1. Acceptance.
Use of the InterpretersNetwork.com website ("Site") and the services available
on the Site (the "Service") is subject to the terms and conditions of
use set forth below ("Terms of Use") and to the InterpretersNetwork.com
privacy policy , as both may be amended from time to time. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS
OF USE AND THE PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE REGISTERING WITH OR USING THE InterpretersNetwork.com
SITE. BY CLICKING ON THE "I ACCEPT" BUTTON BELOW YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND
BY THE TERMS OF USE AND ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR CONSENT TO THE PRIVACY POLICY.
2. Privacy. At InterpretersNetwork.com we respect your privacy
and believe you should be informed about how we collect, use and disclose any personal
information we might collect from you. Please review our privacy policy before using
the Service.
3. Eligibility Requirements. To register for the Service, you must
be at least 18 years of age, agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and complete
the registration procedure. By registering for the Service, you must be at least
18 years of age, agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and complete the
registration procedure. By registering for the Service, you represent and warrant
that (a) you are eligible to register as specified herein, and (b) the information
you include as part of the registration process, and any updates or additions thereto,
is complete and accurate. InterpretersNetwork.com will determine whether to accept
or reject your registration in its sole discretion. If InterpretersNetwork.com accepts
your registration, you will be eligible to put projects or submit bid for a project
via the Service. InterpretersNetwork.com may revoke your status as a User immediately
if you, in InterpretersNetwork.com's sole judgement, violate the Terms of Use or
engage in any offensive or inappropriate behavior while using the Service.
4. ID and Password. Upon registration, you will receive a user
ID and a password. You are responsible for keeping your user ID and password confidential
and also for all activity that occurs on the Service through your account. You agree
to notify InterpretersNetwork.com immediately (at support@InterpretersNetwork.com
) of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your account. InterpretersNetwork.com
will not be responsible for any loss to you caused by your failure to comply with
this section of the Terms of Use.
5. Permitted Use of the Service. You may use the Service solely
in accordance with the Terms of Use and any posted policies and procedures that
appear on the Site. Any copying, republication, distribution, or commercial use
outside the Service of the content available on the Service, or a portion of such
content, is prohibited without the prior written permission of InterpretersNetwork.com.
6. Profile Information. If you intend to answer questions via the Service,
you agree to provide true, accurate and complete information to InterpretersNetwork.com
via the Profile form, including but not limited to correct representations of skills,
academic or other degrees, professional or related experience, and any other information
that InterpretersNetwork.com requests. If you intend to ask questions via the Service,
you agree to provide true, accurate and complete information to InterpretersNetwork.com
via the Profile Information form, including but not limited to correct representations
of credit card, billing address, and any other information that InterpretersNetwork.com
requests. You agree to maintain and update such information in order to keep it
true, accurate and complete. If any information you provide is untrue, inaccurate,
not current or incomplete, InterpretersNetwork.com, in its sole discretion, may
terminate your participation in the Service and refuse any future use of the Service
by you including deletion of any transaction accrued in your account at that point.
You hereby grant InterpretersNetwork.com a perpetual, irrevocable license to reproduce,
distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, digitally display, create derivative
works of, publish and otherwise use the information you submit to InterpretersNetwork.com
in such forms to operate and promote the Service, including but not limited to posting
such information on the InterpretersNetwork.com website, sending the information
to InterpretersNetwork.com users and others in email promotions, and including the
information in any other promotional materials in any media.
7. Submission of projects, bids and other Content. As part of the
Service, registered users ("Users") may submit projects and other Users
may offer bids to the projects. These projects, bids and any other information exchanged
between Users (whether via email, chat or any other medium), or between Users and
InterpretersNetwork.com, are "Content" for purposes of these Terms and
Conditions. You acknowledge that InterpretersNetwork.com does not pre-screen User-generated
Content, but that InterpretersNetwork.com and its designees have the right (but
not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse any submissions or remove
any Content from the Service. By submitting Content to InterpretersNetwork.com,
you represent and warrant that such Content (and any items contained therein): (a)
will not be false, inaccurate or misleading; (b) will not be fraudulent; (c) will
not infringe or misappropriate any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade
secret or other proprietary rights; (d) will not violate any law, statute, ordinance
or regulation; (e) will not be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening
or unlawfully harassing; (f) will not be obscene or contain child pornography; and
(g) will not contain any viruses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, trojan horses or
other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere
with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
8. Ownership of Submitted Content. By submitting Content to InterpretersNetwork.com
you: (i) assign to InterpretersNetwork.com all right, title and interest in the
Content, or, if such assignment is prohibited by law, you grant to InterpretersNetwork.com
an exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to use, modify, copy, distribute,
publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, adapt, publish,
sublicense (through multiple tiers of distribution), sell or otherwise transfer
any such Content for any purpose whatsoever; and (ii) agree that you will not publish,
submit, or display such Content to any third party without InterpretersNetwork.com's
prior written consent.
