ProWorkers Terms of Use

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 6, 2021

Welcome! The ProWorkers, Inc. (“ProWorkers”, or “we”, “us”, or “our”) operates, publishes, and offers a variety of online content. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) apply to our websites, including, but not limited to https://proworkers.com, along with the content, features, functionalities, applications, browser extensions and other services available through our websites (collectively, our “Websites”), participation in our professional social networking community (our “Community”), and any related services, applications, or platforms where these Terms appear or are linked to (collectively, our “Platform”). By accessing or using our Platform in any way, including, without limitation, accessing any portion of our Platform or submitting anything to us through our Platform, you agree to read, comply with, and be legally bound by: (1) these Terms; (2) any additional terms and conditions, agreements, and policies published on our Platform or otherwise applicable to your access to or use of our Platform (the “Rules”); and (3) any other agreements applicable to your access to or use of our Platform (“User Agreements”). These Terms, the Rules, and User Agreements are collectively referred to in these Terms as the “Agreements”.

REVIEW THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR PLATFORM (IN WHOLE OR IN PART), YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS AND/OR ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO USE OUR PLATFORM PURSUANT TO ANY OF THE AGREEMENTS, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS OR USE OUR PLATFORM (IN WHOLE OR IN PART).

  • ACCEPTANCE AND APPLICABILITY OF AGREEMENTS
    • Acceptance of Agreements. By accessing or using our Platform you agree to be bound by these Terms, whether you access or use our Platform as a visitor (meaning that you browse our Platform without creating an account) or as a registered user (meaning that you have created an account with us). To use our Platform as a registered user, you must read and confirm that you accept these Terms and any other applicable Agreements.
    • Eligibility. Without limiting anything set forth in the Agreements, our Platform is intended for use by individuals at least 18 years old (or age of majority if higher in your place of residence).
    • Your Representations and Warranties. Without limiting anything set forth in the Agreements by accessing or using our Platform, you represent to us that: (1) your are 18 years of age or older (or age of majority or older if higher in your place of residence); (2) you are legally able to enter into contracts; (3) that you are not a person barred from receiving or using our Platform under federal, state, local or other laws; and (4) you have not previously been suspended or prohibited from using our Platform for any reason other than your cancellation of your account on our Platform.
    • Changes to Terms. We may update or modify these Terms from time to time without providing notice to you by posting a revised version of these Terms on our website. You can review the most current version of these Terms at any time by clicking the “Terms of Use” link on our website. By accessing or using our Platform after any modification of these Terms, you agree to be bound by such modifications.
    • Our Rights. We have the right, but not the obligation, to take any of the following actions in our sole discretion without providing any prior notice to you and without liability to you or any third party:
      • change or terminate all or any port of our Platform;
      • restrict or terminate your access to all or any part of our Platform;
      • refuse, move or remove anything that is available on our Platform; or
      • deny access to our Platform to anyone at any time in our sole and absolute discretion.
    • Conflicts. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and any other Agreement, unless otherwise specified in such other Agreement, these Terms shall control.
  • USE OF OUR PLATFORM
    • Acceptable Use. Your access to and use of our Platform must comply with the following (the “Acceptable Use Restrictions”):
      • You are only allowed to access and use our Platform for its intended purposes, as determined by us in our sole discretion.
      • Without limitation, you are not allowed to access or use our Platform to: (1) publish, post, distribute or disseminate any content which is or could reasonably be viewed as: (a) hate speech, obscene, harassing, threatening, pornographic, abusive or defamatory to an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religious belief, race, gender, age, disability or otherwise; (b) inciting violence, or containing nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence; (c) an unauthorized commercial communication of any kind (including, without limitation, spam); (d) fraudulent, inaccurate or misleading, or otherwise objectionable content of any kind; (e) infringing or violating someone else’s rights or otherwise violating the law; or (f) identifying any person without their consent or disclosing anyone else’s personal contact details or invading their privacy; (2) violate any laws; (3) transmit or upload any software or other materials that contain any viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects, time bombs or other items of a destructive nature; or (4) engage in commercial activity except as expressly permitted under the applicable Agreements.
