Terms of Service, Use and Membership
For and in consideration of the premises and of the mutual representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained herein, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, the parties do hereby agree as follows: 1. Parties. This Agreement (the "Agreement" or the "Terms of Use") is between and among Cyweb Holdings Inc. (the "Firm" or the "Company"), an organization having its principal place of Business in Nassau County, New York, USA, and you, the user of this website ( the "User" or "you"). 2. Use. By Continuing to use this web site (or by registering for a member account), you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Agreement between you and the Firm. 3. Eligibility. GovernmentAuctions.org (the "Site" or the "Business") is a website owned, and a business conducted, by the Firm that allows the Site's members to view information and materials on government and other related auctions and auction sources, as well as other relevant information and materials, published by Firm. No one under the age of 18 may use this Site. By registering for membership to the Site, or otherwise in any way using the Site, the User agrees to be bound by these Terms of Use. This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms for the User's use and membership, and failure to comply will result in immediate termination of User's membership privileges. From time to time, this Agreement may be modified by the Firm without any notice. If the modifications are significant, the Firm will likely attempt to notify the User at the email address the User provides upon registering or that the Firm otherwise has on file, but neither the Firm not the Site are under any obligation to do so. It is solely the User's responsibility to check these Terms of Use for any updates or modifications. Changes to these term of use are effective upon notice to User by e-mail, posting at or via hyperlink to the Site, or by mail. 4. Membership. Access to government auction and other listings requires a paid membership subscription. The current rates for Full Membership to the Site are $29.95 for one time 1 month of Access, which automatically rebills monthly until cancelled. The initial monthly charge takes place at the expiration of any FREE TRIAL period. If you cancel your membership prior to such expiration, your membership will be suspended and you will not be charged. If you have had a subsription with Site at anytime in the past, you are not eligible for any FREE TRIAL. Payment for the membership provided to you at and/or through this site may be made by automatic credit card, check or bank debit or through any other facility available during the registration process, and you hereby authorize the Firm and/or its authorized agent (the "Agent"), to transact such payments on your behalf by charging your credit card (or other approved facility) for the subscription fees according to the billing terms for membership posted on these Terms of Use at the time of payment. REFUND POLICY: Subscription fees are earned upon receipt, but any monthly subscription fee is refundable within the first 30 days from when it was paid. Once 30 days passes from payment, that fee is non-refundable regardless of how long the User remains a member. The User agrees to be personally liable for all charges incurred by the User during or through the use of the Site. The User's liability for such charges shall continue after termination of the User's membership for any reason. Unless the User has good reason to believe the credit card (or other approved facility) the User uses to purchase the User's membership is lost or stolen, the User promises and agrees not to report that credit card (or other approved facility) as lost or stolen; and not to dispute any authorized charge by the Agent or the Firm. Once a User registers with the Site and pays the current rate for membership, the User also becomes a Member of the Site (a "Member"), and, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this agreement, the Firm agrees to provide the User with all the membership privileges of a subscription to the Site and its features available to a Member in good standing so long as the User remains such a Member. 5. Transferability; Assignability. A Member may not be assign or transfer that Member's membership to the Site to any other person or entity. Nor may the Member provide any other person or entity access to the Member's membership subscription, either directly or indirectly. This includes, but is not limited to, providing the Member's username and/or password to other parties and making Member's user name and/or password available where others may access them. The Member must keep Member's password strictly confidential. Allowing others to gain unauthorized access to the Site is a breach of this Agreement and a violation of law. The User may not transfer any rights
or obligations the User may have under this Agreement without the prior written
consent of the Firm. The Firm reserves the right to transfer this
Agreement or any right or obligation under this Agreement without the User's
consent. The User agrees that this Agreement and all incorporated agreements may
be automatically assigned by the Firm, in the Firm's sole discretion, to a third
party in the event of a merger or acquisition. 7. Unauthorized Access. The User promises and agrees not to access, view, download, receive or otherwise use, or cause or enable others to access, view, download, receive or otherwise use the materials or information provided by the member-only portions of the Site (collectively, the "Materials"), directly or indirectly, whereby the Firm does not authorize such access, viewing, downloading, receipt or other use. The User acknowledges and agrees that the Firm does not authorize any of the Materials to be accessed, viewed, downloaded, used by, transmitted, broadcast or otherwise disseminated to any person or entity located in any and all areas where such access, viewing downloading, use, transmission, broadcast or other dissemination is prohibited by law ("Prohibited Areas"). The User further acknowledges that the Firm does not authorize the User to cause or enable others to access, view, download, receive or otherwise use the Materials, directly or indirectly. 8. Non-exclusive License. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Firm hereby grants the User a limited, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use the Materials during the period in which the User is a current Member in good standing. User may use the Materials only in accordance with the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use, only on one computer at a time and, if the Firm makes downloadable copies of the Materials available, the User may make only a single copy of such Materials for the User's personal use and enjoyment. The User may not remove any propriety notices from Materials at any time. The User may make no use of Materials not expressly authorized herein or by prior express written authorization from the Firm. Prohibited uses, include, without limitation: (1) permitting other individuals to directly or indirectly use the Materials; (2) modifying, translating, reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling the Materials (except to the extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction); (3) making copies or creating derivative works based on the Materials except as provided herein; (4) renting, leasing, or transferring any rights in the Materials; (5) removing any proprietary notices or labels on the Materials; and (6) making any other use of the Materials not specifically authorized. This license does not grant the User any rights to any software enhancements or updates of any kind. 9. Intellectual, Property, and Other Rights. Except for public domain material or material otherwise licensed to the Firm for electronic dissemination, all Materials and all content contained in, displayed at, or otherwise available through this site, are proprietary, and, except for initial downloading, may not be, without limitation, copied, modified, published, transmitted, distributed, redistributed, performed, displayed, sold, or downloaded, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorization from the Firm. All editions of the Site, and all Materials and other matter and content used directly or indirectly in, at, by, through and/or with this site are protected by the copyright laws of the United States, international copyright treaties and other laws and regulations. All rights are reserved. All intellectual property and other rights in and to the Materials and other matter at this site shall at all times remain in the Firm, its parent(s), subsidiary(ies), licensee(s) and assign(s). All intellectual property and other rights in and to any intellectual property content accessed through the Materials is the property of the applicable content owner, which may be the Firm, its parent(s), subsidiary or subsidiaries, licensee(s) and assign(s), or others, and may be protected by applicable copyright and/or other laws. The limited and non-exclusive license granted to the User herein grants to the User no rights to use such content except as set forth herein. This license will immediately terminate automatically if the User fails to comply with the limitations described herein, breach any other provision of this Agreement, cease, for any reason, to be a Member in good standing, or are notified of its termination by the Firm or its authorized agent(s). The User agrees that upon such termination, the User will immediately destroy all copies of the Materials in the User's and in the possession of anyone else who has gained unauthorized access to or possession of the Materials as a proximate fault of the User. The User agrees that any and all unauthorized access, viewing, downloading, receipt, duplication or other use of any content or Materials in which the User is directly or indirectly involved, including, but not limited to 1) accessing, viewing, downloading, receiving or other use of the Materials in Prohibited Areas and 2) causing or enabling others to access, view, download, receive or otherwise use the Materials, directly or indirectly, shall constitute intentional infringement(s) of this Firm's, and potentially others' intellectual property rights (such as trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets) and other rights in the information and Materials, including, but not limited to, the Firm's right of privacy. The User agrees to be personally liable and fully indemnify the Firm and its agents for any and all damages directly, indirectly and/or consequentially resulting from the User's attempted or actual unauthorized downloading or other duplication of the Materials or any other content from the Site alone, or with or under the authority of, any other person(s), including, without limitation, any governmental agency(ies), wherein such damages include, without limitation, all direct and consequential damages directly or indirectly resulting from the unauthorized downloading of Materials and other content and information from this site including, but not limited to, damages resulting from loss of revenue, loss of property, fines, attorney's fees and costs, including, without limitation, damages resulting from prosecution and/or governmentally imposed seizure(s), forfeiture(s), and/or injunction(s). The Parties agree not to make any statements, written or verbal, or cause or encourage others to make any statements, written or verbal, that defame, disparage or in any way criticize the personal or business reputation, practices, or conduct its employees, directors, and officers. The Parties acknowledge and agree that this prohibition extends to statements, written or verbal, made to anyone, including but not limited to, the news media, investors, potential investors, any board of directors or advisory board or directors, industry analysts, competitors, strategic partners, vendors, employees (past and present), and clients. The Parties understand and agree that this Paragraph is a material provision of this Agreement and that any breach of this Paragraph shall be a material breach of this Agreement, and that each Party would be irreparably harmed by violation of this 10. Access and Interference. The Site may contain robot exclusion headers and the User agrees that the User will not, directly or indirectly, use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy the Site's web pages or the content contained in or on, and accessible through, the Site without the Firm's prior expressed written permission. The User agrees that the User will not use any device, software or routine to bypass any of the Site's existing robot exclusion headers, or to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site. The User agrees that the User will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site's infrastructure. Much of the information on the Site is proprietary or is licensed to the Firm by the Site's other users or third parties. The User agrees that the User will not publicly display or frame any content from the Site and/or provide electronic links to any Materials, without the prior expressed written permission of the Firm. If the User uses, or attempts to use the Site for purposes other than those specifically authorized herein, these purposes not authorized including, but not limited to, tampering, hacking, modifying or otherwise corrupting the security or functionality of Site, the User's membership, if one exists, will be terminated and the User will be subject to damages and other penalties, including criminal prosecution where available. 