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Terms of Use, Legal Notice, Disclaimer
Effective December 5, 2005
1. Agreement
This is an agreement (hereafter "Agreement") between you and
all persons you represent (and for purposes of this Agreement,
"person" includes natural persons and any type of incorporated or
unincorporated entity) and Pacific Marketing Services or its owners or parent
companies, where applicable (hereafter "Pacific Marketing Services"). This
Agreement governs your use of any Web site or Web page operated by Pacific Marketing Services (hereafter
the "Site"). You represent that you are at least 18 years of
age and have attained the age of majority in the province, state or country in
which you reside, and any information that you submit is correct.
Pacific Marketing Services offers the information, products and services on its Site to you
on an "AS IS," "WHERE IS" and "WHERE
AVAILABLE" basis and conditioned on your acceptance without
modification of this agreement. Your use of the Site constitutes
your acceptance of this Agreement. This Agreement contains disclaimers
of warranties and liability. If you do not agree with any part of
this Agreement, or if you have any other dispute or claim with or against Pacific Marketing Services, its
owners, agents, employees, officers, directors, representatives, assigns, affiliated
organizations, Insurers, or others acting on its behalf
(hereinafter, collectively referred to as "Associates"), then
your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Site. In
the event that remedy fails its essential purpose or is otherwise deemed
unenforceable, the liability limitations contained in the disclaimers of
warranty and liability below shall apply without regard to whether the damages
arise from (1) Breach of Contract, (2) Breach of Warranty, (3) Negligence,
or (4) any other cause of action, to the extent such limitations are not
prohibited by applicable law.
2. Additional Terms
Additional terms may appear on the Site (for example, codes of conduct or
guidelines) that further govern use of the Site, including without limitation,
particular features or offers (for example auctions, classified ads, sweepstakes).
If any terms contained in this Agreement conflict with any terms contained
elsewhere on the Site, then the terms in this Agreement shall control.
3. Future Modifications To This Agreement
Pacific Marketing Services reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and
notices under which we offer the Site, including any changes associated with the
use of the Site. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms,
conditions and notices, and any additional terms posted on the Site. Your
continued use of the Site after the effective date of such changes
constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to such changes.
4. Termination; Access Restriction
Pacific Marketing Services may terminate this Agreement, or terminate or suspend your
access to the Site at any time, with or without cause, with or without
notice. Upon such termination or suspension, your right to use the Site will
immediately cease and you may not later retrieve any information you have stored
on the Site.
Pacific Marketing Services reserves the right, in its sole discretion, without any
obligation and without any notice requirement, to change, improve or correct the
information, materials and descriptions on the Site and to suspend and/or
deny access to the Site for scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, upgrades,
improvements or corrections.
Paragraphs 7, 10, 14 and 15 of this Agreement shall survive any
termination of the Agreement.
5. Copyright
The materials contained on the Site are protected under applicable
copyright and other proprietary rights. Nothing in this Agreement
constitutes a waiver of Pacific Marketing Services rights under United States copyright law. You
may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of,
create derivative works of, on in any way exploit, in whole or in part, any
Proprietary or other Material.
Trademarks used on the Site to describe firms and their products are
trademarks of those firms or the registered proprietor of the trademark.
6. Information Policy
Although the information on the Site (hereafter "Information")
is presented in good faith and believed to be correct, Pacific Marketing Services makes no
representations or warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of the
Information.
The Information, including quotes, data and other information, is
provided by Pacific Marketing Services for your personal non-commercial research purposes only, and
is not intended for trading purposes. The Information is not appropriate
for the purposes of making a decision to carry out a transaction or trade. Nor
does it provide any form of advice amounting to investment, tax, or legal advice,
or make any recommendations regarding particular financial instruments,
investments or products. Investors should seek professional financial advice regarding the appropriateness of investing in any securities or investment strategies referred to on this Site and should understand that statements regarding future prospects may not be realized.
The Information may contain references or cross references to products,
programs and services that are not announced or available in your region or
country. You should not assume such references express an intention
to announce such products, programs or services in your region or country.
The Information is supplied upon the condition that the persons receiving it
will make their own determination as to its suitability for their purposes prior
to use. You should confirm all Information before making any decisions
based upon it. In no event will Pacific Marketing Services be responsible for damages of
any nature whatsoever resulting from the use of or reliance upon the Information
or the product to which the Information may refer.
