1. ACCCEPTANCE OF TERMS
SearchForecast provides a collection of online resources,
including classified ads, forums, and various email services, (referred
to hereafter as "the Service") subject to the following Terms
of Use ("TOU"). By using the Service in any way, you are agreeing
to comply with the TOU. In addition, when using particular SearchForecast
services, you agree to abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all
SearchForecast services, which may change from time to time. Should you
object to any term or condition of the TOU, any guidelines, or any subsequent
modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with SearchForecast in any
way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of SearchForecast.
2. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change,
modify or otherwise alter these terms and conditions at any time. Such
modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof.
You must review this agreement on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised
of any changes. You can find the most recent version of the TOU at: http://www.searchforecast.com/terms_of_use.php
3. CONTENT
You understand that all postings, messages, text, files,
images, photos, video, sounds, or other materials ("Content")
posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Service, are the sole
responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. More specifically,
you are entirely responsible for each individual item ("Item")
of Content that you post, email or otherwise make available via the Service.
You understand that SearchForecast does not control, and is not responsible
for Content made available through the Service, and that by using the
Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate,
misleading, or otherwise objectionable. Furthermore, the SearchForecast
site and Content available through the Service may contain links to other
websites, which are completely independent of SearchForecast. SearchForecast
makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or
authenticity of the information contained in any such site. Your linking
to any other webites is at your own risk.
You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated
with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and
that under no circumstances will SearchForecast be liable in any way for
any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result
of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available
via the Service. You acknowledge that SearchForecast does not pre-screen
or approve Content, but that SearchForecast shall have the right (but
not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any
Content that is available via the Service, for violating the letter or
spirit of the TOU or for any other reason.
4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES
The SearchForecast site and Content available through
the Service may contain features and functionalities that may link you
or provide you with access to third party content which is completely
independent of SearchForecast, including web sites, directories, servers,
networks, systems, information and databases, applications, software,
programs, products or services, and the Internet as a whole.
Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals
found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of goods
or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations
associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations
and/or individuals.
You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate
before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these
third parties.
You agree that SearchForecast shall not be responsible
or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of
any such dealings. If there is a dispute between participants on this
site, or between users and any third party, you understand and agree that
SearchForecast is under no obligation to become involved. In the event
that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release
SearchForecast, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights
from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind
or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and
undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and
/ or our service. If you are a California resident, you waive California
Civil Code Section 1542, which says: "A general release does not
extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist
in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by
him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."
5. NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way
that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property
rights have been otherwise violated, please notify SearchForecast's agent
for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement
("Agent"), at support@searchforecast.com
Please provide our Agent with the following Notice:
a) Identify the material on the SearchForecast site that
you claim is infringing, with enough detail so that we may locate it on
the website;
b) A statement by you that you have a good faith belief
that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent,
or the law;
c) A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury
that (1) the above information in your Notice is accurate, and (2) that
you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or that you are authorized
to act on behalf
of that owner;
d) Your address, telephone number, and email address;
and
e) Your physical or electronic signature.
SearchForecast will remove the infringing posting(s),
subject to the the procedures outlined in the Digital Millenium Copyright
Act (DMCA).
6. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
SearchForecast has established a Privacy Policy to explain
to users how their information is collected and used, which is located
at the following web address: http://www.searchforecast.com/privacy_policy.php
Your use of the SearchForecast website or the Service
signifies acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You
further acknowledge and agree that SearchForecast may, in its sole discretion,
preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information, such as
email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and other user information,
if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation
or disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
comply with legal process; enforce the TOU; respond to claims that any
Content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to claims that contact
information (e.g. phone number, street address) of a third-party has been
posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment;
protect the rights, property, or personal safety of SearchForecast, its
users or the general public.
