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Terms And Conditions Of Use

InternDC, Inc.
Terms and Policies


InternDC Terms and Policies were designed to assist our interactive community of interns, young professionals, potential employers and businesses achieve the most enjoyable internet experience from www.interndc.net . The following conditions are divided into sections titled: General Site Policy, Privacy Policy, Terms of Customers and Advertisers, Terms of Service, Messaging Policy, and Chat and Discussion Policies

1. InternDC General Site Policy
-Last Updated: April 30, 2006--

1.1. General Site Policy

All of InternDC’s Terms and Policies including this General Site Policy applies to any individual who visits
www.interndc.net or uses any of our free services, or purchases any of our goods, services and/or advertising options. For all InternDC Terms and Policies and generally on the www.interndc.net website, the following definitions apply:

  • "we", "our" or "InternDC" means InternDC, Incorporated;"we", "our" or "InternDC" means InternDC, Incorporated;
  • "our website" means www.interndc.net;
  • "you", “user”, “visitor”, “member”, or “customer” means the individual visiting, accessing, using, subscribing and/or purchasing our goods and services or advertising options on our website;
  • "services" means all goods or services we provide and anything else we do for you, including allowing your access to, use of, membership with, and/or subscription to our website.

It is important that you are familiar with the terms and policies applying to your access and use of the goods, services and/or advertising options available on our website.

1.2. Separate Terms

Your use of our Services is also subject to InternDC’s Terms of Customers and Terms of Service, and may also be subject to separate terms, service or product descriptions and pricing plans, instructions, policies or guidelines (collectively, "Separate Terms"). Your use of our website or services after the date of each update of this entire policy shows your unconditional agreement to the terms of all InternDC Terms and Policies.

1.3. Complying with Our Policies

By using our services, you agree to comply with this General Site Policy, with all InternDC Terms and Policies and with any additional policies that apply to particular services or communities. The policies are designed to ensure a positive experience for everyone accessing the goods and services available on our website. If you do not comply with any term of this General Site Policy, or the other applicable policies relevant to your use of a particular service, we may enact any and/or all measures described in section 1.9: Site Management – Administrator(s) Rights.

1.4. Changing the Policies

Through the modification, removal or addition of existing terms and/or new terms, we may change this General Site Policy and our policies applying to particular services at any time. Changes may take the form of completely new policies. We will keep you informed about any changes by posting updated version(s) of the particular policy on our website. All changes made by InternDC are effective from the date of publication on our website.

1.5. Unacceptable Activities

The following activities are prohibited:

  • use of any of our services to threaten, abuse, defame, harass or stalk others
  • disrupt activity online, including the posting of persistent off-topic comments
  • spam, including sending unwanted messages, individually or via bulk distribution to multiple users, discussion groups, mailing lists or communities; also includes distributing chain letters, pyramid schemes, hoaxes or false information.
  • access or use of anyone else's computer system, communications services, data and/or data ports, including but not limited to hacking or endeavoring to circumvent user authentication and/or other security measures
  • view, collect, forward or intercept messages, e-mail or other private communications not intended (by the sender or senders) for you, or attempts at any such activities.
  • post or use of any software or device, which may facilitate a continued connection or degrade or impede the service of another user, including but not limited to pinging, mail bombs, war dialing, or any comparable disturbance
  • run network scanning software or use open relay to distribute messages
  • introduce anything harmful or destructive (including but not limited to viruses, worms, Trojan horses, time bombs or bots) to, or interfere in any way with, our or anyone else's computer system or communications services
  • create or use a false identity for the purpose of misleading others as to the identity of the sender or origin of any message.
  • use false message headers or omit message headers.

1.6. Your Responsibilities

Your responsibilities are summarized below and are in the spirit of the entirety of InternDC Terms and Policies; in-so-being, your responsibilities include but are not limited or restricted to the following:

  • all of your activities while using any of our services and for anything you say or post on the site
  • using your personal judgment in the evaluation of information you access on our website or our goods and services. Information may not be from professionals and may originate from individuals of any age or experience level
  • your personal information. We highly recommend you do not give your name, address, phone number, bank or credit card information to other users or online entities accessible through our website without due diligence, research and evaluation. You are entirely, individually, and expressly responsible for the content of your communication. If you share such information, make sure you know who you are giving your information to even if it is through a secure site or platform.
  • what you access on the Internet, including information that your children access. Some content and some links may contain adult content and may not be suitable for children. We encourage you to join your children as they explore the Internet. Software to make surfing family-friendly and safe is available through computer retailers.
  • make certain, to the best of your abilities, that all users of our service meets these responsibilities. If you are aware of any breaches made by other visitors, members and/or users, it is your personal responsibility to inform InternDC site administrator(s) of any and all such occurrences, immediately.

