As revised February 7, 2004
The following
User Agreement ("Agreement") governs the use of mercerstaffing.com
("Site"), including participation in its online services.
Please read the rules contained in this Agreement carefully. You can
access this Agreement at any time by clicking on "User Agreement"
at the bottom of every page of the Site. If you do not agree with these
rules, please do not use the Site.
These terms
may be modified from time to time; the date of the most recent revisions
will appear on this page. Continued access of the Site by you will constitute
your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Agreement.
Your failure
to follow these rules, whether listed below or in bulletins posted at
various points in the Site, may result in suspension or termination
of your access to the Site, without notice, in addition to Service Provider's
other remedies.
USE
OF PASSWORD
Your right to use the Site is personal to you -- you may not authorize
others to use the Site, and you are responsible for all use by you and
those you allow to use the Site. You may not sub-license, transfer,
sell or assign this Agreement to any third party without our written
approval. Any attempt to do so will be null and void and shall be considered
a material breach of this Agreement.
You will
be solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password.
You are solely responsible for all usage or activity on your account
including, but not limited to, use of the account by any person who
uses your subscriber ID and password.
If you
have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure (for example,
in the event of a loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure or use of
your ID, password or any credit, debit or charge card number stored
on the Site), you must promptly change your password and notify Service
Provider of the problem by contacting our Customer Service department
at info@mercerstaffing.com.
USE
OF THE SITE BY YOU
The Site is not intended for users under the age of 13 and Service Provider
does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from
users under the age of 13. Such users are expressly prohibited from
submitting their personally identifiable information to us, and from
using our forums and chat areas; any information submitted by such users
will not knowingly be used, posted or retained by Service Provider.
You agree
not to use any obscene, indecent or offensive language or to place on
the Site any material that is defamatory, abusive, harassing or hateful.
Further, you may not place on the Site any material that is encrypted,
constitutes junk mail or unauthorized advertising, invades anyone's
privacy, or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense,
give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any local,
state, national or international law or regulation. You agree to use
the Site only for lawful purposes, and you acknowledge that your failure
to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability.
You are
responsible for ensuring that any material you provide to the Site or
post on a bulletin board or forum, including but not limited to text,
photographs and sound, does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade
secret or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party
of is posted with the permission of the owner(s) of such rights.
Material
on the Site is for your personal use only. The Site contains copyrighted
and other proprietary information. You may not in any way make commercial
or other unauthorized use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution,
performance, caching or otherwise, of material obtained through the
Site, except as permitted by the Copyright Act or other law or as expressly
permitted in writing by this Agreement, Service Provider or the Site.
You agree
not to disrupt, modify or interfere with the Site, or its associated
software, hardware, and/or servers in any way, and you agree not to
impede or interfere with others' use of the Site. You further agree
not to alter or tamper with any information or materials on or associated
with the Site.
Other than
connecting to Service Provider's servers by http requests using a Web
browser, you my not attempt to gain access to Service Provider's servers
by any means - including, without limitation, by using administrator
passwords or by masquerading as an administrator while using the Site
or otherwise.
You acknowledge
that Service Provider has not reviewed and does not endorse the content
of all sites linked to/from the Site and is not responsible for the
content or actions of any other sites linked to/from the Site. Your
linking to any service or site is at your sole risk.
USE
OF MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY YOU
For information regarding use of the material and information you supply
or communicate with the Site, please see our Privacy Policy at www.mercerstaffing.com/privacy.htm.
By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in
any other form of communication through the Site, you grant us a royalty-free,
perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce,
modify, adapt, translate, enhance, transmit, distribute, publicly perform,
display, or sublicense any such communication (including your identity
and information about you) in any medium (now in existence or hereinafter
developed) and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to
authorize others to do so.
COPYRIGHT
COMPLAINTS:
Service
Provider respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our
users to do the same. Service Provider may, in appropriate circumstances
and at its discretion, suspend or terminate the access of and take other
action against users, subscribers, registrants and account holders who
infringe the copyright rights of others.
If you
believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on the Service
in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that the Service
contains links or other references to another online location that contains
material or activity that infringes your copyright rights, you may notify
Mercerstaffing.com by providing Service Provider by providing the following
information (as required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability
Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sec.
512) to our copyright agent set forth below.
1. A physical
or electronic signature of person authorized to act on behalf of the
owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
2. Identification
of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple
copyrighted works at a single online site are coverage by a single notification,
a representative list of such works at that site;
3. Identification
of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject
of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which
is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit Service
Provider to locate the material;
4. Information
reasonably sufficient to permit Service Provider to contact the complaining
party, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic
mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
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,
its agent, or the law;
6. A statement
that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty
of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf
of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Note: Only copyright complaints should be sent to agent. No other communications
will be accepted or responded to.
