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Terms of Use

Posted By Debbi A. Ballard On November 20, 2008 @ 5:47 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled

Effective September 5, 2008       

Terms of Use for www.mlmcompensationplans.com, www.mlmconsultantsblog.com, Affiliated sites, and MyNetBrief™

This agreement is between International Network Liaison Corporation (“INLC”) and the individual and/or organization (hereinafter referred to as “you” and/or the “viewer”) that views the Company website(s), affiliated sites and/or receives the e-newsletter, MyNetBrief™, and/or any other product or service sold and/or provided with or without charge by the Company.

Legal Notification

When you view any Company website, affiliated websites, and/or receive any Company product, service and/or free offering, you shall be automatically certifying that you agree to abide by this agreement.

The Company owns the websites, www.mlmcompensationplans.com, www.mlmconsultantsblog.com, any affiliated sites, the code of those websites, and the e-newsletter, MyNetBrief™. All content, in whole or in part, (including all products and services sold in addition to those provided freely by the Company and/or any of its vendors), is protected by U.S. copyright and trademark laws as well as international treaties. Except as allowed by those laws, no one, including the viewer, is permitted to post, transmit, upload, change, copy, republish or distribute any information, (including code) without the written authorization of the Company and the owner of the copyright. You may download information only for your own personal use as none of the products/services can be resold without the Company’s specific written permission and the owner of the copyright. If a vendor to the Company is supplying various products/services written permission may have to be secured from that vendor in accordance with its policies and procedures. The copyright and any other proprietary notices must be kept attached to any information downloaded.

Information Provided

The Company website(s) gives you information for viewing and/or for downloading. The Company reserves the right to make any changes to the Company websites including, but not limited to, products, prices, policies and procedures, services, and disallowing your authorization to access the sites for any reason. Changes and denying access authorization can be done without notice. Information is copyrighted and proprietary and cannot be changed in any way without written approval from an authorized representative of the Company. Any information you are specifically authorized to forward to other parties as indicated on a Company website, must include the website address, all copyright and trademark information, and these Terms of Use. The other parties must be notified that in viewing the information, they agree to accept these Terms of Use. No information can be forwarded or otherwise distributed, reproduced, posted online, or used in any way for any commercial purposes without written approval from an authorized representative of the Company.

Should you be asked to register to access certain information, you may be issued a user name and password. In completing the registration process and/or providing any information to secure any Company product or service, questions must be answered honestly. You are responsible for protecting your user name and password so that no unauthorized person/organization can access the information provided to authorized users. The Company is not obligated or liable for any communication received from you.

You agree not to try to access any restricted information for which you have not been given authorization to access. You will not try to steal data relating to other users. You are not allowed to disrupt the Company website, affiliated sites, email nor any aspect of the technology used in the Company’s business.

You, the viewer, agree to abide by any changes and/or additions to these Terms of Use which may be posted in the future. These are effective immediately. Your continued use of any Company website, affiliated sites, MyNetBrief™ and/or any product sold and/or provided free of charge after notice of any changes and/or additions are posted will be deemed as your acceptance of those changes and/or additions. (We do give a 30-day notice on our website(s) of any changes in our Privacy Policies. See information below in “Privacy Changes” section.)

Information is provided “as is” on the Company website(s), affiliated sites and on MyNetBrief and any other information based product offerings. The Company makes no warranties as to their commercial use, noninfringement or its use for any particular reason(s) by the viewer. Information provided is not warranted for accuracy, completeness or reliability. Therefore, viewer agrees to read and utilize information at his or her own risk. If there are any links on the Company websites, affiliated sites on in Company information products that you utilize, this does not mean that the Company endorses or has a legal association and/or affiliation with that linking entity. The Company does not warrant the accuracy, completeness or reliability of any information on these linked sites. As with any site visits, it is the responsibility of the viewer to protect himself/herself and/or its organization from any viruses or problems emanating from connections to any linked sites.

No legal, financial or other professional advice is provided in any content made available by the Company. Content given is for informational purposes only. You should seek professional legal, financial or other counsel for your particular needs and not take action based on content provided. Any author having a separate copyright is solely responsible for his or her opinions and material. The Company assumes no liability whatsoever for such content.

No products or services sold and/or opportunities made available to the public by any mainstream MLM/network marketing companies are advertised or recommended by the Company in any Company website and/or in any Company publication with the exception that PPC ads could be placed on the sites/blogs by third parties with our permission. These should not be construed as endorsements by INLC and/or Debbi A. Ballard. However, support products and services may be made available and advertised (such as autoresponders, web hosting services, educational products, etc.) through online affiliate programs in which we participate.

