Terms of Service

Last updated April 2, 2010

We suggest that before joining Advicetap, you read our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines. We've tried to make them as straight forward and easy to understand as possible.

The Advicetap service (“Service”) includes the web site at www.Advicetap.com (“Site”), and was created to help consultants ("Members") connect with other consultants as well as to assist consultants in their promotional efforts by making it easier to be found.

Acceptance
By using the service, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Advicetap terms of use contract (“Terms of Service” or "Service Agreement"), which is between you and Advicetap Digital Inc. (“Advicetap”), a British Columbia corporation.

Advicetap may be referred to as "Advicetap", “the site”, "we" or "our" in this Agreement. By you using this site you are agreeing to comply to the terms explained in these documents.

We may change or update these terms at our discretion and you agree to review them from time to time and to accept any modified terms.

Registration
To sign up you must be at least 18 years of age. Your registration signifies your confirmation and acceptance of this agreement. You are required to use your real first and last name or the name that you use on a day-to-day basis for business. Impersonating any person or company other than yourself is prohibited as is providing false information of any kind. Any member profiles that do not conform to these rules may be terminated.

Your registration of membership must be for your use only and you may not allow others access to your account in any form or manner. You are responsible for all use of your account including your profile, emails and messages, articles, forum posts and other activity in your account. You are required to keep your account information up to date at all times. If you have any reason to believe that your account has been used by anyone other than yourself, you must contact Advicetap immediately in writing. However, you are in agreement that you will accept all risk connected with content or activity you or others may create within your account and Advicetap cannot and will not be held responsible for any issue that may arise from such use on the site within your account under any circumstances.

If you supply any false or inaccurate information or if it is reasonable to believe that such information is false or inaccurate, Advicetap may suspend, terminate, or refuse any and all use of the Site to you – including current and future.

Community Guidelines
View the Advicetap Community Guidelines.

Disclosure
We may monitor your communications and may disclose content and information about you, including contents of communications, if we deem it reasonably necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or respond to legal process; (b) ensure your compliance with this Agreement including maintaining this Service and the Community Guidelines; or (c) protect the rights, property, personal safety or interests of Advicetap, its employees, its customers, or the public.

User Contributions
You understand that all information, data, text, links, articles, photographs, graphics, messages, or other materials posted by you on the Site or otherwise submitted to Advicetap, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of you or other users posting or transmitting such User Content. You are completely responsible for all user content that you post or upload to the site. You are obligated to ensure that all content posted is your original and is not in violation of any copyright, intellectual property, trademark. This is your responsibility, not Advicetap’s. Any member content that is judged to be an infringement may be removed and that member’s account may be terminated.

We have no obligation to maintain or store your content. Advicetap may, at any time in its sole discretion, delete, modify or prevent from displaying to any other users, any User Content, for any reason, including the service cancellation, violation of the Service Agreement, violation of the Code of Conduct. Once deleted, any content you have stored on the service cannot be retrieved.

User Content License
Any content that you place on the site means you allow Advicetap, its affiliates and partners, a continuous, world- wide, non-exclusive and royalty-free, (sub-)licensable license as follows: to use and reproduce in any form and manner in whole or part, for all current and future media and to do so in any manner (and on the sites of our affiliates, partners and others with whom Advicetap has business dealings with) and the promotion and distribution of the Site. You also agree that any information you send as feedback or through other content or communication on the site maybe be used by Advicetap for any purpose. Possible uses of the above include, but are not limited to, featuring member consultants and their work, for testimonials and other Advicetap promotions.

Limitation
Advicetap may limit the frequency you may access the site if it appears disproportionate or robotic. This is done in order to prevent spam, ensure our members are real people and not robots, and to maintain the stability of the site.
 
