Terms & Conditions
1. Acceptance of the Terms of Use. These
terms of use are entered into by and between You and HEAVY ATTACH
("Company", "we" or "us"). The following terms
and conditions (“Terms of Use"), govern your access to and use of www.heavyattach.com
(the "Site"), including any content, functionality and services
offered on or through the Site. Please read the Terms of Use carefully before
you start to use the Site. By using the Site, you accept and agree to be bound
and abide by these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and User Agreement – Terms
of Service. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy,
you must not access or use the Site. This Site is offered and available to
users who are 18 years of age or older. By using this Site, you represent and
warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with the Company
and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all
of these requirements, you must not access or use the Site.
2. Changes to the Terms of Use. We may
revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion.
All changes are effective immediately when we post them. Your continued use of
the Site following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept
and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page from time to time
so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.
3. Use of Site for Intended Purposes
Only. We make the Site and Services available for Customers and Skilled Workers
to connect and enter into Service Contracts. Users of the Site are expected to
use the Site and Services for their intended purposes and not for any other
purposes. The following are not permitted use of the Site:
· Any arrangement for free
services, including requesting Skilled Workers to submit work as part of the
proposal process for very little or no money or posting contests in which
Skilled Workers submit work with no or very little pay;
· Requesting a fee before
allowing another User to submit a proposal;
· Posting more than one
version of an active job;
· Withholding payment or
work product or engaging in any other conduct for the purpose of obtaining
positive feedback from another User;
· Any attempt to,
manipulate, or coerce another User by threatening to give negative feedback;
· Using the Site to express
views unrelated to the work, such as political, religious, or social
commentary;
· Duplicating or sharing
accounts;
· Selling, trading, or
giving an account to another person without our consent;
· Sharing or soliciting
contact information such as email, phone number, or Skype ID in a profile or
job post;
· Advertising products or
services that are outside or beyond the scope of services offered by through
the Site; and
· Advertising on the Site to
recruit Skilled Workers to join an agency or another website or company.
· Posting, distributing and
circulating any videos, photos, documents or other information that is not
publically available regarding the intellectual property rights, including
without limitations patents, trademarks and copyrights, or other proprietary
information, including sales, design, or other business information of any
other User that becomes available to you as a result of your use of the Site or
interaction with such other User.
· Users may use payment
processing services outside of the Site; however, only Users who elect to use
payment processing services offered through the Site will be eligible for our
Commitment Pledge.
4. Misleading Content Prohibited. All
profiles, jobs, proposals, and other content posted to the Site must be accurate.
Misleading information is strictly prohibited and includes (a) misrepresenting
a Skilled Worker’s experience, skills, or information (b) impersonating any
person or entity or falsely stating or otherwise misrepresenting your
affiliation with a person or entity; (c) falsely attributing statements to any
person; (d) allowing another person to use your account, which is misleading to
other Users; (e) falsely stating or implying a relationship with us or with
another company with whom you do not have a relationship; (f) falsely stating
or implying a relationship with another User; and (g) falsely stating that one
Skilled Worker will perform the work on a job when another will in fact perform
the work, including submitting a proposal on behalf of a Skilled Worker that is
unable, unwilling, or unavailable to do the work.
5. Accessing the Site and Account
Security. We reserve the right to withdraw or amend this Site, and any service
or material we provide on the Site, in our sole discretion without notice. We
will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Site is unavailable
at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to
some parts of the Site, or the entire Site, to users, including registered
users. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to
have access to the Site and ensuring that all persons who access the Site
through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and comply
with them. To access the Site or some of the resources it offers, you may be
asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a
condition of your use of the Site that all the information you provide on the
Site is correct, current and complete. You agree that all information you provide
to register with this Site or otherwise, including but not limited to through
the use of any interactive features on the Site, is governed by our Privacy
Policy, and you consent to all actions we take with respect to your information
consistent with our Privacy Policy. If you choose, or are provided with, a user
name, password or any other piece of information as part of our security
procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not
disclose it to any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your
account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person with
access to this Site or portions of it using your user name, password or other
security information. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized
access to or use of your user name or password or any other breach of security.
