Terms of Use
This page states the "Terms and Conditions" under which you may use the Catalyst
Connection web site. 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 [and/or clicking "I AGREE" during any registration process on this web
site], you are indicating your acceptance to be bound by the terms of these Terms
and Conditions. The Catalyst Connection (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 ("Web Site") for any reason. These Terms and Conditions were last updated
on June, 2002.
Use of Material.
The contents of this Web Site, such as text, graphics, images, logos, button icons,
software and other content ("Material"), are protected under both United States
and foreign copyright, trademark and other laws. All Material is the property of
the Company or 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, and other laws. You must retain
all 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.
Use of Company Logo
Except as the Company may authorize, Web site providers ("Other Web sites") may
use only the logo provided below ("Logo"). By downloading the Logo, you agree to
be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
The Logo may be used only on web pages that make accurate references to the Company,
or its products or services and must be displayed adjacent to the reference. Other
web sites may not display the Logo in any manner that implies sponsorship, endorsement,
or license by the Company.
The Logo must appear by itself, with a minimum spacing in the amount of the height
of the Logo between each side of the Logo and other graphic or textual elements
on Other Web site pages.
The Logo may not be used as a feature or design element of any other logo.
Other Web sites may not alter the Logo in any manner, including size, proportions,
colors, elements, etc., or animate, morph or otherwise distort the Logos perspective
or two-dimensional appearance.
Other Web sites that feature the Logo may not contain disparaging remarks about
the Company or its products or services, infringe any Company intellectual property
or other rights, or violate any state, federal or international law.
Company logos and product names are trademarks or trade names of the Company. You
are not authorized to use or reproduce any trademarks except for the limited purposes
set out above.
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, denial-of-service attacks, 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 any part of
the header information in any e-mail 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 information
about the Company or members, employment and career information and employers seeking
employees. 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:
Web Site in general:
- 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, avatars 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., Netscape Navigator, 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.
- Aggregating, copying or duplicating in any manner any of the materials or information
available from the Web Site.
- Framing of or linking to any of the materials or information available from the
Web Site.
- Posting any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or information
which is not your own
- Posting any franchise, pyramid scheme, "club membership", distributorship or sales
representative agency arrangement or other business opportunity which requires an
up front or periodic payment, pays commissions only (no significant salary), requires
recruitment of other members, sub-distributors or sub-agents.
User Information.
Our policy with respect to User information is set forth in our "Privacy Statement"
which is posted on the Web Site and incorporated herein by reference. Please review
the Privacy Statement for further details regarding your Information.
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 acts as a passive conduit for the online distribution and publication
of user-submitted information and has no obligation to screen communications or
information in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material
posted by users. If notified by a user of communications which allegedly do not
conform to these Terms and Conditions, the Company may investigate the allegation
and determine in good faith and its sole discretion whether to remove or request
the removal of the communication. The Company has no liability or responsibility
to users for performance or nonperformance of such activities. 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 or non-public area of the Web Site, including
message boards, discussion groups, list servers, 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 in 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.
Neither the Catalyst Connection, nor any of its members, advertisers, sponsors or
affiliates, are responsible for the views or ideas expressed by members in any public
or non-public area of the Web Site, including message boards, discussion groups,
list servers, forums, contests or chat rooms.
Registration and Password.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your information and
password. You shall be responsible for all uses of your registration, whether or
not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify the Company of any unauthorized
use of your registration or password.
The Company’s Liability.
The Company provides no guarantee, or warranty, written or implied, as to the accuracy
of any of the information contained in this Web Site. The information and services,
including without limitation, the Career Center, advocacy information, news and
press releases, Member services (including member to member discounts) and all other
services on this Web Site are provided "AS IS", with no guarantee of completeness,
accuracy, timeliness, or of the results obtained from the use of this information,
and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited
to, warranties of performance, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose.
By using this Web Site you agree that under no circumstances will the Company, or
any of its members, advertisers sponsors or affiliates or the partners, agents,
or employees thereof be liable to you or anyone else for (1) any information contained
in or omitted from this Web Site, (2) any person's reliance on such information
whether or not the information is correct, current or complete (3) any decision
made or action taken in reliance on the information in this Web Site or for any
consequential, special, or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of
such damages. Certain links in this Web Site connect to other web sites maintained
by third parties over which the Company has no control.
The Career Center is only a venue. The Company is not involved in the actual transaction
between employers and candidates. As a result, the Company has no control over the
quality, safety or legality of the jobs or resumes posted, the truth or accuracy
of the listings, the ability of employers to offer job opportunities to candidates
or the ability of candidates to fill job openings. In addition, note that there
are risks, including but not limited to the risk of physical harm, of dealing with
strangers, foreign nationals, underage persons or people acting under false pretenses.
You assume all risks associated with dealing with other users with whom you come
in contact through the Web Site.
Because user authentication on the Internet is difficult, The Company cannot and
does not confirm that each user is who they claim to be. Because we do not and cannot
be involved in user-to-user dealings or control the behavior of participants on
the site, in the event that you have a dispute with one or more users, you release
the Company (and our agents and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual
and consequential, direct and indirect) of every kind and nature, known and unknown,
suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way
connected with such disputes. If you are a California resident, you waive California
Civil Code d1542, which says: "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."
We are under no legal obligation to, and generally do not, control the information
provided by other users which is made available through the Web Site. By its very
nature, other people’s information may be offensive, harmful or inaccurate, and
in some cases will be mislabeled or deceptively labeled. We expect that you will
use caution and common sense when using this Web Site.
The Material may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. The Company makes
no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness
of the Web Site or the Material. The use of the Web Site and the Material is at
your own risk. Changes are periodically made to the Web Site and may be made at
any time.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the form, content
and accuracy of any event or other information, resume or material contained therein
placed by you on the Web Site. Employers are solely responsible for their postings
on 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,
for whatever reason made, made by any entity posting jobs on the Web Site.
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 EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIMS ALL
WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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 to 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 WEB SITE OR 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 and any of its members,
advertisers, sponsors or affiliates, and their respective 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 or 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 of 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 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without respect to its conflict
of laws principles. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under these Terms and Conditions
shall lie exclusively with the state or federal courts within Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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 restricted areas of the Web
Site or a particular "Legal Notice" on the Web Site, these Terms and Conditions
and all documents incorporated herein by reference 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.
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