      • You are also prohibited from: (1) reformatting or framing any portion of our Platform; (2) using any device, software, or procedure that interferes with, or attempts to interfere with, the normal operations of our Platform; (3) taking any action that imposes, or may impose, as determined by us in our sole discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our information technology infrastructure; (4) modifying, adapting, translating, disassembling, decompiling, translating or reverse engineering any portion of our Platform or otherwise attempt to reconstruct or discover any source code or underlying ideas, algorithms, file formats or programming interoperability interfaces of our Platform; (5) disrupting or otherwise interfering with our Platform or the networks or servers we use; (6) impersonating any person or entity or misrepresenting your connection or affiliation with a person or entity; (7) collecting or storing, or attempting to collect or store, personal information about other users of our Platform, except as expressly permitted under the applicable Agreements; (8) engaging in any activity that is illegal under federal, state, local or other laws; (9) creating a false identity on our Platform; (10) creating an account on our Platform for anyone else (except when ,and only to the extent, you create one or more sub-accounts on our Platform for your employees or other representatives that are authorized to access or use our Platform on your behalf); (11) releasing to any third party information related to your access to or use of our Platform for purposes of monitoring our Platform’s availability, performance or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes without our prior written approval; (12) copying our Platform, except as expressly permitted in the applicable Agreements; (13) accessing or using our Platform in a service bureau or time-sharing environment (including, without limitation, accessing or using our Platform to provide third parties a service consisting solely of the collection and entry of data and other information on our Platform); (14) selling, assigning, transferring, sublicensing, pledging, renting or otherwise sharing your rights under the Agreements; (15) creating any derivative works based upon our Platform; and (16) modifying, obscuring or removing any product identification or proprietary notices on our Platform or copies thereof.
    • Companies and Other Legal Entities. If you are a company or other legal entity, the following provisions apply:
      • our Platform may only be accessed and used by you and your officers, employees and contractors you authorize to access and use our Platform on your behalf (“Authorized Users”);
      • without limiting anything provided in the applicable Agreements, you shall be responsible for the actions of your Authorized Users in connection with your obligations under these Terms, including, without limitation, any access or use of our Platform. You shall ensure that your Authorized Users: (1) do not breach these Terms; and (2) comply with all applicable laws in connection with their access to and use of our Platform; and
      • you acknowledge and agree that any breach of the applicable Agreements by your Authorized Users constitutes your breach of the applicable Agreements.
    • Access to our Platform. Access and use of our Platform requires access to the Internet. You are responsible for providing all equipment necessary to establish a connection to the Internet, access to the Internet, and any telephone, wireless, or other connection and service fees associated with such access. Using our Platform may allow you to receive content on your mobile phone or wireless device. The manner in which that content is delivered to your mobile phone or wireless device may cause you to incur extra data, text messaging, or other charges from your wireless carrier, which are your sole responsibility.
    • Compliance with Applicable Laws. You certify that you will comply with all applicable laws (e.g., federal, state, local, and other laws) and the applicable Agreements when accessing or using our Platform. Without limiting the foregoing, by accessing or using our Platform, you represent and warrant that: (1) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (2) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. If you access or use our Platform outside the United States, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your access to and use of our Platform in such country, territory, or jurisdiction does not violate any applicable laws. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to, in our sole discretion, monitor where our Platform is accessed from, and the right, but not the obligation, to block or otherwise restrict access to our Platform, in whole or in part, from any geographic location.
    • Mistakes or Errors. Without limiting anything set forth in the applicable Agreements, you acknowledge and agree that under no circumstances will we or any of our licensors or suppliers be responsible for any loss, damage or liability arising out of any mistakes or other errors made by you as a result of your access to or use of our Platform.
  • PLATFORM OWNERSHIP AND LICENSE
    • Ownership. All right, title and interest in and to our Platform, including, but not limited to, all of the software and code that comprise and operate our Platform, and all of the text, photographs, illustrations, images, graphics, audio, video, URLs and other materials provided through our Platform are owned by us or third parties who have licensed their content to us. Our Platform is protected under trademark, service mark, trade dress, copyright, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property laws. In addition, the entire Platform is a collective work under U.S. and international copyright laws and treaties, and we own the copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of our Platform.
