Worth.business – Acceptable Use Policy

December 2019 | Version 1.2

1.     Introduction

While we provide our services to you for certain legitimate purposes, there are certain purposes for which you should not use our services under any circumstances. This policy describes what you cannot do with our services. We trust you as our customer and person of integrity to abide by this policy, but if you breach the policy or help others to do so – we may suspend or terminate your use of the services.

2.     Definitions

In this policy:

content means any submissions made to the website, whether public or private, including messages or comments on the content of other users;

policy means this acceptable use policy;

services means the web services offered by us on or through the website;

website means our website located at https://worthbusiness.wpengine.com; and

system means any network, computer or communications system, software application, or network or computing device.

3.     Responsibility

You are responsible for your conduct, profile, and content on the website. You understand that your actions could have consequences, and may result in criminal or civil liability. We do not endorse, take any responsibility, or accept liability for your actions.

4.     Prohibited content

You may not upload, or help others to upload, any content to the website that we determine (in our sole discretion) to be:

• false or misleading (including impersonating or making statements on behalf of our business or personnel or other users);

• disruptive to our services (including advertising other services or websites);

• illegal or unlawful under any applicable law (including inciting others to commit a crime or breach these terms);

• defamatory, discriminatory or harassing (including posting someone’s personal information without their consent);

• vulgar or obscene (including content of a violent or sexual nature);

• infringes on another party’s rights (including intellectual property rights or privacy); or

• destructive (including content or software designed for the purpose of malicious damage to computers, systems, or data, or to control or otherwise access any of these things).

5.     Prohibited conduct

5.1.   Prohibited conduct. You must not, directly or indirectly, or allow anybody else to use the website or the services to:

• perform or attempt to perform any actions that are illegal or unlawful in any jurisdiction;

• interfere with the connections or security of networks, systems, or our other users;

• do anything that violates any of our terms;

• do anything which is illegal, fraudulent or violates or infringes any of our or a third party’s rights (including intellectual property rights) or breaches any contract to which you are bound;

• frame our website or any of its pages in a way that we have not expressly authorized;

• link to any page of our website in any way that could suggest that we endorse or support you, or that you have any rights in our website or intellectual property, unless we have given you written permission to do so;

• remove, disable, bypass, or circumvent any protection mechanisms or access control mechanisms on our website;

• use any technology (including spiders, crawlers, bots, and similar virtual agents) to search or gain any information from our website, unless we have given you permission to do so;

• introduce any materials that are designed to impede the operations of our website or its content;

• damage, disable, overburden, impair, or gain unauthorized access to the content or our website;

• remove, modify, disable, block, obscure or otherwise impair any advertising displayed on, or used in connection with, our website;

• use our website or its content to advertise or promote products or services that we have not expressly approved in writing in advance;

• interfere with anyone else’s use and enjoyment of our website;

• attempt to discover or reverse engineer the source code and other materials forming part of the technology used to provide our website or forming part of its content;

• receive or charge money, favours or other consideration for allowing any other person to use or access our website or its content;

• gain unauthorized access to our website or its content, including accessing or attempting to access a network, system or user’s profile without permission;

• engage in unauthorized surveillance of or on our website or its content, including the surveillance of any data on a network, system or user’s profile without permission;

• cause intentional harm, including intentionally damaging the structure or efficient working of a network, system or user’s profile through physical or electronic means (such as Denial of Service attacks);

• spam, including sending or promoting unsolicited mass electronic communications without permission;

• manipulate data, including the malicious and fraudulent altering of any data on or sent by a network, system, or user’s profile without permission; or

• manipulate our systems, including the malicious and fraudulent alteration of a network, system, or user’s profile without permission.

5.2.   Apply to cached elements. These terms and any restrictions on the use of our websites will also apply to any part of our websites and content that is cached when using our websites.

5.3.   Monitoring and suspension. We may monitor whether you are complying with these terms. We may limit, suspend or terminate your access to and use of our websites if we, in our sole discretion, believe that you have violated these terms of use, or are otherwise likely to infringe the rights of another party.

6.     Investigation and enforcement

6.1.   Our investigation. We will investigate any breach of this policy and determine, in our sole discretion, whether any of your content or conduct amounts to a breach of this policy. During and after an investigation, we can alter or remove any content that we regard or suspect as breaching this policy. This section applies to any agreements that you have with us.

6.2.   Your suspension. If we determine your content or conduct to amount to a breach of this policy, we may:

• suspend your right to use the website or any of our services;

• delete or destroy the offending content;

• share this content or related information with any relevant third party, including other users or law enforcement agencies;

• treat such breach of this policy as a breach of the agreement;

• take any other action that we deem appropriate in the circumstance, including legal action.

6.3.   Your infringed content. If you believe that your content has been infringed in any way, you can report it to us by emailing us at [email protected], which email must include the following supporting information:

• your contact information;

• details of the infringed and infringing content;

• an affidavit stating that the information so provided is true and accurate, and that you are the copyright owner, or are duly authorized by the copyright owner to lodge this complaint.

7.     Your duty to report breaches

You agree to notify us of any breach of this policy, via email or any other reporting process that we have set up.

8.     Changes

We may change these terms of service at any time by placing a notice on this website, updating this webpage, or notifying you by email. Those changes will apply to future service orders (including renewals and automatic renewals of existing orders). If you do not agree with the changes, you must stop using the website or the services. If you order (or renew) services following notification of a change, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted them.