1.7. Content, Material and Copyright

While every attempt is continually made to provide accurate information, errors and omissions may occur. Accordingly, InternDC does not accept any liability for real or potential losses or damages incurred directly or indirectly as a result from any advice, opinion, information, representation or omission, whether negligent or otherwise, contained on or accessed through our website, other users on our website, goods and services on our website, and/or other entities accessible through our website.

Material that you access on our website may have copyright, trade mark, patent or other protections, even if not explicitly stated. Do not upload material or files unless you have ownership, right or appropriate consent to do so.

By posting material in publicly accessible places on our website, you expressly allow us to reproduce, publish, modify and distribute any part of that material, or incorporate it in other works in any form. If you do not own the material you must get the owner's consent before posting or uploading.

1.8. Objectionable Material

If you are concerned that something you have seen on a website or bulletin board we host is objectionable or should be classified, you should let us know immediately. We will review the matter promptly and upon examination will take the appropriate course(s) of action or lack thereof.

1.9. Site Management – Administrator(s) Rights

Site Administrator(s) for InternDC have complete authority to edit or delete any content posted to or uploaded on our website without prior consent or further communication with a user or users at any time.

If you do not comply with this General Site Policy or any other terms and policies applying to a particular service, we may withhold, suspend, restrict or terminate your access to our services, or to InternDC. We may also require you to edit material we consider to be unauthorized, misleading, offensive, defamatory, illegal or detrimental to our reputation or to our brand. If you do not do so to our satisfaction, we may edit that material ourselves, and we may withhold, suspend, restrict or terminate your use of the service without further notice. Nothing in this General Site Policy or in any other terms and policies is intended to affect our rights to withhold, suspend, restrict or terminate services as set out in the applicable Terms of Service or any other applicable contractual terms.

We may filter, delete or restrict access to material posted on our website or transmitted via our servers if you or anyone else does not comply with this General Site Policy or any other applicable policy at any time.

1.10. Using information about you: Our Privacy Policy

Details of how we use information we collect about you are described in our Privacy Policy.

2. InternDC Privacy Policy
--Last Updated: April 30, 2006--

We are committed to protecting your privacy. Definitions outlined in section 1.1 of our General Site Policy are applicable here and in all other InternDC Terms and Policies. The following stipulations govern data collection and usage for all users visiting www.interndc.net and for all customers who use any goods, products or services that we provide. Your use of our website and/or services shows your unconditional consent to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information in the manner described below.

2.1. Your Information

Your visit or use of InternDC’s website, goods or services involves the collection and storage by us of personal information about you, including but not limited to your email address, name, home or work address, cellular or telephone numbers. We may also collect demographic information, such as your age, gender, preferences, and interests. Information collected by us may be combined with information obtained by our related companies and includes but is not limited to:

  • your device’s IP address when connected to the Internet, the domain name from which you are accessing the Internet, and your geographic location
  • your device’s operating system, browser, and any search engines you are using
  • the date and time of your visit
  • the URLs of the pages you visit
  • your work, and educational history, if you provide it
  • demographic information, such about your personality and preferences, if you provide it
  • your contact information (e-mail, address, phone), if you provide it

We keep track of the pages our users visit within our website to:

  • determine which pages, contents and services are the most popular for marketing and advertising efforts
  • improve user experience of our website as well as InternDC products and services.
  • provide general statistics regarding use of InternDC
  • assist us to deliver customized content and advertising to our customers.

Where possible, information will be obtained directly from you, but otherwise may be provided by others, unless you expressly deny your consent and submit it to the InternDC Site Administrator(s) via both e-mail (softcopy) and in writing (hardcopy). Should you decide not to disclose your information to InternDC, we may not be able to provide you with your requested goods and/or services.

You may ask to review any information we hold about you and we will provide it given such information is in our possession and can be readily retrieved. You may also ask us to correct any incorrect information about you in our records. We may charge you for the reasonable costs of retrieving, providing, or correcting such information.

We may occasionally monitor telephone calls between existing and new customers and our personnel to help train our personnel to provide better customer service. We may also monitor communications between our customers and third parties to maintain and support our systems and to safeguard the security and integrity of our website and/or goods and services provided therein.

Personal information collected in relation to your use of our website and/or goods and services provided therein may be stored and processed in the United States of America, Canada, Bulgaria, or any other country in which we or our related companies or agents maintain facilities, and by using our website and/or goods and services provided therein, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country of residence or citizenship.

2.2. Disclosure of Your Information

Although we may publish aggregated information about patterns of usage, we do not generally disclose information about individuals or individual machines except for the reasons described herein.

We may gather or impart detailed information if we are concerned about safety, security or law enforcement issues.

We may provide your personal information to our related companies, our vendors and/or contractors, credit reference and debt collection agencies, communications network operators and selected business partners to:

  • fulfill our goods and services requirements for you and others
  • submit your bills and invoices, and recover money you may owe
  • eep you informed of and conduct, sales and marketing activities in relation to our goods and services available to, or planned for, you from us and other people
  • exercise any lawful right we or any of our related companies, our vendors and/or contractors, credit reference and debt collection agencies, communications network operators and selected business partners may have.

We may disclose information about you or your use of our website and/or goods and services provided therein without your prior permission if we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • conform to legal requirements (including, but not limited to, requirements in accordance with any applicable law, regulation or government request) or comply with legal process, or to help maintain the law
  • protect our rights or property or those of our related companies
  • enforce our Terms of Customers or Terms of Service
  • act to protect the interests of our, or our related companies, customers or others.

2.3. Third Party Websites

You agree to review the privacy statements of websites you encounter from our website and/or goods and services provided therein so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. InternDC is not responsible for the privacy statements or other contents on websites available for access from our website and/or goods and services provided therein.

2.4. Changes to our Policy

We may, at our discretion, update or revise this Privacy Policy or any other InternDC Terms and Policies at any time. Any changes will be immediately effective once published on our website. It is your responsibility to check our Terms and Policies regularly for any modifications or updates. Your continued use of our website and/or goods and services provided therein, after any changes have been posted on our website indicates your unconditional acceptance of all changes made.

3. InternDC Terms of Customers and Advertisers
--Last Updated: April 30, 2006--

Registering onto www.interndc.net is free-of-cost, as is usage of InternDC services unless explicitly noted on our website. Purchase and participation in select goods and services as well as for advertising on our website requires your unconditional agreement of the following Terms of Customers and Advertisers.

3.1. These Terms of Customers and Advertisers

These Terms of Customers and Advertisers apply to all of the goods, products or services of any kind that InternDC provides for pay (refer to definitions of reference in Section 1.1. of our General Site Policy) on our website and anything else we do (together, our "services"). We may update these Terms of Customers and Advertisers from time to time. Your use of our services after the date on which updates are stated to be effective shows your unconditional agreement to them as described below.

The services are provided solely for your own legitimate uses as described under these Terms of Customers and Advertisers, Separate Terms or any other InternDC Terms and Policies.

3.2. Separate Terms

Your use of our website and/or goods and services may also be subject to separate terms, service or product descriptions and pricing plans, instructions, policies or guidelines (collectively, "separate terms"), which apply in addition to these Terms of Customers and Advertisers. Separate Terms that specifically apply to a service will prevail in relation to that service to the extent that they are inconsistent with these Terms of Customers and Advertisers.

3.3 Our Commitments to You

Generally

Whenever we provide services for you or in connection with your InternDC account(s) or any additional user account which is established under your InternDC account ("Account"), we will:

  • provide them with reasonable care and skill
  • begin providing the services within a reasonable time
  • make all reasonable efforts to ensure our services do everything we say they will, but we do not represent or guarantee they will be:
    • interruption or fault free, or that any faults or errors will be corrected
    • available at any particular time or location
    • available, or available without change, for any minimum period of time
    • secure or private
    • free of viruses or other harmful features
  • try to restore any service outage as soon as we reasonably can.

What we are not responsible for

We are not responsible for anything:

  • in your or another party's equipment, products or services or in any part of the internet or any mobile, fixed line, wired or wireless network used to provide the services to you which is not provided by us
  • because you use the service incorrectly, or in contravention of any term of these Terms of Customers and Advertisers or any Separate Terms
  • because of any other event outside the scope of our responsibilities as set out in these Terms of Customers and Advertisers or any Separate Terms or beyond our reasonable control.

You agree to contact the supplier, licensor or manufacturer, rather than us, about any problem you may have with them or their equipment, products or services.

3.4. Your Responsibilities

Generally

You must:

  • use the services for your own personal, non-commercial use or, if you are a business/advertising customer, for your own internal business purposes
  • make sure all information you give us is current, correct, complete and provided in a timely fashion
  • comply with all Separate Terms applying to your use of our services
  • comply with all applicable laws, regulations, standards and codes in your local, state and federal governments
  • make sure everyone who uses the services we provide to you or under your Account, or does anything in relation to them, is also aware of, and meets, these responsibilities
  • be responsible and liable for any use by any other person (authorized or unauthorized) of the services we provide to you or under your Account, including any charges associated with that use and any consequences if such person misuses the Services, breaches these Terms of Customers and Advertisers or any Separate Terms.

Identification codes and your Account, password and security

We may allocate a personal identifier or username to you to use depending on the kinds of services or advertising options you want. We may change any personal identifier or username, for example, by allocating you a new login or password. We will try to notify you of such changes beforehand.

You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your billing account number and any username, login, password and other identifier used by or allocated to you in connection with your Account (together, your "personal identifier" or “username”). You are also entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your Account, services or through the use of your personal identifier(s).

