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Terms of Service

These Terms and Conditions (“Agreement”) governs the use of the services (“Service” or “Services”) that are made available by SKRPC Holdings Inc (“SKRPC”, “We”, “Us”). These Terms and Conditions represent the whole agreement and understanding between SKRPC and the individual or entity who subscribes to our service (“Members”, “You”).

PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. By submitting your application and by your use of the Service, you agree to comply with all of the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement. SKRPC may terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, for conduct that is in breach of this Agreement, for conduct that SKRPC believes is harmful to its business, or for conduct where the use of the Service is harmful to any other party.

SKRPC may, in its sole discretion, change or modify this Agreement at any time, with or without notice. Such changes or modifications shall be made effective for all Members upon posting of the modified Agreement on this page. It is your responsibility to read this document from time to time to ensure that your use of the Service remains in compliance with this Agreement.

Effective date: 7th July 2012

1. Your VolunteerRescue Account and Service

You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the Service. You must not create content in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and SKRPC may change or remove any content that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause SKRPC liability. You must immediately notify SKRPC of any unauthorized uses of the Service, your account or any other breaches of security. SKRPC will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

2. Responsibility of Contributors

If you post material to the Service, post links on the Service, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Service (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

  • the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;

  • if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;

  • you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;

  • the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;

  • the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);

  • the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;

  • the Content is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;

  • the Content is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, the Content's URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and

  • you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by SKRPC or otherwise.

By submitting Content to SKRPC for inclusion on the Service, you grant SKRPC a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Service. If you delete Content, SKRPC will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Service, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, SKRPC has the right (though not the obligation) to, in SKRPC's sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in SKRPC's reasonable opinion, violates any SKRPC policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Service to any individual or entity for any reason, in SKRPC's sole discretion. SKRPC will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

3. Responsibility of Service Visitors

SKRPC has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Service, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Service, SKRPC does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Service may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Service may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. SKRPC disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Service, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

4. Content Posted on Other Websites

We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which the Service links, and that link to the Service. SKRPC does not have any control over those websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non Service website or webpage, SKRPC does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. SKRPC disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non Service websites and webpages.

5. Copyright Infringement

As SKRPC asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by the Service violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify SKRPC. SKRPC will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. SKRPC will terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Service if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of SKRPC or others. In the case of such termination, SKRPC will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to SKRPC.

6. Intellectual Property

This Agreement does not transfer from SKRPC to you any SKRPC or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with SKRPC. SKRPC, VolunteerRescue, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with VolunteerRescue, or the Service are trademarks or registered trademarks of SKRPC or SKRPC’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Service may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Service grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any SKRPC or third-party trademarks.

7. Advertisements

SKRPC reserves the right to display advertisements on the Service unless you have purchased an Ad-free Upgrade.

8. Attribution

SKRPC reserves the right to display attribution links such as ‘created by and provided by VolunteerRescue’ in the Service footer or toolbar. Footer credits may not be removed regardless of upgrades purchased.

9. Themes

By activating a partner theme from the themes list you agree to that partner’s terms of service. You can opt out of their terms of service at any time by de-activating a partner theme.

10. Domain Names

If you are registering a domain name, using or transferring a previously registered domain name, you acknowledge and agree that use of the domain name is also subject to the policies of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), including their Registration Rights and Responsibilities.

11. Changes

SKRPC reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Service following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. SKRPC may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Service (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

12. Termination

SKRPC may terminate your access to all or any part of the Service at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your VolunteerRescue account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

13 Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided “as is”. SKRPC and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither SKRPC nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Service will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Service at your own discretion and risk.

14. Limitation of Liability

In no event will SKRPC, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to SKRPC under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. SKRPC shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

15. General Representation and Warranty

You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Service will be in strict accordance with the SKRPC Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, province, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from Canada or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Service will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless SKRPC, its contractors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including legal fees, arising out of your use of the Service, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.

17. Governing Law

The rights and obligations of the parties pursuant to this Agreement is governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, the laws of the province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada.

You may be subject to other local, provincial or state and national laws. You hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Province of British Columbia for any dispute arising under or relating to this Agreement and waive your right to institute legal proceedings in any other jurisdiction. We shall be entitled to institute legal proceedings in connection with any matter arising under this Agreement in any jurisdiction where you reside, do business or have assets.