Business Powerhouse Website Terms of Use

Terms of Use

1. General Information

Welcome to the websites, and online services of Business Powerhouse ("Business Powerhouse," "we," or "us"). These Terms of Use (the "Terms of Use") are a binding contract between Business Powerhouse and you and explain the terms and conditions by which you may use and/or access our Service.  The term "Site" apply to the BUSINESS POWERHOUSE web site located at www.business-powerhouse.com (together with any related subsite, service or feature thereto and all content and software associated therewith, the "Site") and its respective sub-domains, and any related content, software, materials and/or services made available by or on behalf of Business Powerhouse. The Site is the property of Business Powerhouse Inc. ("Business Powerhouse"). YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE BY USING THE SITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, DO NOT USE THE SITE.

As the user of our Site, you are referred to as "you" and "your" for purposes of these Terms of Use. If you use our Site on behalf of any entity such as a company, or organization, or other forms of entity, "you" includes you and that entity, or you represent and warrant that you are an authorized representative of the entity with the authority to bind the entity to these Terms of Use and that you agree to these Terms of Use on the entity's behalf, or your entity is legally and financially responsible for your use of our Site as well as for the use of your account by others affiliated with your entity, including any agents, contractors, or employees.

Our Site is intended exclusively for users who are 16 years of age or older. If you are under 16 years of age and access or register to use our Site, you are in breach of these Terms of Service. If you register for or use our Site, you represent and confirm that you are at least 16 years of age.

Business Powerhouse's goal is to provide users of our Site with a highly interactive and beneficial experience and protect our rights and our users' rights at the same time. We have formulated these Terms of Use to govern your use of our Site, and we, our affiliates, advertisers, and partners provide content and services to you in compliance with the following conditions. By using or accessing our Site, you assert that you have read, understood, and agree to be obliged by these Terms of Use, if you are a registered user or customer of our Site or not. We highly recommend that you read the Terms of Use closely. Your use of our Site is subject to Business Powerhouse's Privacy Policy. Do not use or access, or continue to access our Site, if you do not accept any of these Terms of Use. We strongly recommend that you discontinue using our Site if you are discontented with any Business Powerhouse content, or with the Terms of Use.

At its sole discretion, BUSINESS POWERHOUSE reserves the right to change, modify, remove or add portions of these Terms of Use, at any time. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. If you continue to use the Site following the posting of changes, it means that you accept and agree to the changes.

2. The Content of the Site

All of the content, information, services, and software transmitted through, displayed on, or used in connection with our Site, including all text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, artwork, and computer code, article, opinions text, reviews, guides, advertising, guides, articles, opinions, reviews, audio clips, directories, images, illustrations, video, HTML, source and object code, software, data, and all other matters related to this website, including without limitation, the selection and arrangement of the aforementioned and the "look and feel" of this website (collectively, the "Content"), contained on the Site is owned, controlled or licensed by or to Business Powerhouse, and is protected by copyright, trade dress, patent and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws. The Content is protected under applicable copyrights and another proprietary, including but not limited to intellectual property, rights and are the intellectual property of Business Powerhouse, and its affiliated companies, licensors, and suppliers. Business Powerhouse protects its rights to the Content to the fullest extent of the law. The copying, modifying, rearranging, redistributing, broadcasting, rewriting for broadcast or publication, use or publication by you in any medium, directly or indirectly, of any such matters or any part of our Site, along with the removal or alteration of advertising, except for limited rights of use granted hereunder, is strictly forbidden. You may not use such Content except as provided in these Terms of Use.

The Content includes logotypes, trademarks, and service marks (collectively "Marks") owned by Business Powerhouse, and Marks owned by other third parties. For example, "BUSINESS POWERHOUSE" is a registered trademark of Business Powerhouse. If Marks are not approved in advance and in writing by Business Powerhouse, they cannot be used in any manner.

As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, BUSINESS POWERHOUSE grants you a non-transferable, personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable limited license to enter and use our Site only for your non-commercial and personal use. You may download or print a single copy of any portion of the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright, or other notice contained in such Content. Without the explicit written permission of Business Powerhouse, you may not use our Site for any other purpose, including any way that breaches the Business Powerhouse's Privacy Policy, or any other agreement applicable to our Site. Without the prior explicit written consent of Business Powerhouse, you may not republish the Content on any Internet, Intranet, or Extranet site or incorporate the Content in any database, compilation, archive, or cache or store the Content in electronic form on your computer or mobile device. You may not distribute any of the Content to others, whether or not for payment or other consideration, and you may not copy, publish, reproduce, modify, frame, sell, transmit, display, or otherwise use any portion of the Content unless otherwise expressly permitted by Business Powerhouse.