We are entitled to rely on your personal identifier as conclusive evidence of your identity and authority without further investigation.

You agree to change your password at regular intervals, and at any time upon request by us. You also agree to notify us immediately of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your Account or personal identifier or other breach of security. However, notice provided by you under this clause does not release you from your responsibilities under these Terms of Customers and Advertisers and the Separate Terms.

We will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your Account or any personal identifier. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by InternDC or another party due to someone else using your Account or any personal identifier or username.

We retain ownership of all personal identifiers or usernames used by or allocated to you, and all rights in them.

3.5. Paying for Our Services and/or Advertising on Our Website

If you choose to purchase goods, services and/or advertising options on our website, you agree to pay for the services rendered under your InternDC Account, no matter who uses or benefits from them in a timely fashion. For example, you are responsible for the charges for anyone else's use of the services we provide for you whether under your account, under any additional user-account established under your account, or otherwise.

You can get details of prices for products, services and advertising options from our website. All charges displayed and services offered are subject to change without notice. It is your responsibility to check all applicable charges regularly for changes.

Charges for our goods, services and/or advertising options, and any other amounts you may owe to us, form part of the bill for your InternDC account, and as such you agree to be subject to any terms and conditions applicable to those accounts, including in relation to late payment or credit conditions. You agree that we may assign any amounts you owe us to another of our related companies or to anyone else such as bill collectors in the appropriate circumstance to be deemed by InternDC, without advance notice.

You must pay each bill by the due date stated on the bill. The amount payable is based on our records of your use of the goods, services or advertising options, which will be conclusive as to your use of the services. However, if you think there is a mistake in your bill and notify us before the due date, we will investigate the matter. However, unless we notify you in writing to do otherwise, you must pay the full amount by the due date for payment. You must not set-off or deduct any amount in any other circumstances. If we agree that there is a mistake, we will adjust your next bill following our agreement to this. If you do not pay a bill by the due date for payment stated on the bill:

  • you may be charged a late payment charge and/or interest on all unpaid amounts from the due date until you pay it at the interest rate described in InternDC Terms and Policies
  • you may be required to pay any costs that are incurred by anyone (including agents) in recovering the money you owe, or in exercising any other rights, including commissions, credit collection and legal costs on a solicitor and client basis
  • we may withhold, suspend, restrict or terminate any service we provide for you.

3.6. Our Right to Change, Withhold, Suspend, Restrict, Replace or Terminate any Service

We may change, withhold, suspend, restrict, replace or terminate any service provided to you, or the entire agreement you have with us, or take such other steps as we believe are reasonably necessary or appropriate, if you do not meet any of your responsibilities or other obligations under these Terms of Customers and Advertisers, any Separate Terms, any other InternDC Terms and Policies, or which you have to any of our related companies. Our services to you may also be restricted until a satisfactory payment history is established - if you are a new customer or client requesting atypical or extenuating services.

Where we suspend or terminate a service for the reasons stated above, we may require you to pay a re-membership charge before you can access and use your Account again. Cancellation of our agreement will also automatically cancel any services you have subscribed to. Where we have changed or replaced an existing service, your use of the changed or replaced service will show your acceptance of it (and any terms and conditions relating to it), in place of the changed or replaced service (and terms and conditions), unless you promptly unsubscribe to the service or notify us that you no longer wish to receive the service.

In most cases, normal charges continue to apply during the suspension or restriction of any service.

3.7. Ending Services or Our Agreement

Either of us may end any service or end our entire agreement by notifying the other party. Ending this agreement does not affect any rights and responsibilities which are intended to continue or come into force afterwards. These include the rights and responsibilities under clauses 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of these Terms of Customers and Advertisers.

If either of us ends any service or our entire agreement during a billing period, any applicable charges for that period remain payable. Where you have agreed to take a service for a minimum period, charges for the service will continue until the end of that minimum period.

On ending any service or ending our entire agreement, we will cease providing the relevant service or services (as the case may be) and will delete all information, data or other material that we hold in relation to your use of the service or services (as the case may be). We may reallocate any personal identifier or username including, but not limited to, any e-mail alias or domain name, to another customer.

3.8. Liability disclaimers

No representations

Except to the extent specifically stated in these Terms of Customers and Advertisers or any Separate Terms or required by law, InternDC and any of our related companies and our and their respective officers, employees, contractors, agents and suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, lack of viruses or other harmful features, or accuracy of information, the services or other materials provided to you, which are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement of the rights of any third party.

