if any part of this Section 19 is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

20. Governing law and courts

These terms and any Dispute are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and applicable U.S. federal law (including the Federal Arbitration Act), without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any Dispute not subject to arbitration will be brought only in the state courts located in Cook County, Illinois, or the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and you and we consent to their personal jurisdiction and venue, except that either party may bring a small-claims action as Section 19.4 allows. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

21. Time to bring a claim

To the extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to the Service or these terms must be brought within one (1) year after it arises; otherwise it is permanently barred.

22. Changes to the Service and to these terms

We may change, suspend or end any part of the Service at any time, and we are not liable for doing so. We may update these terms; the effective date above changes when we do, and material changes will be posted here before they take effect. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it. Changes to Section 19 are governed by Section 19.8.

23. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or end your access to all or part of the Service at any time, for any lawful reason, including breach of these terms. Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 4–7, 10–12 and 15–28) survive.

24. International use, export and sanctions

The Service is operated from the United States. If you use it from elsewhere, you are responsible for complying with local law. You confirm that you are not located in, or a resident of, a country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and that you are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

25. Children

The Service is not directed to children. You must be 18 or older to create an account or sign up for e-mail. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if you believe a child has given us personal information, write to affiliates@curioluxe.net and we will delete it.

26. General terms

• Entire agreement. These Legal Terms and the documents they incorporate are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service and supersede earlier agreements on the subject.
• Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the rest of these terms will remain in effect (subject to Section 19.6).
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these terms without our written consent. We may assign them, including in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for any delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of hosting, network or third-party services, acts of government, natural events, labour disputes or cyber-attacks.
• Relationship. Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship between you and us.
• No third-party beneficiaries, except the persons released or indemnified under Sections 16–18.
• Interpretation. Headings are for convenience only; "including" means "including without limitation". These terms will not be construed against the drafter. The English version governs over any translation.

27. Notices for particular jurisdictions

• California. Under California Civil Code § 1789.3: the Service is provided by AVXIM ILLINOIS INC, AVXIM ILLINOIS INC, PO BOX 11, 440 W COLFAX ST, PALATINE, IL 60067-2537; the Service is free of charge to users; to make a complaint or get more information, write to us at affiliates@curioluxe.net. You may also contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.
• New Jersey. Nothing in these terms limits any right that may not be limited under New Jersey law; any provision that would do so does not apply to New Jersey residents to that extent.
• Consumers outside the United States. If you live in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another country whose consumer-protection laws cannot be overridden by contract, you keep the benefit of those mandatory laws, including your right to bring proceedings in the courts of your home country, and nothing in these terms limits them.

28. Contact

AVXIM ILLINOIS INC · AVXIM ILLINOIS INC, PO BOX 11, 440 W COLFAX ST, PALATINE, IL 60067-2537 · affiliates@curioluxe.net