To use the Content for any purpose other than as permitted by these Terms of Use, direct your requests to our email address: support@business-powerhouse.com.

Business Powerhouse provides you with free access to the content on our Site due to the paid advertising that is displayed on our Site. We would not be able to make our content available to you for free without this advertising. You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to, modify, remove, obstruct, or otherwise interfere with the display or delivery of advertisements on our Site in return for your free access to this content.

You consent that you will only use our Site for lawful purposes. You affirm that you will not use our Site to send, store any unlawful material or engage in any illegal, offensive, indecent or objectionable conduct, or any other fraudulent purposes. Without securing our prior written consent, you are not permitted to frame or utilize framing techniques that include any copyrighted material, trademark, logo, or other proprietary information such as page layout, images, text, or form, of any portion of our Site. You are not allowed to modify or alter in any way the Site, including but not limited to using any software to suspend or alter the display of advertising on the pages of our Site. You agree not to reverse, decompile, engineer, or disassemble any software or other processes accessible through our Site. You agree not to insert any code or product in, on, or with our Site and manipulate the content of our Site in any way that affects the user's experience. You agree not to use any cancelbots, data mining, robots, Trojan horse, or any data gathering or extraction method in connection with your use of our Site and harm our Site in any way whatsoever.

Business Powerhouse strictly respects the intellectual property of others. Please contact us in writing by email at support@business-powerhouse.com, if you suspect that your work has been copied in a way that involves copyright infringement or are aware of any infringing copy placed by any third party on our Site, and provide us with the following information:

- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;

- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to locate the material;

- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

- A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

- Information sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, including the complaining party's name, telephone number, mailing address, and e-mail address.

Please note that we do not accept emails with attachments for security reasons. For this reason, any notification of infringement submitted electronically with an attachment will not be received or processed. The accounts of any users that are determined to be repeat copyright infringers will be terminated by Business Powerhouse.

The Content on the Site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice. Before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the Content on the Site, you must obtain professional or specialist advice.

3. Registration/Membership

Certain areas of our Site may ask you to provide information to register, participate in certain features or access certain content. The decision to provide this information is solely optional. Note that by not providing such information, you may not be able to access certain features or content or participate in various areas of our Site. When you decide to provide any information to our Site,  register, or become a member of our Site, you agree to provide only true, precise, complete, and up-to-date information on all registration pages. Using a name other than your own legal name is forbidden. You agree that Business Powerhouse may use the information you provide to us according to Business Powerhouse's Privacy Policy posted on our Site.

If you decide to register or become a member of our Site in any way, you accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password and declare you will not sell, transfer or assign your membership or any membership rights. You take responsibility for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for restricting access to your computer or mobile device so that others may not access our Site using your name in whole or in part. Business Powerhouse reserves the right to refuse access to our Site or terminate membership to any person who breaches these Terms of Site.

4. Content from Other Content Providers

Our Site includes the distribution of content supplied by other content providers such as non-staff authors, columnists, bloggers, commentators, and content owned by other providers that is published with their permission on our Site. Business Powerhouse is not responsible for the statements and opinions expressed by those content providers. Content providers take responsibility for the preciseness and completeness of such content. and Business Powerhouse does not guarantee them. Business Powerhouse is not responsible for any inaccuracies, errors or omissions, or delays in such content. The volume of information posted by such providers is massive, therefore, our Site cannot and does not monitor all of the information posted to our Site and monitor our Site for incongruent or improper content. Neither Business Powerhouse nor its affiliates or employees will be responsible to any user or anyone else for claims of invasion of privacy and publicity rights, infringement, defamation, libel, slander, pornography, obscenity, fraud, or misrepresentation arising from such content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in its sole discretion, Business Powerhouse reserves the right to remove any information provided by other content providers at any time.

5. Comments/User-Generated Content

Our Site provides its users with interactive areas to give them a forum to share their opinions, ideas, and information. While submitting information to our Site and protect your safety, it is recommended to use the best judgment. In particular, we discourage disclosing personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, or other information that may be used to locate or identify you in public areas of our Site. We reserve the right to delete, edit or move any submission at any time, for any reason, or at its discretion, but we have no duty to delete, remove, or review any such content.