You also agree to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each
session. You should use particular caution when accessing your account from a
public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your
password or other personal information. We have the right to disable any user
name, password or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at
any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including if, in our
opinion, you have violated any provision of these Terms of Use.
6. Intellectual Property Rights. The Site
and its entire contents features and functionality (including but not limited
to all information, software, text, displays, images, video and audio, and the
design, selection and arrangement thereof), are owned by the Company, its
licensors or other providers of such material and are protected by United
States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other
intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. You must not reproduce,
distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly
perform, republish, download, store or transmit any of the material on our
Site, except as follows: (a) Records of transactions facilitated via the Site;
(b) Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM
incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials; (c) You may store
files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement
purposes; (d) If we provide desktop, mobile or other applications for download,
you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device solely for
your, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement for such
applications. You must not (a) modify copies of any materials from this site;
(b) use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any
graphics from the Site not posted by you; (c) delete or alter any copyright,
trademark or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from the
Site; (d) access or use for any commercial purposes any part of the Site or any
services or materials available through the Site, excepting the intended
Service provided by the Site. If you print, copy, modify, download or otherwise
use or provide any other person with access to any part of the Site in breach
of the Terms of Use, your right to use the Site will cease immediately and you
must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have
made. No right, title or interest in or to the Site or any content on the Site
is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by the
Company. Any use of the Site not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a
breach of these Terms of Use and may violate copyright, trademark and other
laws.
7. Trademarks. The Company name and all
related names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans are
trademarks of the Company or its affiliates or licensors. You must not use such
marks without the prior written permission of the Company. All other names,
logos, product and service names, designs and slogans on this Site are the
trademarks of their respective owners.
8. Prohibited Uses. You may use the Site
only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You agree
not to use the Site to:
· violate any applicable
federal, state, local or international law or regulation (including, without
limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the
US or other countries);
· Transmit, or procure the
sending of, any advertising or promotional material, including any "junk
mail", "chain letter" or "spam" or any other similar
solicitation;
· Impersonate or attempt to
impersonate the Company, a Company employee, another user or any other person
or entity (including, without limitation, by using e-mail addresses associated
with any of the foregoing);
· Engage in any other conduct that
restricts or inhibits anyone's use or enjoyment of the Site, or which, as
determined by us, may harm the Company or users of the Site or expose them to
liability;
· Use any robot, spider or other
automatic device, process or means to access the Site for any purpose,
including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Site;
· Use any manual process to monitor
or copy any of the material on the Site or for any other unauthorized purpose
without our prior written consent;
· Attempt to gain unauthorized
access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt any parts of the Site, the server
on which the Site is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to
the Site;
· Attack the Site via a
denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack;
· Seek, offer, or endorse illegal,
obscene, or pornographic services or activities, including services (i) that
would violate the intellectual property rights, including copyrights, of
another person, entity, service, product, or website or (ii) that would involve
the creation, review, or editing of pornographic, erotic, obscene, or sexually
explicit material;
· Post content that is offensive,
defamatory, profane, vulgar, obscene, threatening, discriminatory, illegal,
pornographic, obscene or sexually explicit in nature;
· Seek, offer, or endorse any
services that would violate our Terms of Service or the terms of service of
another website or any other contractual obligations;
· Fraudulently billing or
attempting to fraudulently bill any Customer, including by (i) falsifying or manipulating
or attempting to falsify or manipulate the records regarding any Services
provided to or obtained from the Site, (ii) reporting, recording, or otherwise
billing Customers for time that was not actually worked, or (iii) reporting,
recording, or otherwise billing hours worked by another person as hours worked
by you in a way that is misleading or false;
· Express a preference in a job
post or proposal or otherwise unlawfully discriminating on the basis of race,
religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability,
medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender
identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military/veteran status
or any basis protected by applicable law;
· Post content that is harassing
towards another person or violates the rights of a third party;
· Post identifying information
concerning another person;
· Make or demand bribes;
· Make or demand payments without
the intention of providing or receiving services in exchange for the payment;
· Engaging in any conduct that is
reasonably likely to or that is intended to harm the Site, including (i)
imposing an unreasonable or disproportionately large load (in our sole
discretion) on the Site’s infrastructure; (ii) interfering or attempting to
interfere with the proper operation of the Site or Site Services or any
activities conducted on the Site; (iii) bypassing any measures we may use to
prevent or restrict access to the Site or any subparts of the Site, including,
without limitation, features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any
content or enforce limitations on use of the Site or the content therein; or
(iv) attempting to interfere with or compromise the system integrity or
security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Site.