In viewing these sites, you agree not to disrupt or interfere with the operation of the sites in any manner. You agree that should anyone get into the Company websites and/or emails and/or servers the Company utilizes, causing any interruption of the websites, services, email deliveries and/or downloading of our information products and/or illegally capturing any Company data, you will hold the Company, its officers, shareholders, agents, employees, directors, affiliates and vendors harmless from any damages, including but not limited to, those which are direct, indirect, or consequential. You also agree to hold the same entities harmless if an interruption occurs for any other reason, including but not limited to, technology problems, natural disasters, etc. The Company reserves the right to use mail and/or shipping of hard copies of information products which have been paid for (or which were part of an incentive package for a product which was paid for) instead of online delivery should there be an online interruption. The Company websites do not provide legal or accounting advice but general information in those areas. Viewers should consult with professionals in those fields if they are in need of advice.

Refunds

After a customer has paid for a product promoted on any Company website and/or in its affiliated publications (excluding vendors who advertise from which you order direct from the vendors and adhere to any refund policy they may have), you will be eligible for a refund as long as you follow the refund policy that existed as posted when you ordered.

Independent Contractor Agreements

Viewer agrees that if he or she is using information from a Company website and/or publication in a business endeavor, in addition to following all applicable laws, viewer must also, depending upon the business, follow certain policies and procedures as dictated in agreements associated with their business endeavor. For example, if someone is an independent network marketer, then he or she has signed an independent contractor agreement with the network marketing company with whom he/she is associated. Viewer understands and agrees that any information provided by Company must be viewed within the context of applicable laws and any other business agreements you signed in order for you to stay within the appropriate legal mandates of your business. It is the sole responsibility of the viewer to determine what information may be useful for his or her business and how that should be applied to stay within all legal mandates.

Linking to Company Websites

The Company reserves the right to disallow someone from linking to the Company websites. This can be done for any reason at any time, at the Company’s sole discretion.

Limitation of Damages, Etc.

The Company, its officers, shareholders, writers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates and/or vendors, shall not be held liable as companies and/or individuals or for any loss of revenue and/or damages including, but not limited to, those that are direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of information (or inability to use) or the use of anything else and/or any unintentional error whatsoever related to its websites, products, services, or any of its linked sites. You agree that should anyone get into the Company websites and/or emails and/or servers the Company utilizes, causing any interruption of the websites, services, email deliveries and/or downloading of our information products and/or illegally capturing any Company data relating to you or others, you will hold the Company, its officers, shareholders, directors, affiliates, agents, employees, and vendors (all the aforementioned as companies and/or individuals) harmless from any and all loss of revenues, and damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential.The maximum total liability shall never, in any event, exceed (whichever is in dispute) the total price of the product or service (minus any rebates, etc.) paid by the customer based on the records of INLC and/or its vendors.

The viewer agrees that all protections afforded the Company in this agreement also apply to the Company’s vendors that supply various products/services to the Company. You and the Company agree to the protections delineated in these Terms of Use regardless of whether or not the Company, its vendors or you have been advised of the possibility of a loss of revenue and/or damages.

Contacting Us

When you contact the Company and/or any of its affiliated companies, no confidential and/or proprietary information should ever be sent by mail and/or through the Company websites and/or its email addresses. Should you do so, you agree that the Company will NOT treat this as confidential and/or proprietary information of yours. You also agree not to send offensive, and/or illegal material to the Company websites and/or its email addresses.

Privacy

We respect your privacy and do not rent, sell or share your information without your permission. We will, however, retain your data as business assets and hence, will treat them as transferable to a new owner should the business be sold.

The Company is not responsible for the conduct, content or policies of any linked site. Should you go to a linked site, you should immediately read the terms of use and the privacy policies of those sites.

When you visit a Company website, you do not have to complete any forms. Any forms you do complete are voluntarily submitted to receive a free e-newsletter or to order a paid subscription and/or other product or service. The required information as posted on the website for each order and/or subscription must be submitted. To receive the free e-newsletter, MyNetBrief™, at the minimum, your email address must be submitted. You may also need to give us your full name and your title (Ms., Mrs., Mr.) along with the name of the network marketing company with which you are associated. For other products/services, you may be asked for the following: name, title (Mr. Mrs. Ms.), address, email address, your company’s name, company address, company title (VP Marketing, VP Finance, etc.) phone number, fax number, credit card data if paying by credit card, bank routing number, check number, bank name and address, etc. for payments by bank debit.

Occasionally, we may ask for other information to get to know our website visitors, customers and/or affiliates better. Individual information will be kept confidential except that general collective group data profiles may be made available to advertisers and/or the public. When you volunteer to submit your phone and/or fax numbers, you are giving permission to the Company to contact you using these numbers. The Company does not engage in spam.

