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Acceptance Of Terms.
Description Of Services.
Personal And Non-Commercial Use Limitation.
Privacy And Protection Of Personal Information.
Notice Specific To Product Available On This Web Site.
Notice Specific To Documents Available On This Web Site.
Notices Regarding Product, Documents And Services
Available On This Web Site.
Member Account, Password, And Security.
No Unlawful Or Prohibited Use.
Use Of Services
Materials Provided To Geno Or Posted At Any Geno Web
Site.
Links To Third Party Sites.
Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy.
Copyright Notice.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS.
The services that GENO provides to you are subject to the following Terms of
Use ("TOU"). GENO reserves the right to update the TOU at any time without
notice to you. The most current version of the TOU can be reviewed by clicking
on the "Terms of Use" hypertext link located at the bottom of our Web pages.
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DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES.
Through its international network and affiliations, GENO provides you with
access to a variety of resources, including propriety information, download
areas, communication forums and product information (collectively "Services").
The Services, including any updates, enhancements, new features, and are
subject to the TOU.
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PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION.
Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and
non-commercial use. You may not modify copy, distribute, transmit, display,
perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer,
or sell any information, products or services obtained from the Services.
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PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.
See the Privacy Statement disclosures relating to the collection and use of
your information.
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NOTICE SPECIFIC TO PRODUCT AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
Any product that is made available to download from the Services ("Product") is
the copyrighted work of GENO and/or its suppliers. Use of the product is
governed by the terms of the end user license agreement, if any, which
accompanies or is included with the product. An end user must agrees to the
License Agreement terms before using the product.
Any reproduction or redistribution of the Product not in accordance with the
License Agreement is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe
civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum
extent possible. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, COPYING OR REPRODUCTION OF THE
PRODUCT TO ANY OTHER SERVER OR LOCATION FOR FURTHER REPRODUCTION OR
REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED, UNLESS SUCH REPRODUCTION OR
REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PERMITTED BY THE LICENSE AGREEMENT.
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NOTICE SPECIFIC TO DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
Permission to use Documents (such as white papers, press releases, datasheets
and FAQs) from the Services is granted, provided that (1) the below copyright
notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this
permission notice appear, (2) use of such Documents from the Services is for
informational and non-commercial or personal use only and will not be copied or
posted on any network computer or broadcast in any media, and (3) no
modifications of any Documents are made. Accredited educational institutions,
such as universities, private/public colleges, and state community colleges,
may download and reproduce the Documents for distribution in the classroom.
Distribution outside the classroom requires express written permission. Use for
any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe
civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum
extent possible. Documents specified above do not include the design or layout
of the GENO.com Web site or any other GENO owned, operated, licensed or
controlled site. Elements of GENO Web sites are protected by trade dress,
trademark, unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated
in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any GENO Web site
may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by GENO.
GENO AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE
SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS
PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE SERVICES FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH DOCUMENTS AND
RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. GENO AND/OR
ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH
REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF
MERCHANTABILITY, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL GENO AND/OR
ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE
FROM THE SERVICES.
THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THE SERVICES COULD INCLUDE
TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED
TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. GENO AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE
IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED
HEREIN AT ANY TIME.
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NOTICES REGARDING PRODUCT, DOCUMENTS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE ON
THIS WEB SITE.
IN NO EVENT SHALL GENO AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING
FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF PRODUCT, DOCUMENTS, PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES,
OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES.
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MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY.
If any of the Services requires you to open an account, you must complete the
registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate
information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You also will
choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining
the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely
responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree
to notify GENO immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other
breach of security. GENO will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as
a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without
your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by GENO
or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may
not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the
account holder.
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NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE.
As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for
any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and
notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable,
overburden, or impair any GENO server, or the network(s) connected to any GENO
server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Services.
You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services, other
accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any GENO server or to any
of the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may
not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means
not intentionally made available through the Services.
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USE OF SERVICES
The Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services, chat areas,
news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, photo albums,
file cabinets and/or other message or communication facilities designed to
enable you to communicate with others (each a "Communication Service" and
collectively "Communication Services"). You agree to use the Communication
Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper
and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication Service. By way
of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the
Communication Services, you will not:
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Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid
schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited
messages (commercial or otherwise).
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Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights
(such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
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Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane,
defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
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Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images,
photographs,software or other material protected by intellectual property laws,
including, by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark
laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the
rights thereto or have received all necessary consent to do the same.
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Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are
made available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.
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Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs,
cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar product or programs that may
damage the operation of another's computer or property of another.