    • Marks. The ProWorkers names and logos (including, but not limited to, those of its affiliates), all product and service names, all graphics, all button icons, and all trademarks, service marks, and logos appearing within our Platform, unless otherwise noted, are trademarks (whether registered or not), service marks, and/or trade dress of ProWorkers (collectively, “Our Marks”). All other trademarks, product names, company names, logos, service marks, and/or trade dress (collectively, “Other Marks”) mentioned, displayed, cited, or otherwise indicated within our Platform are the property of their respective owners. You are not authorized to display or use Our Marks in any manner without our prior written permission. You are not authorized to display or use any Other Marks that appear on our Platform without the prior written permission of the applicable third party.
    • Limited License. Subject to your acceptance of, and compliance with, the applicable Agreements, we hereby grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable right to access and use our Platform in a manner that is consistent with the applicable Agreements and our Platform’s intended purpose(s). You obtain no rights in our Platform except to use it in accordance with the applicable Agreements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you shall not access or use our Platform in violation of the terms set forth in any of the applicable Agreement, including, without limitation, the Acceptable Use Restrictions set forth in these Terms (collectively, “Prohibited Activities”). You will be solely liable for any damages, costs or expenses arising out of or in connection with your commission of any Prohibited Activity. You shall notify us immediately upon becoming aware of the commission by any person of a Prohibited Activity and shall provide us with reasonable assistance upon our request with any investigations we may conduct in connection with any such Prohibited Activity.
  • ACCOUNTS
    • Registration Requirements. In addition to any applicable eligibility requirements, you are required to open an account or register with us in order to use some of the features on our Platform. In connection with your account registration, you must provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself as may be prompted in any registration form. If any information you previously provided to us changes, you must promptly update the relevant information.
    • Account Security and Responsibility. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password and account. You agree to: (1) notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any breach of the security of your account; and (2) ensure that you fully logout of your account at the end of each session. You must set up your account in your own name (except when, and only to the extent, you create one or more sub-accounts on our Platform for your Authorized Users). You further agree not to access or use anyone else’s account on our Platform. ProWorkers cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this provision or any of the applicable Agreements. If we suspend or terminate your account, you acknowledge that all information and content associated with such account will no longer be available to you.
    • Additional Information Sharing. If you open an account, you understand that we will collect and maintain information related to your access to and use of our Platform. We connect, though may not always display, that information to your account in order to conduct our business operations.
    • Our Termination or Suspension of Your Account. Without limiting any other rights we have under the applicable Agreements, in the event we determine, in our sole discretion, that your account or information associated with your account may be compromised due to your personal device being infected with a virus, malware, other malicious code, or due to other theft of your account login credentials or other account information, we reserve the right, but do not have the obligation, to invalidate, delete, or otherwise modify your account and the associated account information in order to protect your account, the accounts of other users, and our systems from further damage or exposure. This may include proactively changing your password. If we need to do this, we will make reasonable efforts to inform you of any modifications made via the email address listed on your account or other viable means of communication.
    • Cancellation. Subject to restrictions and other obligations set forth in the applicable Agreements, you may close your account by contacting us at help@theproworkers.com and following the instructions we provide. If you cancel your account, these Terms shall be terminated and your license to access and use our Platform shall immediately terminate and you must discontinue all access to and use of our Platform. Please note, in some circumstances, we may not permit you to close your account, including in situations where: (1) you are not permitted to close your account pursuant to the terms of an applicable Agreement; (2) you have an open dispute or claim; (3) if your account is subject to a hold; and/or (4) you are cancelling your account in an attempt to evade any investigation.
  • YOUR INFORMATION
    • User Content. Our Platform may provide users with the ability to add, create, upload, submit, distribute, post, or share content on or through our Platform, including, but not limited to, website links, opinions, information, posts, profiles, pictures, videos, and audio clips (collectively, “User Content”). If you provide any User Content (“Your Content”), unless otherwise specified in an applicable Agreement, you expressly grant, and represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, us a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual license to publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, and sublicense Your Content in any manner or through any media now known or later developed without any payment obligation to you. Without limiting the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that Your Content may be viewable by any other users of our Platform (whether registered or unregistered). Further, you understand and agree that we have the right, but not the duty, to pre-screen, edit, refuse, move, or remove any User Content, including, without limitation, Your Content, posted to our Platform.
    • Private Messages. The Platform may provide you with the ability to send private messages to other users of the Platform (“Private Messages”). Private Messages are not considered User Content and we will not intentionally make any such Private Messages available to any party other than the intended recipient. However, you should remain mindful that there is an inherent risk in the use of the internet. Private Messages may be intercepted without our knowledge or consent, collected illegally, and/or forwarded by recipients to others. We cannot guarantee the security of any information, including Your Private Messages, that you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk.
