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Terms and Conditions
Introduction
This page states the "Terms and Conditions" under which you may use the HVS Career Network, further noted as HVSCareerNetwork.com. Please read this page carefully. If you do not accept the Terms and Conditions stated here, do not use this web site and service. By using this web site, you are indicating your acceptance to be bound by the terms of these Terms and Conditions. K&S Network Services, LLC, d/b/a HVSCareerNetwork.com (the "Company") may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page periodically to review the Terms and Conditions, because they are binding on you. The terms "You" and "User" as used herein refer to all individuals and/or entities accessing this web site for any reason.
The contents of this Web Site, such as text, graphics, images, logos, button
icons, software and other "Material", are protected under both United
States and foreign copyright, trademark and other laws. All Material is the
property of the Company and its content suppliers or clients. The compilation
(meaning the collection, arrangement and assembly) of all content on this Web
Site is the exclusive property of the Company and protected by U.S. and International
copyright laws. Unauthorized use of the Material may violate copyright, trademark,
service-mark and other proprietary notices contained in the original Material
on any copy you make of the Material. You may not sell or modify the Material
or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Material
in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use of the Material on
any other web site or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is
prohibited.
You shall not copy or adapt the HTML code that the Company creates to generate
its pages. It is also protected by the Company's copyright.
Acceptable Site Use
General Rules: Users may not use the Web Site in order to transmit, distribute,
store or destroy material (a) in violation of any applicable law or regulation,
(b) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or
other intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity
or other personal rights of others, or (c) that is defamatory, obscene, threatening,
abusive or hateful.
Web Site Security Rules: Users are prohibited from violating or attempting
to violate the security of the Web Site, including, without limitation, (a)
accessing data not intended for such user or logging into a server or account
which the user is not authorized to access, (b) attempting to probe, scan or
test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication
measures without proper authorization, (c) attempting to interfere with service
to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting
a virus to the Web Site, overloading, "flooding", "spamming",
"mailbombing" or "crashing", (d) sending unsolicited e-mail,
including promotions and/or advertising of products or services, or (e) forging
any TCP/IP packet header or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network
security may result in civil or criminal liability. The Company will investigate
occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate
with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such
violations.
Specific Prohibited Uses
The Web Site may be used only for lawful purposes by individuals seeking employment
and career information. The Company specifically prohibits any use of the Web
Site, and all users agree not to use the Web Site, for any of the following:
- Posting any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or
information which is not your own accurate resume (living individual seeking
employment on a full-time for part-time basis on his or her own behalf.)
- Deleting or revising any material posted by any other person or entity.
- Using any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere
with the proper working of this Web Site or any activity being conducted on
this site.
- Taking any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large
load on this Web Site's infrastructure.
If you have a password allowing access to a non-public area of this Web Site,
disclosing to or sharing your password with any third parties or using your
password for any unauthorized purpose.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, using or attempting
to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including
without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avators or intelligent agents)
to navigate or search this Web site other than the search engine and search
agents available from the Company on this Web Site and other than generally
available third party web browsers (e.g., Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Explorer).
Attempting to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the
software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Web Site.
User Information
When you use the Web site, you may be asked to provide the Company with certain
information including, without limitation, a valid e-mail address (your "Information").
In addition to the terms and conditions that may be set forth on this Web Site,
you understand and agree that the Company may disclose to third parties, on
an anonymous basis, certain aggregate information contained in your registration
application. The Company will not disclose to any third party your name, address,
e-mail address or telephone number without your prior consent, except to the
extent necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws or in legal proceedings
where such information is relevant. The Company reserves the right to offer
third party services and products to you based on the preferences that you identify
in your registration and at any time thereafter; such offers may be made by
the Company or by third parties.
User Submissions
As a user, you are responsible for your own communications and are responsible
for the consequences of their posting. You must not, and by using this Web Site
you agree not to, do the following things: post material that is copyrighted,
unless you are the copyright owner or have the permission of the copyright owner
to post it; post material that reveals trade secrets, unless you own them or
have the permission of the owner; post material that infringes on any other
intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights
of others; post material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing,
abusive, hateful or embarrassing to another user or any other person or entity;
post a sexually-explicit image or statement; post advertisements or solicitations
of business, post chain letters or pyramid schemes; impersonate another person;
or post material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots
or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage,
detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system,
data or information.
The Company does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or
reliability of communications posted by users or endorse any opinions expressed
by users. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted by other users
will be at your own risk.
The Company reserves the right to expel users and prevent their further access
to the Web Site for violating the Terms and Conditions or the law and the right
to remove communications which are abusive, illegal, or disruptive. The Company
may take any action with respect to user-submitted information that it deems
necessary or appropriate in its sole discretion if it believes it may create
liability for the Company or may cause the Company to lose (in whole or in part)
the services of its ISPs or other suppliers.