Disclaimer and exclusion

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree that InternDC will not be responsible for unauthorized access to or alteration of your communications or data, any material or data sent or received or not sent or received, any transactions entered into through use of our services or our website, any threatening, defamatory, obscene, offensive or illegal content or conduct of any other party or any infringement of another's rights, including intellectual property rights. You also agree that InternDC is not responsible for any content sent using, or included in, our service or websites by any third party.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no circumstances (including those circumstances described above) will we be liable to you or any third parties for any loss of data, revenue, profits or lost business or any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary damages or losses which you may incur as a result of anything we have done or not done, or otherwise in connection with InternDC, the services, the communications network generally, or your use of any of them, regardless of the type of claim or the nature of the cause of action, even if we have been advised of the possibility of damage or loss.

No remedy

You agree that this clause 8 establishes your sole and exclusive rights and remedies against InternDC, any of our related companies, our and their respective officers, employees, contractors, agents and suppliers in relation to any claims brought by you or any third party, whatever you are claiming for and however liability arises or might arise (whether out of contract, tort (including negligence), equity, breach of statutory duty or otherwise) and that none of us or any of them will be liable for any additional amounts or other forms of compensation, damages, loss, or expenses whatsoever.

3.9. Our rights to compensation from Customers and/or Advertisers

Where you do not meet your responsibilities and other obligations to us, you must pay any resulting loss of revenue and reasonable expenses we incur in collecting any money you owe us or in exercising any of our other reasonable rights. You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified us and our related companies and our and their respective officers, employees, contractors, agents and suppliers from and against all actions, claims, suits, demands, damages, liabilities, costs or expenses (including solicitor-client costs) arising out of or in any way connected to the use of the services we provide to you or someone using your name and/or password, or under your Account or otherwise.

3.10. Intellectual Property Rights

We have intellectual property rights in content, software, personal identifiers (including addresses) and anything else we make available to you in connection with our services (together "Works").

These rights include, for example, all copyright, trademark and design rights. All title, interest and rights (including but not limited to ownership and intellectual property rights) in these Works will remain in InternDC. You acknowledge such title, interest and rights and will not take any action to jeopardize, limit or interfere in any manner with InternDC’s title, interests or rights with respect to the service, including, but not limited to, the use of InternDC’s trademarks or trade name.

Your use of any software provided by us is governed by the terms of the end user license agreement, if any, which accompanies or is included with, or referenced in, the software.

You may not install or use any software that is accompanied by or includes a license agreement unless you first agree to the license agreement terms, which agreement will be deemed to be given if you use the software.

Any reproduction or redistribution of the content and/or software provided to you by InternDC is expressly prohibited.

3.11. Contacting Each Other

Bills and other notices will be sent to the last physical or electronic address you have given us. You consent to receive communications from us electronically at your email address. You must ensure we always have up-to-date contact details (including your physical and electronic addresses).

We, our agents and anyone to whom we have assigned the amounts you owe us, can assume any bill or notice sent by physical post has been delivered and received five days after it has been posted and if sent electronically has been received on the date it was sent. If we send a notice in accordance with this clause, we will not be responsible for you not actually receiving it or for any consequences resulting from you not receiving it.

You also agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. If you need to contact us for any reason, you may:

You agree that any electronic communication from you will be taken to be received by us at the time that that electronic communication comes to our attention.

3.12. Changes to these Terms of Customers and Advertisers

We may change these Terms of Customers and Advertisers by changing or removing existing terms, or by adding new ones. Changes may take the form of completely new terms. We must always tell you about any changes to these Terms of Customers and Advertisers at least 10 days before they come into effect. We will never change this requirement. We will tell you about any changes by publishing the change on our website or by emailing or writing to you.

A copy of our current terms is displayed on our website. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Customers and Advertisers regularly (at least monthly) for any modifications or updates. You will be deemed to have accepted the changes to these Terms of Customers and Advertisers and to have agreed to be bound by the revised Terms of Customers and Advertisers if you continue to use and/or access the services after the date that the changes are stated to be effective.

We reserve the right to change any charges or services, any Separate Terms, or any InternDC Terms and Policies at any time without notice. It is your responsibility to check all applicable Separate Terms regularly for any modifications or updates.

3.13. Dispute Resolution

Where any dispute arises between us and you, InternDC will first attempt to resolve it by reasonable consultation. Where appropriate, we will escalate any dispute to the relevant manager to investigate the dispute. In the event of a dispute you will continue to pay for our services.

3.14. General

We may have any of our related companies or InternDC-approved agents perform our obligations under these Terms of Customers and Advertisers or any Separate Terms.

This agreement is entered into by InternDC on our own behalf and for the benefit of any of our related companies, and will, with any necessary modifications, apply to any of those related companies, and will be enforceable by them under law. Except as expressly stated, this agreement does not confer any rights on third parties and to the maximum extent allowable at law we will not, under this agreement, be liable in any way to any third parties.

We may transfer to someone else all or any part of our side of the agreement you have with us. We will tell you if we do this. You must not transfer to anyone, or have anyone else perform, your side of the agreement you have with us.

