Terms & Conditions for Use of HYDROBON Web Site

TERMS OF SERVICE

This legal agreement is made between you and Hydrobon. By accessing the Service, you accept these Terms and agree to be bound by the terms, conditions and notices contained or referenced herein. If you do not agree with these terms, do not use or access the site or the Service.

By using the Website, you accept and agree to the terms, conditions and notices contained or referenced herein. We reserve the right to make changes to this Terms & Conditions at any time without prior notice and such changes become effective once a revised Terms & Conditions is posted on our Website. Your continued use of our Website constitutes your acceptance of such changes. Accordingly, you should review this Terms & Conditions from time to time for changes.

USER CONDUCT

In your use of our Service, you agree to act responsibly in a manner demonstrating the exercise of good judgment. For example and without limitation, you agree not to:

1. violate any applicable law or regulation,
2. infringe the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contractual rights,
3. use the information available through our Service for any unauthorized or unlawful purpose,
4. interfere with or damage our Service, including, without limitation, through the use of viruses, cancel bots, Trojan horses, harmful code, flood pings, denial of service attacks, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology, including methods that in any way reproduces or circumvents the navigational structure or presentation of the Service or its contents,
5. use our Service to transmit, distribute, post or submit any information concerning any other person or entity,
6. use our Service to obtain the personal contact information of another user without their prior consent,
7. use our Service in connection with the distribution of unsolicited commercial email ("Spam") or advertisements,
8. "stalk" or harass any other user of our Service,
9. collect or store any information about any other user other than in the course of the permitted use of our Service,
10. use our Service for any commercial purpose whatsoever, including, without limitation, advertising or marketing any services or products,
11. impersonate any person or entity,
12. remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary right notices contained in the Service,
13. infringe on the intellectual property rights of the Service or any third parties in any manner,
14. modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of the Service or our Site or any software used on or for the Service,
15. post, upload or transmit false, misleading or illegal information or content to the Service,
16. make false statements, attempt or use personal, or other information that you are not authorized to use,
17. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you are not legally permitted to make available to the Service under any law or any contractual or fiduciary relationship (including, without limitation, inside information and information subject to obligations of confidentiality),
18. disrupt the flow of dialogue, cause a screen to “scroll” faster than other users or members of the Service are able to read to type, or otherwise engage in behavior that negatively affects the ability of other users or members to engage in communications or other interactions on our Service,
19. collect or store personal data about other users or members without their consent, or upload, post, email or transmit any other user’s or member’s private information or data,
20. provide hyperlinks, URL links, graphic links or other direct connection to our Site or the Service for profit or gain, or
21. assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing.

YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE SERVICE

Your Responsibilities

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of our Service, including the content of the materials you post on the Service and in your messages to other users of the Service.

Our Limitations

You agree that we will not be responsible for any damage or harm resulting from your use of the Service or your interactions with other users of our Service. While we do make concerted efforts to screen users, you understand and acknowledge that we do not pre-approve any of our users or members nor do we in any way inquire into the backgrounds of the users of the Service or attempt to verify their statements. We make no representations or warranties as to the conduct of our users or their compatibility with any current or future users. It is your responsibility to investigate the background, financial status, criminal background, character and all other aspects that might affect whether or not you want to interact with a user or member on our Service.  We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor all interactions between you and other users of our Service and to take any action in good faith to restrict access to or the availability of any material that we or another user of our Service may consider to be illegal, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable. Email and chat messages sent between you and other users of the Service that are not readily accessible to the general public may be reviewed by us for compliance with these Terms, but will be treated by us as private to the extent required by applicable law. In no event shall we be liable for any damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, general, special, compensatory, consequential, punitive, and/or incidental, arising out of or relating to the conduct of you or anyone else in connection with the use of the Service, including without limitation, bodily injury, emotional distress, and/or any other damages resulting from communications or meetings with other users of the Service or persons you meet through the Service. We are not responsible for, and cannot control, the use by others of any information which you provide to them and you should use caution in selecting the personal information you provide to others through the Service. We cannot and do not assume any responsibility for the content of messages sent by other users of the Service. You agree that we are not responsible for the accuracy of information communicated to you on the Service. You release us from any and all liability in connection with the Service and the contents of any communications you may receive from other users. We reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action in our sole discretion against anyone who violates these Terms, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Service, terminating the violator's access to the Site and contacting and disclosing information to the relevant authorities and pursuant to legal process; however, you agree that we are under no obligation to do so.

User Disputes

We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.  You agree to release us from all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities of every kind, known and unknown, direct and contingent, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes.

THIRD PARTY CONTENT, LINKS AND PAGES

In your use of our Service, you may access content from third parties ("Third Party Content"), either via our Service or through links to third party web sites. We do not control Third Party Content and make no representations or warranties about it. We do not endorse or accept any responsibility for any Third Party Content. You acknowledge and agree that by using our Service, you may be exposed to Third Party Content. Third Party Content is subject to the privacy and security policies of those third parties, which may differ substantially from our privacy policies.  You acknowledge and agree that Third Party Content is the sole responsibility of the authors or sites displaying such Third Party Content and under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any Third Party Content, including, without limitation, any inaccuracies, errors or omissions in any Third Party Content or any losses, liabilities or damages of any kind arising out of or incurred as a result of the use of any Third Party Content posted, stored or transmitted via our Service. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with Third Party Content, including, without limitation, profiles of other users of our Service.

PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

Copyrighted Information

You acknowledge and agree that all content and materials available on our Site are protected by either our rights, or the rights of our users or other third parties, of publicity, copyright, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. You may not use any of the marks, logos, domains and trademarks that you may find on our Site, unless you have our written permission.  Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given express written permission by us, you agree not to sell, license, loan, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, broadcast, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from materials or content available on our Site. Notwithstanding the above, you may use the content and materials on our Site in the course of your normal, personal, non-commercial use of our Service in accordance with the Terms.  If you download or print a copy of any content for your personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on such content.

Use of Content

You agree not to systematically retrieve data or other content or any materials from our Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of "bots" or otherwise. You agree not to use any of our trademarks or logos as metatags on other web sites. You agree not to display any of our Site in a frame (or any of our content via in-line links) without our express written permission. You may, however, establish ordinary links to the homepage of our Site without our written permission.

Content – AS-IS

All of the content on our Site is provided “AS IS.”  All content is the responsibility of the person that originated such content.  You understand and agree that under no circumstances will we be liable for any losses, liabilities or damages incurred as a result of your use of any content on our Site.

DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

Disclaimer of warranties

The contents of this Service, including, without limitation, the materials, are provided "as is," and Hydrobon makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, of any kind with respect to these sites or its contents. Hydrobon disclaims all representations and warranties, including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, completeness, and non-infringement.

Disclaimer of accuracy

Hydrobon does not represent or warrant that the information accessible via this Site is accurate, complete or current. The Site could contain typographical errors, mis-catalogued information, or technical inaccuracies. Hydrobon reserves the right to add to, change or delete its content or any part thereof without notice. By your use of this Site, you agree that you do not and will not rely on it being appropriately catalogued or complete for any purpose, including but not limited to patentability of any invention, invalidity of any claim of any patent or application, or authorship and inventorship of any article, patent or application. You further agree that you or your agents will not take any action against Hydrobon due to such reliance on any information which you believe to be non-current, inaccurate or incomplete. Additionally, this Site may contain information provided by third parties, which includes, without limitation, the documents and software. Hydrobon makes no representation or warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness, truth, quality, suitability or reliability of such information. Hydrobon is not responsible for any errors, omissions, or inaccuracies contained in any information provided by such third parties.

Limitation on liability of copyright holders

Copyright holders will not be liable for any direct, indirect, special or consequential damages, loss of data, income, profit or goodwill or damage to property arising out of any use of the materials or performance or implementation of the contents thereof.

DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE

We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any portion of our Service with or without prior notice. You acknowledge and agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification or discontinuance of our Service.

BLOCKING OF IP ADDRESSES

In order to protect the integrity of the Service, we reserve the right at any time, in our sole discretion, to block users from certain IP addresses from accessing our Site.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

You hereby represent and warrant to us that: (a) you have the full power and authority to enter into and perform under these Terms; (b) your use of our Service will not infringe or violate the copyright, trademark, right of publicity or any other legal right of any third party; (c) you will comply with all applicable laws and regulations in using our Service and in engaging in all other activities arising from, relating to or connected with these Terms, including, without limitation, contacting other users of our Service; (d) you own or otherwise have all rights necessary to license the content you submit and that the posting and use of your content by us will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

INDEMNITY

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us and our affiliates, officers, directors, agents, consultants and employees harmless from any claim, demand, action, damage, loss, cost or expense, including without limitation, attorneys' fees and costs, investigation costs and settlement expenses, incurred in connection with any investigation, claim, action, suit or proceeding of any kind brought against any Indemnified Party arising out of your use of our Service, any alleged or actual infringement of the intellectual property rights of any party, any injury or damage to property or person, any act by you in connection with any user or member of this Service or any other third party, any business practices in which you engage or are alleged to engage, or alleging facts or circumstances that could constitute a breach by you of any provision of these Terms and/or any of the representations and warranties set forth above. If you are obligated to indemnify an Indemnified Party, we and the Indemnified Party will have the right, in our sole discretion, to choose our attorneys, experts and other advisers, conduct our own inquiry into the matter, control any investigation, action or proceeding and determine if and how we wish to settle it.  You agree that you will advance costs and expenses to any Indemnified Party.  You agree to cooperate with the Indemnified Parties in connection with any investigation, claim, action or proceeding covered by this Site.

COPYRIGHT POLICY

The Service contains information, which is proprietary to us, our partners and our users. We assert full copyright protection in the Service. Information posted by us, our partners or users of the Service may be protected whether or not it is identified as proprietary to us or to them. You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights.

If you are notifying Hydrobon of alleged copyright infringement, please be sure to provide the following information:

1. a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed,
2. a description of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works,
3. a description of material that is claimed to be infringing and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material
4. information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and/or an electronic mail address
5. a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or the law; and
6. a statement by you that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party has the authority to enforce the copyrights that are claimed to be infringed.

CONTACT US

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Updated: December 22, 2022.