Terms of Use

Effective: 8 February 2008
Last changed: 8 February 2008

Welcome to Outsourcing-Options.com!

To make sure that everyone enjoys our site and that the information posted is useful and constructive, we ask that everyone who contributes reviews and agrees to the basic rules set out in this policy.

We urge our Users to communicate freely about sharing tools, practices and policies. We ask individuals to share their opinions on these matters through articles, blogs, and mailing list contributions. We hope that our Website will become a place where such opinion can be discussed and debated in a genuine and respectful manner, but we do not intend that the result shall be uniformity of opinion. Understand, therefore, that all opinions expressed by users of this site are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of outsourcing-options.com.

By accessing, creating or contributing to our site you agree to abide by these Terms. Please read them carefully before posting to or creating any content.

1. Rights in the Content You Submit

Default Creative Commons Public License

Unless you specify otherwise, any and all works of authorship copyrightable by you and posted by you to any blog or other content type (“Content”) are submitted under the terms of an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons Public License. Under this license, you permit anyone to copy, distribute, display and perform your Content, royalty-free, on the condition that they credit your authorship each time they do so. You also permit others to distribute derivative works of your Content, but only if they do so under the same Attribution-ShareAlike license that governs your original Content.

Please read the full text of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons Public License.

Amongst other things, this license permits RSS aggregators to copy, distribute, display and perform any Content that syndicate using RSS.

Option for More Restrictive License Terms

If you prefer to offer your Content on more restrictive terms, you may do so as follows:
For Content you submit to your own blog (or to other content types you granted access rights ) you are able to choose the license terms in your template to meet your needs (contact us if you require instructions).

For Content you submit to a blog other than your own, label your submission with a full copyright notice, i.e., your name, the word “copyright” or symbol “©” and the year of first publication.

By posting your Content using the Services, you are granting outsourcing-options.com a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.

Attribution

When publicly displaying, publicly performing, reproducing or distributing copies of your Content, or Content as incorporated into a collective work, Harvard will make best efforts to credit your authorship. You grant outsourcing-options.com permission to use your name for such attribution purposes. You, likewise, agree to represent yourself accurately. You acknowledge that misrepresentation may lead us, in our sole discretion, to cancel your use of the Services and delete any of your Content.

2. Conduct

Posting

Those of us who are coordinating this project believe deeply in free speech. Given our role in offering this service and our presence together as part of the extended community, however, we must reserve the right to remove certain content that you may post. As a general matter, you may post content freely to your blog and to those of others, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable. You must not post any unsolicited or unauthorized materials, including advertising or promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of unsolicited or unwelcome solicitation or advertising.

You agree to only post material that is relevant to the topic being discussed or the information being sought.

By posting content to any blog or other content type, you warrant and represent that you either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, or that your use of the content is a protected fair use. You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading false information. You represent and warrant also that the content you supply does not violate these Terms, and that you will indemnify and hold outsourcing-options.com harmless for any and all claims resulting from content you supply.

You acknowledge that outsourcing-options.com does not pre-screen or regularly review posted content, but that it shall have the right to remove in its sole discretion any content that it considers to violate these Terms or the terms of any other campus user agreements that may govern your use of the campus networks.

Accessing

You understand that all content posted to http: //www.outsourcing-options.com/ is the sole responsibility of the individual who originally posted the content. You understand, also, that all opinions expressed by users of this site are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of outsourcing-options.com.

You agree that outsourcing-options.com will not be liable, under any circumstances and in any way, for any errors or omissions, loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of use of any content posted on this site. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.

Children

Collecting personal information from children under the age of 13 is prohibited. No Content should be directed toward such children.

3. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

This site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. outsourcing-options.com makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the site’s operation or the information, content or materials included on this site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, outsourcing-options.com hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. outsourcing-options.com will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this site. You expressly agree that you use this site solely at your own risk.

4. Privacy Policy

Please be sure to read our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.

5. Modification of These Terms of Use

outsourcing-options.com reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.

6. Copyright Complaints

outsourcing-options.com respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please follow our instructions for reporting copyright infringements. to us and to the Service Provider's Designated Agent.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) requires that all infringement claims must be in writing and must include the following information:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or the person authorized to act on its behalf;
• A description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
• A description of the infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit Harvard to locate the material;
• Your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and email;
• A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

We encourage you to send us a notification of the claimed copyright infringement so we can take appropriate steps. At the same time we urge you to sent these notifications of claimed copyright infringement to the Service Provider's Designated Agent.

By clicking on the link below, you acknowledge that you have read and are bound by this agreement, as well as any other outsourcing-options.com network usage agreements that may govern your conduct. Thank you for participating in outsourcing-options.com. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions.