By accessing, viewing, downloading or otherwise using Confluxes or any webpage or feature available through Confluxes, any information provided as part of the Confluxes services, or any related emails, newsletters or services (hereinafter collectively "Confluxes" or the "Services"), or by clicking "Join Confluxes" during the registration process, you conclude a legally binding agreement with Confluxes Ltd, Studio 5, 155 Commercial Street, London, United Kingdom, E1 6BJ ("we") based on the terms of this Confluxes User Agreement ("Agreement") and become a Confluxes customer ("Customer"). As a User, you will be representing your associated Business, the direct customer of Confluxes, to use the services provided by Confluxes, the individual user are nevertheless individually bound by this Agreement. If you do not want to become a User or register your Business, do not conclude the Agreement, do NOT click "Join Confluxes" and do not access, view, download or otherwise use any Confluxes webpage, information or services.
We encourage you to read this User Agreement with great care in order to participate with us as a User in the development of a quality service and first-rate Internet. By becoming a User, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the terms and conditions of this User Agreement and that you agree to be bound by all of its provisions.
Your Obligations - What You Must Do
Comply with laws and the Agreement: You must comply with all applicable laws, the Agreement, as may be amended, and the following terms, which are incorporated into this Agreement:
DOs and DON'Ts
Notice and Take-Down Procedure Terms for Complaints regarding Copyright Infringement and Content
License and warrant your submissions:
You do not have to submit anything to the Confluxes network, but if you choose to submit something (including any User generated content, ideas, concepts, techniques and data), you must grant, and you actually grant by concluding this Agreement, a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sublicenseable, fully paid up and royaltyfree right to us to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, and use and commercialize, in any way now known or in the future discovered, anything that you submit to us, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties. By submitting any information to us, you represent and warrant that such submission is accurate, is not confidential (unless where specifically selected so by the Business), and is not in violation of any contractual restrictions or other third party rights. You further agree to inform Confluxes in the event that any such information has changed since your registration with Confluxes and, if appropriate, you agree to make such modifications yourself to your profile. Confluxes exercises no control over any content you or others submit while using Confluxes. Confluxes has no obligation to verify the identity of any Businesses or Users when they are connected to the site or to supervise the content which has been provided by Businesses and Users. Note that we describe our current practices related to personally identifiable information collected through Confluxes in our Privacy Policy and that we may update our policies and practices from time to time at our sole discretion. Should you believe that someone is misusing or otherwise appropriating your information, you must immediately inform Confluxes. Prior to joining Confluxes, you must consider and decide, yourself, the extent to which you wish to reveal information about yourself to the large community of Confluxes Users and to Confluxes and you must not communicate to Confluxes and its Users any information the dissemination of which could be harmful to you.
Service Eligibility:
You represent and warrant that your Business's users you (a) are not under the age of 18; (b) have not previously been suspended or removed from Confluxes; (c) are not a direct competitor of Confluxes; (d) do not have more than one Confluxes account at any given time; and (e) that you have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and in doing so will not violate any other agreement to which you are a party. In addition, you must provide all equipment and software necessary to connect to Confluxes, including, but not limited to, if the Service contains a mobile element, a mobile hand set or other mobile access device that is in working order and suitable for use in connection with the Service and to use any part of the Service.
Keep your password secure:Keep your password confidential, do not use other Businesses or Users' from the same business' accounts and do not let others use your account; you are responsible for anything that happens through your account - until you notify us of a breach (
support@confluxes.com), close down your account or prove that your account security was compromised due to a fault of our systems. You are prohibited from selling, trading or otherwise transferring your Confluxes account or any information therein to another party or charging anyone for access to any portion of Confluxes, or any information therein.
Indemnify us:
You have to indemnify us and hold us harmless from any damages, losses and costs (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys' fees) related to third party claims, charges or investigations, caused by (a) your failure to comply with this Agreement, including, without limitation, your submission of content that violates third party rights or applicable laws, (b) any content you submit to Confluxes or (c) any activity in which you engage on or through the Confluxes.
Pay:
If you subscribe to any services that we offer for a charge, you will pay the applicable fees (including, without limitation, monthly fees for premium accounts) as they become due plus all related taxes and reimburse us for any collection costs and interest for any overdue amounts.
Notify us of acts contrary to the Agreement:
If you believe that you are entitled or obligated to act contrary to this Agreement under any mandatory laws, you agree to provide us with detailed, 30 days prior written notice before you act contrary to this Agreement, to allow us to assess whether we may, at our sole discretion, provide an alternative remedy for the situation.
