Terms of Use
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
A. INTRODUCTION.
Welcome to the SmartDeploy web site. Prowess ("Prowess") makes available
a variety of resources (collectively the “Services”) through this site.
These Services are subject to the following terms and conditions (“Terms and
Conditions”), which are legal obligations. The Services include any updates,
new features, enhancements and the addition of new Web properties. Prowess does
not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender,
religion, sexual orientation or any other protected status.
B. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
By using the Services, you agree to be bound by, and to comply with, these Terms
and Conditions and any other rules or guidelines, which we may implement for any
individual Web site or Service. Prowess reserves the right to update these Terms
and Conditions at any time without notice to you. You may review the most current
version of the Terms and Conditions by clicking the hypertext link located at the
bottom of our Web pages.
C. CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE.
If you fail to comply with the Terms and Conditions, or if you engage in any of
the following activities, Prowess may terminate your use of the Services: (a) using
the Services for any unlawful purpose; (b) using the Services for any purpose prohibited
by the Terms and Conditions; (c) engaging in any conduct that Prowess, in its sole
discretion, believes is or may be harmful to another user or to any other party,
directly or indirectly; (d) violating any foreign, federal, state or local law or
regulation; (e) using the Services in a manner that could impair, disable, overburden
or damage any Prowess server, or the network(s) connected to any Prowess server,
or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of any Services; (f)
attempting to gain unauthorized access to any Services, other accounts, computer
systems or networks connected to any Prowess server or to any of the Services, through
hacking, password mining or any other means. In addition, Prowess may terminate
any user’s access for any reason or no reason at all in its sole discretion,
with or without prior notice.
D. REGISTRATION AND PRIVACY.
Certain of the Services may require you to register. You will provide us with current,
complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form.
You agree to update this data when necessary to keep it current and accurate. You
will be solely responsible for choosing and maintaining in confidence your password
and user name. Prowess will not be responsible should someone else use your password
or account, and you agree to notify Prowess promptly of any unauthorized use of
your account or other breach of security.
All registrations become Prowess exclusive property, and Prowess reserves the right
to use all registrations and personally identifiable user information, subject to
the Prowess Privacy Policy.
Please click here to review our complete
Privacy Policy.
E. USE OF SERVICES.
The Services are for your personal use, only, except where otherwise expressly provided.
The products, services, software and information obtained from the Services may
not be sold, transferred, licensed, reproduced, displayed, published, distributed,
copied, performed or modified by you, or used to create derivative works.
You agree to use the Services only to post, send and receive messages and material
that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Service. As examples
of improper use, you agree not to:
a. Harass, stalk, defame, abuse, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights
(such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
b. Post, upload or disseminate any obscene, indecent, profane, defamatory or other
inappropriate or illegal material.
c. Use the Services in connection with surveys, contests, raffles, games, “pyramid
schemes,” chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited
messages.
d. Collect or store personally identifying information about other users for commercial
or unlawful purposes.
e. Make any sexual request on behalf of or to a minor or harm minors in any other
way.
f. Impersonate anyone.
g. Employ misleading addresses or false information.
h. Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs,
software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including without
limitation copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless
you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary approvals.
i. Use any material or information, including without limitation images or photographs,
which are made available through the Services in any manner that infringes anyone’s
proprietary right.
j. Upload, post, email or otherwise transmit files that contain so-called viruses,
Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, trap doors, corrupted files, or any other similar
software or programs that may damage the operation of anyone’s computer or
property or adversely affect the quality, performance or functionality of the Services.
k. Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose,
unless such Services specifically allow such messages.
l. Inhibit or restrict any other user from using and enjoying the Services.
m. Delete or falsify any copyright information, such as author attributions, legal
or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source
of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
n. Download any file posted by another user of a Service that you know, or reasonably
should know, may not be legally reproduced, displayed, performed, or distributed
in such manner.
o. Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may apply to any particular
Service.
p. Collect information about others, including email addresses.
q. Violate any applicable laws or regulations, including without limitation regulations
promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and rules of any national
or regional securities exchange.
r. Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to anyone
any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage information.
s. Decompile, disassemble, modify, translate, adapt, reverse engineer, create derivative
works from or sublicense any software employed in connection with Services.
