Thank you for visiting the payment portal web site titled "paythaticket.com" (the "Site"). In return for gaining access to the Site and using it, you agree to be bound by the following Agreement without limitation or qualification, so please carefully review this Agreement before proceeding. If you do not intend to be legally bound by these terms and conditions, do not access and use the Site. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC reserves the right to change this Agreement and to make changes to any of the products or programs described in the Site at any time without notice or liability. Any such revisions are prospectively binding. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC also reserves the right in its sole and unfettered discretion to deny you access to the Site at any time. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC enters into agreements with third parties from time to time to provide our customers with the opportunity to obtain special services, products or prices offered by the third party. You will not be deemed to be violating this agreement when acting in accordance with the terms and conditions of any such program. Likewise, the terms and conditions in this agreement will be considered broadened to the extent needed to permit such third parties to operate within the terms of a written agreement they have entered into with us. The titles in this Agreement are provided only for your convenience and are not to be used in interpreting the Agreement.

Unless otherwise noted, all information, articles, data, images, passwords, Personal Identification Numbers ("PINs"), screens, text, user names, web pages, or other materials (collectively "Content") appearing on the Site are the exclusive property of Gold Shield Technologies, LLC, or their subsidiaries and affiliates:

1. All information, products, services and software contained on or used in the Site ("Content") is Copyright 2024 by Gold Shield Technologies, LLC, all rights reserved. Please assume that everything you see or read on the Site is copyrighted to, or used with permission by, Gold Shield Technologies, LLC, unless otherwise noted.
2. The trademarks, logos, service marks, and trade dress (collectively the "Trademarks") displayed on the Site are registered and unregistered Trademarks of Gold Shield Technologies, LLC, or others.
3. Images of people, objects, or places displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by Gold Shield Technologies, LLC
4. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC owns or uses by permission all software contained on the Site, including without limitation all HTML code and Active X controls. Copyright and other laws and international treaty provisions protect this software. The law expressly prohibits any modification, redistribution, or reproduction of the software, and such actions could result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC will seek and support prosecuting violators to the maximum extent possible.
5. You may not copy, display, distribute, download, license, modify, publish, re-post, reproduce, reuse, sell, transmit, use to create a derivative work, or otherwise use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes. Nothing on the Site shall be construed to confer any grant or license of any intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, by implication, or otherwise.

By using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older and possess the legal right and ability to enter into this Agreement and to use the Site in accordance with all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. You accept financial responsibility for all use of the Site under your name or account, including without limitation all uses of your account by others, including minors living with you. You may allow other members of your household to use the Site under your name or account only if you agree to pay all charges that they incur and to be responsible for all other aspects of their usage. You further agree to supervise all minors who use the Site under your name or account. You agree not to assign, transfer, or sublicense your rights pursuant to this Agreement.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Gold Shield Technologies, LLC, it’s directors, shareholders, partners, officers, members, attorneys, and it’s affiliates from and against any and all claims, demands, proceedings, suits and actions, including any related liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, deficiencies, penalties, taxes, levies, fines, judgments, settlements, expenses (including legal and accountants' fees and disbursements) and costs (collectively, "Claims"), based on, arising out of or resulting from your use of the Site, including without limitation any Claims alleging facts that if true would constitute your breach of this Agreement.

Gold Shield Technologies, LLC provides the Site solely to permit you to determine the status of fines and other obligations to the State in which you received your fine and to make legitimate payments or otherwise transact business with Gold Shield Technologies, LLC, and/or the State of issued citation and for no other purposes. The Site is for your personal, non-commercial use. You agree that you will use the Site's services only to make legitimate payments for you or for another person for whom you are authorized to act both legally and under the terms of this Agreement.

You agree that without limitation you shall not make any false payments or any payments in anticipation of protest. You agree to abide by the terms and conditions of purcase Gold Shield Technologies, LLC imposes including, but not limited to, payment of all amounts when due and compliance with all rules regarding credit card or ACH payments. You are completely responsible for all assessments, charges, duties, fees, and taxes arising out of your use of the Site.

Your account information is owned by and proprietary to Gold Shield Technologies, LLC. While you may access your account information through the Site, you may not give access to your account to any person or entity other than a member of your household or a person that you directly supervise as part of your career or employment. You may not give access to your account to any third party on-line service.

You must access your account information directly through the Site and not through a third party web site. You also violate this Agreement if you enable anyone to access account information without visiting the Site directly.

You agree that you will not Misuse the Site. "Misuse" includes, but is not limited to, using the Site to do any of the following:

1. Distribute, disseminate, post, or publish any information or material that degrades, embarrasses, harasses, humiliates, intimidates, or threatens any individual or group of individuals on the basis of their age, ancestry, color, ethnicity, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, sex, sexual orientation, union or nonunion affiliation, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance.
2. Abuse, defame, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate others' legal rights, including but not limited to rights of privacy and publicity.
3. Download or upload files that may damage the operation of another's computer, such as computer viruses, corrupt files, or similar software.
4. Download or upload files that contain materials, including but not limited to software that violate the intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights of others unless you own, control, or have been authorized to exercise such rights.
5. Misrepresent or omit the origin or source of any file you download or upload.
6. Download or upload files that do not contain the posted proprietary language, author attributions, and/or copyright, patent, or trademark notices.
7. Distribute, disseminate, post, or publish any indecent, infringing, obscene, or unlawful information or material.
8. Engage in any commercial purpose including but not limited to:
   1. Advertising or offering to sell any goods or services.
   2. Conducting contests or surveys.
   3. Distributing chain letters, or advertising with respect to any Ponzi scheme or pyramid scheme.
   4. Advertising or offering to sell any business opportunities, direct sales opportunities, employment, independent contractor positions, multi-level marketing opportunities, or securities.
9. Post, send, or otherwise disclose confidential information, trade secrets, or other confidential and/or protected proprietary data of any entity or person, including but not limited to Gold Shield Technologies, LLC, or any agent of the State of issued citation. Download or upload files that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed through the Site.
10. Upload, download, or otherwise export or re-export software from the Site:
    1. to a national or resident of or into any country the U.S. has embargoed, including without limitation, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, or Yugoslavia;
    2. to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's Specially Designated Nationals list, or
    3. to anyone on the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Denial Orders.
11. Copy or create derivative works from, display, distribute, license, perform, publish, recreate, reproduce, sell, transfer, or transmit any information, products, services, or software obtained by, from, or through the Site.
12. Monitor or copy any Content by using any manual process, or any robot, spider, or other automatic device, without first obtaining Gold Shield Technologies, LLC's prior written consent.
13. Act as an agent or attorney in fact for any person who is not:
    A member of your immediate household; or Your direct supervisor at your place of employment.
14. Take any action that will or could impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our site infrastructure.
15. Act as a payment management service or payment tracking service for any litigant or user.
16. Access information about any litigant protected by site log-in and post it on any other web site, with or without that litigant’s or user’s consent.
17. Utilize an user’s password or personal identification number during log-in, unless you are:
    1. The user to whom that password or personal identification number is assigned (the "Authorized User"); 2. A family member of the Authorized User, acting with the Authorized User’s permission; or 3. An employee of the Authorized User’s employer, acting with the Authorized User's permission.
18. Engage in any other conduct that is, or that Gold Shield Technologies, LLC deems to be, in conflict with this Agreement. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC forbids such Misuses, and access of the Site for any such Misuses or other similar purposes is an unauthorized use of the Site.

The Content may contain inaccuracies and/or typographical errors. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC may alter, change or improve the Content at any time and without notice. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC makes no representations or warranties as to the Content's completeness or accuracy, and makes no commitment to update the Content. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC makes no representations about the Content's suitability for any purpose.

YOU USE THE SITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR TITLE. IN NO EVENT SHALL GOLD SHIELD TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, OR ITS AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (WHETHER CONSEQUENTIAL, DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH, THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR FOR ANY OF THE CONTENT OBTAINED THROUGH OR OTHERWISE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE, IN EACH CASE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER THEORIES OF LIABILITY, AND ALSO REGARDLESS OF WHETHER GOLD SHIELD TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, WAS GIVEN ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE THAT DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE.

Gold Shield Technologies, LLC neither warrants nor represents that your use of information and material on the Site will not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of third parties. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC shall not be liable for any virus or other damage to your computer equipment or other property due to your accessing, browsing, or using the Site or due to your downloading any audio, data, images, materials, pictures, text or video from the Site.

