PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY

By signing in to PressMethod.com, you accept both the terms and conditions in this Member Agreement and our Terms of Use.
This agreement was revised on May 28, 2004, and may be modified again at any time.

Acceptance of Terms

By completing the sign-up process, you agree to the terms of this Member Agreement, and to abide by the other terms, policies, procedures, and guidelines on PressMethod.com PressMethod.com may amend these terms from time to time. If you do not agree to the changes, you must request that your account be closed. Your continued use of our service will signify your acceptance of the updated terms.

PressMethod.com Is Only a Venue

PressMethod.com acts as a advertising channel for Members to locate publisher to advertise, market and promotion of goods and services. We do not own or handle any of the goods and services listed on the site. As a result, we cannot verify or endorse the quality, safety, or legality of the posted advertisements, or the truth or accuracy of the content on the advertisements ("listings").

Member Sign-up Names

PressMethod.com may, at it sole discretion, change or remove any member sign-up email. Action may be taken on names which:

• Represent any form of contact information (URL, email etc).


• Represent something other members may consider offensive or inappropriate.
• Cause confusion in our system

Member Obligations and Terms

You are solely responsible for your information, and we act as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication. Your information (or content) includes any information you provide to us or other members during the registration, listing creation and modification, or publishment channels ("PressMethod Windows") creation and mofification, in any public message area or through any email feature, including all text descriptions and/or photographs, digital images, or renderings of your items and services. We may take any action with respect to such information we deem necessary or appropriate at our sole discretion if we believe it may create liability for us. You acknowledge that PressMethod.com may not pre-screen content, but that PressMethod.com and its designees have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse, modify, or reorganize any content that is available via the service. In addition, PressMethod.com has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of our service, at any time and at our sole discretion. PressMethod.com reserves the right to change or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, some or all of our services at any time without notice.

• Content. You agree that your information and the content you post on PressMethod.com:

• will be true, accurate, and up-to-date;
  
• will not be fraudulent or involve the sale of stolen items;
  
• will not violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation (including without limitation those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination, or false advertising);
  
• will not be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening, or unlawfully harassing;
  
• will not be obscene or contain child pornography;
  
• will not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or personal information;
  
• will not link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of goods or services that (i) are prohibited under this Agreement or (ii) you do not have a right to link to or include.

• Fees. Unless otherwise stated, all monetary values are quoted in U.S. Dollars. You are responsible for paying all applicable fees, taxes and duties and for all costs you incur as part of the PressMethod.com service. We may, at our sole discretion, change some or all of our services, our Fees and Payments Policy, and/or the fees for our services. The fee is not refundable. Company credit maybe provided with restrictions.

• License. You agree to grant us a nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright and publicity rights (but no other rights) you have in your posted content, in any media now known or not currently known.

• Privacy. PressMethod.com will only use your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR CONDUCT

You certify to PressMethod.com that you are at least 18 years of age. You take full responsibility for the use of the Services by any minors. Your use of the Service is subject to all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations. Your conduct is subject to Internet regulations, policies and procedures. You are solely responsible for the contents of your listings you list in connection with the Service. You acknowledge and agree that PressMethod.com neither endorses the actions of any user nor the contents of any user communications nor the products of any merchant. You shall not: (a) use the Services for any illegal purposes or for the transmission of any material that is unlawful, harassing, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, tortuous, or otherwise objectionable, or that infringes or may infringe the intellectual property or other rights of another, including the sale of pornography, firearms and ammunition, living creatures and parts of endangered species, stocks and other securities, drugs and drug paraphernalia, human body parts and remains; (b) directly or indirectly interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the PressMethod.com site, any account, or any communication or transaction being conducted on our site; (c) use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein without our prior expressed written permission; (d) take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, (e) use or disclose (to anyone except PressMethod.com) any information you obtain about or from other users of the Service, or you obtain from PressMethod.com if such information is marked confidential, for any purpose except fulfillment of orders initiated by such user or negotiating prices with such user, (f) conduct fraud, hide or attempt to hide your identity, represent yourself as someone else, or manipulate or attempt to manipulate prices, compromise or attempt to compromise the security of any account, interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service, or (g) send any unsolicited email or advertising to any known user. You shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining any equipment and ancillary services needed to connect to, access or otherwise use the Services, including, without limitation, modems, hardware, software, and long distance and local telephone service. You shall be responsible for ensuring that such equipment and ancillary services are compatible with the Services. You shall complete all transactions you agree to complete in connection with the Service. You shall forward all feedback you receive regarding the service to PressMethod.com. In your capacity as a merchant, if applicable, and in transactions when PressMethod.com is not collecting payment on your behalf, you will be solely responsible for all aspects of transaction order processing and fulfillment, including but not limited to processing credit card information, authorization and fraud detection, shipping and handling, buyer support and service inquiries. You shall abide by all of the then current terms of PressMethod.com's privacy policy (as set forth on the Service and as updated from time to time by PressMethod.com in it's sole discretion and upon notice to Merchant) except to the extent any term in such privacy policy expressly conflicts with the buyer privacy protections set forth herein. You agree to indemnify and hold PressMethod.com, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, and PressMethod.com Partners harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service, the violation of this Service Agreement by you, or the infringement by you, or other user of the Service using your computer, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. Even though prohibited, people may provide information that is offensive, false, harmful, or deceptive. PressMethod.com and PressMethod.com Partners do not assume any responsibility whatsoever for such content or actions.

