Cameron-Brooks Website Terms of Use

Ownership of Site; Agreement to Terms of Use

These terms and conditions of of use (“Terms of Use”) apply to the Cameron-Brooks web site located at www.cameron-brooks.com, and all associate sites linked to www.cameron-brooks.com by Cameron-Brooks and its affiliates (collectively “the Site”).  The Site is the property of Cameron-Brooks, Inc. (“CB”) and its licensors.

BY USING THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE; IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THE SITE.

CB reserves the right to change, modify, alter, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use, at any time, at CB’s sole discretion.  By continuing to use the Site following the posting of changes, you accept and agree to the changes.  As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, as amended, CB grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, limited privilege to enter and use the Site.

Site Content

All materials and content, including but not limited to designs, text, graphics, audiovisual materials, multimedia elements, photographs, videos, music, sound recordings, reports, documents, software, information, trademarks, logos, artwork and computer code (collectively, “Site Content”), including but not limited to the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, “look and feel” and arrangement of such Site Content, contained on the Site is owned, controlled or licensed by or to CB, and is or may be protected by trade dress, copyright, patent, and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws.

Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the Site and no Site Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way (including “mirroring”) to any other computer, server, Web site or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without CB’s express prior written consent.

You agree that the Site Content is licensed subject to these Terms of Use, including the disclaimers and limitations of liability herein. Nothing in your use of the Site or these Terms of Use grants you any right, title or interest in or to Site Content save and except the limited right to use the Site as set out in these Terms.

Unless otherwise expressly authorized by us in writing, you agree not to

  • copy, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right or interest in the Site Content;
  • use any “deep-link”, “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Site Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Site Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site
  • remove any proprietary notices or labels on or in the Site Content;
  • pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity;
  • use the Site or any Site Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of CB or others; or
  • allow any other person or entity to engage in any of the foregoing.

Your Content

The Site includes functionality to enable you to upload your contact information and/or other employment- and career-related information (all such information, is “Submitted Materials”). You represent that you own all right, title and interest in and to your Submitted Materials. Additionally, you hereby grant CB a worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers) license, without additional consideration to you or any third party, to reproduce, distribute, perform and display (publicly or otherwise), create derivative works of, adapt, modify and otherwise use and exploit such Submitted Materials, in any format or media now known or hereafter developed, and for any purpose (including promotional purposes, such as testimonials).  In addition, if you provide to us any ideas, proposals, suggestions or other materials (“Feedback”), whether related to the Site or otherwise, such Feedback will be deemed Submitted Materials, and you hereby acknowledge and agree that such Feedback is not confidential, and that your provision of such Feedback is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction, and does not place CB under any fiduciary or other obligation.

You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant the licenses granted in this section, and that your Submitted Materials, and your provision thereof through and in connection with the Site, are complete and accurate, and are not fraudulent, tortious or otherwise in violation of any applicable law or any right of any third party. You further irrevocably waive any “moral rights” or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of materials regarding any and all Submitted Materials that you may have under any applicable law under any legal theory.

CB may (but has no obligation to) screen, monitor, evaluate and remove any Submitted Materials at any time and for any reason, or analyze your access to and use of the Site. We may disclose information regarding your access to and use of the Site, and the circumstances surrounding such access and use, to anyone for any reason or purpose.

For clarity, certain information that you provide to CB through the Site may also be governed by CB’s Privacy Policy, located at (web address of privacy policy) (the “Privacy Policy”). You represent and warrant that any information you provide in connection with the Site is and will remain accurate and complete, and that you will maintain and update such information as needed.

Rules of Conduct

In connection with the Site, you agree NOT to:

  • Post, transmit or otherwise make available through or in connection with the Site any materials that are or may be: (a) threatening, harassing, degrading, hateful or intimidating, or otherwise fail to respect the rights and dignity of others; (b) defamatory, libelous, fraudulent or otherwise tortious; (c) obscene, indecent, pornographic or otherwise objectionable; or (d) protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right, without the express prior written consent of the applicable owner.
  • Post, transmit or otherwise make available through or in connection with the Site any virus, worm, Trojan horse, Easter egg, time bomb, spyware or any other computer code, file or program that is, or is potentially, harmful or invasive or intended to damage or hijack the operation of, or to monitor the use of, any hardware, software or equipment (each, a “Virus”).
  • Use the Site or Site Content for any commercial purpose, or for any purpose that is fraudulent or otherwise tortious or unlawful.
  • Harvest or collect information about users of the Site.
  • Interfere with or disrupt the operation of the Site or the servers or networks used to make the Site available, including by hacking or defacing any portion of the Site; or violate any requirement, procedure or policy of such servers or networks.
  • Restrict or inhibit any other person from using the Site.
  • Reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works of, sell, rent, lease, loan, timeshare, distribute or otherwise exploit any portion of (or any use of) the Site except as expressly authorized herein.
  • Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Site, except where such restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law.
  • Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notice from the Site.
  • Frame or mirror any portion of the Site, or otherwise incorporate any portion of the Site into any product or service.
  • Systematically download and store Site content.

Privacy

CB’s Privacy Policy applies to use of this Site, and its terms are made a part of these Terms of Use by this reference.  You can view CB’s Privacy Policy here:  (web address of Privacy Policy).  Additionally, by using the Site, you acknowledge and agree that Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send to the Site may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notice that a particular transmission is encrypted.