    • Abusive and Offensive Language. Abusive and offensive language will not be tolerated on our Platform, social media sites, or with our personnel. You are not entitled to make untrue, malicious, and/or damaging comments with regard to our operations in any media or forum.
    • Personal Information. By accessing or using our Platform, you are consenting to the collection, use, disclosure, transfer, and sharing of your personal information, including, but not limited to, sharing such information with companies other than ProWorkers as described in our Privacy Policy, available at [URL FOR PRIVACY POLICY].The Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, so please review it regularly. If you do not agree with the collection and use of personal information as described in the Privacy Policy, please discontinue all access to and use of our Platform.
    • Feedback. By submitting ideas, suggestions, documents, proposals, products, and/or technologies (“Ideas” or “Innovations”) to us in any way, you acknowledge and agree that: (1) your Ideas and/or Innovations do not contain confidential or proprietary information; (2) we are not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Ideas and Innovations; (3) we shall be entitled to disclose (or choose not to disclose) such Ideas and Innovations for any purpose and in any way; (4) we may have something similar to the Ideas and Innovations already under consideration or in development; (5) your Ideas and Innovations which are not subject to a patent, automatically become our property without any obligation to you; and (6) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from us under any circumstances.
  • TERMINATION
    • Right to Terminate. Subject to the terms set forth in the applicable Agreements, in addition to, and not in lieu of, any of our other rights set forth in these Terms, we reserve the right, with or without notice and in our sole discretion, to terminate these Terms, your account, and/or your ability to access or use our Platform for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if we believe that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms, or in the case of any activity by you that may harm us or other users, including, but not limited to, fraud, abuse of privileges, or misuse of our Platform. You agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any such termination.
    • Effects of Termination. If we exercise our termination rights available under the applicable Agreements, your license to access and use our Platform shall immediately terminate and you must discontinue all access to and use of our Platform affected by such termination.
    • Fraudulent Activity. If we suspect that you are engaging in any fraudulent, abusive, or illegal activity, we may refer such matter to appropriate law enforcement authorities.
    • Survival. The provisions of these Terms which by their nature are intended to survive the termination or cancellation of these Terms shall continue as valid and enforceable obligations notwithstanding any such termination or cancellation. Without limiting the foregoing, the provisions of these Terms regarding indemnity and limitations of liability shall survive the termination or cancellation of these Terms.
  • USER AND THIRD PARTY CONTENT
    • User Content. Reliance on User Content is at your own risk. We do not participate in any way in the development of any User Content. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable for, nor do we endorse, any User Content that appears on the Platform.
    • Links to Third Party Websites. Our Platform may include links to other websites (e.g., sponsors’ and/or advertisers’ websites) or services solely as a convenience to you. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such external websites or services and that we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any such linked websites or services or any information, material, products or services contained on or accessible through other websites or services. Furthermore, we make no express or implied warranties with regard to the information, material, products, or services that are contained on or accessible through linked websites or services. Your access to and use of linked websites or services, including, without limitation, any information, material, products and services on or accessible through other websites or services is solely at your own risk.
  • YOUR LIABILITY
    • Agreement to Indemnify. YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL ONLY ACCESS AND USE OUR PLATFORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE AGREEMENTS. YOU WILL COMPENSATE US IN FULL FOR ANY LOSSES OR COSTS (INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES) WHICH WE (OR ANY OF OUR SUBSIDIARIES OR AFFILIATED COMPANIES) INCUR ARISING FROM ANY BREACH BY YOU OF THESE TERMS. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND, AND HOLD US, OUR SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES AND OUR AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVES (THE “RELEASED PARTIES”) HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIM OR DEMAND, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES, MADE BY ANY THIRD PARTY DUE TO OR ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF OUR PLATFORM, YOUR CONNECTION TO OUR PLATFORM, YOUR VIOLATION OF THE APPLICABLE AGREEMENTS, OR YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY.
    • Additional Remedies. The Released Parties reserve the right to seek all remedies available at law and in equity for your violation of the applicable Agreements, including the right to block access from a particular Internet address to our Platform and report misuses to law enforcement.