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Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business
purpose, unless such Communication Services specifically allows such messages.
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Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you
know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed,
performed, and/or distributed in such manner.
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Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author
attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or
labels of the origin or source of product or other material contained in a file
that is uploaded.
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Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication
Services.
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Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any
particular Communication Service.
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Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail
addresses.
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Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
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Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
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Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a
person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage
information or any portion thereof.
GENO has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, GENO
reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication Services and
to remove any materials in its sole discretion. GENO reserves the right to
terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time,
without notice, for any reason whatsoever. GENO reserves the right at all times
to disclose any information as GENO deems necessary to satisfy any applicable
law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to
post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in GENO's
sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information
about yourself or your children in any Communication Services. GENO does not
control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any
Communication Services and, therefore, GENO specifically disclaims any
liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting
from your participation in any Communication Services. Managers and hosts are
not authorized GENO spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect
those of GENO.
Materials uploaded to the Communication Services may be subject to posted
limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination; you are responsible
for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
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MATERIALS PROVIDED TO GENO OR POSTED AT ANY GENO WEB SITE.
GENO does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to GENO (including
feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or
its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of
any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively
"Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or
submitting ("Posting") your Submission you are granting GENO, its affiliated
companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in
connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without
limitation, all GENO Services), including, without limitation, the license
rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform,
reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name
in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to
any supplier of the Services.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as
provided herein. GENO is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you
may provide and GENO may remove any Submission at any time in its sole
discretion. By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or
otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in these
Terms of Use including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to
provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by Posting a
Submission that contain images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise
graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent that (a)
you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such
Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any content and/or
images contained in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of your
use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use and the Services, (b) you
have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in
these Terms of Use, and (c) that each person depicted in such Images, if any,
has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms of
Use, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, the distribution,
public display and reproduction of such Images. By Posting Images, you are
granting (a) to all members of your private community (for each such Images
available to members of such private community), and/or (b) to the general
public (for each such Images available anywhere on the Services, other than a
private community), permission to use your Images in connection with the use,
as permitted by these Terms of Use, of any of the Services, (including, by way
of example, and not as a limitation, making prints and gift items which include
such Images), and including, without limitation, a non-exclusive, world-wide,
royalty-free license to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly
perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Images without having
your name attached to such Images, and the right to sublicense such rights to
any supplier of the Services. The licenses granted in the preceding sentences
for a Images will terminate at the time you completely remove such Images from
the Services, provided that, such termination shall not affect any licenses
granted in connection with such Images prior to the time you completely remove
such Images. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your
Images.
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LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES.
THE LINKS IN THIS AREA WILL LET YOU LEAVE GENO'S SITE. THE LINKED SITES ARE NOT
UNDER THE CONTROL OF GENO AND GENO IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS OF ANY
LINKED SITE OR ANY LINK CONTAINED IN A LINKED SITE, OR ANY CHANGES OR UPDATES
TO SUCH SITES. GENO IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF
TRANSMISSION RECEIVED FROM ANY LINKED SITE. GENO IS PROVIDING THESE LINKS TO
YOU ONLY AS A CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT IMPLY
ENDORSEMENT BY GENO OF THE SITE.
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UNSOLICITED IDEA SUBMISSION POLICY.
GENO OR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES DO NOT ACCEPT OR CONSIDER UNSOLICITED IDEAS,
INCLUDING IDEAS FOR NEW ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS, NEW PROMOTIONS, NEW PRODUCTS OR
TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES, MATERIALS, MARKETING PLANS OR NEW PRODUCT NAMES.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY ORIGINAL CREATIVE ARTWORK, SAMPLES, DEMOS, OR OTHER
WORKS. THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY IS TO AVOID POTENTIAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS
OR DISPUTES WHEN GENO'S PRODUCTS OR MARKETING STRATEGIES MIGHT SEEM SIMILAR TO
IDEAS SUBMITTED TO GENO. SO, PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR UNSOLICITED IDEAS TO GENO
OR ANYONE AT GENO. IF, DESPITE OUR REQUEST THAT YOU NOT SEND US YOUR IDEAS AND
MATERIALS, YOU STILL SEND THEM, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT GENO MAKES NO ASSURANCES
THAT YOUR IDEAS AND MATERIALS WILL BE TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL OR PROPRIETARY.
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE.
Copyright © 2004 Global Entrepreneurs Network Organization (GENO) 1 North
Bridge Rd, High Street Centre,#22-07 S(179094). All rights reserved.
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