11. No Competition. The User promises and agrees that, once the User either becomes a Member, or in any way gains access to the Materials, whether this access is authorized or unauthorized, User will not compete commercially in any way and will not in any way facilitate any other party's or entity's commercial competition with the Firm in the Business for a period of three (3) years from, the later of, either the date of termination of the User's membership to the Site, or the User's access to any of the Materials, whereby the User specifically, but without limitation, promises and agrees not to: (i) Call upon, solicit, divert, take away or attempt to call upon, solicit, divert or take away any past, existing or potential customers, suppliers, businesses, or accounts of (a) the Firm in connection with any business substantially similar to the Business in the Territory, which the User acknowledges is worldwide; (ii) Hire, attempt to hire, contact or solicit with respect to hiring for the User or on behalf of any other person any present or future employee of the Firm in the Business; (iii) Engage in, or give any advice to any person, firm, partnership, association, venture, corporation or other entity engaged in, a business substantially similar to the Business in the Territory; (iv) Lend credit, money or reputation for the purpose of establishing or operating a business substantially similar to the Business in the Territory; (v) Do any act that the User knew or reasonably should have known might injure the Firm; and (vi) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions, conduct a business substantially similar to the Business, whether or not under the name "GovernmentAuctions.org" or any other trade names, trademarks or service marks used by the Firm in the Territory. The covenants in subsections (i) through (vi) above are intended to restrict the User from competing in any manner with the Firm or the Business in the activities that have heretofore been carried on by the Firm. The obligations set forth in subsections (i) through (vi) above shall apply to actions by the User through any form of ownership, and whether as principal, officer, director, agent, employee, employer, consultant, shareholder or holder of any equity security (beneficially or as trustee of any trust), lender, partner, joint venturer or in any other individual or representative or affiliated capacity whatsoever. However, none of the foregoing shall prevent User from being the holder of up to 5.0% in the aggregate of any class of securities of any corporation engaged in, directly or indirectly, the activities described in subsections (i) through (vi) above, provided that such securities are listed on a national securities exchange or reported on Nasdaq. 12. Enforcement of Covenants of No Competition. User acknowledges that a violation or attempted violation of any of the covenants and agreements in Section 11 above will cause such damage to the Firm as will be irreparable, the exact amount of which would be difficult to ascertain and for which there will be no adequate remedy at law, and accordingly, the User agrees that the Firm shall be entitled as a matter of right to an injunction issued by any court of competent jurisdiction, restraining such violation or attempted violation of such covenants and agreements by the User, or the affiliates, partners or agents of such User, as well as recover from the User any and all costs and expenses sustained or incurred by Firm in obtaining such an injunction, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees. User agrees that no bond or other security shall be required in connection with such injunction. User further agrees that the periods of restriction set forth in Section 11 above shall be tolled during any period of violation thereof by the User. Any exercise by the Firm of its respective rights pursuant to this Section 12 shall be cumulative and in addition to any other remedies to which Firm may be entitled. 13. Specific Validity of Provisions in Sections 11 and 12. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, if it should ever be held that any provision contained in Sections 11 or 12 does not contain reasonable limitations as to time, geographical area or scope of activity to be restrained, then the court or other tribunal so holding shall, at the request of the Firm, reform such provisions to the extent necessary to cause them to contain reasonable limitations as to time, geographical area and scope of activity to be restrained and to give the maximum permissible effect to the intentions of the parties as set forth herein; and the court or other tribunal shall enforce such provisions as so reformed.
14. User Posted Content. The Site may from time to time include features
that allow Users to post content. By posting content ("User Content"), defined as
messages, profiles, photos, or chat, the User automatically grant to the Firm
and to the Site's other Users an
irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use,
copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content subject to
the Firm's
privacy policy. This license extends to the Firm; to any divisions and
subsidiaries of the Firm, whether based on the Internet or otherwise, including,
but not limited to, the Site; and to the Firm's affiliates, officers, agents and
other partners and employees.
The posting of a 3rd party's copyrighted material on the Site
by a user is strictly prohibited. The Firm, at its sole discretion may delete
any User Content that violates these terms of use or is in any other way offensive,
illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm or threaten the safety of other
Site users.