  • DISCLAIMERS
    • Disclaimer of all Warranties
      • OUR PLATFORM IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS AND WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND RELATING TO OUR PLATFORM (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY SOFTWARE COMPRISING ANY PORTION OF OUR PLATFORM), WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT OUR PLATFORM WILL BE WITHOUT ERROR OR INVULNERABLE TO VIRUSES, WORMS OR OTHER HARMFUL SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE.
      • YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT OUR PLATFORM MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE DUE TO ANY NUMBER OF FACTORS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERIODIC SYSTEM MAINTENANCE, SCHEDULED OR UNSCHEDULED, ACTS OF GOD, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, VIRUSES, DENIAL OF SERVICE OR OTHER ATTACKS, TECHNICAL FAILURE OF OUR PLATFORM AND/OR TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE, OR DISRUPTION, AND THEREFORE WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY REGARDING THE USE AND/OR AVAILABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY, SECURITY, OR PERFORMANCE OF OUR PLATFORM CAUSED BY SUCH FACTORS.
      • WE DO NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AGAINST THE POSSIBILITY OF DELETION, MISDELIVERY, OR FAILURE TO STORE COMMUNICATIONS, PERSONALIZED SETTINGS, OR OTHER DATA, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY INFORMATION YOU SUBMIT THROUGH OUR PLATFORM.
      • SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
    • Use of Platform at Your Sole Risk. YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR PLATFORM, DOWNLOAD OF ANY SOFTWARE RELATING TO OUR PLATFORM, AND USE OF ANY INFORMATION WE MAY PROVIDE IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR PLATFORM IS AT YOUR SOLE OPTION, DISCRETION, AND RISK. WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY MALFUNCTIONS OF THE SOFTWARE RELATING TO OUR PLATFORM, BUGS OR VIRUSES RESULTING IN LOST DATA OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, MOBILE PHONE OR MOBILE DEVICE, OR SOFTWARE. FURTHERMORE, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY ATTEMPTS BY YOU TO ACCESS OR USE OUR PLATFORM BY METHODS, MEANS OR WAYS NOT INTENDED BY US. WE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE REDUNDANT OR BACKUP NETWORKS AND/OR SYSTEMS.
    • No Creation of Warranty. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN OBTAINED BY YOU FROM ANY OF THE RELEASED PARTIES THROUGH OR FROM OUR PLATFORM SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.
    • Third Party Statements. WE DO NOT ENDORSE AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STATEMENTS, ADVICE OR OPINIONS MADE BY ANYONE OTHER THAN AUTHORIZED PROWORKERS SPOKESPERSONS. WE DO NOT ENDORSE AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY STATEMENTS, ADVICE OR OPINIONS PROVIDED BY ANY THIRD PARTIES, AND SUCH STATEMENTS, ADVICE OR OPINIONS DO NOT IN ANY WAY REFLECT THE STATEMENTS, ADVICE OR OPINIONS OF PROWORKERS.
  • LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
    • Maximum Liability. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SET FORTH IN THE APPLICABLE AGREEMENTS AND WITHOUT LIMITING ANYTHING SET FORTH IN THESE TERMS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR ENTIRE LIABILITY, AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY, WITH RESPECT TO YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR PLATFORM SHALL BE THE AMOUNT OF $100.
    • No Liability for Incidental Damages. IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR PLATFORM OR FOR ANY OTHER CLAIM RELATED IN ANY WAY TO YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR PLATFORM.
    • Applicability of Limitations. THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARISE OUT OF BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE OR WE WERE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES OR JURISDICTIONS, OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
    • Notice to California Residents. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542 IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING, WHICH STATES “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”
  • DISPUTE RESOLUTION

    PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS.

    • Waiver of Rights. YOU AGREE THAT BY ACCESSING AND/OR USING OUR PLATFORM YOU ARE WAIVING THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION. YOU AGREE THAT YOU MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE RELEASED PARTIES ONLY IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS-MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, REPRESENTATIVE, OR COLLECTIVE PROCEEDING.
    • Venue for Litigation. ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM UNDER THESE TERMS MUST BE BROUGHT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FEDERAL COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES ENCOMPASSING DENVER, COLORADO OR THE APPLICABLE STATE COURTS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO ENCOMPASSING DENVER, COLORADO, AS APPROPRIATE, AND YOU AGREE TO THE PERSONAL JURISDICTION OF EACH OF THESE COURTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF LITIGATING SUCH CLAIMS OR DISPUTES.
