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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE JURIS
DIRECTORY WEB SITE (THE "WEB SITE"). BY USING THIS WEB SITE, YOU SIGNIFY THAT
YOU AGREE WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE (THESE "TERMS").
We define certain terms in these Terms and when used with initial capital
letters they have the meanings given herein. "You" and "Your" refer to you, the
user. "We", "Us", and "Our" refer to JurisMate LLC, a Nevada limited liability
company, the owner of www.jurisdir.com.
1. ELIGIBILITY AND ACCOUNTS. To register for a user account (an "Account"), go
to the Web Site and provide the requested information. By registering, You
represent and warrant that (a) You are eligible for an Account as set forth in
this Agreement; and (b) the information you include as part of the registration
process is accurate and not misleading. Accounts may be obtained and used only
by (x) individual, independent professionals who are eighteen (18) years or
older and are seeking legal employment, career information and related services
("Consultants"); and (y) individuals with the right and authority to act on
behalf of an organization or entity for purposes of locating independent
professionals for available contract positions ("Attorneys/Firms"). You may not
obtain or use an Account under any other circumstances. Upon obtaining an
Account, You shall have access to the services and the functionality that We
may establish and maintain from time to time and in our sole discretion. We may
add, delete or change some or all of the services provided for free as part of
the Account at any time. You will be notified of any charges and given the
option to continue use or to terminate Your Account. You agree that We may
charge for certain features of Your Account and/or additional premium services
offered in the future and that You will be responsible for all charges
(including tax) for using such additional services if you choose to continue
use. You are responsible for paying all applicable taxes and for all hardware,
software, service and any other costs that You incur to access your Account.
You may not transfer or share your Account with anyone. You may not disclose
your password to any third parties. Each participating employee of an
Attorney/Firm must have a separate Account.
2. ACCOUNT RESTRICTIONS. You agree to use Your Account for your personal use
only, and not to redistribute any of the content on this Web Site. Accounts may
not be used to post full-time positions. You agree to comply with all
applicable laws regarding use or access of Your Account. Any use of an Account
(a) to post false job postings; (b) to post job postings that in our sole
discretion are inappropriate to our audience (including, but not limited to,
(i) full-time jobs, (ii) home-based commission sales opportunities, or (iii)
obscene, libelous, slanderous or similarly inappropriate postings); or (c) for
the sole purpose of gathering candidates for further recruiting purposes are
grounds for immediate termination of an Account. The Web Site contains robot
exclusion headers and you agree not to use any robot, spider, automated
collection mechanism, or any manual process to monitor or copy the web pages
comprising the Web Site or the content contained therein without our prior
written permission. You may not distribute unsolicited commercial messages
("spam") through Your Account or take any other action that imposes an
unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Our infrastructure. At Our
option and without further notice, We (or our suppliers) may use anti-spam
technologies that may terminate Your messages without delivering them or
prevent messages from reaching You. We expect all of our Consultants and
Attorneys/Firms to conduct themselves in a courteous, professional manner at
all times. Personal attacks, "flaming", and other forms of discourteous and
unprofessional online conduct are grounds for the immediate suspension or
termination of the offending party箂 Account, in Our sole discretion.
3. CONTENT ON THIS WEB SITE. This Web Site provides unfiltered access to third
party content. You understand and agree that We are only acting as a venue and
that We have no liability related to the third-party content on this Web Site,
whether arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or
otherwise. We cannot, nor do We undertake any obligation to, control the
content that You receive. By its very nature, the information on this Web Site
is changed frequently, may be offensive, harmful, or inaccurate and in some
cases may be mislabeled or deceptively labeled. We do not make any
representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, timeliness,
or completeness of such information, nor do We undertake to verify, update or
correct such information. We recommend that You confirm all information you
obtain from this Web Site. We also do not make any representation or warranty,
express or implied, regarding any Job Posting, any individual or organization
providing a Job Posting, any Consultant Profiles, or any Consultants posting
Consultant Profiles. You agree that any agreement between you and such
individual or organization shall be solely on the terms negotiated by you and
the other entity and shall be done at your own risk. We expect that You will
use caution and common sense when using this Web Site and Your Account.
4. YOUR CONTENT. You are solely responsible for content or any other
information You provide, distribute, post, include, link to, or otherwise
upload to the Web Site ("Your Content"), and You agree that We are only acting
as a passive conduit for Your online distribution and publication of Your
Content. We reserve the right (but not the obligation) to take any action with
respect to Your Content if we believe that it may create liability for Us or
may cause Us to lose the services of Our ISPs or other suppliers. You represent
and warrant that Your Content and any content you request to receive (directly
or indirectly): (a) shall not infringe any copyright, patent, trademark, trade
secret, or other proprietary right or right of publicity or privacy; (b) shall
not violate any law or regulation; (c) shall not be defamatory or trade
libelous; (d) shall not be obscene or contain child pornography; (e) shall not
include incomplete, false or inaccurate information about Yourself or any
information about any other individual; and (f) shall not contain any viruses,
trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming
routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with,
surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal
information. By submitting Your Content to this Web Site (including, but not
limited to creating an Account and Consultant Profile, sending messages through
the Web Site, posting messages to message boards, forums, and chat rooms, and
entering contest information), You hereby grant to Us a worldwide, perpetual,
irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licenseable (through multiple tiers) license to
use, copy, modify, display, and perform Your Content or in any email that you
voluntarily provide to us through this Web Site, under all Your intellectual
property or proprietary rights worldwide. However, providing links to content
hosted on servers other than Our own (such as a portfolio of prior work hosted
on Your own web site) shall not be considered "submitting" content for purposes
of the immediately foregoing license grant.