Prowess is not required to monitor the Services. However, Prowess reserves the right
to review and remove materials posted to the Services in its sole discretion.
In its sole discretion, Prowess may disclose any information it deems necessary
or appropriate to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental
request, or refuse to post, remove or edit any materials, in whole or in part.
F. SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
Any software that is made available to download from the Services ("Software") is
the copyrighted work of Prowess and/or its suppliers. The end user license agreement,
if any, which accompanies or is included with the Software ("License Agreement”),
governs its use. An end user will be unable to install any Software that is accompanied
by or includes a License Agreement, unless he or she first agrees to the License
Agreement terms.
The Software is made available for download solely for use by end users according
to the terms of the License Agreement.
COPYING OR REPRODUCING THE SOFTWARE TO ANY OTHER LOCATION FOR FURTHER REPRODUCTION
OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED, UNLESS SUCH REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION
IS EXPRESSLY PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT OF THE LAW.
PROWESS MAY MAKE AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE SERVICES OR IN ITS SOFTWARE PRODUCTS,
TOOLS AND UTILITIES FOR USE AND/OR DOWNLOAD. PROWESS MAKES NO ASSURANCES AS TO THE
ACCURACY OF THE RESULTS OR OUTPUT THAT DERIVES FROM SUCH USE OF ANY SUCH TOOLS AND
UTILITIES.
EXCEPT AS MAY BE WARRANTED IN THE LICENSE AGREEMENT, PROWESS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ALL WARRANTIES
AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, INFORMATIONAL
CONTENT OR ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, WHETHER EXPRESS,
IMPLIED OR STATUTORY.
G. DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
Prowess grants you permission to use documents (such as white papers, press releases
and FAQs) from the Services (“Documents”), provided that (1) the copyright
notice shown below appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and
this permission notice appear, (2) no modifications of any Documents are made and
(3) use of such Documents from the Services is for informational and non-commercial
or personal use only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or
broadcast in any media. Accredited educational institutions may download and reproduce
the Documents for distribution in the classroom, but distribution outside the classroom
requires prior written permission. Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited
by law, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be
prosecuted to the maximum extent possible.
PROWESS AND ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION
CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE SERVICES
FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. PROWESS AND ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND
CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ALL WARRANTIES
AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, INFORMATIONAL
CONTENT OR ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, WHETHER EXPRESS,
IMPLIED OR STATUTORY.
THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THE SERVICES MAY INCLUDE TECHNICAL
INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. PROWESS AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY
MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCTS INFORMATION OR THE PROGRAMS DESCRIBED
HEREIN AT ANY TIME.
Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the SmartDeploy.com
web site, or any other Prowess owned, operated, licensed or controlled site. Elements
of Prowess web sites are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition,
and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic,
sound or image from any Prowess web site site may be copied or retransmitted unless
expressly permitted by Prowess.
H. MATERIALS PROVIDED TO PROWESS OR POSTED AT ANY PROWESS WEB SITE.
Prowess does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Prowess or post,
upload, input or submit to any Services for review by anyone (each a "Submission"
and collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing
or submitting ("Posting") your Submission you are granting Prowess, its affiliated
companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection
with the operation of their Internet businesses (including without limitation all
Services), including without limitation the license rights to: copy, distribute,
transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat
your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and to
sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services.
By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control
all of the rights to your Submission, including without limitation all rights necessary
for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided
herein. Prowess is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide,
and Prowess may remove any Submission at any time in its sole discretion.