By communicating with our Site or placing any content on it, you represent and guarantee that you own and control all of the rights in and to such contributed content. You declare that such content is accurate, that it does not violate these Terms of Use, and that your content will not cause injury to any person or entity. You hereby explicitly grant Business Powerhouse, its affiliates, and related entities, including our Site, an irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable (including sublicensable to other users), and non-exclusive right and license to use, modify, store, archive, copy, reproduce, display, distribute, and create derivative works based on, all or any portion of such contributed content, in any form, software, media, or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future. Without limiting the generality of the previous sentence, you authorize Business Powerhouse to include the contributed content in a searchable format that may be accessed by users of the Site, other EMI websites. You also grant Business Powerhouse and its affiliates and related entities the right to use your name and any other information that you provide with any such contributed content. You also grant Business Powerhouse the right to use any information, concepts, material, ideas, know-how, or techniques contained in such contributed content for any legal purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing manufacturing, and marketing products using such content. You grant all rights to all content you provide mentioned in this section and you waive additional compensation of any sort for the provided content.

Note that Business Powerhouse does not accept unsolicited materials or ideas for use or publication and is not responsible for any similarities between its content or programming and that of any unsolicited materials or ideas transmitted to Business Powerhouse.

If you think that user-generated content uploaded to our Site violates your intellectual property rights or the rights of others,  you can notify us of any such infringement. You can check section 2 regarding this issue and how we respond to such notices.

6. Posting Rules

Interactive areas of our Site are designed to encourage public discussion and debate, freedom of speech. We want our users to exchange ideas and opinions freely, but we reserve the right to not publish or remove any contributed content posted on our Site for any reason at any time. But by using these areas of our Service, you are participating in a community that is intended for all our users. Business Powerhouse reserves the right to decide whether contributed content infringes our posting rules prepared by Business Powerhouse in its sole discretion after we receive actual notice. We have prepared the following guidelines for users willing to post contributed content on our Site, however Business Powerhouse reserves the right to remove any content. When using our Site, please do not post content that:

  1. violates any right of Business Powerhouse or any third party.

  2. is false, deceptive, disparaging, defamatory, threatening, inflammatory, misleading, fraudulent, inaccurate, contains gross exaggeration or unsubstantiated claims.

  3. contains abusive, vulgar, hateful, or profane language, epithets or libel, distasteful text or illustrations, inflammatory assaults of a religious, personal, or racial nature, or expressions of racism, bigotry, discrimination, or hate.

  4. is unreasonably harmful or offensive to any individual or community contains any actionable statement, violates the privacy rights of any third party, or tends to mislead or reflect unfairly on any other person, business, or entity.

  5. discriminates on the grounds of gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, race, marital status, or disability, or refers to such issues in any manner prohibited by law.

  6. violates any law, regulation, rule, or ordinance in any jurisdiction, or attempts to promote such an evasion or violation.

  7. promotes, advertises, or offers to trade any services or goods, except in areas specifically designed for such purposes.

  8. unfairly disturbs any third party's uninterrupted use of our Site.

  9. uploads copyrighted or other proprietary copy of any kind on our Site without the explicit permission of the owner of that material.

  10. attempts to use or uses other users' account, service, password, or system other than permitted by these Terms of Use.

  11. uploads or transmits viruses or other harmful, devastative, disruptive files.

  12. includes comments, articles, opinions, images, photos, or other content that promotes, constitutes, or encourages illegal acts, violation of national or international law, violation of any right of any individual or entity, violation of any local, or state law, rule, guideline or regulation, or otherwise creates liability.

  13. violates the security, interferes with, disrupts, or otherwise harms our Site, or any services, servers, passwords, system resources, accounts, or networks connected to or accessible through our Site or linked or affiliated sites.

  14. harasses any individual or entity by sending repeated messages related to another user and/or making offensive comments about other individuals, or repeating prior posting of the same message under multiple subjects.

  15. stores or collects other users' personal data.

  16. is unrelated to the specific interactive area or the interactive area's topic.

  17. disguises the origin of the post.

A violation of posting rules may be referred to law enforcement authorities. Business Powerhouse reserves the right to reveal any necessary information to satisfy any law, regulation, or governmental request.

7. Our Site Security Rules

You are forbidden to attempt to violate and violate the security of our Site.  including without limitation: You are forbidden to access data not intended for you or log into a server or account which you are not authorized to access. You are forbidden to attempt to scan, probe, or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to violate security or authentication measures without proper authorization. You are forbidden to attempt to interfere with service to any user, network, or host including without limitation via means of injecting a virus into our Site, overloading, mailbombing, "flooding", or "crashing". You are forbidden to forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail, newsgroup posting, or forum. Violations of network security or system may result in criminal or civil liability. Investigation of any such occurrences may include the involvement of law enforcement authorities in prosecuting everybody engaged in any such activities.

