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Terms Of Use
The ShopAround4 Web Site is made up of various
Web pages that are owned and operated by BizConnectors. The following Terms of Use
govern your use of these pages. Read these terms
carefully before you accept these Terms by: (a) making a listing through ShopAround4 or (b) otherwise using services provided by the Website.
Your use of the Website constitutes Your Agreement
to the Terms and any additional terms.
The Terms are entered into by and between ShopAround4
and You. Any reference herein to ShopAround4 shall be deemed to refer
to ShopAround4, as applicable under the circumstances.
The listing services offered and other on-line resources
accessible via the Website, are provided to You, subject to these
Terms. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the Terms will govern
Your use of any new features that augment or enhance the Website.
This Terms of Use and Notices applies to the ShopAround4 WebSite and does not apply to the
content of listings provided by ShopAround4 registered members.
ShopAround4 may make improvements and/or changes to the Website
including the products, programs, services and prices that are
offered or described on the Website, at any time, without prior
notice.
In addition, ShopAround4 does not warrant that the products
and services offered on the Website listings are available to be shipped to all customers
or that product descriptions or other content of the listings is
accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free. ShopAround4 is not responsible for
content provided by its members to be accurate, complete or reliable.
Use of ShopAround4 Services
ShopAround4 provides services to connect buyers and sellers of products or services and
may contain e-mail services, personal web pages such as About Us, pictures or other message or
communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with other ShopAround4 members (collectively, "ShopAround4 Services").
You agree to use the ShopAround4 Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular ShopAround4 Service.
By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a ShopAround4 Service, you will not:
- Use the ShopAround4 Service in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise).
Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
- Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
- Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any topic, name, material or information that incites discrimination, hate or violence towards one person or a group because of their belonging to a race,
a religion or a nation, or that insults the victims of crimes against humanity by contesting the existence of those crimes.
- Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software or other material protected by
intellectual property laws, including, by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity)
unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents to do the same.
- Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which is made available through the ShopAround4
Sites/Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right
of any party.
- Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage
the operation of another's computer or property of another.
Use of meta tag searches on the web sites.
- Download any file posted by another user of a ShopAround4 Service that you know, or reasonably should know,
cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
- Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the
origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the ShopAround4 Services.
- Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular ShopAround4 Service.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
- Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory
of users of an ShopAround4 Site/Service(s) or other user or usage information or any portion thereof.
ShopAround4 has no obligation to monitor the ShopAround4 Services. However, ShopAround4 reserves
the right to review materials posted to a ShopAround4 Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion.
ShopAround4 reserves the right to terminate your account or terminate your access to any or all of the ShopAround4 Services
at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.
ShopAround4 reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as ShopAround4 deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law,
regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials,
in whole or in part, in ShopAround4's sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about yourself or your children in any
ShopAround4 Service. ShopAround4 does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any
ShopAround4 Service and, therefore, ShopAround4 specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the
ShopAround4 Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any ShopAround4 Service.
Materials uploaded to a ShopAround4 Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination,
you are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
Modification to Terms of Use
ShopAround4 reserves the right to update or modify these Terms
and, any additional terms, codes of conduct or guidelines, without
prior notice. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these
Terms and Your continued use of the Website constitutes Your
agreement as to all such updated or modified terms.
Intellectual Property Rights
ShopAround4 is registered trademark of BizConnectors.
Unless otherwise indicated, all information, images, text,
messages, illustrations, graphics, logos, designs, icons,
photographs, programs, data, software, music, sound, video, or other
materials that are part of the Website (collectively, the
"Content") are protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks,
publicity rights, or other proprietary rights and laws owned,
controlled or licensed by BizConnectors or by third parties (the "Third
Party Providers") who have provided materials to ShopAround4, and
these rights are valid and protected in all forms, media and
technologies, existing now or hereinafter developed. All Content is
copyrighted as a collective work under the U.S. copyright laws, and
BizConnectors owns a copyright in the selection, coordination,
arrangement, and enhancement of such Content.
Except as set forth herein, none of the Content may be copied,
reproduced, framed, modified, removed, sold, distributed,
republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or
otherwise exploited, in whole or in part, in any form or by any
means, including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior express
written permission of BizConnectors or the Third Party Provider. No
part of the Website may be reproduced or retransmitted in any way,
or by any means, without the express written permission of BizConnectors.
You also may not, without BizConnectors's prior express written
permission, "mirror" any of the Content contained on the Website on
any other server.
ShopAround4 is committed to respecting others' intellectual
property rights, and we ask our users to do the same. ShopAround4
may, in its sole discretion, terminate the accounts or access rights
of users who infringe or otherwise violate others' intellectual
property rights. If You believe that Your work has been copied in a
way that constitutes copyright infringement on the Website, please
contact our copyright agent as described in our copyright
policy.
Nothing on the Website shall be construed as conferring any
license under any of ShopAround4's or any Third Party Provider's
intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication, or
otherwise. You acknowledge sole responsibility for obtaining any
such licenses.
Permission is granted to display, copy, distribute and download
ShopAround4's Content on the Website for Your personal,
non-commercial use only, provided You do not modify the materials
and that You retain all copyright notices, trademark legends, and
other proprietary rights notices contained in the materials. This
permission terminates automatically if You breach any of these
Terms. Upon termination, You must immediately destroy any downloaded
and printed materials. The Content on the Website may be used only as a shopping resource.
ShopAround4 has not independently authenticated content provided
by Third Party Providers in whole or in part. ShopAround4 does not
provide, sell, license, rent or lease any of the Content other than
those specifically identified as being provided by ShopAround4.
Comments, Communications and Other Content All
comments, communications, ideas, and other content disclosed, submitted or
offered to ShopAround4 on or by the Website or otherwise
disclosed, submitted or offered in connection with Your use of the
Website (collectively, the "Comments") shall be and remain BizConnectors's
property. Such disclosure, submission or offer of any Comments shall
constitute an assignment to BizConnectors of all worldwide rights, titles
and interests in all copyrights and other intellectual properties in
the Comments. Thus, BizConnectors will own exclusively all such
rights, titles and interests and shall not be limited in any way in its
use, commercial or otherwise, of any Comments.
ShopAround4 is and shall be under no obligation
(A) to maintain any Comments in confidence;
(B) to pay user any compensation for any Comments; or
(C) to respond to any user
Comments.
You agree that no Comments
submitted by You to the Website will violate any rights of any third
party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or
proprietary right. You further agree that no Comments submitted by You
to the Website will be or contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive
or obscene material. You are and shall remain solely responsible for the
content of any Comments you make.
Links The
Website may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other
Internet sites or resources. Because ShopAround4 has no
control over such sites and resources, You acknowledge and agree that
ShopAround4 is not responsible for the availability of such
external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible
or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or
available from such sites or resources. ShopAround4 will not
be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss
caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance
on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such
site or resource.
The Website may be linked to other websites that are not under
the control of and are not maintained by ShopAround4. ShopAround4 is
not responsible for the content of those sites. ShopAround4 is
providing these links to You only as a convenience, and the
inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by
ShopAround4 of those sites.
Indemnification You agree to indemnify and hold
ShopAround4, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers,
agents, co-branders, or other partners, and employees, harmless from any
claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third
party due to or arising out of the use of the Website.
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