In addition, by Posting a Submission that contains images, photographs, pictures
or that is otherwise graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent
that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or the copyright owner has
granted you permission to use such Images or any content and/or images contained
in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise
permitted by these Terms and Conditions and the Services, (b) you have the rights
necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms and Conditions,
and (c) any person depicted in such Images has provided consent to the use of the
Images as set forth in these Terms and Conditions, including without limitation
the distribution, public display and reproduction of such Images. By Posting Images,
you are granting (a) to all members of your private community (for each such Image
available to members of such private community), and (b) to the general public (for
each such Image available anywhere on the Services, other than a private community),
permission to use your Images in connection with the use, as permitted by these
Terms and Conditions, of any of the Services, and including without limitation a
non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free license to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly
display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Images without
having your name attached to such Images, and the right to sublicense such rights
to any supplier of the Services. The licenses granted in the preceding sentences
for Images will end when you completely remove such Images from the Services, provided
that, such termination shall not affect any licenses granted in connection with
such Images prior to the time you completely remove such Images. No compensation
will be paid with respect to the use of your Images.
I. UNSOLICITED IDEA SUBMISSION POLICY.
Prowess does not accept or consider unsolicited ideas or work, including without
limitation ideas for new promotions, new products or technologies. To avoid potential
misunderstandings or disputes when Prowess products or marketing strategies might
seem similar to ideas submitted to Prowess, please do not send your unsolicited
ideas to Prowess or anyone at Prowess. If, despite our request, you still send them,
please understand that your ideas and materials will not be treated as confidential
or proprietary, and we will have no obligations to you with respect to such ideas
or materials or their disposition.
J. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES.
The links in this area will let you leave Prowess's site. Prowess is providing these
links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply
endorsement by Prowess of the site. The linked sites are not under Prowess’
control, and Prowess is not responsible for the content of any linked site or any
link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. Prowess
is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from
any linked site.
K. TRADEMARKS.
SmartDeploy, and/or other Prowess products referenced herein are either registered
trademarks or common law trademarks of Prowess Consulting, LLC in the U.S., the
European Union and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products
mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The example companies,
organizations, products, domain names, email addresses, logos, people and events
depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization,
product, domain name, email address, logo, person, or event is intended or should
be inferred.
L. INDEMNITY AND RELEASE.
By using the Services, you agree to indemnify and defend Prowess and its affiliates,
owners, officers, directors and employees and hold them harmless from and against
any and all claims and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising
from your use of the Services or from any person’s use of any account or password
you maintain, regardless of whether such use is authorized by you. Furthermore,
by using the Services, you agree to release Prowess and its affiliates, owners,
officers, directors and employees from any and all claims, demands, debts, obligations,
damages, costs and expenses of any kind or nature whatsoever, whether known or unknown,
suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, that you may have against them
arising out of or in any way related to your use of the Services. YOU HEREBY AGREE
TO WAIVE ALL LAWS WHICH MAY LIMIT THE EFFICACY OF SUCH RELEASES. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU
SPECIFICALLY AGREE TO WAIVE THE PROVISIONS OF CALIFORNIA CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH
PROVIDES:
“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.”
M. MISCELLANEOUS.
These Terms and Conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of New York without regard to its conflict of laws principles. The failure
of Prowess at any time to require performance of any provision hereof shall in no
manner affect its right at a later time to enforce the same or any other term hereof.
These Terms and Conditions may be amended only by Prowess. In the event of a breach
or threatened breach of these Terms and Conditions, Prowess shall have all applicable
equitable as well as legal remedies.
N. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL PROWESS OR
ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS
OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR ANY
OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES
OR THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES, EVEN IF PROWESS HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN ANY CASE, PROWESS' ENTIRE LIABILITY
UNDER ANY PROVISION OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SHALL BE LIMITED TO U.S.$50.00.
Because some states and jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of
liability, the above limitation may not apply to you. In such states and jurisdictions,
Prowess' liability shall be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.
O. COPYRIGHT NOTICE.
Copyright ©2008 Prowess, USA. All rights reserved.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
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Last updated: 4/12/2008