Consistent with the Gold Shield Technologies, LLC privacy policy, we ask you to provide us with certain information when you make payments to the State of your issued citations using credit cards or ACH. You agree that when you provide such information, the information will be accurate. Under no circumstances will you provide false or misleading information. To review our privacy policy, please click on the "Privacy Policy" link at the bottom of any page.

For use of certain services, we may provide you with a pass code. This pass code is proprietary to and the property of Gold Shield Technologies, LLC. However, you must take precautions to insure the security of your pass code. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC assumes no responsibility for and will not be liable in the event that another person learns your pass code or uses your pass code to cause damage to you.

While Gold Shield Technologies, LLC takes reasonable steps to safeguard and to prevent unauthorized access to your private information, we cannot be responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorized access, and we make no warranty, express, implied, or otherwise, that we will prevent unauthorized access to your private information. IN NO EVENT SHALL GOLD SHIELD TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, OR ITS AFFILIATES, OR THE COURT SYSTEM IN WHICH THE CITATION WAS ISSUED BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (WHETHER CONSEQUENTIAL, DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH, A THIRD PARTY'S UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER THEORIES OF LIABILITY, AND ALSO REGARDLESS OF WHETHER GOLD SHIELD TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, WAS GIVEN ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE THAT DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE.

The information on the Site does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities and must not be relied upon in connection with any investment decision.

The Site may provide hyperlinks or references to other sites. While Gold Shield Technologies, LLC endeavors to provide links only to sites that are reputable and safe, we take no responsibility for the information, products, or services obtained on such other sites and will not be liable for any damages arising from your access to such sites. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC provides any such links to other sites merely for your convenience and our inclusion of such links and frames in the Site does not imply an endorsement of the linked or framed sites, their content, or the persons or entities operating those sites. Therefore, you assume sole responsibility for using links or pointers to third parties.

Gold Shield Technologies, LLC specifically denies you permission to hyperlink or provide references to the Site, unless you are allowed to do so under a separate written agreement with Gold Shield Technologies, LLC You are also denied permission to use any trademarked or copyrighted material to provide such hyperlinks or references, unless you are allowed to do so under a separate written agreement with Gold Shield Technologies, LLC Gold Shield Technologies, LLC bears no responsibility for sites that provide hyperlinks or references to the Site unless those sites are operated by Gold Shield Technologies, LLC.

Gold Shield Technologies, LLC will not treat as confidential any communications you send to us by electronic mail or otherwise. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC has no obligation to refrain from publishing, reproducing, or otherwise using your communications in any way and for any purpose.

Gold Shield Technologies, LLC does not accept or consider unsolicited proposals related to its business, including but not limited to proposals for advertising campaigns, logos, names, processes, products, promotions, services, slogans, and technologies. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC therefore requests that you not send such proposals. Please also refrain from sending original creative artwork, blueprints, demonstratives, designs, layouts, photographs, or samples. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC has adopted this policy to prevent claims that we have copied such unsolicited ideas without authorization, when, in fact, we developed the idea independent of or even long before receiving the unsolicited proposal. If you do send us unsolicited proposals, then do so with the understanding that Gold Shield Technologies, LLC may use any concepts, ideas, inventions, know-how, or techniques that you disclose in those communications for any purpose, including the developing, manufacturing, and/or marketing of goods, products, or services. Gold Shield Technologies, LLC may do so free of any obligation to compensate you for that use.

The Site may provide you the ability to have an on-line chat session with Gold Shield Technologies, LLC or with information as to how you can contact Gold Shield Technologies, LLC by telephone. You may use these functions only for business purposes related to the Site. For quality assurance purposes, Gold Shield Technologies, LLC may monitor, record, and/or transcribe the contents of these communications. By contacting Gold Shield Technologies, LLC, you agree that the communication may be monitored, recorded, and/or transcribed and you consent to the monitoring, recording, and/or transcribing. Such records may be kept indefinitely or disposed of at our discretion

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement governing your access to, dealings with, and use of the Site. Of course, separate agreements may attach to any goods, products, or services you obtain, purchase, or use from the Site.

Any failure of Gold Shield Technologies, LLC to assert any rights it may have under this Agreement does not constitute a waiver of our right to assert the same or any other right at any other time or against any other person or entity. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be stricken from this Agreement without affecting the validity or enforceability of any other provision.