9. User Contributions. The Site may
contain message boards, chat rooms, personal web pages or profiles, forums,
bulletin boards, and other interactive features (collectively,
"Interactive Services") that allow users to post, submit, publish,
display or transmit to other users or other persons (hereinafter,
"post") content or materials (collectively, "User
Contributions") on or through the Site. All User Contributions must comply
with the Content Standards set out in these Terms of Use. Any User Contribution
you post to the site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.
By providing any User Contribution on the Site, you grant us and our affiliates
and service providers, and each of their and our licensees, successors and
assigns the right to use, reproduce, modify, perform, display, distribute and
otherwise disclose to third parties any such material [for any
purpose/according to your account settings. You represent and warrant that: (a)
You own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the
right to grant the license granted above to us and our affiliates and service
providers, and each of their and our licensees, successors and assigns, and all
of your User Contributions do and will comply with these Terms of Use. You
understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions
you submit or contribute, and you, not the Company, have fully responsibility
for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy and
appropriateness. We are not responsible, or liable to any third party, for the
content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other user
of the Site.
10. Monitoring and Enforcement;
Termination. We have the right to:
· Remove or refuse to post any User
Contributions for any or no reason in our sole discretion.
· Take any action with respect to
any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole
discretion, including if we believe that such User Contribution violates the
Terms of Use, including the Content Standards, infringes any intellectual
property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal
safety of users of the Site or the public or could create liability for the
Company.
· Disclose your identity or other
information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you
violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their
right to privacy.
· Take appropriate legal action,
including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or
unauthorized use of the Site.
· Terminate or suspend your access
to all or part of the Site for any violation of these Terms of Use.
· Without limiting the foregoing,
we have the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or
court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other
information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Site. YOU WAIVE
AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSEES AND SERVICE
PROVIDERS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMPANY DURING
OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A
CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER THE COMPANY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT
AUTHORITIES. However, we do not undertake to review all material before it is
posted on the Site and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material
after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or
inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by any
user or third party. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for
performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this section.
11. Content Standards. These content
standards apply to any and all User Contributions and use of Interactive
Services. User Contributions must in their entirety comply with all applicable
federal, state, local and international laws and regulations. Without limiting
the foregoing, User Contributions must not:
· Contain any material which is
defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful,
inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.
· Promote discrimination based on
race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
· Infringe any patent, trademark,
trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property or other rights of any
other person.
· Violate the legal rights
(including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any
material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under
applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these
Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy.
· Be likely to deceive any person.
· Promote any illegal activity, or
advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act.
· Cause annoyance, inconvenience or
needless anxiety or be likely to upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other
person.
· Impersonate any person or
misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization.
· Involve commercial activities or
sales, such as contests, sweepstakes and other sales promotions, barter or
advertising.
· Give the impression that they
emanate from or are endorsed by us or any other person or entity if this is not
the case.