8. Communication with Third Parties through Our Site

Any communication through our Site with any party other than our Site is strictly between you and that third party. Certain areas of our Site may allow you to conduct transactions to purchase services or goods. Our third-party partners and vendors will conduct these transactions. Business Powerhouse will not be responsible for any services, goods, resources, or content available through such third-party dealings or communications, or for any harm related to such transactions under no circumstances. We recommend reviewing the third party's policies and practices. Before engaging in any transaction with any third party, make sure you are comfortable with their policies and practices. If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints relating to materials provided by any third party, they ought to be forwarded directly to that third party.

9. E-Mail Addresses

The privacy of Business Powerhouse's readers is respected. Business Powerhouse makes available for rental its list of the registrants who have explicitly granted us their permission to receive third-party offers and information as part of their user profile.

10. Modification of these Terms of Service, and Changes to our Service

Business Powerhouse has the right, at its discretion, to modify,  remove or add to any of the provisions contained in these Terms of Use at any time. You agree to review these Terms of Use periodically as further use by you of our Site will represent your acceptance of our Terms of Use.

To reflect changes to our business priorities and our users' needs, Business Powerhouse has the right to change or discontinue any aspect of our Site at any time. It is included but not limited to the content, community areas, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access to use. Any changes, additions, modifications, or deletions will be effective immediately upon posting.  Any further of the Site by you after such posting will be acknowledged as acceptance by you of such modifications, changes, or deletions.

11. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all services and materials on our Site and third-party sites to which it links provided "as is" or "as available" without guarantee of any kind. Business Powerhouse is not liable for the availability or content of other services that can be linked to our Site. As Business Powerhouse has no control over such services, you accept and acknowledge that Business Powerhouse is not liable for the availability of any external services and that Business Powerhouse does not stand for and is not liable for any content, advertising, products, accuracy, quality or other materials on or available from the external services. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you accept, agree, and acknowledge that Business Powerhouse will not be liable, directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of any goods, services, or content, or reliable on them, available on the external services or through them. We inform you that the content available on the Site may have inaccuracies or errors. Changes are recurrently made to the information on our Site. 

Business Powerhouse and its suppliers can make enhancements and changes to our Site at any time, including changes to these Terms of Use. Our Site offers a search feature. Business Powerhouse waivers any responsibility for the content or availability of information included in our search index or directory. Business Powerhouse also waivers any responsibility for the preciseness of any directory or search result. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Business Powerhouse and its suppliers make no representation and waiver all express or implied warranties, incl. but not limited to warranties of merchantability and fitness for a specific purpose in regard to the suitability of the information, and the accuracy, timeliness, infallibility, completeness of the content, text, links, graphics, services, or other information contained within our Site, or the results secured from using our Site and/or its content. Business Powerhouse does not guarantee that the functions included in our Site will be error-free and uninterrupted. We do not warrant that defects will be corrected and that our Site and our server that makes our Site available, will be free of viruses or other destructive components. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the user assumes the total cost of all needed repair, correction, or maintenance of the user's device such as a computer, laptop or smartphone, and other equipment.

12. Business Powerhouse's Liability Limitation

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Business Powerhouse, or its affiliates, will not be responsible for any indirect, direct, special, incidental, or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the content, the content or any errors or omissions in the content, unauthorized access to or alteration of your data or transmissions, or data, the content or any errors to or alteration of your transmissions or data, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. You accept and acknowledge that Business Powerhouse is not responsible for any behavior of any user of our Site. In no event shall Business Powerhouse, its affiliates, employees, agents, suppliers, directors, licensors be responsible to you for any claims, liabilities, damages, proceedings, obligations, losses, or costs.

13. General Terms

These Terms of Use will be deemed to include all other disclaimers, policies, notices, and other terms contained on our Site; provided, however, that in the event of a conflict between such other terms and the terms of these Terms of Use, the terms of these Terms of Use will control.

Force Majeure. Under no circumstances shall Business Powerhouse, or its affiliates, licensors, or suppliers be liable for any damages,  claims, liabilities, delay, or failure in performance resulting indirectly or directly from an event beyond its control.

Any failure of Business Powerhouse to enforce or execute any provision of these Terms of Use or related right will not constitute a disclaimer of that provision or right. If Business Powerhouse delays in insisting that you take any action required in compliance with these Terms of Use or delays in taking any action regarding your infringement of these Terms of Service. Any mentioned delays will not prevent Business Powerhouse from taking any action against you for any such breach or insisting that you take any such action, at a later date.

Neither trade practice nor the course of conduct between the parties will act to modify any provision of these Terms of Use. The titles of sections used in these Terms of Use are solely for convenience and carry with them no contractual effect or legal effect. Business Powerhouse may assign its rights and duties under these Terms of Use to any party without prior notice to you at any time.

17. Service Contact

If you have any suggestions, questions, or concerns about these Terms of Use, you may contact us at support@business-powerhouse.com.