18. Force Majeure. In no instance shall the Firm be liable in damages or otherwise for any delay or default in performing its obligations hereunder if such delay or default is caused by matters beyond the reasonable control of the Firm, such as, but not limited to, power failures, server failures, wars or insurrections, acts of God, acts of government, strikes, fires, floods, earthquakes, work stoppages, embargoes, or the failure of third parties, including, without limitation, suppliers and subcontractors, to perform their obligations to the Firm, and/or inability to obtain material. 19. Goods and Services offered by Third Parties. The Firm does not screen or endorse advertisements or communications submitted to, posted on, or otherwise made available through, the Site, directly or indirectly, by third-party licensees, advertisers, or users. Neither the Firm nor its agents assume any responsibility or liability for any third party advertisers or any other third party offer. The User agrees to indemnify and hold the Firm, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents and all other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, for any dispute due to or arising out of any User's or anyone else's use of a third party offer or advertisement or promotion. The User is therefore advised to use the User's own judgment to evaluate all advertisements and other third party communications available at or through the use of the Site prior to purchasing goods and/or services described at the Site or other websites or otherwise responding to any communication at the Site or other websites. 20. Limitation of Liability. To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will the Firm or its agents be liable to Users or any third party for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including, without limitation, lost profit, arising from User's use of the Site or any service made available by the Site or contained therein. The Firm's liability to any User for any cause whatsoever will be limited to any membership fee that was paid by that User. The Firm and the Site shall in no way ever be liable to any third party. ALL AUCTION OR
FORECLOSURE DATA PROVIDED IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. RELIANCE UPON THE
INFORMATION IS SOLELY AT THE RISK OF THE RECIPIENT. THE INFORMATION IS SUBJECT
TO ERRORS OMISSIONS AND CHANGES. ALL INFORMATION HEREIN SHOULD BE VERIFIED WITH
THE LISTER AND/OR THE SELLER BEFORE FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS ARE MADE.
22. Disputes. The User agrees
that all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be
finally settled under the Rules of the American Arbitration Association by one or more arbitrators appointed
in accordance with said Rules. The place of arbitration shall be Nassau County,
New York, USA. The User hereby renounces any right of recourse that the User may have
before the court of any jurisdiction, (including, without limitation, all rights to judicial review
of the arbitrator's
decision and any award contained therein)
except to obtain preliminary or injunctive
relief or enforce an award of the arbitrator, in which case, and only in which
case, the federal or state courts located in the state of new York shall have
jurisdiction to hear any dispute under this Agreement. The parties
hereby waive all rights to judicial review of the arbitrator's decision and any
award contained therein.
If any award rendered by an
arbitrator in accordance with this arbitration clause would not be capable of
being executed in the jurisdiction of a party against whom a claim for payment
is made or where that party resides or carries on business, neither the award
nor said arbitration clause shall bar a party hereto from taking action before
the courts that have jurisdiction over such other party. 24. Waiver. The waiver by the Firm of a breach of any provision of this Agreement shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by any party nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing waiver. 25. Validity. If any provision hereof is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under present or future laws effective during the term hereof, then the court or other tribunal so holding shall, at the request of the Firm, reform such provision to the extent necessary to cause it to become legal, valid and enforceable to give the maximum permissible effect to the intentions of the parties as set forth herein; and the court or other tribunal shall enforce such provisions as so reformed. 26. Electronic Communications. The User agrees that this Agreement constitutes "a writing signed by the User" under any applicable law or regulation. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement and any other agreements, notices or other communications regarding the User's membership account and/or the User's use of the Site, may be provided to the User electronically and the User agrees to receive all Communications from the Firm in electronic form. Electronic Communications may be posted on the pages within the Site and/or delivered to the e-mail address that the User provides upon registering to become a Member, or that the firm otherwise has on file. The user may print a copy of any Communication and retain it for the User's records. All Communications in either electronic or paper format will be considered to be in "writing," and to have been received upon posting or dissemination, whether or not the User have received or retrieved the Communication. the Firm reserves the right but assumes no obligation to provide Communications in paper format. 27. Severability. Subject to Sections 11, 12, and 13, but notwithstanding anything else contained in any prior Sections of this Agreement, if any provision hereof is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under present or future laws effective during the term hereof, such provision shall be fully severable; this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision had never comprised a part hereof; and the remaining provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected by the illegal, invalid or enforceable provision or by its severance here from, except that, the court or other tribunal so holding shall, at the request of the Firm, reform such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision to the extent necessary to cause it to become legal, valid and enforceable, and the other provisions of this Agreement will not be affected by any such reformation. 28. Miscellaneous. The User acknowledges that the User has had read the Entire Agreement and that the User has had opportunity to print or to otherwise retain a copy of the same for the User's records. 29. Headings. The headings of the sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to constitute part of this Agreement or to affect the construction hereof. 30. Survival of Obligations. Except where otherwise explicitly stated, the provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, Sections 11, 12, and 13, shall survive the Agreement's termination. 31. Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the User and the Firm regarding the User's use of this site, Materials and all other materials and content directly and indirectly related thereto. This Agreement supersedes all prior written and oral understandings, writings, and representations and may only be amended upon notice by the Firm. |