12. Reliance on Information Posted. The
information presented on or through the Site is made available solely for
general information purposes and information posted by Site Users, including
Skilled Workers and Customers, are the sole responsibility of such Users. We do
not warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of this information. Any
reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We
disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on
such materials by any User or other visitor to the Site. This Site includes
content provided by third parties, including materials provided by its Users.
All statements and/or opinions expressed in these materials, and all articles
and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided
by the Company, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or
entity providing those materials. These materials do not necessarily reflect
the opinion of the Company. We are not responsible, or liable to you or any third
party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third
parties.
13. Changes to the Site. We may update
the content on this Site from time to time, but its content is not necessarily
complete or up-to-date. Any of the material on the Site may be out of date at
any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material. Prices
are subject to change at any given time, and without notice. Some sizes may be
approximate; if you require an exact size, please inquire with Customer Service
directly.
14. Information About You and Your Visits
to the Site. All information we collect on this Site is subject to our Privacy
Policy. By using the Site, you consent to all actions taken by us with respect
to your information in compliance with the Privacy Policy.
15. Online Transactions and Other Terms
and Conditions. All purchases through our site or other transactions for the
sale of services through the Site or as a result of visits made by you are
governed by our User Agreement - Terms of Service, which are hereby
incorporated into these Terms of Use. Additional terms and conditions may also
apply to specific portions, services or features of the Site. All such
additional terms and conditions are hereby incorporated by this reference into
these Terms of Use.
16. Links from the Site. If the Site
contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these
links are provided for your convenience only. This includes links contained in
advertisements, including banner advertisements and sponsored links. We have no
control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no
responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use
of them. If you decide to access any of the third party Sites linked to this
Site, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and
conditions of use for such Sites.
17. Geographic Restrictions. The owner of
the Site is based in the state of California in the United States. We provide
this Site for use only by persons located in the United States. We make no
claims that the Site or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside
of the United States. Access to the Site may not be legal by certain persons or
in certain countries. If you access the Site from outside the United States,
you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local
laws.
18. User Contribution License. When you
post User Contribution on the Site or through the Site Services or provide HEAVY
ATTACH with User Contribution, you represent and warrant that you have the
right, power, and authority to post that User Contribution and grant the
licenses specified below. You further represent and warrant that by posting or
providing such User Contribution you will not violate third party rights of any
kind, including, without limitation, any Intellectual Property Rights, rights
of publicity, and privacy rights. To the extent your User Contribution may be
copyrightable, you represent, warrant, and covenant that you are the owner of
all the copyright rights to such User Contribution and that HEAVY ATTACH may
exercise the rights to your User Contribution granted under the Terms of
Service without any liability or obligation for any payment. You retain all
ownership rights in any User Contribution you post on HEAVY ATTACH. To the
extent permitted by applicable law, you also grant to HEAVY ATTACH and our
successors and Affiliates a royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable,
perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce,
modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute,
publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such User
Contribution and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User
Contribution, in whole or in part, and in any form, media, or technology,
whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Site
and HEAVY ATTACH’s (and our successors’ and Affiliates’) business, including,
without limitation, for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Site
(and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media
channels. You also hereby grant each User a non-exclusive license to access
your User Contribution through the Site and to use, reproduce, distribute,
display, and perform such User Contribution to the extent permitted through the
normal functionality of the Site and subject to all applicable confidentiality
and other provisions of this Agreement, our Privacy Policy, and applicable law.
The licenses to User Contribution granted by you in this Agreement will
terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your
User Contribution from the Site, except that you grant HEAVY ATTACH and our
successors and Affiliates the irrevocable and perpetual license to retain and
use, but not publicly display or distribute, server or archival copies of all
User Contribution that you have removed or deleted to the extent permitted by
applicable law. You may submit comments or ideas about the Site and Site
Services, including without limitation about how to improve the Site or Site
Services (collectively, “Ideas”). By submitting any Ideas, you agree that: (a)
your disclosure is voluntary, gratuitous, unsolicited, and without restriction
and will not place HEAVY ATTACH under any fiduciary or other obligation, (b)
your Ideas do not contain the confidential or proprietary information of third
parties, and (c) we are free to use the Ideas without any additional
compensation to you and to disclose the Ideas on a non-confidential basis or
otherwise to anyone. You further acknowledge and agree that, by acceptance of
your submission, HEAVY ATTACH does not waive any rights to use similar or
related ideas known or developed by HEAVY ATTACH or obtained from sources other
than you.