If the Company is forced, by law, to surrender certain information contained in the Company databases, the Company will comply. Should this occur, you hold the Company, its officers, shareholders, employees, agents and/or vendors (as companies and/or as individuals) harmless from all damages, including but not limited to, direct, indirect or consequential damages.

Privacy Changes

Should the Company make any changes or additions to its Privacy Policies, the Company will post them on the appropriate Company website(s) and will do so at least 30 days prior to the date when the changes/additions will become effective. Check with the Privacy link on our website occasionally for any changes.

Viral Information Sharing

When you use any viral sharing system (as may be on our website on in emails sent to you) to have information sent to your friends and business contacts, only the information you requested is sent. Should the recipient respond back to the Company at any time to receive any additional information, only then would we email back.

Cookies

Cookies are used to for tracking the Company’s affiliate sales, to store the user name and passwords of customers and affiliates, and to make ordering easier and faster. Other uses include, but are not limited to, the following: rotating ads and tracking ad responses, tracking viewers’ reading, click throughs and purchasing patterns. Cookies are often used at websites to help gain information to optimize the viewers’ positive experiences on the site.

Reviewing Your Information

You may request to review information you submitted. We will give you that information and allow you to correct any inaccuracies.

For Our Current Mailing Address or to Email Us

If you have questions relating to the Company Privacy Policies, just go to the “Contact” section of the Company homepage for the current email and snail mail addresses. If you wish to unsubscribe, just do so by using the unsubscribe link that appears at the bottom of our emails. Our mailing address is INLC, 2023 W. Guadalupe, S11-120, Mesa, Arizona 85202-7371 USA

Security

We respect your privacy and the Company’s vendors have assured the Company that it does its best to safeguard your information. Secure servers are utilized for financial transactions.

Governance

Should you have a concern, contact the Company with your name, email address, assigned URL along with your phone number and address. Explain your concern giving any applicable dates and other pertinent details. Use the contact page on the website to email this information to the Company or you may mail the information to the Company. The Company will get back to you as soon as possible.

This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Arizona. Any disputes shall be adjudicated in a court of law in the county of Maricopa, state of Arizona with the exception that the Company, at its sole discretion, may require that both parties arbitrate a dispute as an alternative to going to court. If, at the Company’s sole discretion, informal interaction does not resolve the dispute and the Company then requires arbitration, the other party will be notified, in writing, by the Company. Any and all disputes and claims shall then be settled totally and finally through arbitration in the city of Mesa, State of Arizona or other location as prescribed by the Company. This shall be in accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act and the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. Both parties agree that the decision of the Arbitrator shall be final and binding upon both parties. Such decision may be reduced to a judgment in any court having competent jurisdiction. The arbitrators shall have the right to award a party recovery of all costs relating to the arbitration including, without limitation, the above mentioned fees and costs, as well as reimbursement of legal fees and expenses. Viewer agrees that any claim or counterclaim filed against the Company, its affiliates, shareholders, officers, agents, representatives, directors, and/or its vendors, shall be done so on an individual basis and not together with anyone else in a class action. The terms and conditions governing disputes including, but not limited to, the consent to arbitrate at the Company’s discretion, shall extend beyond any termination or expiration of this agreement.

In no event shall the Company and/or its affiliates, shareholders, officers, agents, representatives, directors, vendors liability for any loss and/or damages under any claims exceed the cost actually paid by you (minus any rebates, etc.) for any product and/or service. You agree to indemnify and hold the Company, its employees, shareholders, agents, representatives, affiliates, officers, directors and vendors (all the aforementioned as companies and/or individuals) harmless from and against any third party claims, costs or expenses (including, but not limited to, attorney fees,) emanating from your breach of these Terms of Use or any applicable law. Any action taken by you against the Company, its affiliates, employees, shareholders, directors, agents, representatives and/or vendors associated with your use of the Company website, affiliated sites and/or Company products/services must begin within one year after the claim or cause of action arises.

Any waivers are only allowed when approved in writing by a person authorized by the Company to do so. Should any part of this agreement be waived or ruled to be invalid by an arbitrator or a court of law of applicable jurisdiction, the rest of the agreement remains in full force and effect. If viewer is viewing Company websites, affiliates sites, and/or utilizing other Company products/services from outside of the United States, viewer agrees to abide by this agreement as well as all applicable laws in the locale wherein he or she is viewing the Company websites, affiliated sites and/or utilizing other Company products/services. No one may forward information from the Company and/or its websites and/or affiliated sites to regions outside the U.S. wherein such content may be deemed illegal.

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