Pacific Marketing Services makes no commitment to update, replace or correct any Information
that appears on the Internet or the Site.
7. Terms & Conditions For Postings; Indemnification
Pacific Marketing Services reserves the right to monitor all your Postings and to remove any
which it considers to be offensive or otherwise in breach of these terms
and conditions.
You hereby represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights in and to
all Postings you provide and all material they contain; that your Postings shall
not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties; that your
Postings shall not contain any viruses or other devices of a contaminating or
destructive nature; that your Postings shall not contain any Content
that is invasive of another's privacy, threatening, abusive, harassing,
defamatory, indecent, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or
otherwise objectionable, libelous, tortious, or otherwise unlawful; and that
your Postings shall not be used to carry out or solicit any unlawful activity.
You agree to indemnify and hold Pacific Marketing Services and its Associates harmless
from all claims, charges, demands, damages, losses, expenses, and liabilities of
whatever nature and howsoever arising (including but not limited to any legal or
other professional fees and the costs of defending or prosecuting any claim and
any loss of profit, goodwill, and any other direct or consequential loss)
incurred or suffered by Pacific Marketing Services directly or indirectly by reason of any
act or omission which you commit in breach of this Agreement.
8. User's Grant Of Limited License
By posting or submitting content to any areas of the Site, you
automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly
granted) Pacific Marketing Services and its Associates the royalty-free perpetual, irrevocable,
non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt,
modify, publish, translate, sublicense, copy, distribute, have distributed, and
promote the content in whole or in part worldwide and/or to incorporate it in
other works in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed
for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such content; and warrant
and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content
and that public posting and use of your content by Pacific Marketing Services and/or its
Associates will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party. You also
permit any other User of the Site to access, store, or reproduce the content for
that User's personal use. You also grant to Pacific Marketing Services and its Associates
the right to use your name in connection with the content as well as in
connection with all advertising, marketing and promotional material related
thereto.
9. Communications With Us; Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy
Pacific Marketing Services welcomes your comments and questions regarding the Site, our
products and services. We value your feedback, but we request that you be
specific in your comments on the Site, our products and services, and not
submit any suggestions, creative ideas, original creative artwork or other works
or materials, including ideas for new advertising campaigns, new promotions, new
or improved products or technologies, product enhancements, processes,
materials, marketing plans or new product names (hereafter “Ideas”). The
sole purpose of this policy is to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes
when anything on the Site, our products or marketing strategies might seem
similar to Ideas submitted to us. If, despite this request, you do send
us any Ideas or other creative materials, all rights to such materials will
become the exclusive property of Pacific Marketing Services and its Associates and we will have
no obligation either to compensate you or to keep such materials confidential.
You also agree that you shall have no recourse against Pacific Marketing Services or its
Associates for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any
proprietary right in your communications to Pacific Marketing Services. In addition, although we
intend to read all our e-mails or other communications from you, we may not be
able to respond to all of them.
10. Interpreting This Agreement
If any part of this Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable
pursuant to applicable law, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be
deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches
the intent of the original provision and the remainder of this Agreement will
continue in effect. The section titles in the Agreement are solely used for
the convenience of the parties and have no legal or contractual significance.
11. Assignment Of This Agreement
Pacific Marketing Services may assign this Agreement, in whole or in part, at any time
with or without notice to you. You may not assign this Agreement, or assign,
transfer or sublicense your rights, if any, in the Site.
12. Entire Agreement
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Pacific Marketing Services with
respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous
communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between you
and Pacific Marketing Services with respect to the Site. Pacific Marketing
Services failure to enforce
any provision of this Agreement will not be construed as a waiver of any
provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor
trade practice shall act to modify any provision of this Agreement.
13. Time Limitations
You and Pacific Marketing Services agree that any cause of action arising out of or related
to the Site must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise,
such cause of action is permanently barred.
14. Location For Resolving Disputes; Official Language; Admissibility
You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of
state or federal courts in San Diego, California, USA in all disputes
arising out of or relating to the use of the Site.
This agreement is being written in English, which is to be the official
language of the contract’s text and interpretation. You are solely responsible
to carefully read and understand the English text and you agree that you
may not rely on translations as official documents or representations.