By submitting content to any public on non-public area of the Web Site, including
message boards, forums, contests, and chat rooms, you grant the Company and
its affiliates the loyalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable (through
multiple tiers), non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license
to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works
from, distribute, communicate to the public, perform and display the content
(in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any
form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of
any rights that may exist in such content. You also warrant that the holder
of any rights, including moral rights in such content, has completely and effectively
waived all such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to you the right
to grant the license stated above. You also permit any subscriber to access,
display, view, store and reproduce such content for personal use. Subject to
the foregoing, the owner of such content placed on the Web Site retains any
and all rights that may exist in such content.
Registration and Password
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the form, content
and accuracy of any resume or material you submit through the Web Site.
The Company is not to be considered to be an employer with respect to your
use of the Web Site and the Company shall not be responsible for any employment
decisions.
The company does not warrant that the web site will operate error-free or that the web site and its server are free of computer viruses or other harmful mechanisms. If your use of the web site or the material results in the need for servicing or replacing equipment or data, the company is not responsible for those costs.
The web site and material are provided on an "as is" basis without any warranties of any kind. The company, to the fullest extend permitted by law, disclaims all warranties, whether express or implied, including the warranty of merchantibility, fitness for particular purpose and non-infringement. The company makes no warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of the material, services, software, text, graphics and links.
Disclaimer of Consequential Damages
In no event shall the company, its suppliers or any third parties mentioned on the web site be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption) resulting from the use or inability to use the web site and the material whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not the company is advised of the possibility of such damages.
Links to Other Sites
The Web Site contains links to third party web sites. These links are provided
solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by the Company of the
contents on such third-party Web sites. The Company is not responsible for the
content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding
the content or accuracy of materials on such third party Web sites. If you decide
the access linked third party Web sites, you do so at your own risk.
No Resale or Unauthorized Commercial Use
You agree not to resell or assign your rights or obligations under these Terms
of Use. You also agree not to make any unauthorized commercial use of the Web
Site.
Limitation of Liability
The aggregate liability for the Company to you for all claims arising from
the use of the Materials is limited to $100.
Termination
The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to pursue all of its
legal remedies, including but not limited to deletion of your postings from
this Web Site and immediate termination of your registration with or ability
to access the Web Site and/or any other service provided to you by the Company,
upon any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions or if the Company is unable
to verify or authenticate any information you submit to the Web Site registration
with or ability to access the Web Site.
Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its officers,
directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands,
including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging
or resulting from your use of the Material for your breach of the terms of these
Terms and Conditions. The Company shall provide notice to you promptly of any
such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending
any such claim, suit or proceeding.
General
The Company makes no claims that the Materials may be lawfully viewed or downloaded
outside of the United States. Access to the Materials may not be legal by certain
persons or in certain countries. If you access the Web Site from outside the
United States, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance
with the laws of your jurisdiction. These Terms and Conditions are governed
by the internal substantive laws of the State of New York, without respect to
its conflict of principles of law. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under the
agreement shall lie exclusively with the state or federal courts within New
York, New York. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions are found to
be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such
provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these
Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver
of any term of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing
waiver of such term or any other term. Except as expressly provided in additional
terms of use for areas of the Web Site a particular "Legal Notice,"
or Software License or material on particular Web pages, these Terms and Conditions
constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company with respect to
the use of Web Site. No changes to these Terms and Conditions shall be made
except by a revised posting on this page.
Additional Terms of Use
Certain areas of this Web Site are subject to additional terms of use. By using
such areas, or any part thereof, you agree to be bound by the additional terms
of use applicable to such areas.
HVSCareerNetwork.com requests that visitors ask permission to use materials
found on the website. Our website contains copyrighted material, trademarks
and other proprietary information, including text, software, photos, video,
graphics, music and sound.
Visitors may download copyrighted material for personal use. Only with the
express permission of HVSCareerNetwork.com may the visitor publish and/or redistribute,
in its original and unaltered electronic format, any content available on this
website. In the event of permitted copying, redistribution or publication of
copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark
legend or copyright notice shall be made. Visitor acknowledges that he/she does
not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material. To obtain
permission for use of articles or research, please contact us.
Thank you for visiting our website. Your privacy is important to us. To better
protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information
practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected
and used at this site.
What personally identifiable information does HVSCareerNetwork.com collect?
Our goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best
and most useful content and services. We collect personally identifiable information
when you provide it to us, such as when you subscribe to our publications. Several
of the services that we offer, may require registration as a condition of use.
Once you register you are no longer anonymous to us.
Cookies
To enhance your experience with our sites, some of our web pages use "cookies".
Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences.
Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally
identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us
by, for example, by registering for one of our services. However, once you choose
to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information
may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings
on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience
on our web pages (e.g. to recognize you by name when you return to our site),
save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping
carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs,
or services.
How to Contact Us
you may contact us at Info@HVSCareerNetwork.com
We will never sell your information:
HVSCareerNetwork.com respects your privacy and as a result ensures that all
personal information provided, including e-mail, name, and address, will remain
confidential within the HVSCareerNetwork.com server and offices, and never sold
or given out to external sources.