9. Payment. There is a registration
cost of US $34.50 charged to the members who are registered as Clients/Service providers
searching for interpreters or posting an interpretation project, which is payable
in advance to InterpretersNetwork.com. Earnings on InterpretersNetwork.com may be
withdrawn according to the policies and procedures of the General Accounting. Users
may be required to submit their social security numbers and tax ID numbers to InterpretersNetwork.com
to receive payments (solely for tax purposes), and you hereby agree to provide such
numbers if requested by InterpretersNetwork.com. User is solely responsible for
determining, collecting, reporting and paying any applicable state, federal and
local taxes in connection with User's participation in the Service.
10. Independent Contractor Relationship. To the extent submit projects
and bids via the Service and receive payment from InterpretersNetwork.com, you are
an independent contractor and nothing in these Terms of Use or in your interaction
with InterpretersNetwork.com should be construed to create an employer-employee
relationship between you and InterpretersNetwork.com. You will not be entitled to
any of the benefits, which InterpretersNetwork.com may make available to its employees,
such as group insurance, profit-sharing or retirement benefits. Because Users who
receive payment are independent contractors, InterpretersNetwork.com will not withhold
or make payments for social security; make unemployment insurance or disability
insurance contributions; or obtain worker's compensation insurance on such Users'
behalf. You agree to accept exclusive liability for complying with all applicable
laws of any jurisdiction governing self-employed individuals, including obligations
such as payment of taxes, social security, disability and other contributions based
on fees paid to User. You hereby agree to indemnify and defend InterpretersNetwork.com
against any and all such taxes or contributions, including penalties and interest.
11. Member Conduct; Feedback. You agree that you will NOT advertise
or OFFER to SELL any GOODS of whatever nature on the Service (except providing services
and bids as contemplated herein). You agree not to take any actions that may undermine
the integrity of the feedback system designed to enable Users receiving answers
to rate the Users who provide the bids. In addition, you agree that you alone will
provide bids as a User under your account and User ID and will not misrepresent
your identity in any way. InterpretersNetwork.com will determine in its sole discretion
whether you have violated this provision of the Terms of Use and may terminate your
account immediately, including deleting any transactions in the account that InterpretersNetwork.com
deems your have obtained fraudulently.
12. Restrictions on Use of the Service. The Service is protected by copyright,
trademark, patent, or other intellectual property and proprietary rights laws. The
Service and all Content (and proprietary rights therein) is owned by InterpretersNetwork.com
or its licensors. You acknowledge that the Service and any underlying technology
used in connection with the Service contain InterpretersNetwork.com's proprietary
information. You must abide by all copyright notices, information, or restrictions
contained in or attached to any Content or portion of the Service. If you feel that
any Content on the Service infringes your copyrights, you may contact InterpretersNetwork.com
at the following address:
Documentation
Incharge
InterpretersNetwork.com
1001A, Devuka Tower,
6,Nehru Place New Delhi-110019 (INDIA)
Tel.: +91-11-30881595 - 98, 73177561
Fax.: +91-11-30881599
Email: documentation@InterpretersNetwork.com
Please be sure
to include the following information: (a) a description of the copyrighted work
you allege is being infringed (and registration information if such work is registered
with the Copyright Office); (b) the location of the allegedly infringing material
on the Service, (c) your signature (digital or written), (d) your address, telephone
number, and e-mail address, and (e) a statement (notarized if possible and made
under penalty of perjury) that: (i) you are the copyright owner or are authorized
to act on the copyright owner's behalf; (ii) you believe in good faith that the
rights of the copyright owner are being infringed, and that the uses of the allegedly
infringing material are not authorized (either by the copyright owner, its agents,
or applicable law).
13. Changes and Modifications. InterpretersNetwork.com may modify,
suspend or discontinue any portion of the Service or the entire Service at any time,
with or without prior notice. InterpretersNetwork.com reserves the right to modify
the Terms of Use from time to time. Any modifications shall be effective upon the
earlier of (a) your first use of the Service after InterpretersNetwork.com has posted
the modified Terms of Use, or (b) e-mail notification of the changes to you. You
agree to review these Terms of Use periodically so that you are aware of any modifications.
Your continued use of the Service shall be deemed your acceptance of the modified
Terms of Service.
14. Failure to Follow Terms of Use: Termination. You acknowledge
and agree that InterpretersNetwork.com may suspend or terminate your access to,
use of, or submission of Content to, all or part of the Service, without prior notice,
if you engage in any conduct that InterpretersNetwork.com believes, in its sole
discretion: (a) violates any provision of the Terms of Use; (b) violates the rights
of InterpretersNetwork.com or third parties; or (c) is otherwise inappropriate.
