And now a word from our lawyers...
Terms of Participation
These are the Terms and Conditions covering the agreement between you (the user) and eParachute.com. Sure, this stuff can be a little boring sometimes. But please read this carefully, it’s important.
Welcome to eParachute. The eParachute.com website (the "Site") is comprised of various Web pages operated by eParachute, Inc. ("eParachute"). The Site is offered to you on the condition of your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the "Terms"). Your use of eParachute.com constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.
eParachute.com is a Personal Development and Employment Search Site. eParachute helps people discover their best work, and helps employers find their best workers.
Our Privacy Policy Describes How We Collect Information, How We Use It, How We Protect It, and What Your Responsibilities Are.
Your use of eParachute.com is subject to eParachute's Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices.
We Define Your Online Interaction With Us As Electronic Communications.
Visiting eParachute.com, or sending emails to eParachute, constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
The Confidentiality of Your Account Information Is Your Responsibility.
If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password, and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that eParachute is not responsible for third party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account.
eParachute and its associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.
eParachute does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may use eParachute.com only with permission of a parent or guardian.
We Provide Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services; Here’s How We Treat Them.
eParachute.com may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of eParachute, and eParachute is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including, without limitation, any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. eParachute is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by eParachute of the site, or any association with its operators.
Certain services made available via eParachute.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the eParachute.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that eParachute may share such information and data with any third party with whom eParachute has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of eParachute.com users and customers.
We Don’t Want You to Do Anything Unlawful or Prohibited With the Site, and We Ask You To Protect All Intellectual Property On the Site.
You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use eParachute.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to eParachute that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site.
You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.
All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of eParachute or its suppliers, and is protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content, and will not make any changes in such content.
You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site, without the express written permission of eParachute. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of eParachute and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of eParachute or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.
We Have Rules About How You Use the “Communication Services” Provided On the Site.
The Site may contain comment functions, chat areas, news groups, forums, community pages, personal Web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, "Communication Services"). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.
By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:
eParachute has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, eParachute reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service, and to remove any materials in its sole discretion.
eParachute reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.
eParachute reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in eParachute's sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service.
eParachute does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, eParachute specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Contributors, experts, Site section managers, and Site section hosts are not authorized eParachute spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of eParachute.
Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials.
You Grant Us Certain Rights When You Provide Materials to eParachute.com, or Post on Any eParachute Web Page.
eParachute does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to eParachute.com (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any eParachute Site or our associated services (collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission, you are granting eParachute, our affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses, including, without limitation, the rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. eParachute is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide, and may remove any Submission at any time in eParachute's sole discretion.
By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
When You Connect to Third Party Accounts, You Agree to Share Information With Them.
You may be able to connect your eParachute account to third party accounts, such as, but not limited to, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+. By connecting your eParachute account to your third party account, you acknowledge and agree that you are consenting to the continuous release of information about you to others (in accordance with your privacy settings on those third party sites). If you do not want information about you to be shared in this manner, please do not use this feature.
International Users, We Require You to Follow Our Rules.
The Service is controlled, operated and administered by eParachute from our offices within the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the eParachute Content accessed through eParachute.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless eParachute, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services; any user postings made by you; your violation of any terms of this Agreement, or your violation of any rights of a third party; or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. eParachute reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with eParachute in asserting any available defenses.
This Is Our Liability Disclaimer.
THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. EPARACHUTE, INC., AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME. EPARACHUTE, INC. AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. EPARACHUTE, INC. AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL EPARACHUTE, INC. AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF EPARACHUTE, INC. OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.
We Reserve Certain Rights Related to Termination of Your Account, and to Restrict Account Access.
eParachute reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of California and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in California in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Site. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.
You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and eParachute as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. eParachute's performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of eParachute's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by eParachute with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.
This is the Entire Agreement Between the User and eParachute.
Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and eParachute with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and eParachute with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement, to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions, as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.
We May Change These Terms.
eParachute reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which eParachute.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. eParachute encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.
If You Have Any Questions, We Want You to Contact Us.
eParachute welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms:
eParachute, Inc.
925 Lakeville Street #283
Petaluma, CA 94952
USA
Email Address:
info@eParachute.com
Effective as of September 28, 2012