Premium Services:
If you have access to any Confluxes's Premium Services, this User Agreement applies to your use of such services.
Mobile Services:
Certain parts of the Service may be available via your mobile phone or accessible on your mobile phone through a downloadable application ("Mobile Services"). In using Mobile Services, you agree that we may communicate with you regarding the Service by SMS, MMS, text message or other electronic means to your mobile device and that certain information about your usage of the Mobile Services may be communicated to us. In addition, use of the Mobile Services may cause icons and data to be displayed on and through your mobile device, which data may be updated on a periodic basis by connecting to and transferring data from servers through the Internet and/or communication systems to provide content updates and to populate your mobile device with new information. By using Mobile Services, you hereby explicitly agree to the foregoing service functionality. In the event you change or deactivate your mobile telephone number, you agree to promptly update your Confluxes account information to ensure that your messages are not sent to the person that acquires your old number. Use of the Mobile Services may result in charges imposed by your wireless provider and you will be responsible for such charges. In addition, downloading, installing, or using certain Mobile Services may be prohibited or restricted by your carrier, and not all Mobile Services may work with all carriers or devices. Therefore, you should check with your carrier to find out if the Mobile Services are available for your mobile devices, and what restrictions, if any, may be applicable to your use of such Mobile Services. Finally, by using any downloadable application to enable your use of the Mobile Services, you are explicitly confirming your acceptance of the terms of the mobile End User License Agreement provided at download.
Privacy:You should carefully read our full
Privacy and Information Protection Policy before deciding to become a User of Confluxes. Please note that certain information, statements, data and content (such as photographs) which you may choose to provide might, or are likely to, reveal your gender, ethnic origin, nationality, religion and/or sexual orientation, and that you are providing all such information, statements, data and content in full acknowledgment thereof and under your sole responsibility. By providing such information to us, all of which is optional, you are hereby expressly giving your informed consent to the processing by us of such "sensitive" data.
Export Control:
Your use of Confluxes services, including its software, is subject to export and reexport control laws and regulations, including the the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR") maintained by the United States Department of Commerce and sanctions programs maintained by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. You shall not - directly or indirectly - sell, export, reexport, transfer, divert, or otherwise dispose of any software or service to any end-user without obtaining any required authorizations from the appropriate government authorities. You also warrant that you are not prohibited from receiving US origin products, including services or software.
Your Rights - What You May Do
On the condition that you comply with all your obligations under the Agreement, we grant you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nonassignable, nonsublicenseable right to access, through a generally available web browser (but not any scraping, spidering, crawling or other technology or specialist software used to harvest data) to view information that we provide on Confluxes webpages as we intend such information to be used, and only in accordance with the Agreement and any specific terms of use that we make available to you. You may submit information to us at your own risk of loss per Sections 1, 4 and 8 hereof. We grant you no other rights, implied or otherwise.
Our Rights and Obligations - What We Must And May Do
The purpose of Confluxes is to provide a service to enable the business value chain network for discovery, and commercial relationship, interaction and activity management, through networking among Businesses throughout the world. It is intended that Businesses (through their appointed Users) to search for solutions and opportunities, and interact with other Businesses' Users to establish or further develop commercial activity with those Businesses. For as long as Confluxes continues to offer services, Confluxes shall provide (and seek to update, improve and expand, in similar and different new ways) the Confluxes platform and service with the purpose of providing all members with professional networking connectivity, through Confluxes's proprietary tools, rules and protocols which Confluxes may update, improve, discontinue and change at any time, at Confluxes's sole discretion. Any other use of Confluxes (such as seeking to connect to someone a User does not know or to use Confluxes as a means of generating revenue through the sale of contacts or information to others) is strictly prohibited and is a violation of this Agreement. We allow your Businesses and its appointed Users to access Confluxes as it may exist and be available on any given day. We have no other obligations, except as expressly stated in this Agreement. We may modify, replace, refuse access to, suspend or discontinue Confluxes, partially or entirely, or to charge and modify prices for Confluxes. All of these changes shall be effective upon their posting on our site or by email communication to you. We reserve all rights not expressly granted herein, including, without limitation, title, ownership, intellectual property rights, and all other rights and interest in Confluxes and all related items. Confluxes reserves the right to withhold, remove and or discard any content available as part of your account, with or without notice. For avoidance of doubt, Confluxes has no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any content that you or other Users provide when using the Services. Confluxes may include or automatically produce links to third party web sites (Third Party Sites). Confluxes is not responsible for and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources. Confluxes may also include articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (the "Third Party Applications, Software or Content"). If you decide to leave Confluxes and access the Third Party Sites or to use or install any Third Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any site to which you navigate from Confluxes or relating to any applications you use or install from the site. Confluxes enables certain third-party developers (Platform Developers) to create web services that integrates with the Confluxes network and applications that retrieve data made available by Confluxes and its users and/or that retrieve authorized data from third-party sites for use through the Service ("Platform Applications"). Platform Developers may require you to agree to their own terms of service, privacy policies and/or other policies as a condition of using their respective Platform Applications. For a more detailed discussion of Platform Developers, please refer to Confluxes's Privacy Policy. You acknowledge and agree that we may send you important information and notices regarding the Service by email or through other means, including mobile or other hand held devices. You acknowledge and agree that we shall have no liability associated with or arising from your failure to maintain accurate contact or other information, including, but not limited to, your failure to receive critical information about the Service. You acknowledge, consent and agree that we may access, preserve, and disclose your registration and any other information you provide if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce this Agreement; (c) respond to claims of a violation of the rights of third-parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Confluxes, the Confluxes Affiliates, its Users and the public. Confluxes may limit the number of connections you may have to other Users and prohibit you from contacting other Users through use of the Services. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other members. Confluxes reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members and to terminate your account if Confluxes determines, in its sole discretion, that doing so is prudent.
Disclaimer
SOME COUNTRIES AND JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED TERMS IN CONTRACTS WITH CONSUMERS AND AS A RESULT THE CONTENTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
DO NOT RELY ON CONFLUXES, ANY INFORMATION THEREIN, OR ITS CONTINUATION. WE PROVIDE THE PLATFORM FOR CONFLUXES AND ALL INFORMATION AND SERVICES ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. WE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY EXPRESS WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED OR HARMED BY CONFLUXES OR ANYTHING RELATED TO CONFLUXES, YOU MAY LEAVE CONFLUXES AND TERMINATE THE AGREEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 6 HEREOF AND SUCH TERMINATION SHALL BE YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY.
CONFLUXES IS NOT RESPONSIBLE, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES FOR THE DELIVERY OF ANY MESSAGES SENT THROUGH CONFLUXES TO ANYONE OUTSIDE OF THE CONFLUXES WEB SERVICE. IN ADDITION, WE NEITHER WARRANT NOR REPRESENT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES. ANY MATERIAL, SERVICE, OR TECHNOLOGY DESCRIBED OR USED ON THE WEBSITE MAY BE SUBJECT TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OWNED BY THIRD PARTIES WHO HAVE LICENSED TO US SUCH MATERIAL, SERVICE, OR TECHNOLOGY.
CONFLUXES DOES NOT HAVE ANY OBLIGATION TO VERIFY THE IDENTITY OF BUSINESSES (OR THEIR APPOINTED USERS) SUBSCRIBING TO ITS SERVICES, NOR DOES IT HAVE ANY OBLIGATION TO MONITOR THE USE OF ITS SERVICES BY OTHER USERS OF THE COMMUNITY ; THEREFORE, CONFLUXES DECLINES ALL LIABILITY FOR IDENTITY THEFT OR ANY OTHER MISUSE OF YOUR IDENTITY OR INFORMATION.
CONFLUXES DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICES WHICH IT PROVIDES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS IN FUNCTIONING. IN PARTICULAR, THEIR OPERATION MAY BE MOMENTARILY INTERRUPTED DUE TO MAINTENANCE, UPDATES, OR TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENTS. CONFLUXES DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY ANY SUCH INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS IN FUNCTIONING. FURTHERMORE, CONFLUXES DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY MISFUNCTIONING, IMPOSSIBILITY OF ACCESS, OR POOR USE CONDITIONS OF THE CONFLUXES SITE DUE TO INAPPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT, DISTURBANCES LINKED TO THE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER, TO THE SATURATION OF THE INTERNET NETWORK, AND FOR ANY OTHER REASON UNRELATED TO CONFLUXES.
Limitation of Liability
SOME COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY IN CONTRACTS WITH CONSUMERS AND AS A RESULT THE CONTENTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Neither Confluxes Ltd nor any of its subsidiaries, affiliated companies, employees, shareholders, or directors ("Confluxes Affiliates") shall be liable for (1) any damages in excess of five times the most recent monthly fee that you paid for a premium account, if any, or £100 (or any currency at the relevant conversion rate), whichever amount is greater, or (2) any special, incidental, indirect, punitive or consequential damages or loss of use, profit, revenue or data to you or any third person arising from your use of the Service, any platform applications or any of the content or other materials on, accessed through or downloaded from Confluxes even if Confluxes is aware or has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The limitation of liability set forth in the preceding sentence shall:
apply regardless of whether you base your claim on contract, tort, statute or any other legal theory, we knew or should have known about the possibility of such damages, or the limited remedies provided herein fail of their essential purpose, and
not apply to any damage that Confluxes Affiliates cause you intentionally and knowingly in violation of this Agreement or applicable law, or as otherwise mandated by applicable law that cannot be derogated from in this Agreement.
Termination
You may terminate this Agreement, for any or no cause, at any time, with notice to Confluxes which shall be effective upon Confluxes processing such notice. Confluxes may terminate the Agreement for any or no cause, at any time, with or without notice, which shall be effective immediately or as may be specified in the notice. For avoidance of doubt, your access to any Premium Services may be terminated only by Confluxes or the party paying for such services. Termination of your Confluxes account includes disabling your access to Confluxes (including any content you submitted or others submitted) and may also bar you from any future use of Confluxes.
Confluxes may also at its sole discretion limit access to the Service and/or terminate the memberships of any Businesses and/or its representative Users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.
Consequences of Termination
Upon termination, you lose access to Confluxes. The terms of this Agreement shall survive any termination, except Sections 2 and 3 hereof.
United Kingdom Law and Arbitration
Choice of Law: The Agreement and any disputes with us or any Confluxes Affiliate arising out of or relating to the Agreement or Confluxes ("Disputes") shall be governed by California law, excluding conflicts of law principles and excluding the CISG.
Agreement to Arbitrate and Pay Attorneys' Fees: Any Disputes shall be resolved by final and binding arbitration under the rules and auspices of the British Arbitration Association, to be held in London, England, in English, with a written decision stating and legal reasoning issued by the arbitrator(s) at either party's request, and with arbitration fees and reasonable attorneys' fees of both parties to be borne by the party that ultimately loses.
Exception from Arbitration Agreement: Either party may obtain injunctive relief (preliminary or permanent) and orders to compel arbitration or enforce arbitral awards in any court of competent jurisdiction.
General Terms
Severability:
If any provision of the Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable under mandatory laws of a particular jurisdiction, such provision shall be interpreted as to give maximum effect to its intended purpose and this shall not affect the validity or enforceability of (a) such provision under the laws of any other jurisdiction, or (b) any other provision of the Agreement.
Notices: We may notify you via postings on www.confluxes.com, and via email or any other communications means to contact information you provide to us. You may also notify us via email at
legal@confluxes.com or via mail or courier at Confluxes Ltd, Attn: Legal Department, Studio 5, 155 Commercial Street, London, United Kingdom, E1 6BJ; any notices that you provide without compliance with this Section on Notices shall have no legal effect.
Entire Agreement:
You agree that this Agreement constitutes the entire, complete and exclusive agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, whether written or oral, or whether established by custom, practice, policy or precedent, with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement.
Amendments to this Agreement:
We reserve the right to modify, supplement or replace the terms of the Agreement, effective upon posting at www.confluxes.com or notifying you otherwise. If you do not want to agree to changes to the Agreement, you can terminate the Agreement at any time per Section 7 hereof.
No informal waivers, agreements or representations:
Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to that breach or subsequent similar or other breaches. Except as expressly and specifically contemplated by the Agreement, no representations, statements, consents, waivers or other acts or omissions by any Confluxes Affiliate shall be deemed legally binding on any Confluxes Affiliate, unless documented in a physical writing hand signed by a duly appointed officer of Confluxes.
No Injunctive Relief:
In no event shall you seek or be entitled to rescission, injunctive or other equitable relief, or to enjoin or restrain the operation of the Service, exploitation of any advertising or other materials issued in connection therewith, or exploitation of the Service or any content or other material used or displayed through the Service.
Beneficiaries:
Confluxes Affiliates are not parties, but intended third party beneficiaries of this Agreement, with a right to enforce the Agreement directly against you.
Assignment and Delegation:
You may not assign or delegate any rights or obligations under the Agreement and any purported assignment and delegation shall be ineffective. We may freely assign or delegate all rights and obligations under the Agreement, fully or partially. We may also substitute, by way of unilateral novation, effective upon notice to you, Confluxes Corporation for any third party that assumes our rights and obligations under this Agreement.
Confluxes User DOs & DON'Ts
As a condition to access Confluxes, you agree on behalf of the Business you represent and your self as a user representing the registered Business to this User Agreement and to strictly observe the following DOs and DON'Ts:
DO
comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, tax laws, export control laws and regulatory requirements;
provide accurate information to us and update it as necessary;
review the Privacy Policy;
review and comply with notices sent by Confluxes concerning Confluxes;
DON'T
duplicate, license, sublicense, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, sell, rebrand, otherwise transfer or commercially exploit Confluxes (excluding information posted by you) except as permitted in the User Agreement;
reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for any underlying intellectual property used to provide Confluxes, or any part thereof;
include information in your profile or in Status Updates which reveals your identity such as an email address, phone number or address or is confidential in nature;
utilize information, content or any data you view on and/or obtain from Confluxes to provide any service that is competitive, in Confluxes's sole discretion, with Confluxes;
imply or state, directly or indirectly, that you are affiliated with or endorsed by Confluxes unless you have entered in to a written agreement with Confluxes Corporation (this includes representing yourself as an accredited Confluxes trainer if you have not been certified by Confluxes as such);
adapt, modify or create derivative works based on Confluxes or technology underlying the Services, or other Users' content, in whole or part;
rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell access to Confluxes or any information therein, or the equivalent, in whole or part;
deep-link to the Site for any purpose, (i.e. including a link to a Confluxes web page other than Confluxes's home page) unless expressly authorized in writing by Confluxes or for the purpose of promoting your profile or a Group on Confluxes;
access, reload or "refresh" or make any other request to transactional servers more than once during any three second interval;
use manual or automated software, devices, scripts robots, other means or processes to access, "scrape," "crawl" or "spider" any web pages contained in the site unless such pages and information is distinctly publicly accessible;
use automated methods to add contacts, send messages or other permitted activities;
access, via automated or manual means or processes, Confluxes for purposes of monitoring its availability, performance or functionality or for any competitive purpose;
engage in "framing," "mirroring," or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of Confluxes's website;
attempt to or actually access Confluxes by any means other than through the interface provided by Confluxes;
attempt to or actually override any security component included in or underlying Confluxes;
engage in any action that interferes with the proper working of or places an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, including but not limited to unsolicited communications, attempts to gain unauthorized access, or transmission or activation of computer viruses;
remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on Confluxes, including those of both Confluxes or any of its licensors;
remove, cover or otherwise obscure any form of advertisement included as part of Confluxes;
use any information obtained from Confluxes to harass, abuse or harm another person;
collect, use or transfer any information, including but not limited to, personally identifiable information obtained from Confluxes except as expressly permitted in the User Agreement or the owner of such information may expressly permit;
interfere with or disrupt Confluxes, including but not limited to any servers or networks connected to Confluxes, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Confluxes;
invite people with whom you have no prior relationship to join your network;
upload a cartoon, symbol, drawing or any content other than a photograph of yourself in your profile photo;
use or attempt to use another's account without authorization from the Company, or create a false identity on Confluxes;
infringe or use Confluxes's brand, logos and/or trademarks, including, without limitation, using the word "Confluxes" in any business name, email, or URL or including Confluxes's trademarks and logos on any website without authorization;
upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available or initiate any content that:
falsely states, impersonates or otherwise misrepresents your identity, including but not limited to the use of a pseudonym, or misrepresenting your current or previous positions and qualifications, or your affiliations with a person or entity, past or present;
is unlawful, libelous, abusive, obscene, discriminatory or otherwise objectionable;
includes telephone numbers, email addresses, street addresses or any personally identifiable information for which there is not a field provided by Confluxes;
includes information that you do not have the right to disclose or make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as insider information, or proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
infringes upon patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights or other proprietary rights;
includes any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation. This prohibition includes but is not limited to (a) using Confluxes to send messages to Businesses who don't know you or who are unlikely to recognize you as a known contact; (b) using Confluxes to interact with Businesses who don't know you and then sending unsolicited promotional messages to those direct connections without their permission; and (c) sending messages to distribution lists, newsgroup aliases, or group aliases.
contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment of Confluxes or any User of Confluxes;
forges headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any communication transmitted through the Services; and/or
adds to a content field content that is not intended for such field (i.e. submitting a telephone number in the "title" or any other field).
