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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE


Please review carefully the terms and conditions set forth below before using the HireACoder.net web site. The terms "You", "Your", "User", or "Users" refer to anyone accessing our services or web site for any reason. The terms "We", "Us", or "Our" refer to HireACoder.net (or HireACoder). The HireACoder.net web site is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance of the terms, conditions, restrictions and notices contained herein. HireACoder.net may amend or modify these terms and conditions without notice, effective immediately, by updating this posting. Your use of the HireACoder.net web site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, restrictions and notices.

ELIGIBILITY FOR REQUIREMENTS

HireACoder.net shall have absolute discretion as to whether or not it accepts a particular applicant or site for participation in the service. HireACoder.net's web site is available only to individuals who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. The services of this web site are not available to minors. If Users do not qualify, they cannot legally use any of HireACoder.net's services including, but not limited to, those that require the User's ability to form legally binding contracts.

REMOVAL FROM NETWORK

HireACoder.net reserves the right to terminate the participation of any member or site without reason but expressly including any member site that HireACoder judges to be in violation of the terms and conditions.

Members in violation of HireACoder's Terms and Conditions will be immediately deactivated. HireACoder may deactivate members with no prior notification. Members found in violation of the Terms and Conditions will not receive any credit or payment from HireACoder. Members that are terminated by HireACoder on any basis other than violation of these Terms and Conditions will be entitled to receive any payment due from HireACoder.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

HireACoder.net offers a wide range of tools, content, products, services, benefits, and other resources on its web site. These services are for use only under a non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-assignable license under these terms and conditions of use. You do not have the right to copy, sell, or otherwise exploit for any commercial purpose the services or content (in whole or in part), access to this service or use of this service.

Some of the services offered at HireACoder.net may include feedback to questions by Users of this service and/or articles with original content and opinions. Use of this content or links to this content is at the User's own risk. User understands and agrees to the following:

Some of the content provided at HireACoder.net may relate to various subjects such as information pertaining to legal matters, financial matters, and other matters for which the content of is provided in an advisory nature. This information is provided solely for informational and general non-advisory purposes. If desired, Users should use their own efforts to confirm such information with a professional(s) in the pertinent field(s). All of the information that HireACoder.net provides should not be considered professional, medical, legal, technical, or any other discipline-specific advice.

HireACoder.net is a dynamic time-sensitive web site. As such, the information on HireACoder.net will be changed frequently. It is possible that some information could be considered offensive, harmful, or inaccurate, and in some cases may be mislabeled or deceptively labeled accidentally by HireACoder.net or accidentally or purposefully by a third-party, regardless of whether such third parties are with or without a legitimate business purpose.

HireACoder.net provides unmonitored access to third-party content. HireACoder.net is only acting as a venue and/or portal, and has no liability based on, or related to, the third-party content on this Site, whether arising under the laws of copyright or other intellectual property, defamation, libel, privacy, obscenity, or any other legal discipline. This web site may contain links to third-party web sites. HireACoder.net does not control nor always review the web sites to which we link from HireACoder.net. We, therefore, cannot endorse the content, products, services, practices, policies, or performance of the web sites we link to from HireACoder.net, and Users should not treat any link as such an endorsement or acceptance of veracity or value.

HireACoder.net does not have the resources to nor does it undertake any obligation to, control, research, verify, validate, or approve the content that is received or viewed on its web site. We expect that the User will undertake necessary activities and practices and will use caution and common sense when using HireACoder.net.

REFERRAL COMMISSIONS

The referral commission paid out will be the one listed on the Referrals page. If the commission rate is changed, it will only affect referrals made after the new commission was announced. You may not refer yourself, nor sign up for multiple accounts to collect referral fees. You may also not partner with any other HireACoder.net user to share/transfer the commission made from your own account, or else both parties will be kicked from the service without payment. HireACoder.net reserves the right to delay or cancel sending affiliate earnings if we believe the referred user will not pay the fees they were charged, since affiliate commissions are based on those fees.

PAYMENTS

HireACoder.net will send payments only through the E-GOLD ( www.e-gold.net ) service , if the member requests it AND if their account balance is equal to or greater than $100. The coder must have at least 5 reviews for them. All amounts are stated in and all payments will be made in US funds. HireACoder.net reserves the right to suspend a withdrawal if the source of the funds is suspected to be fraudulent. Any funds received from an account having made a fraudulent deposit (e.g. stolen credit card) will be reversed immediately. If in a fraudulent payment situation a withdrawal has already been processed, you will be expected to return the funds to your HireACoder.net account or face account termination.

As previously stated, any member site that HireACoder.net removes from the service due to violation of the Terms and Conditions will receive no credit or payment .

E-MAIL ADDRESSES

Members agree not to post their e-mail address on the site, except in the "e-mail" field of the signup form, or when asked by HireACoder.net at any other time. There should be no need to give anyone your e-mail address. It is automatically provided if you choose a Software Coder (or you are the Software Coder chosen for) a project, and before that time you can use the message board to communicate. This does not only apply to e-mail addresses, but to all methods of communication, including phone, ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, etc... See "Avoiding Commissions" below for the reason.

PROVIDING CONTACT INFORMATION

You are prohibited from making direct contact with another member, unless it's for a project you (a Software Coder) have been picked for, or you (a Software Buyer) have picked a Software Coder for. This includes giving out your e-mail address, ICQ number, phone number, or any other method of contact outside of this site. HireACoder.net provides you with message boards, which should be sufficient for pre-project planning.

