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Agreement: Printable Version   USER AGREEMENT (as of 9/06/2001) We welcome you to our site. We ask that you review these Terms and Conditions, which are intended to constitute a binding license agreement that conditions your use of this site (“Agreement”). We have tried to avoid unnecessary legal verbiage and hope that you understand that we are simply trying to protect our rights in order to provide you with access to the content available at this site. If you do not wish to be bound by this Agreement after you have read it, please leave the site. If you remain at this site, or return thereafter, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. By clicking the “I AGREE” icon below you are manifesting your assent and agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. In return, you will have a confidential password that you may use to access the information that you post and assessments that you take at this site, provided you abide by the terms and conditions below. 1. Purpose and Intent of this Site. This Web site is intended to provide you with information useful for making career choices. This site is intended as a career exploration tool. The assessments on this site are job-related and are not clinical (psychological measures). The database used in this site to provide job matches is from the United States Department of Labor O*NET database. The content of the O*NET database is primarily for U. S. jobs and might not be applicable for jobs outside the United States. This site is not intended as an employment opportunity or job search site. It is not intended as a hiring or promotion tool, but only as a career development tool. Bigby, Havis & Associates, Inc. is not responsible for the career decisions you make. The use of CareerWay does not comprise a consultation with Bigby, Havis & Associates, Inc. We recommend that users thoroughly research all jobs prior to making a decision on which job best fits them. This Agreement binds you and other visitors to a code of ethical conduct intended to achieve this purpose. The success of the site, however, depends on the adherence to the terms of this Agreement by you and all other visitors to this site. While we will do our best to enforce the terms of this Agreement, as set forth below in Sections 10 and 11, we cannot warrant or represent that other visitors will in fact adhere to this Agreement and cannot act as insurers or accept any liability for their failure to do so. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SITE USE 2. Subscription Period and Payment Terms. Payment is required to purchase a subscription to use CareerWay.com. If you are under the age of 18, you must have the permission of your parent or guardian to use this site. Unless you are given access under a group subscription, payment must be made using a Visa or MasterCard credit card via an online payment form and remitting in U.S. Dollars. No other form of payment will be accepted. 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You agree to act responsibly at this site and to treat other visitors with respect. 5. Limited License. Intellectual property laws protect original material that we post on this site. All screen displays, graphics, and text appearing on this site (“Content”) are copyrighted materials owned by Bigby, Havis & Associates, Inc. The database used to provide job matches is from the United States Department of Labor O*NET database. The research contained in the O*NET database is primarily for U. S. jobs and might not be applicable for jobs outside the United States. The Service, together with the arrangement and compilation of the content found on this site, is the copyrighted property of Bigby, Havis & Associates, Inc. and or its various third party providers (e.g., O*NET) and distributors whose information is used with the expressed permission of the provider. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive license to use the Content on this site, but only while accessing this site. 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Nothing contained on this site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any of the Trademarks of Bigby, Havis & Associates, Inc. or of third party providers without the written permission of Bigby, Havis & Associates, Inc. or the respective third party owners. CareerWay is a trademark of Bigby, Havis & Associates, Inc. Use of any of our trademarks as metatags on other Web sites also is strictly prohibited. 6. Privileges Nontransferable. You may not transfer your access privileges to anyone. You further agree not to disclose to your confidential password to any other person or company. 7. Links Within Our Site. We provide links from our site as a convenience to our visitors. We have no control over the content posted at these sites and make no representations about any content or material available at these locations. Links are not intended to imply sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement. If you believe that we have provided a link to a site that contains infringing or illegal content or which makes available cracker tools or other circumvention devices, we ask that you notify us so that we may evaluate whether (in our sole discretion) to disable it. 8. Privacy. a. In General. We collect information about you that you provide to us and from cookie files. Our use of cookies is limited to storing information that identifies you as a repeat visitor to this site, and we make no use of that information other than assisting us to identify you as a return visitor. We will not knowingly provide any of the information provided by you or information collected from