If for any reason any term of the agreement you have with us cannot be enforced or relied upon by you, us or any of the other people identified as benefiting from clause 8, all other terms of the agreement remain binding.

You acknowledge that you are not relying on any statement or representation (written or oral) made by or on behalf of InternDC and unconditionally waive any right to commence any proceeding against InternDC and any of our related companies, our and their respective officers, employees, contractors, agents and suppliers, directly or indirectly arising from any statement or representation not expressly recorded or referred to in these Terms of Customers and Advertisers.

Unless otherwise stated in these Terms of Customers and Advertisers, we may exercise our powers or rights at any time without prior notice to you.

The entire obligations of InternDC in relation to the subject matter of these Terms of Customers and Advertisers are set out in (or are as referenced in) these Terms of Customers and Advertisers and you acknowledge that your use of the services is not in reliance on any conduct, statement, representation or warranty made by InternDC, or by any agent of InternDC or by any other person not expressly recorded herein.

We make no representation that the services are appropriate or available for use in locations outside of the United States of America, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

All our services are provided under United States of America law. This agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America and you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United States of America.

4. InternDC Terms of Service
--Last Updated: April 30, 2006--

4.1. These Terms of Service

These InternDC Terms of Service apply to all of the goods, products or services of any kind that InternDC provides, including the www.interndc.net website, and anything else we do (together, our "services"). Definitions outlined in section 1.1 of our General Site Policy are applicable here and in all other InternDC Terms and Policies. Your use of our services after each update of these Terms of Service, or any other InternDC Terms and Policies shows your unconditional agreement to all of them and these Terms of Service as detailed below.

4.2. Separate Terms

Your use of our website and/or goods and services may also be subject to separate terms, service or product descriptions and pricing plans, instructions, policies or guidelines (collectively, "separate terms"), which apply in addition to these Terms of Service. Separate Terms that specifically apply to a service will prevail in relation to that service to the extent that they are inconsistent with these Terms of Service. Your use of our services is also subject to InternDC’s Terms of Customers and Advertisers and any other InternDC Terms and Policies.

4.3. Your Responsibilities and Liabilities

Generally

You must:

  • only use our services for lawful purposes, and not use them for any activities, or to post, upload or transmit to or by means of the services, any information or materials:
    • which breach any laws or regulations, infringe a third party's rights, or are contrary to any relevant standards or codes
    • which interfere with other users or defames, abuses, harasses, threatens, menaces, offends or restricts any person or which inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the internet or our website or services
    • to gain unauthorized access to, or to interfere with, anyone else's computer, communication device, system, server, or other equipment or network (“Systems”).
    • in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise)
    • to make any fraudulent or speculative enquiries, bookings, reservations, requests or purchases
    • tamper with, hinder the operation of or make unauthorized modifications to our or any other party's services or Systems.
    • knowingly or negligently transmit any virus or other disabling feature or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's Systems, data or other property
    • attempt any of the above acts or permit another person to do or attempt any of the above acts
  • edit, delete or cease any future publication of any material or communication which we consider to be unauthorized, misleading, objectionable, restricted, defamatory, illegal, inappropriate or contrary to these Terms of Service or detrimental to our reputation or to our brand and if you do not do so to our satisfaction, you agree that we may edit, delete, block or disconnect that material or communication ourselves
  • not use, download or otherwise copy or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of any of the Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof
  • not use the services, or content or anything else provided by us or available on our website, in any way that implies an endorsement, sponsorship or association with any product, service, person or entity unless InternDC has provided written consent to you of such action(s).

4.4. Intellectual Property

You agree that all content, software, personal identifiers (including addresses) and anything else we make available to you in connection with our services (together "Works") are protected by copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights and laws.

You warrant that you will not:

  • remove any trademarks, copyright notices, or proprietary labels that may be attached to, or part of, any Works
  • modify, copy, translate, create derivative works based on any part of the Works or
  • license, assign, otherwise transfer, make available or grant any interest in any part of the Works to any other person
  • except where expressly permitted by us , "meta-search" the website or services, or send, or cause to be sent, any automated queries of any sort through or to the website, services or customer.

InternDC does not claim ownership of any content or material you provide or make available through the Services ("Customer Material"). However, by placing any Customer Material on our website or Systems, including posting messages, uploading files, importing data or engaging in any other form of communication, you grant to InternDC a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide license to do the following in respect of the Customer Materials:

  • use, copy, sublicense, redistribute, adapt, transmit, publish, delete, edit and/or broadcast, publicly perform or display, and
  • sublicense to any third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the rights granted, in each case for the limited purposes for which you provided or made the Customer Materials available or to enable us and our suppliers to provide the services.