AVOIDING COMMISSIONS

You are strictly prohibited from attempting to negotiate the fee for a project with another member directly (outside of HireACoder.net) after that project has been created/opened and before that project has been closed (basically, during an ongoing project). But this also applies to any project that was closed without a Software Coder being chosen, and then contacting them about the project anyway. Both parties are responsible for notifying HireACoder.net if the payment amount increases (above the bid amount) after the project is closed. Receiving a larger amount than the original project bid, without notifying us, will be considered an attempt to avoid the commissions. When a Software Coder requests a withdrawal, we always review all payments received for each project to verify that they match the bid. If at the time of a withdrawal request the Software Coder has failed to notify HireACoder.net staff of a payment received above the amount of his bid (a total payment above US$100), HireACoder.net reserves the right to deduct double the fee for the amount that should have been reported. We believe our commissions are very fair and justified for the service we provide, therefore we will absolutely not tolerate any of this activity on HireACoder.net.

COPYRIGHTS

No copyrighted material can be posted on HireACoder.net. This includes programming-related content, scripts or code which is sold or owned by the author, or graphic design content which is sold or owned by the author. Only posting sections, excerpts or examples of such content, will be permitted. A "section" or "excerpt" being no more than 10% of the original content, and "example" being a draft or pseudo-coded program. This is necessary to protect the author's intellectual property rights.

MODIFICATIONS

HireACoder reserves the right to change the Terms of Service at any time. It is the member's responsibility to check these Terms and Conditions from time to time for such changes. In the event HireACoder offers any additional or replacement services then this agreement shall apply to such services in the absence of any new agreement specific to such services which is entered into between the parties.

USER CONTENT

User is solely responsible for content or any other information User provides to HireACoder.net. User understands and agrees to the following:

HireACoder.net is only acting as a venue for the online distribution and publication of User content. However, no warranties as to the actual distribution or publication of User content are made or implied. HireACoder.net has the right (but no obligation) to take any action deemed appropriate with respect to User content if it is believed that such content may create liability for HireACoder.net, harm our business operation or reputation, or cause HireACoder.net to lose the services of our suppliers.

User represents and warrants that User's content: (a) will not infringe upon or misappropriate any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property right or proprietary right or right of publicity or privacy; (b) will not violate any law or regulation; (c) will not be defamatory or trade libelous; (d) will not be obscene or contain child pornography; (e) will not include incomplete, false or inaccurate information about User or any other individual; and (f) will not contain any viruses or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.

By submitting User content to HireACoder.net (including, but not limited to creating your Account; posting a resume, posting a profile, posting a portfolio, posting a Project; sending messages through or to HireACoder.net). You hereby grant to HireACoder.net a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, display, and perform User content, under all User intellectual property and proprietary rights worldwide. For the avoidance of doubt, providing links to content hosted on servers other than that of HireACoder.net (such as a portfolio of sample works hosted on Your own web site) will not be considered "submitting" such content for purposes of this license grant.

USER RESTRICTIONS

Advertising

Users are prohibited from advertising your website on HireACoder.net. Any URL posted in a bid, project description, or the message board, must relate to a project on HireACoder.net. An example of a permissible URL: User's portfolio or resume' page.

Bidding

Software Coders can only place bids that equal the total amount of money they are requesting for the project. You cannot post an hourly bid or any other abnormal type of bid. This applies to Software Buyers too. Software Buyers cannot create projects that directly or indirectly require Software Coders to place hourly or other abnormal bids.

Hirer agrees that:

1. Hirer will not redistribute any of the content on HireACoder.net.
2. Hirer will not use Hirer's Account to post false or misleading project descriptions. Hirer will not post project descriptions that are inappropriate to HireACoder.net's audience, viewers, or visitors in the judgment and discretion of HireACoder.net.
3. Hirer will not falsify Hirer's own or any other identity.
4. Hirer will comply with all HireACoder.net's policies.

Freelancer agrees that:

1. Freelancer will not redistribute any of the content on HireACoder.net.
2. Freelancer will not falsify Freelancer's own or any other identity.
3. Freelancer will comply with all HireACoder.net policies.

General Restrictions

1. Users (Hirers and Freelancers) will not use any automated collection mechanism or any manual process to monitor or copy the web pages comprising the HireACoder.net web site or the content contained therein without the prior written permission of HireACoder.net . ·
2. Users (Hirers and Freelancers) will not distribute unsolicited commercial messages ("spam") through User's account.
3. Users (Hirers and Freelancers) will not contact employers or freelancers through our site or through information gained from our site with the intent of subverting them from using our services.
4. Users (Hirers and Freelancers) will not engage in personal attacks, negative or other unfair criticism or other forms of discourteous and unprofessional online conduct or practices.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Any disputes regarding arrangements between Freelancers and Hirers remain solely between Hirers and Freelancers. We are not involved in any transactions between You and any other users of HireACoder.net. You acknowledge and agree that HireACoder.net will not be a party to any such dispute or be obligated to take any action or refrain from taking any action toward resolving any such dispute. If you have a dispute with any other users of the Site, you hereby release HireACoder.net from any and all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, related to such a dispute.

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