cookies (except in the form of aggregate statistics that do not link you or your identity to any specific information and do not identify you as a visitor to this site) to third-parties unless we obtain your permission or are compelled to do so by court order. A “third party” does not include a person or legal entity that succeeds to or acquires all or substantially all of the rights of Bigby, Havis & Associates, Inc. in this site. b. When you complete assessments on this site, we will store that information on our secure servers for a period of three years so that you may have access to that information should you decide to subscribe again to our Service at a later time, at the then prevailing rates. Bigby, Havis & Associates, Inc. may use the stored information for research purposes, but only in the aggregate and anonymously, that is, without identifying information. c. You agree to respect the privacy rights of other visitors by not publishing or harvesting email addresses or any other information about others that you might obtain at this site. 9. Good Samaritan Content Policy & Complaint Procedures. a. Policy. It is the policy of the owners and operators of this Web site to not tolerate any acts of intellectual property infringement or violations of U.S. law or to allow for any postings of any material on this site other than information necessary to use this site for its intended purpose. The provisions of this Section 9 are intended to implement this policy but are not intended to impose a contractual obligation on the owners or operators of this Web site to undertake, or refrain from undertaking, any particular course of conduct. b. Complaint Procedures. If you believe that someone has posted material at this Web site which is in violation of U.S. law, infringes the intellectual property or other rights of third-parties or which constitutes child pornography or pornography or which is obscene, racist, sexist, harassing, defamatory or otherwise objectionable, we ask you to promptly notify us by email at the following address: feedback@CareerWay.com. You must use this address if you want to ensure that your complaint is actually received by the appropriate person charged with responding to such communications. In order to respond as quickly as possible to any complaint, please provide us with as much detail as possible, including (1) the nature of the objectionable material, the nature of the right infringed or violated (including the registration numbers of any registered copyrights, trademarks or patents allegedly infringed); (2) all facts which lead you to believe that a right has been violated or infringed; (3) the precise location where the offending material is located; (4) any grounds to believe that the person who posted the material was not authorized to do so or did not have a valid defense (including the defense of fair use); and (5) if known, the identity of the person or persons who posted the infringing or offending material. c. Indemnification/Waiver of Certain Rights. By lodging a complaint, you agree that the substance of your complaint shall be deemed to constitute a representation made under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States. In addition, you agree, at your own expense, to defend us and indemnify us against any liability that we may incur by our response to your complaint. d. Waiver of Claims and Remedies. We expect visitors to take responsibility for their own actions, and, as set forth below in Sections 10 and 11, cannot assume liability for any acts of you, other authorized users, or third-parties which take place at this Web site. By this Agreement, you acknowledge that in establishing a complaint procedure we are taking on the role of a Good Samaritan and, in order to allow us to do our best, in good faith, to purge or otherwise restrict the availability of material that violates the law, is infringing, racist, sexist, obscene, pornographic, harassing, defamatory or otherwise objectionable, you agree to waive any claims or remedies which you might otherwise be able to make against us under any theory of law (including, but not limited to, intellectual property laws) arising out of or relating in any way to the content at this Web site or our response, or failure to respond, to a complaint. e. Investigation/Right to Purge Postings. You agree that we have the right (but not the obligation) to investigate any complaint received and, at any time and for any reason, to remove any material which you post to this Web site, with or without your permission, and with or without cause, in our sole discretion. By reserving this right, we do not undertake any responsibility in fact to remove content posted online, whether or not a complaint has been received. 10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. IN ORDER TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THIS SERVICE AT THIS LOW PRICE, WE ARE UNABLE TO OFFER ANY WARRANTIES OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT ANY BENEFITS OR OPPORTUNITIES WHICH YOU MAY OBTAIN AT THIS SITE. WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THIS WEB SITE IS MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU “AS IS,” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER ABOUT THE NATURE, CONTENT OR ACCURACY (EITHER WHEN POSTED OR AS A RESULT OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME) OF ANY MATERIAL AT THE SITE, AND WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR GUARANTEES. IN ADDITION, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES THAT THIS WEB SITE WILL BE SECURE, ACCESSIBLE CONTINUOUSLY AND WITHOUT INTERRUPTION, OR ERROR FREE. 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