5. PRIVACY. Your privacy is very important to Us. By accepting this Agreement,
You expressly consent to certain disclosures of Your Personal Information (as
defined in Our then-current privacy policy) to Consultants, Attorneys/Firms and
third parties, and to use of Your information by Us, Consultants,
Attorneys/Firms, and third parties, as described in our then-current privacy
policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.
6. PURCHASES. From time to time, We may offer certain goods and services for
purchase by You on this Web Site. Your purchase of any such goods or services
will be governed by additional terms and conditions of purchase ("Purchase
Terms"), which shall be incorporated by reference into this Agreement. In the
event of a conflict or inconsistency between the terms and conditions contained
in this document and any Purchase Terms, the Purchase Terms will govern. The
applicable Purchase Terms for any purchase by You will be displayed to you or
made accessible by a hyperlink, at or about the time that You agree to make
such purchase.
7.LINKING. Links to Third-Parties on Our Site. We neither control nor review
the Web Sites that We link to from this Web Site. Therefore, We cannot endorse
the content, products, services or the performance of the Web Sites We link to
from this Web Site, and You should not treat any link as such endorsement. You
agree that any services, products, or content provided to you through a web
page or service to which we link will be provided solely on the terms between
You and such third party and shall be entered into at Your own risk.
Links to Our Site. We grant You full permission to link to our Web Site using a
text link, but not to frame Our Web Site or use any of Our trademarks or logos
without Our prior written permission. However, We do not pay referral fees for
such links unless You enter into a separate affiliate partnership with Us.
8. FEEDBACK. We will treat any feedback or suggestions You provide to Us as
non-confidential and non-proprietary. Thus, please do not submit confidential
or proprietary information to Us unless We have mutually agreed in writing
otherwise. We are also unable to accept Your unsolicited ideas or proposals, so
please do not submit them to Us in any circumstance.
9. OWNERSHIP. You should assume that everything hosted on this Web Site is the
valuable intellectual property of Us and Our suppliers. All rights to Our
content, software, services, and server information are reserved. All
reproduction in whole or in part of the texts or illustrations on this Web
Site, by any means whatsoever and without Our prior written consent, is
prohibited.
10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. ALL SERVICES, PRODUCTS AND INFORMATION ON THIS WEB
SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS." WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY
KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
WE DO NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT AND MAKE
NO WARRANTY AS TO THE OPERATION, FUNCTIONALITY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE WEB
SITE, OR THAT THE WEB SITE OR MATERIALS OR CONTENT PROVIDED WILL BE ERROR-FREE,
OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. 11. INDEMNIFICATION. You agree to indemnify
and hold Us, Our customers and business partners harmless from all damages and
costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of or related to Your
breach of this Agreement.
12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. IN NO EVENT WILL WE AND/OR OUR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE
TO YOU FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST DATA AND LOST PROFITS, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO
THESE TERMS OR OUR WEB SITE, EVEN IF WE AND/OR OUR SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR (AND OUR SUPPLIERS') TOTAL CUMULATIVE
LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR OUR WEB SITE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT
OR TORT OR OTHERWISE, WILL NOT EXCEED THE HIGHER OF THE AMOUNT PAID TO US BY
YOU IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY OR $100. SOME
STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
13. TERMINATION. We may terminate Your Account immediately if You breach this
Agreement, if You infringe third party intellectual property rights, or if We
are unable to authenticate any information you provide to us. Alternatively, We
may choose to remove some or all of Your Content or make Your Content private,
in which case Your Content will not be publicly displayed (although You will be
able to view it). In no event shall any refunds be paid. Following termination
of Your Account, We may remove some or all of Your content from Our servers or
elect to retain it, at Our sole option. Sections 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
15, 16 and any payment obligations incurred prior to termination of this
Agreement, shall survive such termination.
14. AMENDMENT. We may amend this Agreement by posting the amended version on
the Web Site and making this Agreement available via a link from Our home page.
You agree that Your continued use of this Web Site after such amendment shall
signify Your acceptance of any such amendment. Otherwise, this Agreement may
not be amended except in a writing signed by both parties.
15. GENERAL. This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of
the State of Kentucky as such laws are applied to agreements entered into by
Kentucky residents to be performed entirely within Kentucky. Any action or
proceeding arising from or relating to this Agreement must be brought in a
federal court in the Kentucky, or in a state court in Fayette County, Kentucky,
and You irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction and venue of any such court in
any such action or proceeding. You and JurisDir.com, are independent
contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or
franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement. If
any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such
provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Our
failure to act with respect to a breach by You does not waive our right to act
with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. We shall not be liable for any
delay or failure to perform resulting directly or indirectly from any causes
beyond our reasonable control. Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any
notices shall be given by certified mail, postage prepaid and return receipt
requested, to the address provided below (in Your case) or to the address You
provide to Us during the registration process (in Your case), or such other
address as the parties may specify. Notice shall be deemed given 3 days after
the date of mailing. You may not assign this Agreement to any third party, and
any purported attempt to do so shall be null and void. We may freely assign
this Agreement. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and
agreement between You and Us with respect to the subject matter hereof.
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