Whether or not you choose to print this Agreement, containing the terms and
conditions as described herein, you agree that this contract constitutes a
writing. A printed version of this Agreement shall be admissible in
judicial or administrative proceedings.
15. Disclaimer
Where hyperlinks to third party Web sites (hereafter "external Web
sites") are provided, Pacific Marketing Services accepts no responsibility for the content
of those external Web sites or your use of or inability to use such
sites. Pacific Marketing Services does not endorse, approve, certify or control external
Web sites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficiency,
currency or correctness of any information contained in those sites. The
inclusion of any hyperlink is not and does not imply an affiliation,
sponsorship, endorsement, approval, investigation, verification or monitoring by
Pacific Marketing Services of any information contained in external Web sites. You
should also be aware that the terms and conditions of such sites and their
privacy policy may be different from those applicable to your use of the Site. A
reference in the Site to a specific commercial product, process or service
by trade name, trademark, service mark, manufacturer or anything else does not
constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favoring by Pacific Marketing Services.
PACIFIC MARKETING SERVICES DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR
THAT THIS SITE OR ITS SERVER ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
GOODS.
IN NO EVENT WILL PACIFIC MARKETING SERVICES AND/OR ITS ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR THE
INABILITY OF ANYONE, CLIENT OR NON-CLIENT, TO USE THE SITE INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER
DATA OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE ARE EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. NO MERCHANTABILITY, OR INTENDED/ACTUAL USE OF THE SITE IS
GUARANTEED.
PACIFIC MARKETING SERVICES AND ITS ASSOCIATES EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR ANY
DAMAGES OR LOSSES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, ECONOMIC,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE USE OF THE
SITE OR ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEB SITE, ANY OF ITS CONTENT, OR ANY WEB
BROWSER, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGE TO ANY COMPUTER, SOFTWARE OR DATA
BY ANY MALICIOUS CODE, TROJAN HORSE, VIRUS, WORM OR OTHER ITEM OF A DESTRUCTIVE
NATURE THAT MIGHT BE TRANSMITTED OR ACTIVATED BY MEANS OF THE SITE OR
ACCESS TO THE SITE, ANY BREACH OF COPYRIGHT OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHT, AND CONTRAVENTION OF ANY RESTRICTION ON THE PUBLICATION OR TRANSMISSION
OF INFORMATION.
HOWEVER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY, NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR OF ANY OTHER NATURE ARE MADE HEREUNDER WITH RESPECT TO THE
SITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ITS CONTENT, INFORMATION OR
THE PRODUCT OF WHICH THE INFORMATION MAY REFER, OR ANY WEB SITE WITH WHICH IT IS
LINKED. THIS DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMS TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE UNDER
APPLICABLE LAW, ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY NATURE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE
LISTED ABOVE.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE
LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
16. Dealings with Third Parties.
Your participation, correspondence or business dealings with any third party
found on or through the Site, regarding the payment and delivery of related
goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or
representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such
third party. You agree that Pacific Marketing Services shall not be responsible or liable for
any loss, damage or other matters of any sort incurred as the result of any such
dealings.
17. License
Any images, text, marks,
logos, products, programs, services, scripts and other materials
that appear on the Site (collectively the "Content"), as
well as the technology used to provide the Site, are licensed and never sold,
unless otherwise stated, and are the exclusive property of Pacific Marketing Services or its
licensors. Reproduction is prohibited.
You are granted a non-exclusive,
non-sublicensable, nontransferable license which authorizes you to access,
view, download one copy of the Content on one computer only for your own personal,
non-commercial use only, provided that you do not remove or in any way
alter any trademark, copyright, or other proprietary notice. All other uses of
the Content are expressly prohibited. You acknowledge that you do not
acquire any ownership rights by downloading any of the Content.
Except as allowed in the
preceding paragraph, you may not use, copy, emulate, modify, decompile,
disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, distribute, republish, commercially
exploit or upload any of the Content, or transfer the licensed
Content, or any subset of the licensed Content, except as provided for in
this Agreement or expressly with the written, signed consent of Wireless Advertising
Portal.
Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of
this license and may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution. No
intellectual property or other rights in and to the Content, other than the
limited right to use set forth in the preceding paragraph, are transferred
to you.
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