4.5. Communication Services

The InternDC services may include but are not limited to email services, information services, bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, groups, personal web pages, calendars, photos, photo albums, file cabinets and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (collectively "Communication Services"). You agree to use and access the Communication Services in accordance with all Separate Terms and only to upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit or access messages and material that are permitted in accordance with these Service Terms and, when applicable, the Separate Terms related to the particular Communication Service.

You -- and not InternDC -- assume the entire cost of any necessary verification, maintenance, repair correction and/or removal of any relevant Communication Service messages and material.

We are not under any obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, we reserve the right at all times to review messages and materials transmitted and accessed through a Communication Service and to disclose any information as we deem necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, governmental request or code, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any message or materials, in whole or in part, in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to terminate your use of and access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.

4.6. Restricted Content

InternDC services may include content unsuitable for persons under a specified age or may be subject to some other restriction on access, as shown on our website (or websites linked from our website) in connection with those services. You warrant that no person who is stated to be restricted from accessing such content will be permitted to do so using your billing account number, or any username, login, password, or other-identifier used by or allocated to you in connection with your account (together your "personal identifier"). You will be responsible and liable (and indemnify us from claims and costs incurred for such person's use of restricted content and any contravention by them of these Terms of Service. You also agree that any access to such content using your personal identifier may be taken by us and any legal authority as conclusive evidence that the person accessing such content is not restricted from accessing it.

4.7. Changing, Withholding, Suspending, Restricting, Replacing or Terminating Services

We may, at our sole discretion, change, withhold, suspend, restrict, replace or terminate any of our services in any circumstances if we think it is necessary or desirable. Examples of when this may occur include where Systems are being maintained or otherwise worked on, unavailable or must be protected, to manage network traffic or access to network services (for example, to manage peer to peer traffic types), to improve functionality and attributes of the services, or for any other reason we think makes it necessary or desirable to do so.

In most cases, normal charges continue to apply during the suspension or restriction of any service.

Where we have changed or replaced an existing service, your use of the changed or replaced service will show your acceptance of it (and any terms and conditions relating to it), in place of the changed or replaced service (and terms and conditions).

You acknowledge that we reserve the right to suspend, sign out, disconnect, terminate, or delete your accounts or any communication session for any particular service that is "inactive" for a period of time. "Inactive" means that you have not used a particular service or your account for a period of time, as determined by us, in our sole discretion.

4.8. Our disclaimers

Content disclaimer

InternDC does not and cannot in any way supervise, edit or control the way in which you or other end users use the content, information or other material accessed through the services.

You acknowledge and agree that InternDC will not be held responsible in any way for the content, information or other material accessed or provided by means of our services. You are responsible for all content, information or other material that you upload, post, e-mail, or otherwise transmit, access or make available through the use of our services.

InternDC has not reviewed all or any of the sites linked to the services and is not responsible for the content of any of those sites.

Third party infrastructure, products and services

The services may be delivered to you using other providers' infrastructure and Systems (which we are not responsible for). Where that is the case, the provider's relevant terms and conditions apply to the supply of their infrastructure and Systems.

Many of the products and services offered for sale or advertised, and much of the information provided in connection with our website and other services, are the products, services and information of third parties. Third party products, services and information are not endorsed by us and your legal relationship is with the third party supplier.

We have not checked the accuracy or completeness of the information or the suitability or quality of the products and services of the third parties. You must make your own inquiries with the relevant third party supplier directly before relying on the third party information or entering into a transaction in relation to third party products and services supplied by means of our services. You should check with the third party supplier whether there are additional charges and terms which may apply.

4.9. No retention of data

The amount of email and data storage available to you on our systems, or on your personal computer, mobile phone or other device, is limited and some email or data may not be processed due to space restraints.

You agree that InternDC may establish limits concerning use of any services including, without limitation, the maximum number of days that material will be retained, the maximum amount and size of material that may be sent from or received by an account in connection with any services, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on servers on your behalf, either cumulatively or for any particular services, such as for storing graphics or photographs, and the maximum number of times and duration you may access any servers in a given period of time. If we believe that these space restraints or limits are, or will be, compromised, then we may delete any electronic mail message, information or data in any other form (together "material"), sent by you or addressed to you.

If we delete any material we are not required to notify you or the sender of that material. You agree that InternDC has no responsibility or liability for the deletion, corruption or failure to store any information, material or other content maintained or transmitted in connection with any of our services. You acknowledge that the features, parameters (for example, the amount of storage available to you) or existence of any services may change at any time.

4.10. Third Party Services

You agree that your use of the services may involve use of services provided by, or relating to, third parties, including our related companies. Where you use any Third Party Services, you agree that you will be bound by any applicable terms or policies applying to such Third Party Services. You agree that InternDC and our related companies, and our and their respective officers, employees, contractors, agents and suppliers will have the benefit of any disclaimers, limitations and exclusions contained in such Third Party Terms, as if reference in them to the provider of the Third Party Service is a reference to the InternDC Parties (with all necessary Terms of Customers and Advertisers and any Separate Terms), except to the extent they are inconsistent with these Terms of Service, our Terms of Customers and Advertisers or any Separate Terms.

