TERMS OF USE
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS.
The services that Virtual Enterprises Directory provides to you are subject to the following Terms of Use ("TOU"). Virtual Enterprises Directory reserves the right to update the TOU at any time without notice to you.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES.
Through its network of Web properties, Virtual Enterprises Directory provides you with listing service. This Service, including any updates, enhancements and new features are subject to the TOU.
PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.
See the Privacy Statement disclosures relating to the collection and use of your information.
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 Virtual Enterprises Directory immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Virtual Enterprises Directory 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 Virtual Enterprises Directory 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.
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 the Virtual Enterprises Directory website, or the websites related to Virtual Enterprises Directory, 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, web hosting providers or networks connected to any Virtual Enterprises Directory website 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.
USE OF SERVICES.
The Services contain Send Message services, listing services, banner ads, uploads, 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:
Failure to follow the Terms of Use will result in the removal of your listing. And if you are a paid member, no refund will be issued for the unused portion of your annual membership.
Virtual Enterprises Directory has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Virtual Enterprises Directory reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication Services and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Virtual Enterprises Directory reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever. If you are a paid member, no refund will be issued for the unused portion of your annual membership.
Virtual Enterprises Directory reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as Virtual Enterprises Directory 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 Virtual Enterprises Directory sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about yourself or your company in any Communication Services. Virtual Enterprises Directory does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Services and, therefore, Virtual Enterprises Directory specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Services. Members are not authorized Virtual Enterprises Directory spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Virtual Enterprises Directory.
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.
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO Virtual Enterprises Directory OR POSTED AT ANY Virtual Enterprises Directory WEB SITE.
Virtual Enterprises Directory does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Virtual Enterprises Directory (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 Virtual Enterprises Directory, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all Virtual Enterprises Directory 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. Virtual Enterprises Directory is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and Virtual Enterprises Directory 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 Submissions 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 Virtual Enterprises Directory, and/or (b) to the general public, 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 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.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES.
THE LINKS IN THIS AREA WILL LET YOU LEAVE Virtual Enterprises Directory SITE. THE LINKED SITES ARE NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF Virtual Enterprises Directory AND Virtual Enterprises Directory 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. Virtual Enterprises Directory IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF TRANSMISSION RECEIVED FROM ANY LINKED SITE. Virtual Enterprises Directory IS PROVIDING THESE LINKS TO YOU ONLY AS A CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY Virtual Enterprises Directory OF THE SITE.
THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEB SITE AND THE THIRD PARTY SITES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW. Virtual Enterprises Directory DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SERVICE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. Virtual Enterprises Directory DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS SERVICE OR IN THIRD PARTY SITES IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. Virtual Enterprises Directory DOES NOT WARRANT OR GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THIS SITE OR THIRD PARTY SITES AND DOES NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS ACCURACY, ERRORS, OR OMISSIONS. ALL VISITORS SHOULD INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY ANY INFORMATION ON THIS SITE OR THIRD PARTY SITES.