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Terms of Use
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Effective Date: This Terms of Use Agreement was last updated on
[6/28/2007].
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This Terms of Use Agreement sets forth the standards of use of the LobbyingFirms.com Online Service. By using the LobbyingFirms.com website you (the “Member”) agree to these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this agreement, you should immediately cease all usage of this website. We reserve the right, at any time, to modify, alter, or update the terms and conditions of this agreement without prior notice. Modifications shall become effective immediately upon being posted at LobbyingFirms.com website. Your continued use of the Service after amendments are posted constitutes an acknowledgement and acceptance of the Agreement and its modifications. Except as provided in this paragraph, this Agreement may not be amended.
1. Description of Service
LobbyingFirms.com is a professional directory and search site targeted to individuals
and organizations either actively lobbying as part of their bsuiness and those intereseted in information about such lobbying organizations. It is a place
for Lobbying Firms to promote themselves and their businesses via the Internet. LobbyingFirms.com
2. Disclaimer of Warranties.
This site is provided on an “as is” and on an “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, LobbyingFirms.com makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, regarding the use or the results of this web site in terms of its correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. LobbyingFirms.com shall have no liability for any interruptions in the use of this Website. LobbyingFirms.com disclaims all warranties with regard to the information provided, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, therefore the above-referenced exclusion is inapplicable.
3. Limitation of Liability
INDIARETAILJOBS.COM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER,
AND IN PARTICULAR INDIARETAILJOBS.COM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY
SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES
FOR LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF REVENUE, OR LOSS OF USE, ARISING OUT OF OR
RELATED TO THIS WEB SITE OR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN IT, WHETHER
SUCH DAMAGES ARISE IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, UNDER STATUTE, IN EQUITY,
AT LAW, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF INDIARETAILJOBS.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW FOR
THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, THEREFORE SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS IS INAPPLICABLE.
4. Indemnification
Member agrees to indemnify and hold LobbyingFirms.com and its parent, Streamworth Media, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Member’s use of the Service, the violation of this Agreement, or infringement by Member, or other user of the Service using Member’s computer, of any intellectual property or any other right of any person or entity.
5. Modifications and Interruption to Service
LobbyingFirms.com reserves the right to modify or discontinue the Service with or without notice to the Member. LobbyingFirms.com shall not be liable to Member or any third party should LobbyingFirms.com exercise its right to modify or discontinue the Service. Member acknowledges and accepts that LobbyingFirms.com does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to our website and operation of our website may be interfered with or adversely affected by numerous factors or circumstances outside of our control.
6. Third-Party Sites, Content, Products & Services
Our website may include links to other sites on the Internet that
are owned and operated by online merchants and other third parties including
web sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information and databases,
applications, software, programs, products or services, and the Internet
as a whole. You acknowledge that we are not responsible for the availability
of, or the content located on or through, any third-party site. You should
contact the site administrator or webmaster for those third-party sites
if you have any concerns regarding such links or the content located
on such sites. Your use of those third-party sites is subject to the
terms of use and privacy policies of each site, and we are not responsible
therein. We encourage all Members to review said privacy policies of
third-parties’ sites. Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals
found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of goods
or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations
associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations
and/or individuals. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary
or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction
with any of these third parties.
You agree that LobbyingFirms.com shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings. If there is a dispute between participants on this site, or between users and any third party, you understand and agree that LobbyingFirms.com is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release LobbyingFirms.com, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and / or our service. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.”
7. Disclaimer Regarding Accuracy of Posted Firm Information
Firm and organization profiles and other information have either been provided by the site’s users or collected from publicly available sources. While LobbyingFirms.com makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or reliability of any information provided on this website.
LobbyingFirms.com makes no warranties or representations whatsoever with regard to any products or services provided or offered by any site users, and you acknowledge that any reliance on representations and warranties provided by any Vendor shall be at your own risk.
8. Governing Jurisdiction of the Courts
Our website is operated and provided in the State of California, United States. As such, we are subject to the laws of the State California and such laws will govern this Terms of Use, without giving effect to any choice of law rules. We make no representation that our website or other services are appropriate, legal or available for use in other locations. Accordingly, if you choose to access our site you agree to do so subject to the internal laws of the State of California.