4.11. Changes to these Terms of Service

We may, at our discretion, update or revise these Terms of Service or any other InternDC Terms and Policies at any time. Any changes will take effect immediately once they are posted on our website. It is your responsibility to check these terms regularly for any modifications or updates. Your continued use of the services after any changes have been posted on our Website indicates your unconditional acceptance of those changes.

4.12. Pricing and Payment

Details of pricing, and payment applicable to InternDC services are viewable on our website for each product, service or advertisement option. In addition, specific pricing information relating to Advertising Options on our website may be available in any of our Terms and Policies.

5. InternDC Messaging Policy
--Last Updated: April 30, 2006--

InternDC Messaging enables registered users to communicate with one another through our website for free. You can access and use your messaging system through My Home Page on www.interndc.net. Our messaging system was not designed to replace your current external e-mail accounts. We strongly recommend printing or copying the contents of messages onto your personal computer or communications device for longer term accessibility.

You must manage your personal storage space in your Account to keep below your storage limit. If you exceed your email storage limit, we may delete messages and attachments from your mailbox and you may not receive any new messages until you are below your storage limit.

Unread messages will be stored by InternDC for 15 days and may be automatically deleted after that time. Any read messages will only be stored in your inbox for 15 days after which time they may be deleted automatically. InternDC will not be responsible or liable for deletion or your inability to deliver, retrieve or store emails or other information.

When using InternDC’s messaging system you must not send messages or attachments which are larger than 1MB. Likewise, we may not deliver messages and attachments to you if they are larger than 1MB. You can continue to send and receive messages larger than 1MB using your current external e-mail client.

Some corporate environments or home security products may restrict your ability to access or use InternDC services through the use of firewalls or pop-up blockers.

A virus carried within email attachments may not be detected or removed for a variety of reasons including (without limit) new viruses for which the virus signature has not yet been made available. Therefore, InternDC cannot and does not guarantee or otherwise represent that viruses will be detected and/or removed from our system immediately. To ensure you are protected from viruses that InternDC’s system is not able to detect or delete and are spread via other means, we strongly recommend that you install and regularly run up-to-date anti-virus software on your computer or communication device.

6. InternDC Chat and Online Policy
--Last Updated: April 30, 2006--

6.1. Chat and Online Discussion Policy

Our Chat policy applies when you use any of the InternDC chat rooms (public or private), message boards, news groups and discussion groups. Definitions outlined in section 1.1 of our General Site Policy are applicable here and in all other InternDC Terms and Policies. Your use of our services after each update of this or any other InternDC Terms and Policies shows your unconditional agreement to all InternDC Terms and Policies including those detailed below.

6.2. Separate Terms

In addition to our Chat and Online Discussion policy, your use of our website and/or goods and services may also be subject to separate terms and policies. It is important that you are familiar with all of InternDC’s Terms and Policies. Separate Terms that specifically apply to a service will prevail in relation to that service to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Chat and Online Discussion Policy.

6.3. Your Use of Our Public Discussion Areas

You must provide accurate registration information. Your right to use the discussion areas is specific to you personally. You must not authorize others to use your registration details. You are responsible for everything recorded under your registration details.

6.4. Your Responsibilities

You must not publish any information, software or other material that contains a charity request, or a petition for signature. You must not place material which constitutes junk mail or unauthorized advertising, (including solicitation of other users to buy or sell any products or services), in a discussion area, except in those areas that are specifically designated for those purposes.

You must not flood. Flooding is defined herein as:

  • repeating the same line four or more consecutive times
  • typing extended contents of gibberish (random keys)
  • repeating the same character excessively

We expect you to use a reasonable standard of the English language. You must not swear or use any other kind of obscene language or references that may impede upon the enjoyable experience of any other user.

Shouting is when you type in capital letters. It is rude to conduct conversations in capital letters. It is acceptable to emphasize a word or two, but do not type entire lines of text in capital letters.

6.5. If You Feel Threatened

If you feel abused, harassed or discriminated against in any way whether in a public or private discussion areas, messages, chat messages, or posts, -- please contact our site administrator(s) immediately. InternDC has a zero tolerance approach to online abuse and will prosecute violators to the fullest extent of the law. To the best of your abilities, you should print out and save these messages in case you are ever called upon to produce them for evidence. In general, if you have a problem or a dispute, or wish to make a complaint, please contact InternDC, and we will investigate the matter fully and immediately.

6.6. Changes in Policy

We may amend this policy at any time by changing or removing existing terms or adding new ones. Changes may take the form of a completely new policy. We will tell you about any changes by posting an updated policy on our website. Any changes made are effective from the date of posting on our website.









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