7. CONDUCT
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available
Content:
a) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
defamatory, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or is harmful to
minors in any way;
b) that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged
in actual sexual conduct ncluding but not limited to (i) sexual intercourse,
including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether
between persons of the same oropposite sex, or (ii) bestiality, or (iii)
masturbation, or (iv) sadistic or masochistic abuse, or (v) lascivious
exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person;
c) that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful
toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion,
gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
d) that violates the Fair Housing Act by stating, in any
notice or ad for the sale or rental of any dwelling, a discriminatory
preference based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial
status or handicap (or violates any state or local law prohibiting discrimination
on the basis of these or other characteristics);
e) that violates federal, state, or local equal employment
opportunity laws, including but not limited to, stating in any advertisement
for employment a preference or requirement based on race, color, religion,
sex, national origin, age, or disability.
f) with respect to employers that employ four or more
employees, that violates the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration
and Nationality Act, including requiring U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent
residency (green card status) as a condition for employment, unless otherwise
required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or
federal, state, or local government contract.
g) that impersonates any person or entity, including,
but not limited to, a SearchForecast employee, or falsely states or otherwise
misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity (this provision
does not apply to Content that constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody
of public figures.);
h) that includes personal or identifying information about
another person without that person's explicit consent;
i) that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative,
or constitutes "bait and switch";
j) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret,
copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you
do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual
or fiduciary relationships;
k) that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing,"
"link referral code," "junk mail," "spam,"
"chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited
commercial advertisement;
l) that constitutes or contains any form of advertising
or solicitation if posted in areas of the SearchForecast sites which are
not designated for such purposes; or emailed to SearchForecast users who
have not indicated in writing that it is ok to contact them about other
services, products or commercial interests.
m) that includes links to commercial services or web sites,
except as allowed in "services";
n) that advertises any illegal service or the sale of
any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable
law, including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibited
or regulated by California law.
o) 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;
p) that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive
amount of Content (flooding attack) to the Service, or that otherwise
negatively affects other users' ability to use the Service; or
q) that employs misleading email addresses, or forged
headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the
origin of Content transmitted through the Service.
Additionally, you agree not to:
r) contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted;
s) "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
t) collect personal data about other users for commercial
or unlawful purposes;
u) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers,
data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless
expressly
permitted by SearchForecast;
v) post non-local or otherwise irrelevant Content, repeatedly
post the same or similar Content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or
disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
w) post the same item or service in more than one classified
category or forum, or in more than one metropolitan area;
x) attempt to gain unauthorized access to SearchForecast's
computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the
quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality
of, the Service or the SearchForecast website; or
y) use any form of automated device or computer program
that enables the submission of postings on SearchForecast without each
posting being manually entered by the author thereof (an "automated
posting device"), including without limitation, the use of any such
automated posting device to submit postings in bulk, or for automatic
submission of postings at regular intervals.
8. POSTING AGENTS
A "Posting Agent" is a third-party agent, service,
or intermediary that offers to post Content to the Service on behalf of
others. To moderate demands on SearchForecast's resources, you may not
use a Posting Agent to post Content to the Service without express permission
or license from SearchForecast. Correspondingly, Posting Agents are not
permitted to post Content on behalf of others, to cause Content to be
so posted, or otherwise access the Service to facilitate posting Content
on behalf of others, except with express permission or license from SearchForecast.
9. NO SPAM POLICY
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email
advertisements to SearchForecast email addresses or through SearchForecast
computer systems, which is expressly prohibited by these TOU, will use
or cause to be used servers located in California. Any unauthorized use
of SearchForecast computer systems is a violation of the TOU and certain
federal and state laws, including without limitation the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.), Section 502 of the California
Penal Code and Section 17538.45 of the California Business and Professions
Code. Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to
civil and criminal penalties.
10. PAID POSTINGS
We may charge a fee to post Content in some areas of the
Service. The fee is an access fee permitting Content to be posted in a
designated area. Each party posting Content to the Service is responsible
for said Content and compliance with the TOU. All fees paid will be non-refundable
in the event that Content is removed from the Service for violating the
TOU.
11. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE
You acknowledge that SearchForecast may establish limits
concerning use of the Service, including the maximum number of days that
Content will be retained by the Service, the maximum number and size of
postings, email messages, or other Content that may be transmitted or
stored by the Service, and the frequency with which you may access the
Service. You agree that SearchForecast has no responsibility or liability
for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted
by the Service. You acknowledge that SearchForecast reserves the right
at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof)
with or without notice, and that SearchForecast
shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification,
suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
12. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE
SearchForecast grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive
license to access the Service for your own personal use. This license
does not include:
(a) access to the Service by Posting Agents; or (b) any
collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use
of the Service nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar
data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted
by SearchForecast. A limited exception to (b) is provided to general purpose
internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that use such
tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks
to the Service, provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range
of IP addresses using an easily identifiable agent and comply with our
robots.txt file. "General purpose internet search engine" does
not include a website or search engine or other service that specializes
in classified listings or in any subset of classifieds listings such as
jobs, housing, for sale, services, or personals, or which is in the business
of providing classified ad listing services.
SearchForecast permits you to display on your website,
or create a hyperlink on your website to, individual postings on the Service
so long as such use is for noncommercial and/or news reporting purposes
only (e.g., for use in
personal web blogs or personal online media). If the total number of such
postings displayed or linked to on your website exceeds one hundred (100)
postings, your use will be presumed to be in violation of the TOU, absent
express permission granted by SearchForecast to do so. You may also create
a hyperlink to the home page of SearchForecast sites so long as the link
does not portray SearchForecast, its employees, or its affiliates in a
false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner.
SearchForecast offers various parts of the Service in
RSS format so that users can embed individual feeds into a personal website
or blog, or view postings through third party software news aggregators.
SearchForecast permits you to display, excerpt from, and link to the RSS
feeds on your personal website or personal web blog, provided that (a)
your use of the RSS feed is for personal, non-commercial purposes only,
(b) each title is correctly linked
back to the original post on the Service and redirects the user to the
post when the user clicks on it, (c) you provide, adjacent to the RSS
feed, proper attribution to 'SearchForecast' as the source, (d) your use
or display does not suggest that SearchForecast promotes or endorses any
third party causes, ideas, web sites, products or services, (e) you do
not redistribute the RSS feed, and (f) your use does not overburden SearchForecast's
systems. SearchForecast reserves all rights in the content of the RSS
feeds and may terminate any RSS feed at any time.
Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access
granted to you by SearchForecast immediately terminates said permission
or license. In order to collect, aggregate, copy, duplicate, display or
make derivative use of the
the Service or any Content made available via the Service for other purposes
(including commercial purposes) not stated herein, you must first obtain
a license from SearchForecast.
13. TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that SearchForecast, in its sole discretion,
has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account,
block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to
or use of the Service (or any
part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard
any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation,
if SearchForecast believes that you have acted inconsistently with the
letter or spirit of the TOU. Further, you agree that SearchForecast shall
not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access
to the Service. Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after
said termination.
Sections 2, 4, 6 and 12-18 shall survive termination of the TOU.
14. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
The Service is protected to the maximum extent permitted
by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or
through the Service is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or
compilation, pursuant to
copyrights laws, and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification,
creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site or the
collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the sites or any portion
thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution
is prohibited without the express written consent of SearchForecast. You
further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service
without the express written consent of SearchForecast, and agree to abide
by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Service. You may not
decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover
any source code contained in the Service. Without limiting the foregoing,
you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for
any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Service.
Although SearchForecast does not claim ownership of content
that its users post, by posting Content to any public area of the Service,
you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the
right to grant, to
SearchForecast an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide
license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content and
to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said
Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through multiple tiers)
of the foregoing. Furthermore, by posting Content to any public area of
the Service, you automatically grant SearchForecast all rights necessary
to prohibit any
subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction, or
exploitation of the Content on the Service by any party for any purpose.
15. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE SEARCHFORECAST SITE AND THE
SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SEARCHFORECAST SITE AND THE
SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE"
BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SEARCHFORECAST DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE
SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SEARCHFORECAST
SITE AND THE
SERVICE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SEARCHFORECAST DISCLAIMS
ANY
WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED
ON THE
SEARCHFORECAST SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS
ON
THE SEARCHFORECAST SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EARCHFORECAST
DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SEARCHFORECAST SITE OR THE SERVICE. Some jurisdictions
do
not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions,
some of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they
relate to implied warranties.
16. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL SEARCHFORECAST BE LIABLE
FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY
DAMAGES (EVEN IF SEARCHFORECAST HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE SEARCHFORECAST
SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE
SEARCHFORECAST SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SEARCHFORECAST
SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION,
OR TERMINATION OF THE SEARCHFORECAST SITE OR THE SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION
SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES
OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SEARCHFORECAST
SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE SEARCHFORECAST SITE, AS WELL AS
BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED
IN CONNECTION WITH THE SEARCHFORECAST SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS
ON THE SEARCHFORECAST SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability
are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing limitation
may not apply to you.
17. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold SearchForecast, its officers,
subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, directors, officers, agents,
service providers, suppliers and employees, harmless from any claim or
demand, including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by any
third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post or make
available through the Service, your use of the Service, your violation
of the TOU, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein,
or your violation of any rights of another.
18. GENERAL INFORMATION
The TOU constitute the entire agreement between you and
SearchForecast and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior
agreements between you and SearchForecast. The TOU and the relationship
between you and SearchForecast shall be governed by the laws of the State
of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and
SearchForecast agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction
of the courts located within the county of San Francisco, California.
The failure of SearchForecast to exercise or enforce any right or provision
of the TOU shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If
any provision of the TOU is found by a court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor
to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision,
and the other provisions of the TOU remain in full force and effect. You
agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim
or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or
the TOU must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of
action arose or be forever barred.
19. VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
Please report any violations of the TOU, by flagging the
posting(s) for review, or by emailing to support@searchforecast.com
Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or
others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar
breaches.
You understand and agree that, because damages are often
difficult to quantify, if it becomes necessary for SearchForecast to pursue
legal action to enforce the TOU, you will be liable to pay SearchForecast
the following amounts as liquidated damages, which you accept as reasonable
estimates of SearchForecasts' damages for
the specified breaches of the TOU:
a. If you post a message that (1) impersonates any person
or entity; (2) falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation
with a person or entity; or (3) that includes personal or identifying
information about another person without that person's explicit consent,
you agree to pay SearchForecast two thousand dollars ($2,000) for each
such message. This provision does not apply to messages that are lawful
non-deceptive parodies of public figures.
b. If SearchForecast establishes limits on the frequency
with which you may access the Service, or terminates your access to or
use of the Service, you agree to pay SearchForecast two hundred dollars
($200) for each message posted in excess of such limits or for each day
on which you access SearchForecast in excess of such limits, whichever
is higher.
c. If you send unsolicited email advertisements to SearchForecast
email addresses or through SearchForecast computer systems, you agree
to pay SearchForecast thirty five dollars ($35) for each such email.
d. If you post Content in violation of the TOU, other
than as described above, you agree to pay SearchForecast two hundred dollars
($200) for each Item of Content posted. In its sole discretion, SearchForecast
may elect to issue a warning before assessing damages.
e. If you are a Posting Agent that uses the Service in
violation of the TOU, in addition to any liquidated damages under clause
(d), you agree to pay SearchForecast two hundred dollars ($200) for each
and every Item of Conent posted in violation of the TOU. A Posting Agent
will also be deemed an agent of the party engaging the Posting Agent to
access the Service (the "Principal"), and the Principal (by
engaging the Posting Agent in violation of the TOU) agrees to pay SearchForecast
an additional two hundred dollars ($200) for each Item of Conent posted
by the Posting Agent on behalf of the principal in violation of the TOU.
f. If you aggregate, display, copy, duplicate, reproduce,
or otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content (except for your own
Content) in violation of the TOU without SearchForecast's express written
permission, you agree to pay SearchForecast five thousand dollars ($5,000)
for each day on which you engage in such conduct.
Otherwise, you agree to pay SearchForecast's actual damages,
to the extent such actual damages can be reasonably calculated. Notwithstanding
any other provision of the TOU, SearchForecast retains the right to seek
the remedy of specific performance of any term contained in the TOU, or
a preliminary or permanent injunction against the breach of any such term
or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in the TOU, or any combination
thereof.
20. FEEDBACK
We welcome your questions and comments on this document.
Please contact
us for more information.
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