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This part named "Relatip™’s terms of use" ("terms of use") indicates the terms on which you may access and use Relatip™.com’s website and any associated service ("the Service").

In order to become a Relatip™ member/user, you must read and accept as a whole, this "terms of use" document, as well as the privacy policy. By using this website, you agree to these terms of use, and a legally binding contract is constituted between you and Relatip™.

If you disagree with any of the terms of this agreement prescribed below, you must immediately exit the website and cease to use the Service.

The section titles of terms of use are displayed for convenience only and have no legal effect.

Description of Service

Relatip™ is a web application, which allows intellectual property professionals to connect with each other for variety of purposes and post content. The use of this communication medium is subject the terms of use and the privacy policy.

Eligibility

The service is available for any IP professional (patent, trademark, copyright or design attorney, professor, in-house IP counsel as well as paralegals, trainees, etc.). If at any time your license to practice law is revoked or you are otherwise banned from practicing legal activities, you must immediately notify Relatip.com's operators.

Any IP professional is allowed to have only one active account, and is prohibited from transferring or selling his/her account. A user banned from the system by Relatip.com's management, may not re-register.

Relatip™ does not allow an anonymous use. By joining the network a user must provide his/her true name and updated contact information.

Account information

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information, namely, your user name and password, confidential. Additionlt, you are fully responsible for all activities related to your account with or without your knowledge or permission. Unauthorized use of an account may lead to the suspension or termination of your account and its privileges. Hence, you are obliged to immediately notify Relatip.com's management of any unauthorized use of your account.

User Conduct

You understand and agree that the use of Relatip™ as described below is strictly prohibited:

The transmission or posting of content or initiation of communication that is unlawful, libelous, abusive, defamatory, harmful, threatening, harassing, discriminatory, racially offensive, vulgar, sexually explicit, pornographic or obscene; Linking to websites offering such content;
Initiating or otherwise being involved in any illegal purpose or activity, infringing on the intellectual property of another, posting or transmitting material contrary to a contractual or fiduciary relationship; or in any way encourages or solicits such activities.
Falsely state, impersonate, or otherwise misrepresent your identity, qualifications and affiliation with other person or entity, past or present;
Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, junk advertising, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitations;
Overlap Relatip™'s interface to offer services which are offered or may be offered by Relatip™ in the future, such as: advertising, job posting, intellectual property tools, etc.
Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
Post content in wrong categories and using the wrong tags to identify them.
Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the service.
Using an automated devise, program, algorithm or bot program to harvest email addresses, create content or extract information from our website.
Interfere with or disrupt the Service, servers or networks connected to the Service.
Use of manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to “crawl” or “spider” any web pages contained in the Relatip™; Monitor or copy, or allow others to monitor or copy, our web pages or the content included herein; “Frame” or otherwise simulate the appearance or function of this website.
Disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service.

Termination of an Account

Relatip™ has the right and full discretion to immediately terminate your account and access to the service without prior notice, due to one of the following: (a) Breaches of those Terms of Use; (b) Requests by law enforcement or other government agencies; (c) Unexpected technical issues; (d) extended periods of inactivity; (e) any action Relatip.com's management will find to be a misconduct.

We may, at our sole discretion, suspend provision of services, alter, or terminate this Agreement.

Relatip™ shall not be liable to you nor any third-party for any termination of your account or access to the Service.

International Use

You agree to comply with all applicable or relevant local rules of any country in the world where the Service is available, including but not limited to rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, as well as intellectual property and criminal law.

Use Relatip™ on your own responsibility

Content posted on the website: In the course of using the Service, users may post information on the website, by using the blogs or by other means, which will be visible to other users (Please read our privacy policy to learn more about this subject).

You understand that all information publicly posted or privately transmitted through the Service is within the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated and that Relatip™ has no contol over the truth or accuracy of the content posted and will not be liable for any errors or omissions in any content. You understand that Relatip™ cannot guarantee the identity of any other users with whom you may interact in the course of using the Service. Additionally, we cannot guarantee the authenticity of any data which users may provide about themselves or relationships they may describe. We urge you to never rely exclusively on the content posted by other users and should always independently verify any such information.

Benefit from the Service: Relatip™ makes no guarantee, promise or warranty of any kind that any user will benefit in any way from using the Service. Thus, all users of our services assume the risk that they will not benefit in any way from using our services.

Downloaded material: Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the Service is done at your own discretion and the risk. You will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data resulting from download of materials from the Relatip™website.

Relatip™ is never involved in any relationship or transaction between users who use our service. As a result, we have no control over such relationship and its safety.

Communications with us

In the course of providing you services, we may need to communicate with you via email (see our privacy policy to learn more about this subject). You agree to receive emails which are specific to your account and necessary for the normal functioning of the Service, including welcome emails and emails meant to notify you of any changes and modifications, and new features of the Service.

Monitoring and Enforcement

We do not have the ability to control or actively monitor content and therefore, we don’t guarantee its accuracy, integrity or quality.

If you find any content in this website un-accurate, or even offensive or objectionable, you may contact the user who created the content, use our comments system to reply to the content, or, in extreme cases, contact us through our contact page.

Please note, however, that we do not intend to intervene in debates on the subjects such as the proper understanding of specific legislation or case-law, although we may choose to do so. Relatip™ is meant at encouraging debate. We may, however, investigate complaints and violations of our policies that come to our attention and may take any action that we believe is appropriate, including, but not limited to issuing warnings, removing the content or terminating accounts and/or subscriptions. However, since situations and interpretations vary, we also reserve the right not to take any action.

