GENERAL USE OF THE SITE AND THE ISG BLOG

You must not post any content on the site or use the site in any way that is or may be considered to be:

·         in breach of any obligations or duties of confidentiality;

·         capable of infringing any other person or other entity’s intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyright, trademarks, design rights or database rights);

·         in breach of any applicable law, whether criminal or otherwise, or offensive, obscene, insulting, false, defamatory, unreliable, misleading or otherwise inappropriate;

In addition, you must not use the site to:

·         abuse, harass, stalk or threaten others;

·         advertise or offer to sell any goods or services, or conduct or forward surveys, contests or chain letters;

·         upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of our or any other computer;

·         upload files which contain an active hypertext link to another web site; or download any file posted by us or another user that you know or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such a manner.

You must not frame or link to the Site or any part of it without our express permission.

We shall be entitled at any time to delete, remove or suspend the whole or any part of the site, including any content that you provide, without notice to you and without incurring any liability.

We may block or withhold your access to the site if we have reasonable grounds to suspect any breach by you of these Terms, that we or any user has incurred or may incur any liability in connection with the site, or if your use or content is otherwise inappropriate.

Unless otherwise indicated on the site, you may download to a local hard disk and print extracts from the site solely for personal, non-commercial use, and you may also recopy downloaded extracts to others for their personal, non-commercial use.

Unless otherwise indicated on the site, you must not reproduce part or all of the content in any form unless it is for personal, non-commercial use in accordance with the above.

Unless otherwise indicated on the site, you must not copy or otherwise incorporate into or store in any other web site, electronic retrieval system, publication or other work any of the content in any form (whether hard copy, electronic or other format.)

We monitor messages posted to the ISG Blog and accept no responsibility or liability for any such message; however, we reserve the right in accordance with our take down policy to remove or edit any messages posted to the ISG Blog as soon as we receive a complaint about any message or we otherwise become aware that the content of a message is inappropriate.

GSA is not responsible for and shall have no liability and expressly excludes all liability in relation to any expressions of opinion, data, information or any other material whatsoever which is submitted on this site by any user of the ISG Blog. We shall not be liable for any application of or reliance on any information contained on this site which has been submitted by a third party via the ISG Blog.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

If you upload content to the site or ISG Blog, you grand GSA a license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, create derivative works from, distribute and display in public that content in any form and media on or in connection with the site, at no cost to us and for as long as we require, and you warrant that you own the intellectual property rights in such content and have the right to grant this license. You will indemnify us and keep us indemnified from and against all costs, claims, damages and expenses made against or incurred by us as a result of a third party alleging that the use of such content by us infringes the intellectual property rights of a third party.

All intellectual property rights and goodwill in or relating to GSA, including the name, logo and any associated rights, belong to Grant Street Associates, Inc., whether on a global or regional level. All intellectual property rights and goodwill in or relating to the content belongs to GSA or our partners or licensors.

Except as expressly specified above or as clearly stated on the site, nothing in these Terms may be construed as granting any license or right to use any intellectual property of GSA, our partners or licensors without our express written permission.

DATA PROTECTION

Users may provide us with personal information about themselves and others. Generally, this information is requested when you register for membership or when you use any of the services offered by our site. Our use of personal data is governed by our privacy policy which forms part of these Terms and is available at the end of these Terms and from the foot of this page.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND DISCLAIMERS

Nothing in these Terms operates so as to exclude, limit or restrict GSA’s liability for death or personal injury or our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

GSA is not responsible for any content posted by our partners or by users. We do not warrant the accuracy of this or any other content in any respect and we cannot be held liable for any use you may make of it or any reliance you may place on it. Any recommendation or other information on any area of the site or ISG Blog is used by you at your own risk. Any link on the site is provided solely for your information and convenience. A link does not constitute any endorsement or recommendation by GSA and does not mean that we have any association with the linked web site. We are not responsible for the content of any linked web site.

GSA will not be liable to you or any third party for any claim to the extent that the same is characterized as a claim for, or arising from:

• loss of profits or anticipated savings;
• loss of goodwill or injury to reputation;
• loss of business opportunity;
• loss of data;
• loss as suffered by third parties;
• indirect, consequential or special loss or damage regardless of the form of action,

whether in contract, strict liability or tort (including negligence) and regardless of whether GSA knew or had reason to know of the possibility of the loss, injury or damage in question.

GSA is not liable for any failure to perform any obligation caused by matters beyond our reasonable control (including without limitation any failure of transmission, inability to access the site or ISG Blog or any failure, error or delay in the sending or receiving of any communication.)

GSA is not liable for any loss, damage or other liability whatsoever arising from any content, activity, terms or policies on or in connection with the site or ISG Blog or from any separate agreement which you may enter into with another user.

GSA excludes all warranties, conditions and terms, whether express or implied to the fullest extent permitted by law in respect of the site.

You agree to indemnify us against all liabilities, claims and expenses that may arise from any breach of these Terms by you, your employees or agents from any use of the site or ISG Blog or from any of your content.

GENERAL

If any section of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by judicial decision, the rest of the Terms shall remain valid and enforceable. GSA reserves the right to change these Terms from time to time. If we change these Terms, we shall notify you of this fact on the home page of the site and shall post a new version on the site stating when such revised version comes into effect. You will be taken to have agreed to such revised version if you continue using the site after expiry of any notice period. You should check the Terms periodically to ensure that you are aware of and are complying with the current version.

These terms constitute the entire agreement between us in respect of the subject matter contained in these Terms and supersede and replace all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter.