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General Terms and Conditions
1. USE OF SOFTWARE
All software that is made available to
use on the Site (the "Software") is the copyrighted
work of VHSoft and/or its licensors or suppliers, and
that all intellectual property rights (which for the purposes
of these General Terms and Conditions shall mean intellectual
property rights of whatever nature whether registered
or unregistered including but not limited to trade marks,
trade names, copyright, patent, designs, goodwill and
rights in confidential information, inventions and know-how
and any associated or similar rights (the "Intellectual
Property Rights")) in the Software belong to VHSoft
and/or its licensors or suppliers.
Registered User must not, nor should it
allow anyone (including the Employees) to, copy, reproduce,
decompile, disassemble, modify, reverse engineer, attempt
to discover the source code, sell, assign, sub-license,
grant a security interest or transfer any right in or
otherwise tamper with any of the Software.
2. USE OF SITE
All Intellectual Property Rights in the
content (which for the purposes of these General Terms
and Conditions shall mean information and/or materials
of whatever form included on the Site including but not
limited to texts, files, data, graphics, logos, icons,
images and software (the "Content")) and/or
the Services are vested in VHSoft and/or the Content providers
(as the case may be), and Registered User must not engage
in any activity, or permit others under its control (including
the Employees), to engage in any activity, whatsoever,
which infringes or otherwise interferes with or prejudices
any such Intellectual Property Rights.
Registered User must promptly notify VHSoft
of any actual, threatened or suspected infringement of,
or any actions, claims or demands or proceedings in relation
to, any such Intellectual Property Rights which may come
to its attention, and at the expense of VHSoft to render
to VHSoft and/or the Content providers all assistance
which they may require in connection therewith.
Subject to the foregoing and the following
conditions, Registered User may view, download and print
copies of the Content available on the Site:
(a) any copyright, trade mark or other
proprietary notices contained in or on any such Content
must not be removed or altered;
(b) no Content may be modified, altered
or distributed (electronically or otherwise) in any way
unless with permission of the Content provider(s);
(c) VHSoft reserves the right to revoke
the authorisation to view, download and print any such
Content at any time, and any such use shall be discontinued
immediately upon written notice from VHSoft; and
(d) the rights specified above to view,
download and print copies of the Content available on
the Site constitute a limited licence and not a transfer
of title or a right to copy the design or layout of the
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Registered User is prohibited from posting
any Content on the Site or using the Site to engage in
any activities which are inconsistent with the purpose
of the Site.
If Registered User accesses or uses the
Site, it does so on its own initiative and must not:
(a) upload, post or otherwise transmit
any Content:
(i) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening,
abusive, harassing, violent, fraudulent, tortious, offensive,
defamatory, libelous, scandalous, seditious, vulgar, obscene,
indecent, contains pornography, invasive of another's
privacy, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
(ii) that they do not have a right to
transmit under any applicable law or under contractual
or fiduciary relationships (such as insider information,
proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed
as part of employment relationships or under non-disclosure
agreements);
(iii) that infringes any Intellectual
Property Rights or any proprietary rights of any party;
(iv) that contains unsolicited or unauthorised
advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail",
"chain letters" or any other form of solicitation;
(v) that contains software viruses or
any other computer code, files or programs designed to
interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer
software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
and
(vi) that violates any applicable law
particularly relating to copyright, prohibitions on libel,
slander and invasion of privacy and relating to electronic
signatures and electronics transactions;
(b) impersonate any person or entity including
but not limited to a VHSoft official, forum leader, guide
or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent Registered
User's affiliation with a person or entity;
(c) interfere with or disrupt the Site
or servers or networks connected to the Site or disobey
any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations
of networks connected to the Site;
(d) collect or store personal data about
other Registered Users or users of the Site;
(e) promote or provide instructional information
about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury
against any group or individual, or promote any act of
cruelty to animals (including but not limited to providing
instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other
weapons); and
(f) use Registered User's project hosting
site (or directory) as storage for remote loading or as
a door or signpost to another home page, whether inside
or beyond the Site.
Any non-personal unsolicited information
or materials in whatever form which you elect to post
to the Site, will be deemed not confidential, and by sending
such unsolicited information or materials, Registered
User hereby grants VHSoft a non-exclusive, worldwide,
perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce,
publicly perform and display, distribute, sub-license,
modify, translate, publish, create derivative works from,
transmit and sell those materials or information and/or
incorporate them in other works in any form, media or
technology now known or later developed for any purpose
(commercial, public or otherwise), and VHSoft shall be
free to use any ideas, suggestions, concepts, drawings,
knowhow or techniques that Registered User sends to VHSoft
for any purpose (commercial, public or otherwise) without
any compensation to Registered User whatsoever.
Personal information such as names, address
and telephone numbers etc. will be subject to VHSoft!|s
privacy policy set out at the end of these General Terms
and Conditions ("Privacy Policy").
Last update: June 22, 2002
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