Terms and Conditions

Maven Research, Inc. owns this website and provides all services associated with this website subject to the following terms and conditions. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this website. By using or logging onto this website, or by using any of the content on this website, you accept these terms and conditions. You will be legally bound by these terms and conditions as soon as you start using our website.

Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your visit to Maven.co, to understand our practices.

When you visit Maven.co or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

You must be 18 years of age or older, or the age of majority as that is defined in your jurisdiction, whichever is older, to visit or use our website in any manner. By visiting our website and accepting these terms and conditions, you represent and warrant to Maven that you have reached the age of majority in your jurisdiction, and that you have the right, authority and capacity to agree to and abide by these terms and conditions. You also represent and warrant to Maven that you will use our website in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Maven or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws; you do not acquire any ownership rights in the such content from using the website or the services. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Maven and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of Maven or its software suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. MAVEN, MAVEN RESEARCH, MAVENRESEARCH.COM, MAVEN.CO, the “Raven” logo; MAVEN & Design, EVERYBODY KNOWS SOMETHING, THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE MARKETPLACE, MAVENSCORE, MICROCONSULTING, CONNECT CONSULT PROFIT, MAVENSEARCH, MAVENBLOG, MY MAVEN, MAVENMAIL, INSTANT MAVEN, MAVEN VERIFIED, MAVENSEARCH, INVITE & EARN, FASTER INSIGHTS. SMARTER DECISIONS., INNOVATION ACCELERATED, KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES, and other Maven.co graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade dress of Maven Research Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Maven’s trademarks and trade dress, and copyrighted materials, may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Maven’s, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Maven. All other trademarks not owned by Maven that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by Maven.

We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. We recommend that you visit this page periodically. Your use of our website after we make any such changes constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Our Privacy Policy which is posted on our website is also incorporated into these terms and conditions by this reference. There may be links to other websites from this website. These links are not an endorsement by us and we are not responsible for the content of those other websites. If you choose to travel to those links from our website you do so at your own risk.

You agree that you will exercise good judgment in using the website and the services, and use them only for their intended purposes. You agree NOT to do any of the following things when using our website: (a) access any unauthorized data or areas of our website or log into a server or account which you are not authorized to access, (b) probe our website’s infrastructure for vulnerabilities to breach the security or authentication measures of our website or intentionally distribute harmful code including spyware or malware, (c) send any unsolicited emails to or from users of our website, including but not limited to commercial promotions, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of unauthorized solicitation, hoaxing or phishing, or transmit material that contains viruses or other malicious software; (d) overload, hack or crash our server or any other infrastructure of our website, (e) interfere or attempt to interfere with service to any user, host or network associated with our website, including without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to our website, overloading, flooding, spamming, mailbombing or crashing our website, (f) forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting on our website, (g) use any robots or spiders to mine our website to find e-mail addresses or other user data or sell or modify any of the content on our website or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use any content on our website in any way for any public or commercial purpose, (h) post any obscene, abusive, hateful, defamatory, harmful or threatening messages or any sexually explicit material on our website, (i) post any copyrighted material on this site unless you have the permission or right to do so, (j) place a link to the internal pages of any password-protected portions of our website without our express written consent, (k) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, (l) use it for any fraudulent purpose, or any activity that could damage our commercial reputation and goodwill or the commercial reputation and goodwill of our users, (m) transmit, upload or post material that infringes on any intellectual property rights of others, (n) use anyone else’s account information or contact information except in connection with our services, or (o) spoof, impersonate another person or provide false or misleading information about yourself, your employer, employment status or affiliation in any way.

If you do any of these things, we reserve the right to immediately suspend or terminate your access to or use of this website at any time. Further, if we determine that you are in breach of any of these terms and conditions, we may also pursue appropriate civil remedies and/or criminal charges against you.

We reserve the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any or all of the services we provide or this website at our sole discretion. Except for refundable fees you have advanced to us (if any), we are not liable to you for any modification or discontinuance of any of our services and/or the website. We have the right to restrict anyone from access to or use of any of our services.

By using Maven, you give Maven a worldwide license to collect, use, store, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, and create derivative works from any and all non-personally identifiable transaction data derived by us during the term of this agreement and thereafter from your use of our services for purposes of facilitating your use of our services, operating, promoting or improving our services or developing new ones. We will not sell, license or provide to any person (other than you) any transaction data that directly or indirectly identifies you without your prior written consent.

It is your responsibility to obtain and use software that supports security protocols that may be used by us.

You agree that we may, under certain circumstances and without prior notice to you, immediately terminate your account and access to our website. Reasons for such termination shall include, but not be limited to, (a) breaches or violations of these terms and conditions or other agreements you have with us or written guidelines you agree to adhere to, (b) official requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions), (d) discontinuance or material modification to our services, (e) unexpected technical or security issues or problems, (f) extended periods of inactivity by you, (g) engagement by you in any fraudulent or illegal activities, or (h) nonpayment of any fees owed by you in connection with the services provided by us.

We do not guarantee that your use of our website will be error-free, uninterrupted, safe from viruses or other harmful elements or that our website is completely secure. Any opinions or ideas expressed on our website by our users, our employees, or any other person does not create any warranty from us. The information posted on this website by third-party users is not guaranteed to be accurate. If we find that any posted material violates these terms and conditions or is inaccurate, or if any user brings such violations or inaccuracies to our notice, we will investigate the matter in good faith and we may remove such material ourselves or request the user to remove such material from our website.

We reserve the right to offer third party services and products to you based on the contact information you provide to us during your registration with and use of our website. Such offers may be made by us or by third parties with whom we contract. We do not provide or make any representation as to the quality or nature of any of the third party products or services purchased through us or our website, or any other representation, warranty or guaranty. Any such undertaking, representation, warranty or guaranty would be furnished solely by the provider of such third-party products or services, under the terms agreed to by that third-party provider.

Maven Research, Inc. is located in the United States of America. We do not guarantee that material found on this website will be relevant to you, particularly if you reside outside the United States. Access to this website may not be legal outside of the United States. If you choose to access this website from outside of the United States you do so at your own risk and are responsible for the laws governing such access in your jurisdiction. These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California and jurisdiction for any claims arising under these terms and conditions shall lie within the state and federal courts in California.

It is our policy is to respect the intellectual property rights of work by others. Pursuant to 17 United States Code 512(c) (2) (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, as amended), our designated agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement is:

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Maven Research, Inc.

Rev. March 22, 2013