In addition, InterpretersNetwork.com reserves the right to terminate inactive accounts.
InterpretersNetwork.com may terminate your access to the Service if parties to whom
you provide bids give you low ratings through the feedback mechanism. You agree
that upon termination InterpretersNetwork.com may delete all information related
to your account and all transaction in your account, and that InterpretersNetwork.com
may bar your access to your account and the Service.
15. InterpretersNetwork.com is a Venue Only. InterpretersNetwork.com
is merely a venue enabling communications between Users. InterpretersNetwork.com
makes no representations about the suitability, reliability, and accuracy of the
Content on the Service, or that any given User is in fact who he or she claims to
be or has the qualifications he or she claims to have (unless InterpretersNetwork.com
has certified such qualifications and indicated so on the Site). Users are not InterpretersNetwork.com's
agents, and InterpretersNetwork.com does not control the quality, timing or legality
of services delivered by Users. You agree not to hold InterpretersNetwork.com liable
for any content, suggestion or services delivered by Users.
16. Content and Warranty Disclaimer. THE SERVICE CONTAINS OPINIONS,
STATEMENTS, SUGGESTIONS AND OTHER CONTENT FROM THIRD PARTIES. InterpretersNetwork.com
DOES NOT ENDORSE OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS AS TO THE ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, COMPLETENESS
OR CREDIBILITY OF ANY CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE OR DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE SERVICE.
InterpretersNetwork.com DOES NOT WARRANT, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING
THE QUALITY OR MERCHANTABILITY OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES REVIEWED, AVAILABLE,
OR ADVERTISED THROUGH THE SERVICE. YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL RELY ON ANY SUCH CONTENT
SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED BY InterpretersNetwork.com ON AN
"AS IS" BASIS. NEITHER InterpretersNetwork.com NOR ITS PARTNERS, PROVIDERS,
OR AFFILIATES MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICE, ITS CONTENTS, OR ANY INFORMATION MADE AVAILABLE
BY OR THROUGH THE SERVICE. IN ADDITION, InterpretersNetwork.com DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FURTHERMORE, InterpretersNetwork.com
DOES NOT WARRANT THAT USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, AVAILABLE AT ANY
TIME OR FROM ANY PARTICULAR LOCATION, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE
CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER POTENTIALLY HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
17. Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT WILL InterpretersNetwork.com
BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL PUNITIVE AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION THOSE RESULTING FROM LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
ARISING OUT OF THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR THE RESULTS OF USE OF THE SERVICE,
ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO THE SERVICE, THE MATERIALS OR INFORMATION CONTAINED AT ANY
OR ALL SUCH SITES, OR THE CONTENT ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY,
CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY AND WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF InterpretersNetwork.com, ARISING FROM
OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT (REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION OR CLAIM, E.G. CONTRACT,
WARRANTY, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE, MALPRACTICE, FRAUD OR ANY OTHER LEGAL
THEORY) IS LIMITED TO US$1. IN ADDITION, InterpretersNetwork.com'S SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING
ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS) HAVE NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER ARISING FROM THE SERVICE. Applicable
law may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages,
so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
18. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold InterpretersNetwork.com,
and its subsidiaries, affiliates, service providers, licensors, officers, directors,
employees and agents harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, damages and/or
costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees), arising from any third party claims
related to your use of the Service, any Content you post, email, transmit, or relay
to or through the Service, your violation of the Terms of Use, or your violation
of any intellectual property or other third party rights or any applicable law.
19. Termination
Policy. You agree to indemnify and hold InterpretersNetwork.com, and its
subsidiaries, affiliates, service providers, licensors, officers, directors, employees
and agents harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, damages and/or costs (including
reasonable attorneys' fees), arising from any third party claims related to your
use of the Service, any Content you post, email, transmit, or relay to or through
the Service, your violation of the Terms of Use, or your violation of any intellectual
property or other third party rights or any applicable law.
20. General.
The Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws in
existence in India. You also consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Delhi
State, India, and you further consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction of
the courts therein. If any provision(s) of the Terms of Use is found to be contrary
to law, then such provision(s) will be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect
the intentions of the parties with the other provisions remaining in full force
and effect. InterpretersNetwork.com's failure to exercise or enforce any right or
provision of the Terms of Use will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision
unless acknowledged and agreed to by InterpretersNetwork.com in writing. These terms
and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and InterpretersNetwork.com
with respect to the subject matter herein and supersede any and all prior or contemporaneous
oral or written agreements. You may not assign this agreement to any other party.