Fees

Most of Relatip™’s important features are free, and we intend to keep it that way. In the future, certain services are or will be provided for a monthly or annual subscription fee or any other method of payment we will choose. Relatip™ reserves the right to charge for the Service or any portion thereof, modify the pricing of, add to, or discontinue the Service or any portion thereof without prior notice. Users will not be charged any fee unless they specifically consented to be charged prior to incurring any fee.

Indemnification

By accepting this User Agreement, you agree to indemnify and otherwise hold harmless Relatip™ stock holders, its officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, affiliates and other partners from any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages resulting from i) your use of the Service; ii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your communications with or through the Service, or iii) any other matter relating to the Service. Any business transactions which may arise between users from their use of Service are the sole responsibility of the users involved.

Without limitation of the terms and conditions set forth in our Privacy Policy, you understand and agree that Relatip™ may disclose personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, enforce these Terms of Use, or protect the rights, property, or safety of Relatip™, its users, or the public.

Intellectual Property

Ownership: Relatip™ retains ownership of all rights in our website, our services and all content on our site. You retain ownership of content you post on the site, and do not transfer ownership or copyrights by posting content on our site. You are not allowed to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purpose our services, and/or content or access to our services and content. You will not reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive source code from any software accessible or available through our services.

License to Relatip™: In the course of using the Service, users may post information to the website, using the blogs or by other means, which will be visible to other users (Please read our privacy policy to learn more about this subject). You understand that by posting materials on this website or otherwise providing materials to Relatip™, you are granting to Relatip™ a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit and display this information in the course of offering the service, and for any other purpose, including posting the information in different websites and for commercial purposes, or incorporating it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any right in such content will exist. You also warrant that you are the exclusive holder of any intellectual property or other proprietary rights in that information.

Copyright and Trademark: The logos, content, organization, gathering, compilation, magnetic translation, digital conversion and other matters related to the website are protected under applicable copyrights, trademarks, and other proprietary (including but not limited to intellectual property) rights, and, any copying, redistribution, or publication of any such content or any part of the Site is prohibited. All contents of this website are: Copyright © 2007 Relatip™. All rights reserved.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

If you believe that your copyrights have been infringed in any way, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 or any other similar worldwide legislation, please provide us with the following information:

A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed in addition to the URL (i.e., Internet address) or other specific location on the Service where the material that you claim is infringing is located, with enough information to help us to locate the material and why you believe an infringement has taken place.
A description of the location where the original or an authorized copy of the copyrighted work exists, and a physical copy of the original or the authorized copy.
Your full contact information: physical address, email, telephone number, and fax number, and email.
A statement made under penalty of perjury that: (a) you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. (b) your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
An electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.

Our Copyright Agent for Notice of Claims of Copyright Infringement can be reached as follows:

No Warranties

You understand and agree that the service is provided “as is” and “as available”. Relatip™ is not and will not be responsible for prompt and proper delivery, suitability of the Service, or retention of any user information or communications between users. Relatip™ will not be responsible for the accuracy or existence of any communications between users of the service. Relatip™ expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to title, non-infringement, merchantability and fitness of use.

Accessibility

Relatip™ is not responsible that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that the results of using the Service or the information on this website will be accurate or reliable, or that the quality of the products and services obtained using the service will meet your expectations in any way.

Entire Agreement

The User Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Relatip™ and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and Relatip™.

In the event that a portion of this Agreement is held unenforceable, the unenforceable portion will be construed in accordance with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions of the parties, and the remainder of the provisions will remain in full force and effect. Waiver by either party of a breach of any provision of this Agreement or the failure by either party to exercise any right hereunder shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach of that right or as a waiver of any other right.

Limitation of Liability

You expressly understand and agree that Relatip™ shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to: damages for loss of profits, goodwill or other intangible losses (even if Relatip™ had been advised of the possibility of such damages).Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, some of the above limitation may not apply to you. In no event will Relatip™'s total cumulative damages exceed $US 200.

General Information

The User Agreement between you and Relatip™ will be governed by the law of Israel. The county court in Tel Aviv, Israel will have exclusive jurisdiction any conflict arising from this agreement.

Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of, relating to, or concerning the interpretation or performance of this Agreement, or to the use of Relatip™, that cannot be resolved through negotiation shall be submitted to binding arbitration by the Israeli Bar Association, in accordance with its rules. Such arbitration shall occur in Tel Aviv, Israel.

If, for any reason, a court shall find that proceedings outside of Israel should take place, disputes arising from this agreement will sill be submitted to The American Arbitration Association, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute.

Any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator, if any, may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. By agreeing to binding arbitration, all parties hereby waive their right to a judge or jury trial and the right to appeal.

In the event of any inconsistency between the Relatip™'s Privacy Policy and this User Agreement, the User Agreement shall prevail.

We reserve the right to modify this Agreement at any time, and without prior notice, by posting the relevant amendments on this website. Modification of this contract will be deemed effective upon publication on the website with respect to any user's actions, communications or transactions occurring after said date. It is the user's responsibility to check the Terms of Use each time our service or website is used. Your continued use of our service indicates your acceptance of the amended User Agreement.

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