Terms of Service

Welcome to the Black Business Professional Network an online and event based membership organization designed to encourage reciprocal support, the exchange of ideas, and sharing of experiences to strengthen business and economic opportunities between members locally, nationally and globally. We provide information, professional development and knowledge that support Black business owners and professionals and their engagement with the community at large.

Black Business Professional Network service is operated by Smith Soeder Enterprises, Inc. As a member or non-member using the Black Business Professional Network web site (the "Web site") you agree to be bound by the following Terms of Service (this "Agreement"). Read these Terms of Services carefully and indicate your acceptance of them if you wish to register as a member to use Black Business Professional Network services to communicate with other members on the Web Site. Do this by following the required instructions on the signup page.

This written Agreement sets out the legally binding terms of your membership in the Service and use of Black Business Professional Network Web site; your membership may be modified by Black Business Professional Network management staff at any point in time without prior notice and will take effect upon posting on Black Business Professional Network Web Site.

Black Business Professional Network's acceptable use policy for the content posted on the website, Black Business Professional Network's Privacy Policy and notices regarding Black Business Professional Network is included in this agreement.

1. Eligibility. In order to register as a Black Business Professional Network member you need to eighteen or over. Any membership in the Service is automatically void where prohibited. As a member and in use of the Web site’s services, you represent and warrant that you have the right, capacity and authority to enter into this particular agreement and will abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

2. Terms. While using the Web site services and/or are a Member; this Agreement will remain in full force and effect. You are free to terminate your membership at any time you wish, for any reason by following the instructions stated on the Cancel Account page in “Account Settings”. Black Business Professional Network reserves the right to terminate your membership at any time, for any reason. If Black Business Professional Network terminates your membership because you have breached the Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund of your unused subscription fees (if applicable). This agreement will still remain in full effect even after your membership has been terminated.

3. Non-Commercial Use by Members. All Organizations, companies, and/or businesses alike may not become Members and should not use the Black Business Professional Network Service or the Web site for any purpose. Black Business Professional Network Web Site service is meant for personal use of the individual Members only; and may not be used in connection with any commercial activities or endeavors. The following include Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Web site: Collection of usernames and/or email addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email and unauthorized framing of or linking to the Web site will be investigated thoroughly, and the appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, criminal, civil and injunctive redress. As a member of the network any committee, advisory council, volunteer or other capacity, you are not authorized to enter into any agreement on the behalf of or as representative of the Black Business Professional Network without prior written contractual agreement. Any misrepresentation of the a Black Business Professional Network on the part of a member, committee member, advisory council member, volunteer or other capacity, is grounds for termination of your membership and possible legal action.

4. Full Proprietary Rights in Content are exclusive to the Black Business Professional Network. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given a written permission, you do not have the right to copy, publish, modify, transmit, perform, display, distribute or sell any other proprietary information. Black Business Professional Network owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Black Business Professional Network Web Site and its Service. The Web Site contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of Black Business Professional Network, and its licensors.

5. Content Posted on the Site.

a. As a registered member on Black Business Professional Network Web Site, your profile must describe you (an individual person). Examples of in-appropriate profiles include the following (But are not limited to): Profiles that purport to represent an animal, inanimate, place, object, a real individual who is not you or any fictional character.

b. You understand and agree that Black Business Professional Network reserves the right to review/edit delete any content, photos, messages or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in Black Business Professional Network sole judgment violate this Agreement or which might be illegal, offensive, or that might violate the rights, threaten the safety of other members, or harm them in anyway.

c. As a member posting Content to any public section of Black Business Professional Network, You automatically grant, and you warrant and represent that you have the right to grant, to Black Business Professional Network a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to copy, perform, use, display and distribute such information and content and to incorporate into other works of, or prepare derivative works of such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

d. You are solely responsible for the Content that you display or publish (hereinafter, "post") on the Black Business Professional Network Web Site, or transmit to other Black Business Professional Network Members.

e. Solicits to people you don't know to add you and/or accept you as a Black Business Professional Network member. Even though all of the above is strictly prohibited on Black Business Professional Network, there is still a small chance that you may become exposed to such items and you further waive your personal right to any damages (from any party) related to any such exposure.