For communications
on other matters, please e-mail info@mercerstaffing.com
MATERIALS
POSTED BY OTHERS
You agree that the Service Provider and its third part service providers
are not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect
to any information or materials posted by others, including defamatory,
offensive or illicit material, even material that violates this Agreement.
COMMENTS
BY USERS ARE NOT ENDORSED BY SERVICE PROVIDER
Service Provider does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage,
verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted on
bulletin boards, forums or otherwise contained in the Site. Nor does
Service Provider or its third-party providers make any warranties with
respect to any of the merchandise featured or mentioned in the Site.
Any information or material placed online, including advice and opinions,
are the views and responsibility of those who post the statements, or
those who actually sell any merchandise, and do not necessarily represent
the views of the Service Provider or its third-party providers.
INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify the Service Provider and its affiliates, employees,
agents and representatives, and to hold them harmless, from any and
all claims and liabilities (including attorneys fees) which may arise
from your submissions, from your unauthorized use of material obtained
through the Site, or from your breach of this Agreement, or from any
such acts through your use of the Site.
EDITING
AND DELETIONS
The Service Provider reserves the right, but undertakes no duty, to
review, edit, move, or delete any material provided for display or placed
on the Site or its bulletin boards, in its sole discretion, without
notice.
ADDITIONAL
RULES
Service
Provider reserves the right to post, from time to time, additional rules
of usage that apply to specific parts of the Site, Such additional rules
will be posted in the relevant parts of the Site, and will be clearly
identified. Your continued use of the Site constitutes you agreement
to comply with these additional rules.
DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE USING THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE
Site IS PROVIDED "AS IS", AND SERVICE PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES
AND ITS THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS AND IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES
OF ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR ANY OTHER WARRANTY, CONDITION, GUARANTEE
OR REPRESENTATION, WHETHER ORAL, IN WRITING OR IN ELECTRONIC FORM, INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED
THEREIN OR PROVIDED BY THE SITE. SERVICE PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES AND
ITS THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT ACCESS
TO THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR THAT THERE WILL BE NO FAILURES,
ERRORS OR OMISSIONS OR LOSS OF TRANSMITTED INFORMATION, OR THAT NO VIRUSES
WILL BE TRANSMITTED ON THE SITE.
THE SERVICE
PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES AND ITS THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS SHALL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ALLEGEDLY SUSTAINED ARISING OUT OF
THIS AGREEMENT, THE PROVIDING OF SERVICES HEREUNDER, THE SALE OR PURCHASE
OF ANY GOODS OR MERCHANDISE, YOUR ACCESS TO OR INABILITY TO ACCESS THE
SERVICE, INCLUDING FOR VIRUSES ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN OBTAINED FROM THE
SERVICE, YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICE OR ANY OF THE MERCHANDISE,
INFORMATION OR MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF THE
TYPE OF CLAIM OR THE NATURE OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION, EVEN IF ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
SOME STATES
DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR
EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE
ABOVE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE
OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.
YOU HEREBY
AGREE TO RELEASE SERVICE PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES AND THIRD-PARTY SERVICE
PROVIDERS, AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES,
AND AGENTS FROM CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL)
OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED AND UNSUSPECTED,
DISCLOSED AND UNDISCLOSED ("CLAIMS"), ARISING OUT OF OR IN
ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THIS SITE. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA
RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH STATES,
IN PART: "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".
TERMINATION
OF ACCESS TO THE SITE
Service Provider has the right to terminate your ability to access the
Site, for any reason, without notice.
JURISDICTION
Service Provider makes not representation that materials on the Service
are appropriate, available or legal in any particular location. Those
who choose to access the Service do so on their own initiative and are
responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local
laws are applicable.
You agree
that this Agreement, for all purposes, shall be governed and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts
to be wholly performed therein, and any action based on or alleging
a breach of this Agreement must be brought in a state or federal court
in New York, New York. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal
jurisdiction and venue of such courts.
FORCE
MAJEURE
Service Provider shall not be liable for delays in performing or failure
to perform this Agreement or any obligations hereunder, which are directly
attributable to causes beyond its reasonable control, including, but
not limited to, acts of God, fires, strikes, labor disputes, war, acts
or intervention by any governmental authority, failure of a common carrier,
supplier, hardware, software, browser, or communications equipment,
or network failure, congestion, or malfunction.
If you
don't agree to the terms contained in this Agreement, please exit the
Service. Please click the Back button on your browser to return to the
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