The System

• System. You agree that you will not use any device, software, or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the PressMethod.com site or any transaction being conducted on our site. You may not take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You may not disclose or share your Password to any third parties or use your Password for any unauthorized purpose. For publisher, you agree that we place an PressMethod listing at the end of listing cycle for free, which means that publishers will not be paid by PressMethod.com for any valid clicks that links to PressMethod's related sites.
  
• Manipulation. You agree not to use a secondary account or third party to manipulate the outcome of a negotiation with another trader.
  
• Ratings. You may not take any actions which may undermine the integrity of the ratings system, such as leaving positive ratings for yourself using a secondary member account or third party, leaving negative ratings for other Members using secondary accounts or third parties, or leaving negative ratings if a Member fails to perform some action that is outside the scope of the transaction. If your Member rating is one star or lower, we may suspend your account, and you will no longer be able to participate in transactions.

General Legal Terms

• Our service is provided "as is". We will try very hard to make your experience with PressMethod.com a pleasurable one; however, we cannot always foresee or anticipate technical or other difficulties. These difficulties may result in loss of data or other service interruptions. For this reason, you agree that PressMethod.com's services are provided "as is." We cannot assume responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, misdelivery, or failure to store any Member data, communications, or personalization settings. WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS PROVIDE THE PressMethod.com WEBSITE AND OUR SERVICES "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. Some states do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties, so the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other legal rights which vary from state to state.


• Maintenance & Downtime. From time to time, PressMethod.com will conduct scheduled maintenance. As a result, you may experience temporary downtime that may prevent you from being able to use our site and/or some of our services on PressMethod.com. Occasionally, these delays are necessary in order for us to update our database and improve our services. We will do our best to keep these periods brief, providing advance notice whenever possible.
  
• Suspension/Termination. We may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend, or terminate your membership, any of your current classifieds, and any other information you place on the site if you breach this Agreement or if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us. Without limiting any other remedies, PressMethod.com may suspend or terminate your account if you are found (by conviction, settlement, insurance or escrow investigation, or otherwise) to have engaged in fraudulent activity in connection with our site.
  
• Limit of liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE OR OUR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (HOWEVER ARISING, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT. OUR LIABILITY, AND THE LIABILITY OF OUR SUPPLIERS, TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT OF FEES YOU PAY TO US IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, OR (B) $100. Some states do not allow the limitation of liability, so the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.
  
• General compliance with laws. You shall comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our service and your negotiations, listings, purchase, and sale of items and services.
  
• Notices. Except as explicitly stated otherwise, PressMethod.com may provide you with notices via email, or postings on the PressMethod.com web site.
  
• Arbitration. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted in the State of Texas, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or PressMethod.com may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Texas necessary to protect rights or property pending the completion of arbitration.
  
• Jurisdiction and Venue. This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the province of Ontario, Canada. You agree that any legal action brought against PressMethod.com, inc. shall be governed by the laws of the province of Ontario without regard to its conflict of law principles, and that the sole jurisdiction and venue for any litigation arising from your use of PressMethod.com shall be an appropriate federal or state court located in the province of Ontario. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe, or describe the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
  
• Other Agreements. If you and PressMethod.com have entered into a separate written agreement that covers your use of PressMethod.com, the terms and conditions of such agreement shall control to the extent they are inconsistent with this Member Agreement.

USER's Responsibility:

USER shall 1) Determine whether the Information complies with USER's needs; 2) Determine the credibility of statements and claims made by other users of PressMethod; 3) Comply with any legal obligations, including but not limited to, obligations imposed by copyright, secrecy, defamation, decency, and export laws; and 4) Isolate Information, execute anti-contamination software and otherwise take steps to ensure that Information, if contaminated or infected, will not damage USER's information or system.

 

INFORMATION Not Warranted or Guaranteed In Any Way

PressMethod IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. PressMethod MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO PressMethod OR ANY 'INFORMATION'.

PressMethod does not warrant or guarantee 1) the accuracy, adequacy, quality, currentness, validity, completeness, or suitability of any Information for any purpose; 2) that the Information will not contain adult-oriented material, or material which some individuals may deem objectionable; or 3) that the functions or services performed by PressMethod will be uninterrupted or error-free or that defects in PressMethod will be corrected.

 

No PressMethod Liability

In no event shall PressMethod be liable to anyone for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions with respect to the Information or the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof, for any damage arising therefrom or occasioned thereby, or for the results obtained from the use of the Information. PressMethod will not be responsible if any Information infects or contaminates a USER's system or information. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of PressMethod and the accuracy, adequacy, completeness, currentness, validity and quality of any Information is with the USER.

IN NO EVENT WILL PressMethod BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY (i) FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE), OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE AVAILABILITY, USE, RELIANCE ON, OR INABILITY TO USE PressMethod OR ANY 'INFORMATION', EVEN IF PressMethod SHALL HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE; OR (ii) FOR ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN, OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES OF ANY 'INFORMATION'.