Participate, directly or indirectly, in the setting up or development of a network which seeks to implement practices which are similar to purposes of creating a network thereof or other similar practices.
Claims Regarding Copyright Infringement
Each User grants Confluxes a license to use the content supplied by each such User for the purposes of disclosure on the Confluxes website.
This license includes, inter alia, the right for Confluxes to reproduce, represent, adapt, translate, digitize, use for advertising purposes, whether commercial or non-commercial, to sublicense or to transfer the content concerning each User (including information, pictures, descriptions, search criteria, etc.) over all or part of the Services and/or in any mailings of Confluxes and in general through any electronic communication media (email, SMS, MMS, WAP, Internet, CD Rom or DVD).
Each User expressly authorizes Confluxes to modify said content in order to conform to the interface or display requirements of the Services or of other communications media as set forth above, and/or to render them compatible with its technical performance or media format in question. These rights are granted throughout the world and for the entire term of this Agreement. The User is prohibited from copying, reproducing or otherwise using the content relating to other Users of Confluxes for any purpose other than for those purposes strictly related to use of the Confluxes services for personal purposes.
Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sec. 512, Confluxes Ltd has designated an agent to receive notices of claimed copyright infringement. If you believe in good faith that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Confluxes Ltd's Copyright Agent the following information:
An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Confluxes Corporation's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows: by e-mail at
copyrightagent@confluxes.com or by mail at:
Confluxes Ltd
ATTN: Copyright Agent
Studio 5, 155 Commercial Street, London, United Kingdom, E1 6BJ
Upon receipt of the written notification containing the information as outlined above:
Confluxes Corporation may remove or disable access to the material that is alleged to be infringing;
Confluxes Corporation may forward the written notification to such alleged infringer; and
Confluxes Corporation may take reasonable steps to promptly notify the alleged infringer that it has removed or disabled access to the material.
Counter-Notification:
If the alleged infringer believes that a notice of copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against it and it would like to submit a counter-notification, it may file a Counter-Notification in Response to Claim of Copyright Infringement with Confluxes Ltd's Copyright Agent.
To be effective, a Counter-Notification must be a written communication provided to the Confluxes Ltd's Copyright Agent for Notice that includes the following information:
A physical or electronic signature of the alleged infringer;
Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
A statement under penalty of perjury that the alleged infringer has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
The alleged infringer's name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the alleged infringer consents to the jurisdiction of Crown Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the alleged infringer's address is outside of the United Kingdom, for any judicial district in which Confluxes Ltd may be found, and that the alleged infringer will accept service of process from the person who provided notification or an agent of such person.
Upon receipt of a Counter-Notification containing the information as outlined above:
Confluxes Ltd may promptly provide you with a copy of the Counter-Notification;
Confluxes Ltd may inform you that it will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it within ten (10) business days; and
Confluxes Ltd may replace the removed material or cease disabling access to the material within ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days following receipt of the Counter-Notification, provided Confluxes Ltd's Copyright Agent for Notice has not received notice from you that an action has been filed seeking a court order to restrain Subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on Confluxes Ltd's network or system.
You may want to seek the advice of independent legal counsel before filing a notification or counter-notification.
Notice and Procedure for Making Complaints Regarding Content
To notify Confluxes Ltd of Content that infringes your rights (other than copyright violations in which case please email
copyrightagent@confluxes.com) or is otherwise unlawful ("Specified Content"), you must send a notice to the Confluxes Ltd Content Complaint Manager by mail, e-mail, or fax, and provide the following information:
Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
A description of the Specified Content that your claim either infringes your rights or is otherwise unlawful, specifying which parts of it you believe infringe your rights, or are unlawful, and which parts you believe should be removed;
A description of the exact location of the Specified Content on the Web Site;
(In the event you believe that the Specified Content infringes your rights): A statement specifying in detail the rights you assert, and why the Specified Content infringes them;
(In the event you believe that the Specified Content is otherwise unlawful): A statement specifying in detail which laws you believe are being breached, and why the Specified Content does so;
A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are damaged by the Specified Content or authorized to act on such person's behalf; and
Your electronic or physical signature (as appropriate).
