Volunteer Access Terms of Service

Volunteer Access maintains that the Volunteer Access product, website, and service are subject to the terms and conditions herein. Use of the Volunteer Access service constitutes that all users are bound by the terms and conditions. If any user or party does not agree to the terms and conditions, they shall not use the Volunteer Access service, product, or website.

Volunteer Access ("Volunteer Access," "we," or "us") provides the Volunteer Access site at URL: http://www.volunteeaccess.com/ ("Site"). The Site offers the services, including but not limited to the Volunteer Access online volunteer opportunity service and various syndication services, and other information related thereto (collectively, the "Services") to our users, whether they be nonprofit organizations, volunteers, readers of our newsletters, registered Volunteer Access users, or other visitors to the Site under the terms of service and use contained in these Terms (as defined below). "You" means the individual person entering this Agreement on his or her own behalf; or, if this Agreement is being entered on behalf of an organization, "you" means the organization on whose behalf which this Agreement is entered, and in the latter case, the person entering this Agreement represents and warrants that he or she has the authority to do so on your behalf.

These Volunteer Access Terms of Service and Use, along with Volunteer Access's Privacy Policy, set forth the legally binding terms of your access to and use of the Services ("Terms").

Please read the Terms carefully. You understand and agree that these terms set forth the legally binding terms and conditions for your use of the Site and Services, and the Site and Services are made available and provided to you exclusively under these Terms. By visiting, using or accessing Site and/or the Services, you agree to comply with and be bound by the Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, you should leave the Site and discontinue use of the Site and Services immediately. If you are registered as a Volunteer Access member to make use of the Services reserved for members, you must read these Terms and indicate your acceptance during the registration process. Note, however, that these Terms apply to your access to and use of the Site and Services regardless of whether you are registered as a Volunteer Access member. We reserve the right to terminate your use or access to the Services at any time for any reason, including, without limitation, if we learn that you have provided false or misleading information or have violated the Terms.

VOLUNTEER ACCESS ACCOUNT

Registering

Depending on what Services you desire to receive, you may need to register and be invited in order to become a Volunteer Access member.

Eligibility

By registering as a Volunteer Access member, you represent that: (1) all required registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; and (3) your use of the Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your member profile may be deleted without warning if we have reason to believe that you do not meet eligibility requirements.

Username and Password

When you sign up to become a Volunteer Access member either to post volunteer opportunities or to search volunteer opportunities, you will also be asked to choose a password for your Volunteer Access profile under your email address. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and all use of your name, password, and profile. You agree not to use the Volunteer Access profile, name, or password of another Volunteer Access member at any time unless expressly authorized by such Volunteer Access member. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your Volunteer Access profile or access to your password.

Term

This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Site, Services, or are a Volunteer Access member. You may terminate your Volunteer Access membership at any time, for any reason, by sending an email to bmuriqi@volunteeraccess.com We may terminate your membership for any reason, effective upon sending notice to you at the primary e-mail address you have stored in your Volunteer Access profile.

Volunteer Access will provide you the Services chosen by you substantially as described on the Site. The Site and Services are made available for your personal, internal, non-commercial use. You may not frame the Site or Services, or make available, or facilitate distribution of Content through any means or medium.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

You must not use the Site or Services to: (1) violate any local, state, national or international law; (2) stalk, harass or harm another individual; (3) collect or store personal data about other users; (4) impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; or (5) interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Content, Site, or Services, use of the Content, Site, or Services, or access to the Content, Site, or Services. Without our prior written consent, you may not (1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail (spam); (2) use any high volume, automated, or electronic means (including without limitation robots, spiders, scripts or other automatic device) to access the Services or monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained thereon; (3) link or deep-link to the Site for any purpose; or (4) frame the Site, place pop-up windows over its pages, or otherwise affect the display of its pages. All information that you provide to us will be true, accurate and current.

MODIFICATIONS OF TERMS

We may change the Terms including, without limitation, the Privacy Policy, from time to time. We will notify you of any such changes via e-mail. You agree that such amended Terms will be effective 30 days after the notice is sent to you, and your continued access to the Site or use of the Services after that time shall constitute your acceptance of the amended Agreement. If you object to any such changes, your sole and exclusive remedy shall be to terminate your membership by sending an email to bmuriqi@volunteeraccess.com . In addition, certain areas of the Services may be subject to additional terms of use. By using such areas, or any part thereof, you agree to be bound by the additional terms of use applicable to such areas. In the event that any of the additional terms of use governing such areas conflict with these Terms, these Terms shall control.