9. Compliance with Laws.
Member assumes all knowledge of applicable law and is responsible for compliance with any such laws. Member may not use the Service in any way that violates applicable state, federal, or international laws, regulations or other government requirements. Member agrees not to transmit any material that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law or regulation.
Member further agrees not to:
(a) Use LobbyingFirms.com for chain letters, junk mail, spamming or any use of distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a process;
(b) Transmit through the LobbyingFirms.com any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature;
(c) Use LobbyingFirms.com for any illegal purposes or transmit any material that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation; or
(d) Interfere with another user's use and enjoyment of the LobbyingFirms.com or another entity's use and enjoyment of similar services.
10. Copyright and Trademark Information
Although LobbyingFirms.com does not claim ownership of content that its users post, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to LobbyingFirms.com an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through multiple tiers) of the foregoing. Furthermore, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant LobbyingFirms.com all rights necessary to prohibit any subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction, or exploitation of the Content on the Service by any party for any purpose.
All content included or available on this site, including site design, text, graphics, interfaces, and the selection and arrangements thereof is ©2007 LobbyingFirms.com, with all rights reserved, or is the property of LobbyingFirms.com and/or third parties protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of materials on the website, including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, modification, distribution, or replication, any form of data extraction or data mining, or other commercial exploitation of any kind, without prior written permission of an authorized officer of LobbyingFirms.com is strictly prohibited. Members agree that they will not use any robot, spider, or other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained therein without prior written permission of an authorized officer of LobbyingFirms.com
LobbyingFirms.com ™ are proprietary marks of LobbyingFirms.com. LobbyingFirms.com’s trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not provided LobbyingFirms.com, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits LobbyingFirms.com.
All other trademarks displayed on LobbyingFirms.com’s website are the trademarks of their respective owners, and constitute neither an endorsement nor a recommendation of those Vendors. In addition, such use of trademarks or links to the web sites of Vendors is not intended to imply, directly or indirectly, that those Vendors endorse or have any affiliation LobbyingFirms.com.
11. Notification of Claimed Copyright Infringement
Pursuant to Section 512(c) of the Copyright Revision Act, as enacted through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, LobbyingFirms.com designates the following individual as its agent for receipt of notifications of claimed copyright infringement.
By Telephone: 818.706.2264
By Email: siteagent@LobbyingFirms.com
12. Botnets
LobbyingFirms.com retains the right, at our sole discretion, to terminate any accounts involved with botnets and related activities. If any hostnames are used as command and control points for botnets, LobbyingFirms.com reserves the right to direct the involved hostnames to a honeypot, loopback address, logging facility, or any other destination at our discretion.
13. Other Terms
If any provision of this Terms of Use Agreement shall be unlawful, void or unenforceable for any reason, the other provisions (and any partially-enforceable provision) shall not be affected thereby and shall remain valid and enforceable to the maximum possible extent. You agree that this Terms of Use Agreement and any other agreements referenced herein may be assigned by LobbyingFirms.com, in our sole discretion, to a third party in the event of a merger or acquisition. This Terms of Use Agreement shall apply in addition to, and shall not be superseded by, any other written agreement between us in relation to your participation as a Member. Member agrees that by accepting this Terms of Use Agreement, Member is consenting to the use and disclosure of their personally identifiable information and other practices described in our Privacy Policy Statement.
14. No Spam
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email advertisements to
LobbyingFirms.com email addresses or through LobbyingFirms.com computer systems, which is expressly prohibited.
15. Paid Postings & Viewing
LobbyingFirms.com charges a fee to post or view content
in some areas of the Service. The fee is an access fee permitting
Content to be posted in a designated area. Each party posting Content
to the Service is responsible for said Content and compliance with
the these terms. All fees paid will be non-refundable in the event
that Content is removed from the Service for violating these terms
of use.
16. Termination Of Service
You agree that LobbyingFirms.com, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, if LobbyingFirms.com believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms of Use. Further, you agree that LobbyingFirms.com shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service. Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after said termination.
PLEASE REPORT ANY VIOLATIONS OF THESE TERMS, BY NOTING THE POSTING FOR REVIEW AND EMAILING TO:
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