f. You agree to use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

g. The following below is a partial list of the kind of Content that is considered illegal or prohibited on the Black Business Professional Network Web Site. Black Business Professional Network reserves the right to investigate fully and take any appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision; including without limitation, removal of the offending communication from the Service and automatically terminating the membership of such violators. It includes Content that:

is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
promotes information that you are aware is false, promotes illegal activities or misleading or conduct that is threatening, abusive, obscene, libelous or defamatory;
involves the transmission of "chain letters," "junk mail", or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
advocates harassment or harasses another person;
promotes any illegal or unauthorized copy of someone else’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
contains password only access pages or restricted pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from other accessible page);
displays any form of pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind;
provides material that exploits persons under the age of eighteen in a violent or sexual manner, or solicits the personal information from anyone under eighteen;
provides instructional information about any illegal activities such as buying or making illegal weapons, providing or creating any computer viruses or violating a person’s privacy.
engages in commercial activities and/or sales without any prior written consent from us; such as: sweepstakes, contests, sweepstakes, advertising, barter and pyramid schemes;
solicits personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users or passwords;

h. You may not transmit any form of chain letters or junk email to other Members. You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members to buy or sell any of your or others products or services through the Black Business Professional Network. Although the Black Business Professional Network cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Black Business Professional Network Web site, it is still considered a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Black Business Professional Network in order to abuse, harass, or harm another person, or in order to advertise to, contact, solicit, or sell to any of the Black Business Professional Network Members without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such solicitation or advertising, Black Business Professional Network reserves the right to restrict the number of emails, which any Member may send to other Members in any twenty four hour period to a number, which Black Business Professional Network deems appropriate in its sole discretion.

i. No telephone numbers, last names, street addresses, emails, URL’s may be included in your Member profile.

j. NOTE: Black Business Professional Network membership is not available to MLMs (multi-level marketing companies) or to anyone representing a business that recruits resellers for products that do not originate with the individual/business owner seeking membership. We enforce this policy - please read our no-MLM policy.

6. Member Disputes. Interaction between Black Business Professional Network members is your sole responsibility. Black Business Professional Network, Inc. reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and any other Members.

7. Privacy. Our Privacy Policy also governs the use of the Black Business Professional Network Web site and/or its Services.

8. Disclaimers. Black Business Professional Network is not responsible for any inaccurate or incorrect content posted on the Web site or in connection with the Service; whether caused by users of the members or users of the Web site, or by any of the equipment or programming utilized or is associated in the Service. Black Business Professional Network assumes no responsibility for any interruption, omission, error, delay in operation, deletion, defect, communications line failure, destruction, theft or unauthorized access to, or alteration of any user or Members communications. Black Business Professional Network is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Black Business Professional Network Web site or Member of the Service. The Web site and the Service are provided "AS-IS" and Black Business Professional Network expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Black Business Professional Network is not responsible for any technical malfunctions or problems of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, computer equipment, servers or providers, software, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or combination thereof, including damage or injury to users and/or Black Business Professional Network Members or to anyone’s computer related to or resulting from downloading material or participating in connection with the Web and/or in connection with the Black Business Professional Network Service. Under no circumstances will Black Business Professional Network be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from anyone's use of the Black Business Professional Network Web site or the Service, any Content posted on the Web site or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the Web site, whether online or offline. Black Business Professional Network cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Web site and/or the Service. The service may not be available temporarily from time to time for maintenance purposes or other reasons. No advice or information, whether written or oral, obtained by Black Business Professional Network users or through or from the service itself shall create any warranty not expressly stated herein.

9. Copyright Policy. You may not post, reproduce, or distribute in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information of Black Business Professional Network without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Administrator with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Black Business Professional Network Web site; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

10. Limitation on Liability. Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will Black Business Professional Network be liable to you or any third person for any exemplary, indirect, consequential, incidental, special or punitive damages, including also any lost profits arising from your use of the Black Business Professional Network Web site or the Services, even if Black Business Professional Network has been advised of the possibility of such form of damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Black Business Professional Network's liability to you for whatsoever cause, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount that is paid, if any, by you as a member to Black Business Professional Network for the Service during the term of the membership.

11. Indemnity. You agree to hold and indemnify Black Business Professional Network, affiliates, its subsidiaries, agents, officers, and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, claim, liability, or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Black Business Professional Network Service in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above. If You are a California resident, You waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."

12. No Agency. There is no partnership, employee-employer, agency, franchisor-franchisee or joint venture, relationship between Black Business Professional Network and any User of the Black Business Professional Network Service.

13. Other. This Agreement, accepted upon use of the Black Business Professional Network Web site and further affirmed by becoming a registered Member of the Service, contains the entire agreement between you and Black Business Professional Network regarding the use of the Web site and/or the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. Failure of Black Business Professional Network to enforce or exercise any right or provision of these stated Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in these Terms of Service are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

Please contact us with questions you may have regarding this agreement.

I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.

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