TERMS OF CODE

You acknowledge that the Code and its structure, organization and source code may constitute valuable trade secrets of Volunteer Access. Except as expressly allowed under Section 5, you must not (a) modify, adapt, alter, translate, or create derivative works from the Code or the Content; or (b) sublicense, distribute, sell, use for service bureau use, lease, rent, loan or otherwise transfer the Code or Content to any third party.

MODIFICATION OF SERVICES

We reserve the right to modify or discontinue the Site or Services with or without notice to you. We shall not be liable to you or any third party should we exercise our right to modify or discontinue the Site or Services. If you object to any such changes, your sole recourse shall be to cease using the Site or Services. Continued use of the Site or Services following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and satisfaction with the Site or Services as so modified.

PRIVACY

As part of the registration process, you will be asked to provide certain personal information to us. All uses of your personal information will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference. If you use the Site and/or the Services, you are accepting the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to have your information used in any of the ways described in the Privacy Policy, you must discontinue use of the Site and/or the Services.

THIRD PARTY CONTENT AND MONITORING

We are a distributor and publisher of content supplied by users of the Services and by other third parties ("Content"). Accordingly, we have no editorial control over such Content. Any services, offers, or other information expressed or made available by third parties as part of the Content, including information provided by other users of the Services, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) of that information and not of us. We neither endorse nor are responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any Content, or opinion, advice, information, or statement made on the Services by anyone. We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor and review the Content on the Services and your account to determine compliance with these Terms and any other operating rules established by us, to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request, or for other purposes. You understand and acknowledge that we do not monitor Content for accuracy or reliability.

YOUR CONTENT; LICENSE; REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTY

You are solely responsible for any information, comments, feedback, data, materials, photos or other content of any type or description that you provide or make available to us through or to the Site or Services, including any data entry forms found through the Site ("Your Content"), and we act as a passive conduit for the distribution and publication of Your Content. However, we reserve the right to remove Your Content if we believe Your Content may create liability for us. You represent and warrant that Your Content (1) does not infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (2) does not violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation, including without limitation the laws and regulations governing export control; (3) is not defamatory or trade libelous; (4) does not violate any laws regarding unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising; and (5) does not contain viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, spyware, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines. You acknowledge and agree that Third Parties (as defined below) are third-party beneficiaries of these representations and warranties, and that they shall apply to them with the same force and effect as they apply to us. You hereby grant to us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free license, sublicensable through multiple tiers of sublicensees, to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, display, perform, and create derivative works from Your Content in any media or through any means now known or not currently known. You acknowledge that some of Your Content will be publicly available for other users of the Site or Services to view, such as feedback and comments. You are solely responsible for the content of Your Content. display, perform, and create derivative works from Your Content in any media or through any means now known or not currently known. You acknowledge that some of Your Content will be publicly available for other users of the Site or Services to view, such as feedback and comments. You are solely responsible for the content of Your Content.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

You acknowledge that Volunteer Access owns all right, title and interest in and to the Services, including without limitation, the Site, and all underlying software and technology, including without limitation all Intellectual Property Rights. "Intellectual Property Rights" means any and all rights existing from time to time under patent law, copyright law, trade secret law, trademark law, unfair competition law, and any and all other proprietary rights, and any and all applications, renewals, extensions and restorations thereof, now or hereafter in force and effect worldwide.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEALINGS WITH THIRD PARTIES

If you are using the Services to find volunteer opportunities, your correspondence or ensuing relationship with nonprofit and public service organizations, volunteers, partners, advertisers, sponsors or other third parties found on or through the Services ("Opportunities"), including posting or acceptance of volunteer opportunities, and any other terms or conditions associated with such dealings, are solely between you and the Volunteer Organization you choose to deal with.

YOU AGREE THAT VOLUNTEER ACCESS WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS, COST, DAMAGE, OR OTHER LIABILITY OF ANY SORT INCURRED AS THE RESULT OF ANY SUCH DEALINGS, OR AS THE RESULT OF THE PRESENCE OF SUCH PARTIES ON THE SERVICES AND YOU HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY CLAIMS AGAINST VOLUNTEER ACCESS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH A VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION.

Release

You hereby release us, our officers, employees, agents and successors from claims, demands any and all losses, damages, rights, claims, and actions of any kind including, without limitation, personal injuries, death, and property damage, that is either directly or indirectly related to or arises from (i) any interactions with other Volunteer Access users, or (ii) your participation in any offline events or activities arising from or related to your use of the Services.

LINKS

Our provision of a link to any other site or location is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other site or location or its contents. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside Web sites or their content. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, OR LINKS FOUND AT ANY OTHER WEBSITE, INTERNET LOCATION, OR SOURCE OF INFORMATION, OR FOR YOUR USE OF SUCH INFORMATION.

TERMINATION

You agree that we, in our sole discretion, may terminate your Volunteer Access membership or other use of the Site or Services without prior notice, and remove and discard Your Content from the Site, for any reason and without prior notice, including, without limitation, if we believe that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. FURTHER, YOU AGREE THAT WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR ANY TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCESS TO THE SERVICES. You may discontinue your participation in and access to the Services at any time.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICES AND SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. VOLUNTEER ACCESS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES. VOLUNTEER ACCESS MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICES OR SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT THE SERVICES OR SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE; NOR DOES VOLUNTEER ACCESS MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR SITE OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES OR SITE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SERVICES OR SITE WILL BE CORRECTED. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY MATERIAL AND/OR INFORMATION DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR SITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL AND/OR INFORMATION. VOLUNTEER ACCESS MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY DEALINGS WITH OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO WITH ANY OTHER PARTIES THROUGH THE SERVICES OR SITE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, EFFORT AND RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES IS WITH YOU. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM VOLUNTEER ACCESS OR THROUGH THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU UNDERSTAND THAT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL VOLUNTEER ACCESS OR ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, DIRECTORS, PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF REVENUES, PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF SUCH PARTIES WERE ADVISED OF, KNEW OF OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND NOTWITHSTANDING THE FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY), ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT LIABILITY), WARRANTY, STATUTE OR OTHERWISE. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THIS SITE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE SITE.

EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, some of the above limitations and disclaimers may not apply to you. To the extent that we may not, as a matter of applicable law, disclaim any implied warranty or limit its liabilities, the scope and duration of such warranty and the extent of our liability shall be the minimum permitted under such applicable law.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Volunteer Access, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, expenses, fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs) that Volunteer Access may incur as a result of or arising from (1) Your Content and any information you (or anyone accessing the Services using your password) submit, post or transmit through the Services, (2) your (or access to the Services as you) violation of these Terms or applicable law, (3) your (or anyone using your account's) violation of any rights of any other person or entity, or (4) any viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, spyware or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines input by you into the Services.

TRADEMARKS

Certain of the names, logos, and other materials displayed in the Services constitute trademarks, tradenames, service marks or logos ("Marks") of us or other entities. You are not authorized to use any such Marks. Ownership of all such Marks and the goodwill associated therewith remains with us or those other entities.

MISCELLANEOUS

The Terms constitute the entire and exclusive and final statement of the agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter hereof, and govern your use of the Services, superseding any prior agreements or negotiations between you and us with respect to the subject matter hereof. The Terms and the relationship between you and Volunteer Access shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of laws or principles that would require the application of the laws of a different country or state. Any legal action, suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to the Terms, or your use of, the Services must be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts located in Putnam County, New York and in no other jurisdiction. You further consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in, and agree to service of process issued or authorized by, any such court. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and that the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Services or the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. This Agreement cannot be transferred or assigned by you without Volunteer Access’s prior written consent. The terms of this Agreement can only be modified as set forth in Section 3 or upon Volunteer Access’s written agreement.

SURVIVAL

The terms of Sections 5 through 20 as well as any other limitations on liability explicitly set forth herein shall survive the expiration or earlier termination of the Terms for any reason. Our (and our licensors') proprietary rights (including any and all Intellectual Property Rights) in and to Our Content and the Services shall survive the expiration or earlier termination of the Terms for any reason.

VIOLATIONS

Please report any violations of the Terms to bmuriqi@volunteeraccess.com

Effective July 25, 2017