19. Disclaimer of Warranties. You
understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available
for downloading from the internet or the site will be free of viruses or other
destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures
and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus
protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means
external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data. We will not be
liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack,
viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer
equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your
use of the site or any services or items obtained through the site or to your
downloading of any material posted on it, or on any site linked to it. Your use
of the site, its content and any services or items obtained through the site is
at your own risk. The site, its content and any services or items obtained
through the site are provided on an "as is" and "as
available" basis, without any warranties of any kind, either express or
implied. Neither the company nor any person associated with the company makes
any warranty or representation with respect to the completeness, security,
reliability, quality, accuracy or availability of the site. Without limiting
the foregoing, neither the company nor anyone associated with the company
represents or warrants that the site, its content or any services or items
obtained through the site will be accurate, reliable, error-free or
uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, that our site or the server that
makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components or that the
site or any services or items obtained through the site will otherwise meet
your needs or expectations. The company hereby disclaims all warranties of any
kind, whether express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including but not
limited to any warranties of merchantability, non-infringement and fitness for
particular purpose. The foregoing does not affect any warranties which cannot
be excluded or limited under applicable law.
20. Limitation on Liability. In no event
will the company, its affiliates or their licensors, service providers,
employees, agents, officers or directors be liable for damages of any kind,
under any legal theory, arising out of or in connection with your use, or
inability to use, the site, any sites linked to it, any content on the site or
such other sites or any services or items obtained through the site or such
other sites, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential
or punitive damages, including but not limited to, personal injury, pain and
suffering, emotional distress, loss of revenue, loss of profits, loss of
business or anticipated savings, loss of use, loss of goodwill, loss of data,
and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or
otherwise, even if foreseeable. The foregoing does not affect any liability
which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
21. Indemnification. You agree to defend,
indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, licensors and service
providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors,
agents, licensors, suppliers, successors and assigns from and against any
claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses or
fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your
violation of these Terms of Use or your use of the Site, including, but not
limited to, your User Contributions, any use of the Site's content, services
and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use or your
use of any information obtained from the Site.
22. Governing Law and Jurisdiction. All
matters relating to the Site and these Terms of Use and any dispute or claim
arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual
disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
internal laws of the State of California without giving effect to any choice or
conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of California or any
other jurisdiction). Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of, or
related to, these Terms of Use or the Site shall be instituted exclusively in
the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of
California [in each case located in the City of Los Angeles and County of Los
Angeles although we retain the right to bring any suit, action or proceeding
against you for breach of these Terms of Use in your country of residence or
any other relevant country. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of
jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.
23. Arbitration. At Company's sole
discretion, it may require You to submit any disputes arising from the use of
these Terms of Use or the Site, including disputes arising from or concerning
their interpretation, violation, invalidity, non-performance, or termination,
to final and binding arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration of the American
Arbitration Association applying California law.
24. Limitation on Time to File Claims. Any
cause of action or claim you may have arising out of or relating to these terms
of use or the site must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of
action accrues, otherwise, such cause of action or claim is permanently barred.
25. Waiver and Severability. No waiver of
by the Company of any term or condition set forth in these Terms of Use shall
be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver
of any other term or condition, and any failure of the Company to assert a
right or provision under these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of
such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a
court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to
the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use will
continue in full force and effect.
26. Entire Agreement. The Terms of Use,
our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and other published policies constitute
the sole and entire agreement between you and HEAVY ATTACH, with respect to the
Site and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements,
representations and warranties, both written and oral, with respect to the
Site.