Termination
You are allowed to cancel your account and service at anytime. Likewise we may cancel, suspend, or block your access to the Service at any time and do so right away if any violation is found. Once your account has been removed, access to your account and any data within it will not be possible. In addition, if you close your account your public profile page will be removed, however, your user data may be stored in our database for as long as necessary to support any articles, comments, conversations in the forums, replies and other such content or activity created by you and your account as it is integral to the community and conversations that are core to the Advicetap site. In such cases, your profile and user data will be securely stored in our database, but will not be visible to the public or used for any purpose other than the above.

Rights
Advicetap owns all rights and intellectual property for this site. This includes all copyrighted material, trademarks, trade secrets, and other proprietary information. You may not copy, sell or license any section of this service or use any of its source code in any manner. The code that makes Advicetap, its visual look, name, naming used and content is all copyrighted and can not be used by any member or external party for any reason.

Infringement
If for any reason you consider your original work has been used by a member of this site we ask you to notify Advicetap immediately in writing through our contact page. You must provide all details so that we can review the suspect work as well as your proof of the original. Any work deemed to be an infringement will be removed from the site right away. We will act as quickly as possible to handle any such matter.

Sponsorships
Advicetap may at anytime place advertisements or sponsorships on this site from members or other companies at our sole discretion. You may not hide or obscure these for any reason through any means.

Indemnity
As a member you agree that Advicetap and its management, affiliates, agents, officers, any subsidiaries, or partners and employees, will not be held responsible for any loss, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party or member due to (a) User Content submitted, posted, transmitted, or made accessible through the Advicetap site, (b) your usage of the Advicetap site, (c) any affiliation to the service you may have (d) your breach of the Terms of Service or Code of Conduct, or (e) your infringement of any rights of another including copyright, intellectual property or any other such breach.

No Warranty
We are constantly working to improve the Advicetap site and service. As a result we provide the service “as-is” including any faults – though we work as quickly as possible to resolve and improve on any issues. As legitimate by law, we renounce any inferred warranties. We do not warrant that the service or the content will be accurate, virus- or error-free, or uninterrupted – though, again we do our best to limit and remove any such issues as our goal is to provide you with a safe and enjoyable experience.

Liability limitation
Advicetap's total liability to you for any and all claims related to the Service or its content is limited to the amount of your service fee for one month. Advicetap will not be held liable nor can be held responsible for any lost profits or damages as a result of your access, use or lack of ability to access or use the service and content of the site – for any reason whether technological, the blocking or cancellation of your service, unpaid fees, breach of warranty, beach of code of conduct, or any other legal theory.

Without limiting the former, you specifically recognize that Advicetap is not liable for the defamatory, breaching, fraudulent, or illegal conduct of other users or third parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you.

General
You agree that any notices we send you may be in electronic format and you agree to this. This Service Agreement constitutes the complete agreement and supersedes all prior agreements between you and Advicetap. This Service Agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. All disputes related to or arising from this Agreement will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the province and courts located in Vancouver, British Columbia; to which jurisdiction and venue you and Advicetap each irrevocably consent. You may not assign or transfer rights under this Service Agreement, or delegate any duties. Advicetap retains the right to assign its rights under this Service Agreement and to delegate its duties in connection with a merger, reorganization, or sale of any and all of its assets.

Notices
Any notice from you to Advicetap must be addressed to info (at) Advicetap.com. We may provide information to you at the your registered email address or on the Advicetap website or another website selected in advance for this purpose.

Project (Gigs) Disclosure
For businesses: By posting your project on Advicetap you understand that we are not responsible and may not be held liable for any result your posting may have on you or your business. Advicetap aims to help you find qualified consultants and freelancers, however, we make no guarantee on the quality or result of communications and work they may engage in with you.

For Consultants and Freelancers: By joining Advicetap you understand that Advicetap can not guarantee, nor will be held liable to any degree and for any reason, for the failure to receive a response or win a project that you have applied for. Advicetap's goal is to give you as many opportunities as possible to find quality projects. However, we do not control how your application is received, viewed or construed by the company (recipient).