CompuMatch
MEMBER TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 AND NOT OLDER THAN 24 YEARS
OF AGE TO REGISTER ON OR USE THE CompuMatch WEBSITE. ACCESS OR USE OF THIS SITE
OR ITS CONTENTS BY ANY PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.)
Please read this Member Terms and Conditions
Agreement (the
"Agreement")carefully. The
Agreement sets out the terms under which
compumatch.org services(the "Services") are provided to you by us (Proaceintl.com, a company registered in Maryland, and whose registered office in Gaithersburg, MD 20878) through the proaceintl.com website (the "Site"). By
registering with compumatch, you become a
member of the Service (a "Member"), and you agree to be bound by the
terms and conditions of this Agreement (the "Terms") for as long as
you continue to be a Member. If you do not agree to theTerms, please do
not register for the proaceintl.com
Service or otherwise access or use this Site.
We reserve the right at any time to:
· Change the terms and conditions of this
Agreement;
· Change the Site, including eliminating or
discontinuing any content on or
feature of the Site; or
·
Change any fees or charges for using the Site.
Any
changes we make will be effective immediately
upon notice, which we may provide by means
including, without limitation,
posting on the Site or email. Your use of the
Site after such notice will be deemed acceptance of the changes. Be sure to
review this Agreement
periodically to ensure familiarity with the
most current version. Upon our request, you agree to sign a non-electronic
version of this Agreement.
REGISTRATION.
To become a Member you must register
with us. When and if you register to become a
Member, you agree to
provide accurate, current and complete
information about yourself as prompted by our registration form ("Registration Data"), and to
maintain and update
your information to keep it accurate, current
and complete. You agree that we may rely on your Registration Data as accurate,
current and complete. As mentioned, this service is solely available for
students. All information sent to the Service will be screened and verified.
You acknowledge that if your Registration Data is untrue, inaccurate, not
current or incomplete in any respect, we reserve the right to terminate this
Agreement and your use of the Site.
When
you register, we will require that you provide sufficient information to
indicate that you are at least 18 and not older then 24 years old. By becoming
a Member, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old, which
is the minimum required age to become a Member. You will also prove that you
are a student at the time of registration to our service. By sending us(by
email) the necessary information, your membership will be pending until approval.
All members will be screened. However, we cannot guarantee that each Member is
registered in school at the time of membership to our service. Our screening
process will be limited to verification of each student to our service. No
school appearing in the service, nor us, are responsible or liable for any
content, communication or other use or access of the Site by persons under the
age of 18 in violation of these Terms.
Either
you or CompuMatch may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason,
effective upon sending written notice to the other party. All membership fees
paid are nonrefundable. We reserve the right to immediately suspend or
terminate your access to the Service, without notice, upon any breach of this
Agreement by you which is brought to our attention.
Your
membership in the Service is for your sole, personal use. You may not authorize
others to use your membership, and you may not assign or otherwise transfer
your account to any other person or entity.
USERNAME
AND PASSWORD. As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select
a username and password. We may refuse to grant any username that impersonates
someone else, is or may be illegal, is or may be protected by trademark or
other proprietary rights law, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or may cause
confusion, as we determine in our sole discretion. You are responsible for the
confidentiality and use of your username and password and agree not to transfer
or resell your use of or
access
to the Site to any third party. If you have reason to believe that your account
is no longer secure, you must promptly change your password by updating your
account information, available at the 'My profile' Page after logging on to
Compumatch, and immediately notify us by emailing us at help@compumatch.org YOU
ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF YOUR USERNAME AND
PASSWORD AND FOR ANY AND ALL ACTIVITIES THAT ARE CONDUCTED THROUGH YOUR
ACCOUNT.
ONLINE
CONDUCT. As a Member, you agree that:
You
are solely responsible for the content or information you publish or display
(hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit to other Members.
You
will not post on the Service, or transmit to other Members or employees, any
defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, offensive sexually oriented,
threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material, or any
material that infringes or violates another party's rights (including, but not
limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy and publicity).
Please notify us by writing to (ProAce International Limited, a company
registered in Maryland, and whose registered office in Gaithersburg, Md 20878)
or by sending an email to help@compumatch.org of any material contained in the
Service that you believe infringes these rules.
You will use the Service in a manner
consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations. You will not
include in your profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names,
URLs, email addresses, offensive anatomical or sexual references, or offensive
sexually suggestive or connotative language, or any confidential information of
any third person, and you will not post
any photographs or other images containing nudity or such personal information. Compumatch.com
reserves the right, but has no obligation, to reject any profile or photograph
or image that does not comply with these prohibitions.