When we receive a notice that complies with the above requirements, we will evaluate the information you provided (including, if appropriate, forwarding the notice to, or otherwise contacting the source of the Specified Content), and if appropriate in our judgment, remove or disable access to the Specified Content. In such case, we may notify the source of the Specified Content of your complaint and our action taken. In some cases, if the source of the Specified Content provides us with information indicating that the Specified Content has been removed wrongly, we may reinstate the Specified Content. Our take-down and re-instatement procedures are and remain at our sole discretion.
You may want to seek the advice of independent legal counsel before filing a notice or responding to a notice filed by someone else.
Contact information for Confluxes Ltd's Content Complaint Manager is as follows:
E-Mail:
abuse@confluxes.com
Mail:
Confluxes Ltd
ATTN: General Counsel
Studio 5, 155 Commercial Street, London, United Kingdom, E1 6BJ
The following provisions apply if your country of registration is France, you are using Confluxes from France, and you are using the French version of Confluxes:
In accordance with Article L. 121-20 of the French Consumer Code, you are hereby informed that you have a seven (7) day period from the opening of your account to exercise your right of retraction, without any penalty or cause. However, in accordance with Article L. 121-20-2, 1° of the French Consumer Code, this right of retraction cannot be exercised once you have used the services of the account in question.
You agree that you will not participate directly or indirectly in a network seeking to implement practices similar to "snowball" sales or services as set forth in Articles L 122-6 and L 122-7 of the French Consumer Code.
The following provisions apply and prevail over the above stated clauses if your country of registration is Germany, you are using Confluxes from Germany and you are using the German version of Confluxes:
Liability
Subject to the provisions contained in the following paragraph and irrespective of legal grounds, Confluxes is liable only for damages resulting from the intentional misconduct or gross negligence of Confluxes, its legal representatives, employees or authorized agents ("Agents").
For damages resulting from the gross negligence of Confluxes or its Agents, liability is limited to damages commonly associated with the agreement in question. For damages caused by Confluxes or its Agents in the absence of intentional misconduct or gross negligence, Confluxes's liability is limited to the extent that violations extend to obligations the satisfaction of which is of critical importance to the achievement of the respective agreement's purpose (cardinal obligation). In the event that a cardinal obligation is violated by way of light negligence, liability is limited to damages commonly associated with the agreement in question. The above limitation of liability does not affect liability as prescribed by the German Product Liability Act or for damages from (i) injuries to life, body and health, or (ii) the assumption of a guarantee or procurement risk. To the extent that Confluxes's liability is excluded or limited under the foregoing provisions, such provisions also operate to the benefit of Confluxes Agents in cases in which a User sues Confluxes Agents directly.
Decompilation
In case you download certain software provided by Confluxes, you are only entitled to decompile the Software under the rules provided in Sec. 69e Copyright Act (Urhebergesetz) and only after Confluxes has not provided the necessary information and data for allowing to establish interoperability with third party hard- or software after a written request within an adequate timeframe.
Right of Revocation
If the User is a consumer (Sec. 13 German Civil Code), he or she may revoke registration for the Free or Premium Membership in writing (for example by letter, fax or eMail) without stating a reason within two (2) weeks of registration. Furthermore, the User may cancel registration for the Premium Membership in writing (e.g. by post, fax or eMail) within two (2) weeks without stating a reason, after changing from Free Membership to Premium Membership. The two-week periods begin with the reception of this information in text form. For exercising this right it is sufficient to send the revocation of the contract to the following address:
Confluxes Ltd
ATTN: Legal Dept. / Cancellation
Studio 5, 155 Commercial Street, London, United Kingdom, E1 6BJ
e-Mail:
abonnementkuendigen@confluxes.com
In the event of a valid cancellation, both parties shall be obliged to restore any benefits already received in accordance with legal provisions, and issue any gains (e.g. interest). If the User is unable or partially unable to restore the benefits, or only able to restore them in poor condition, to Confluxes, then the User is obligated to reimburse Confluxes for the corresponding value. Each party must fulfill its obligation for reimbursement within 30 days. The deadline begins for the User with the dispatch of the revocation; for Confluxes, it begins with the reception of the revocation sent by the User. The right to revoke the contract expires if Confluxes has begun providing the service with the User's explicit consent before the end of the deadline for the revocation or if the User has initiated the service himself or herself.
Confluxes Ltd, Studio 5, 155 Commercial Street, London, United Kingdom, E1 6BJ, July 22, 2009.