Linked Sites

This Site may contain links to other independent third-party Web sites (“Linked Sites”). These Linked Sites are provided solely as a convenience to our visitors, and such links do not imply any affiliation with the owners or any content of such Linked Sites.  Such Linked Sites are not under CB’s control, and CB is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of such Linked Sites, including any information or materials contained on such Linked Sites. You will need to make your own independent judgment regarding your interaction with these Linked Sites.

Disclaimers

THE SITE AND ITS CONTENT ARE DELIVERED ON AN “AS-IS” AND “AS-AVAILABLE” BASIS. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE SITE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. CB CANNOT ENSURE THAT ANY FILES OR OTHER DATA YOU DOWNLOAD FROM THE SITE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. CB DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, COURSE OF DEALING, OR USAGE OR TRADE. CB DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR THE ACTS, OMISSIONS AND CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND/OR ANY CB SERVICES.  CB DOES NOT PROMISE THAT THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT, SERVICE OR FEATURE OF THE SITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE WILL PROVIDE SPECIFIC RESULTS YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND ANY LINKED SITES.

The above disclaimer applies to any damages, liability or injuries caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use, whether for breach of contract, tort, negligence or any other cause of action.

While we try to maintain the timeliness, integrity and security of the Site, we do not guarantee that the Site is or will remain updated, complete, correct or secure, or that access to the Site will be uninterrupted. The Site may include inaccuracies, errors and materials that violate or conflict with these Terms. Additionally, third parties may make unauthorized alterations to the Site.

Further, without limiting the foregoing, CB (a) does not guarantee that you will receive any employment or job offers through the Site; (b) will not be responsible for any employment offers or listings, employment screenings, employment decisions, or actual employment presented by any third parties; and (c) is neither your employer nor your agent based solely on your usage of the Site. You must use your own judgment in evaluating any prospective employers.

Limitation of Liability

Except where prohibited by law, in no event will CB be liable to you for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental or punitive damages OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, USE OF DATA, LOSS OF OTHER INTANGIBLES, OR LOSS OF SECURITY OF SUBMITTED MATERIALS (INCLUDING UNAUTHORIZED INTERCEPTION BY THIRD PARTIES OF ANY SUBMITTED MATERIALS), EVEN IF ADVISED IN ADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSSES.  WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, CB WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR FROM ANY THIRD PARTY MATERIALS, INCLUDING FROM ANY VIRUS THAT MAY BE TRANSMITTED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. YOUR SOLE REMEDY AGAINST CB FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT IS TO STOP USING THE SITE OR ANY SUCH CONTENT. THIS LIMITATION OF RELIEF IS A PART OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN THE PARTIES.

If, notwithstanding the other provisions of these Terms of Use, CB is found to be liable to you for any damage or loss which arises out of or is in any way connected with your use of the Site or any Content, CB’s liability shall in no event exceed US$100.00.

Applicable law in some jurisdictions may not allow for limitations on certain implied warranties, or exclusions or limitations of certain damages; solely to the extent that such law applies to you, some or all of the above disclaimers, exclusions or limitations may not apply to you, and you may have certain additional rights.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold CB, its officers, directors, shareholders, predecessors, successors in interest, employees, agents, attorneys, subsidiaries and affiliates, harmless from any demands, loss, liability, claims or expenses (including attorneys’ fees), made against CB by any third party due to or arising out of or in connection with your use of the Site.

Termination

CB may terminate or suspend your access to the Site at any time, with or without cause or notice, including if we believe that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms. Upon any such termination or suspension, (a) your right to access and use the Site will immediately cease; (b) CB will be under no obligation to maintain or provide you with access to any materials associated with your account (including Submitted Materials), and may retain or delete such materials in CB’s sole discretion; and (c) except for the license granted to you to access and use the Site, the remaining provisions of these Terms will survive and continue in effect.

Governing Law

You agree that all matters relating to your access to or use of the Site, including all disputes, will be governed by the laws of the United States and by the laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflicts of laws provisions. You agree to the personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and federal courts in Bexar County, Texas, and waive any objection to such jurisdiction or venue. The preceding provision regarding venue does not apply if you are a consumer based in the European Union. If you are a consumer based in the European Union, you may make a claim in the courts of the country where you reside.  No recovery may be sought or received for damages other than out-of-pocket expenses, except that the prevailing party shall be awarded costs and attorneys’ fees. In the event of any controversy or dispute between CB and you arising out of or in connection with your use of the Site, the parties shall attempt, promptly and in good faith, to resolve any such dispute. If we are unable to resolve any such dispute within a reasonable time (not to exceed thirty (30) days), then either party may submit such controversy or dispute to mediation. If the dispute cannot be resolved through mediation, then the parties shall be free to pursue any right or remedy available to them under applicable law.

Miscellaneous

If any of the provisions of these Terms of Use are held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be void or unenforceable, such provisions shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary and replaced with a valid provision that best embodies the intent of these Terms of Use, so that these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and CB with regard to your use of the Site, and any and all other written or oral agreements or understandings previously or contemporaneously existing between you and CB with respect to such use are hereby superseded and cancelled. CB will not accept any counter-offers to these Terms of Use, and all such offers are hereby categorically rejected. CB’s failure to insist on or enforce strict performance of these Terms of Use shall not be construed as a waiver by CB of any provision or any right it has to enforce these Terms of Use, nor shall any course of conduct between CB and you or any other party be deemed to modify any provision of these Terms of Use. You may not assign, transfer or sublicense any or all of your rights or obligations under these Terms of Use without our express prior written consent. We may assign, transfer or sublicense any or all of our rights or obligations under these Terms of Use without restriction. These Terms of Use shall not be interpreted or construed to confer any rights or remedies on any third parties.