27. Your Comments and Concerns. This Site
is operated by HEAVY ATTACH, all feedback, comments, requests for technical
support and other communications relating to the Site should be directed
toInfo@heavyattach.com and/or 17785 center court drive, suite 300 Cerritos, California
90703
28. Enforcement of Terms and Reporting
Violations. We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to investigate any
violation of these Terms and may, in our sole discretion, remove, disable
access to, or modify any content that violates these Terms and/or suspend the
account of any User who may be violating these Terms. We may report any
activity that we suspect violates any law or regulation to appropriate law
enforcement officials, regulators, or other appropriate third parties,
including disclosing User information. We also may cooperate with appropriate
law enforcement agencies, regulators, or other appropriate third parties to
help with the investigation and prosecution of illegal conduct by providing
network and systems information related to alleged violations of these Terms.
If you become aware of any violation of these Terms, you must immediately
report it to Customer Service. You agree to assist us with any investigation we
undertake and to take any remedial steps we require in order to correct a
violation of these Terms.
29. Digital Signature and Electronic
Records. By registering for an account on the Site (an “Account”), you
are deemed to have executed this Agreement and the other Terms of Service electronically,
effective on the date you register your Account or click to accept the Terms of
Service, pursuant to the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National
Commerce Act (the E-Sign Act) (15 U.S.C. § 7001, et seq.). Your Account
registration constitutes an acknowledgement that you are able to electronically
receive, download, and print this Agreement, the other Terms of Service, and
any amendments. In connection with the Terms of Service, you may be entitled to
receive certain records from us, such as contracts, notices, and
communications, in writing. To facilitate your use of the Site and the Site
Services, you give us permission to provide these records to you electronically
instead of in paper form However, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion,
to communicate with you via the U.S. Postal Service and other third party mail
services using the address under which your account is registered. Your consent
to receive records and notices electronically will remain in effect until you
withdraw it. You may withdraw your consent to receive further records and
notices electronically at any time by contacting Customer Support. If you
withdraw your consent to receive such records and notices electronically, we
will revoke your access to the Site and the Site Services, and you will no
longer be permitted to use the Site or the Site Services. Any withdrawal of
your consent to receive records and notices electronically will be effective
only after we have a reasonable period of time to process your request for
withdrawal. Please note that your withdrawal of consent to receive records and
notices electronically will not apply to records and notices electronically
provided by us to you before the withdrawal of your consent becomes effective.
In order to ensure that we are able to provide records and notices to you
electronically, you agree to notify us immediately of any change in your email
address by updating your Account information on the Site or by contacting
Customer Support. In addition, so that we may communicate with you via the U.S.
Postal Service and other third party mail services, you agree to notify us
immediately of any change in your address. To access and retain the records and
notices we provide to you electronically, you will need: (a) a valid email
address; (b) a computer system that operates on a platform like Windows or Mac;
(c) a connection to the Internet; (d) Current Versions of the software,
browsers, plug-ins, or other computer applications and programs identified on
the Site (Users utilizing other browsers may experience compatibility
difficulties); (e) a Current Version of a program that accurately reads and
displays PDF files, such as the Current Version of Adobe Acrobat Reader; (f) a
computer or device and an operating system capable of supporting all of the
above; and (g) a printer to print out and retain records and notices in paper
form or electronic storage to retain records and notices in an electronic form.
By “Current Version”, we mean a version of the software that is currently being
supported by its publisher. We may change these requirements from time to time
and will update this Agreement accordingly. You should retain a copy of all of
the records and notices we send to you electronically. By accepting and
agreeing to this Agreement and the other Terms of Service electronically, you
represent that (x) you have read and understand the above consent to receive
records and notices electronically; (y) you satisfy the minimum hardware and
software requirements specified above; and (z) your consent will remain in
effect until you withdraw your consent as specified above.