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These terms of service (“Terms of Service”) govern your access to and use of the services we offer (“Services”) through the website www.pronety.com ("Website") operated by VCMC Technologies Ltd (referred to as “Pronety”, “we”, “us”). Please read them carefully as they set forth the agreement (“Agreement”) between you (or an entity you represent) and VCMC Technologies Ltd.
VCMC Technologies Ltd is incorporated and operating under the laws of the United Kingdom (Registration number: 14751655) with registered office address at 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF, England.
“Affiliates” includes any subsidiaries, related companies, suppliers, agents and partners of Pronety and the officers, directors, employees and representatives of each of them.
By accessing this Website or using our Services you are entering into a binding Agreement with Pronety and you agree to the Terms of Service and also our Privacy Policy and Community guidelines (referred to as “Policies and Guidelines”). If you do not want to enter or wish to terminate this Agreement then please remove your account (if one was created) and stop accessing our Website or using our Services.
Use of our Services is prohibited to anyone under the age of 16. To use our Services you must be at least the age of majority in the jurisdiction where you live. In case you are not, then a parent or legal guardian must consent to the Terms of Service and accept the Agreement on your behalf. In case you use our Services on behalf of an entity then you confirm that you accept the Terms of Service and have the legal authority to bind the entity to this Agreement. You agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulatory requirements when accessing our Website and using our Services.
You must not perform any of the following in relation to our Website or Services:
This Agreement applies to registered members and guests accessing our Website or using our Services.
When you register on our Website you become a member (“Member”). There are three membership types available. You may register as a Professional member (“Professional”) as a Business entity member (“Business”) or as a Guest member (“Guest”). In case you have not registered you may use certain Services as an unregistered guest. You can only register one personal member account (either Professional or Guest) under your real name. You can also register Business member accounts, one for each entity that you represent, where each Business account will bear each entity’s name.
You agree to use a strong password and not disclose it to anyone. You are responsible for all the activity in your account(s) and interactions with other accounts unless you remove it or report misuse.
You agree with us in providing messages and notices to you through our Website within the Services or to the email address that you provided when you registered your account. You may control and limit the extent of emails you receive from us on your account settings.
In our continuous effort to improve our Services and your experience, we may add, remove, change features of our Services without notifying you. If the need arises, we may even suspend access to our Website and our Services or close it indefinitely. We are not responsible to store or keep backups of information that you posted except to the extent required by applicable laws and our Privacy Policy. Pronety reserves the right to control and limit your use of our Services through restricting, suspending or terminating your Member account in case you breach this Agreement or you violate any law or our Policies and Guidelines.
Members are able to post content and information including details of their personal profile, skills and areas of expertise, articles, questions, answers, comments, reviews, peer endorsements, and other information (“User Content”). You own all of the User Content you provide to us but at the same time you are granting us a non-exclusive license to it. When you submit, or post, or give us permission to copy (from other sources that you own) User Content to Pronety, you grant Pronety a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, process, adapt, publish, distribute, store, display, translate, communicate, create derivative works from, and make available to the public throughout the world in any media, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others. You may remove license on specific User Content (except for Questions you ask) simply by deleting it or you can remove license to all User Content (except for Questions you ask) by removing your account. Questions are owned by the Pronety community and are never deleted. Questions asked by you are linked to your account but the author of the question is never displayed on the Website. When you remove your account the link between the questions you asked and your deleted account will also be removed.
You represent and warrant to us that you have ownership rights of the User Content that you post or submit and you agree and promise that you will not violate any laws or the rights of anyone (including personal rights and intellectual property rights) by providing User Content. When adding, removing, updating User Content you must comply with our Community Guidelines, and we reserve the right to modify or remove User Content in case we find that it violates the Agreement or our Policies and Guidelines. You acknowledge and agree that User Content is available for viewing by the general public and may appear on the results of search engines (like Google, Bing, etc).
We may use any feedback or suggestions you submit to us regarding our Services without any compensation or obligation to you.
We are the owners of all intellectual property on our Website and Services (“Our Content”), including but not limited to our logos, texts, graphics, images and software) but excluding User Content. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, limited, revocable license to view and access Our Content available to you in this Website and subject to the terms of this Agreement.