    • Time to Bring a Claim. ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE AGAINST THE RELEASED PARTIES ARISING OUT OF OR ARISING IN ANY WAY TO THESE TERMS, YOU ACCESS TO AND/OR USE OF OUR PLATFORM OR YOUR DEALINGS WITH THE RELEASED PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO AND/OR USE OF OUR PLATFORM MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN TWO (2) YEARS AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES. AFTER THAT TWO (2) YEAR PERIOD, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW TIME LIMITATIONS OTHER THAN THOSE SET FORTH IN SUCH STATE’S STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS LAWS. IN SUCH CASES, THE APPLICABLE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE LAWS OF SUCH STATE SHALL APPLY.
    • Prevailing Party. IN ANY LITIGATION BETWEEN YOU AND THE RELEASED PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS, YOUR ACCESS TO AND/OR USE OF OUR PLATFORM OR YOUR DEALINGS WITH THE RELEASED PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO AND/OR USE OF OUR PLATFORM, THE PREVAILING PARTY WILL BE ENTITLED TO RECOVER ITS REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS IN SUCH LITIGATION FROM THE OTHER PARTY.
  • NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMEN
    • ProWorkers Policy. ProWorkers respects the intellectual property rights of others. You must ensure that Your Content does not infringe any third party’s copyright. We will remove Your Content and other materials on our Platform in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) upon receipt of proper notices that Your Content or other materials on our Platform infringe a third party’s copyright. Additionally, subject to Section 12.4 below, we will terminate your account if you are a repeat infringer.
    • Notice of Infringement. If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any user submission or other content on the Platform infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the DMCA to the address provided below. Such notification must contain the following:
      • a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
      • identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
      • 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 permit us to locate the material;
      • information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address;
      • a statement that you have 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; and
      • a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
      ProWorkers may disclose DMCA notices to affected users and third party databases that collect information about copyright takedown notices.
    • Counter Notifications. If Your Content is removed pursuant to a notice of copyright infringement and you want to challenge the removal, you must provide us a counter notification to the address provided below. Such counter-notification must contain the following:
      • information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address;
      • a description of the material that was removed and where the material previously appeared on our Platform reasonably sufficient to permit us to identify the material;
      • a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
      • a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which ProWorkers may be found (the United States District Court for the District of Colorado) and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notice or an agent of that person; and
      • your physical or electronic signature.
      We will forward any complete counter-notification to the person who provided the initial DMCA notice. The copyright owner(s) may elect to file a lawsuit against you for copyright infringement. If we do not receive notice that such a lawsuit has been filed within ten (10) business days after we provide notice of your counter-notification, we may, but are not obligated to, restore Your Content and other materials. Until that time, Your Content and other materials will remain removed.
    • Repeat Infringers. Without limiting anything else in the Agreements, we will terminate your account if you receive three (3) DMCA Takedown Actions. A “DMCA Takedown Action” occurs each time Your Content or other materials are removed due to a DMCA notice. We may group multiple DMCA notices received in a short period of time as a single DMCA Takedown Action. We may remove a DMCA Takedown Action in appropriate circumstances, such as where: (1) the material is restored due to a DMCA counter-notification; or (2) the party who provided the DMCA notice withdraws their complaint.
    • Address for Notices. DMCA notices and counter-notifications may be sent to our designated agent, [NAME] at the following addresses:
      By email to: help@theproworkers.com
      By mail to: The ProWorkers, Inc.
      Attn: Privacy Terms and Conditions
      1415 Park Ave W
      Denver, co 80205
  • ADDITIONAL TERMS
    • Governing Law. These Terms will be governed by the laws of Colorado, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.
    • Electronic Communications. The communications between you and ProWorkers use electronic means, whether you access or use our Platform or send us emails, or whether we post notices on our Platform or communicate with you via email. For contractual purposes, you: (1) consent to receive communications from us in an electronic form; and (2) agree that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically, including, without limitation, the Rules, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were be in a hardcopy writing. The foregoing does not affect your non-waivable rights.
    • Severability. If any part of these Terms are determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law, including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the applicable Terms shall continue in effect.
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