You
will not impersonate any person or entity.
You
will not "stalk" or otherwise harass any person.
You
will not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members to buy or
sell any products or services through the Service. You will not transmit any
chain letters, spam or junk email to other Members.
You
will not express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us,
without our specific prior written consent.
You
will not harvest or collect personal information about other Members whether or
not for commercial purposes, without their express consent.
You
will not use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other
manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, "data
mine", or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or
presentation of the Site or its contents. You will not post, distribute or
reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary
information without obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such
proprietary rights.
You
will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained
in the Site.
You
will not interfere with or disrupt the Services or the Site or the servers or
networks connected to the Services or the Site.
You
will not post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software
viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt,
destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or
telecommunications equipment. Please notify us by writing to (Compumatch.Org, a
company registered in Maryland, and whose registered office in Gaithersburg, MD
20878)
You
will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise
the origin of any information transmitted through the Service.
You
will not "frame" or "mirror" any part of the Site, without our
prior written authorization. You also shall not use metatags or code or other
devices containing any reference to compumatch.com or the Service
or the Site in order to direct any person to
any other Web site for any purpose.
You
will not modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer,
decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of the Site or
any software used on or for the Site or
cause others to do so.
You
are solely responsible for your interactions with other Members. Compumatch.org
reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and
other Members.
We
do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury due to our
negligence.
INDEMNITY BY MEMBER. You agree to indemnify,
defend and hold us, our officers, directors, employees, agents and
representatives harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses,
liabilities, costs (including
reasonable attorneys' fees) or other expenses that arise directly or
indirectly out of or from (i) your breach of this Agreement; (ii) any
allegation that any materials that you submit to us or transmit to the Site
infringe or otherwise violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other
intellectual property or other rights of any third party; and/or (iii) your
activities in connection with the Site. This indemnity shall be applicable
without regard to the negligence of any party, including any indemnified
person.
ONLINE
CONTENT. Opinions, advice, statements, offers or other information or content
made available through the Service are those of their respective Member-author
and not of CompuMatch.org, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such
Members are solely responsible for such content. Compumatch.org does not
guarantee the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information on the
Service and neither adopts nor endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or
reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made. Under no circumstances
will Compumatch.org be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from
anyone's reliance on information or other content posted on the Service or transmitted
to Members.
The
Site may contain links to other Internet Web sites or resources. We neither
control nor endorse such other Web sites, nor have we reviewed any content that
appears on such other Web sites. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be
held responsible for the legality, accuracy or inappropriate nature of any
content, advertising, products, services or information located on or through
any other Web sites or for the operation or policies of any such websites, nor
for any loss or damages caused or alleged to have been caused by the use of or
reliance on any such websites or such content or other information.
We
do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury due to our
negligence.
WARNING
- PLEASE READ: It is possible that other Members or users (including
unauthorized users, or "hackers") may post or transmit offensive or
obscene materials on the Service and that you may be involuntarily exposed to
such offensive and obscene materials. It also is possible for others to obtain
personal information about you due to your use of the Service, and that the
recipient may use such information to harass or injure you. WE will do our best
to limit these situations. However, Compumatch.org nor the school will be
responsible for the use of any personal information that you may choose to
disclose on the Service. Please carefully select the type of information that
you post on the Service or release to
others.
Compumatch.org
reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the materials posted in
any area of the Service. Compumatch.org shall have the right but not the
obligation to remove any such material that violates, or is alleged to violate,
the law or this Agreement. Notwithstanding this right of Compumatch.org, you
remain solely responsible for the content of the materials you post in any area
of the Service and your private email messages. Emails sent between you and other
Members that are not readily accessible to the
general
public will be treated as private by Compumatch.org to the extent required by
applicable law and pursuant to the commercially reasonable efforts of
Compumatch.org
We
do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury due to our
negligence.
PROPRIETARY
RIGHTS. ProAce International owns and retains other proprietary rights in the
Services and the Site. The Services and the Site contain the copyrighted
material, trademarks and other proprietary information and software of ProAce
International and its licensors. In addition, other Members may post
copyrighted information, which has copyright protection whether or not it is identified
as copyrighted. Except for that information which is in the public domain or
for which you have been given permission, you will not copy, modify, publish,
transmit, distribute, perform, display or sell any such proprietary
information.
By
posting information or content to any area of Compumatch.org you automatically
grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to
Compumatch.org and other Members an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive,
fully-paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute
such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate
into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize
sublicenses of the foregoing.
INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY MEMBER. We will
respect your personal information and undertake to comply with all applicable
data protection legislation in the State of Maryland and other jurisdictions in
which we offer the Service, subject to the Privacy Policy of ProAce
International. The personal information (including sensitive personal
information) you provide to us will be stored on computer. You consent to us
using this information to build up a profile of interests, preferences and
browsing patterns and to allow you to participate in our Service. All Members
also agree to uphold and maintain our Privacy Policy and to the terms and
conditions thereof. You may read a full description of our Privacy Policy at
www.compumtach.org
DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTY. COMPUMATCH.BIZ PROVIDES THE SERVICE AND THE SITE ON AN "AS
IS" BASIS AND GRANTS NO WARRANTIES OF
ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, IN ANY COMMUNICATION WITH
COMPUMATCH OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES,
OR
OTHERWISE WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR THE SITE. COMPUMATCH, SPECIFICALLY
DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT. COMPUMATCH DOES NOT WARRANT
THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE OR THE SITE WILL BE SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED, ALWAYS
AVAILABLE OR ERROR-FREE, OR WILL MEET
YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS IN THE
SERVICE OR THE SITE WILL BE CORRECTED.
COMPUMATCH DISCLAIMS LIABILITY
FOR, AND NO WARRANTY IS MADE WITH RESPECT TO,
TELEPHONE OR OTHER SERVICE, INCLUDING COVERAGE, RANGE, OR ANY
INTERRUPTION IN TELEPHONE OR OTHER SERVICE.
LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY. IN NO EVENT WILL COMPUMATCH NOR THE SCHOOLS BE LIABLE
(i) TO YOU FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR
INDIRECT DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF DATA, LOSS
OF PROGRAMS, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OR SERVICE
INTERRUPTIONS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE OR THE
SITE, EVEN
IF
COMPUMATCH OR ITS AGENTS OR REPRESENTATIVES KNOW OR HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR
(ii)
TO ANY PERSON OTHER THAN YOU. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY CONTRARY PROVISION HEREIN BUT
SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION ON LIABILITY, IN ALL EVENTS COMPUMATCH
LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE
ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT
PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO COMPUAMTCH FOR THE
SERVICE DURING THE
TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
In addition, Compumatch.org disclaims all
liability, regardless of the form of action, for the acts or omissions of other
Members or users(including unauthorized users, or "hackers") of the
Service. Certain jurisdictions limit the applicability of warranty disclaimers
and limitations of liability so the above disclaimers of warranty and
limitations of liability may not apply to you. We do not exclude any liability
for death or personal injury due to our negligence.
COPYRIGHT
POLICY. We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our Members
to do the same. If you believe that a copy of your work is available on the
Service without your consent or that a copyright infringement has otherwise
occurred, please supply us with the
following information:
· A
description of the copyrighted work that you
Claim has been infringed;
·
Details of where the infringing material is located on the Site;
· Your address, telephone number and email
address;
· A statement by you that you believe in good
faith that the use of the work on the Site is not authorized by the copyright
owner or any person entitled to act on their behalf or by law; and
·
An affidavit executed by you that the information you provide concerning the
copyright infringed is accurate and that you are the copyright owner authorized
to act on their behalf.
Please
deliver this information to: (Compumatch.org, a company registered in Maryland
, and whose registered office in Gaithersburg, Md 20878 U.S.A)
COMPLAINTS.
To resolve a complaint regarding the Service or the Site, you should contact
Compumatch Customer Support at help@COMPUMATCH.org
TRADEMARK
NOTICES. Compumatch is the trademark of ProAce International, Ltd. All other trademarks, logos, service marks,
company or product names set forth in this Website are the property of their
respective owners.
GENERAL
PROVISIONS. This Agreement with you, set out in these Member Terms and
Conditions, is governed by Maryland and you and we submit to the non-exclusive
jurisdiction of the U.S Courts in the event of any dispute regarding these
Terms or the Service or the Site or any matter related thereto.
This
Agreement, accepted by you upon registering for the Service, contains the
entire agreement between you and Compumatch.org regarding the Service and the Site, including the Compumatch.org
Privacy Policy. In the event of any conflict between the Privacy Policy and
this Agreement, this Agreement shall control.
Unless
otherwise explicitly stated, the Terms will survive termination of your
membership to the Service. This agreement shall terminate immediately and
without notice if you breach any of the Terms, subject to the survival of
all rights and reservations of
Compumatch.org. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the
remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. The Member
certifies that the Member has read and agrees to be bound by these Compumatch.org
Member Terms and Conditions.