Our Website displays both Our content and User Content that is created by registered members and published via our Services. By accessing our Website and using our Services you may encounter User Content that may be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, offensive, illegal and that violates our Policies and Guidelines. We do not generally screen User Content and we cannot guarantee the accuracy, quality and adequacy of User Content or the qualifications, technical expertise and relevant knowledge of the members posting it. If we encounter User Content that we believe violates any laws or our Policies and Guidelines we may remove or refuse to display it. Your use of and reliance on User Content is at your own risk and you agree that we are not responsible for User Content.
We are not affiliated with Professional members (professional advisers) that post User Content on our Website and interact with other Members and Guests. Pronety and its Affiliates cannot be held responsible for any communications between Professional or Business Members and prospective clients or any other Member or Guest. Professional and Business Members are fully responsible that their communications through the Website and the use of Services fully comply with all applicable laws and rules of professional conduct.
You and Pronety reserve the right to terminate this Agreement at any time without notice to the other. Pronety reserves the right to refuse access to Services to anyone at any time and for any reason. In the event of termination, you will not have access to the Services.
PRONETY AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY ARISING FROM ANY RELIANCE, PLACED BY ANYONE, ON OUR CONTENT OR USER CONTENT DISPLAYED ON OUR WEBSITE OR FROM THE USE OF OUR SERVICES. OUR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW PRONETY AND ITS AFFILIATES MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, THAT OUR SERVICES AND CONTENT WILL BE ERROR FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED. PRONETY AND ITS AFFILIATES ALSO EXPRESSELY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ACCURACY AND COMPLETENESS OF DATA, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PRONETY AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION TO THIS AGREEMENT FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES OR GOODWILL OR REPUTATION, LOSS OF DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH PRONETY WEBSITE AND ITS SERVICES IS TO STOP ACCESSING THE WEBSITE AND ITS SERVICES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, PRONETY AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE PRONETY WEBSITE AND ITS SERVICES OR THIS AGREEMENT FOR ANY AMOUNT THAT EXCEEDS THE TOTAL FEES (IF ANY) THAT WERE PAID BY YOU OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS TO PRONETY TO USE THE SERVICES TO WHICH SUCH CLAIM RELATES.
Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
You agree to release, indemnify, defend and hold harmless Pronety and its Affiliates from and against any actual or threatened claims, damages, costs, liabilities (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to your use or inability to use the Website and our Services, User Content, your conduct and interactions with other users, or your breach of any part of this Agreement.
In the unlikely event of a dispute, you and Pronety agree to resolve it informally within a period of 90 days. Details of the dispute may be delivered to legal@pronety.com describing the nature and basis of the dispute and any specific relief requested. If the dispute cannot be informally resolved and if the relief sought is less than €10,000 you and Pronety agree to resolve the dispute through binding arbitration and not to initiate legal proceedings in a court of law. In such an event an established alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) provider will be mutually agreed by you and Pronety. The arbitration process shall be conducted via telephone, online means and written submissions and will not involve personal appearances unless mutually agreed by both you and Pronety. The arbitration award can be entered as a judgement in any court of competent jurisdiction.
You and Pronety agree to resolve any disputes or claims arising out of or in relation to this Agreement in the Republic of Cyprus courts using Cypriot laws and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum.
This Agreement and our Policies and Guidelines may be amended from time to time applicable on a prospective basis. Any material changes will be communicated to you. If you object to the changes you may remove your account and refrain from accessing the Website and use of our Services. Continued use of our Services after amendments have been published or communicated to you means that you are consenting to the updated terms.
Notices under this agreement must be sent in writing as follows in order to be valid:
This Agreement is the only agreement between you and Pronety regarding your access to our Website and the use of Services and supersede and replace any prior versions of the Agreement. If any provision in this Agreement is found to be unenforceable, you and Pronety agree that the unenforceable provision will be modified to reflect our intend as closely as possible, and will not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions of the Agreement which will remain in full force and effect. You may not assign or transfer this agreement without our prior written consent and any attempt to do so will be void. You agree that Pronety may freely assign or transfer this Agreement without your consent. This Agreement does not create third party beneficiary rights.
Feel free to contact us with any questions regarding access to our Website, use of our Services and this Agreement by email to our support team.
