TERMS OF USE
IFX International, Inc.
(IFX International, Inc. Extranet System)
IFX Online, has developed a password controlled,
restricted access, secure intranet that allows our franchisees and
certain of their employees to view and print portions of our
confidential Policy and Procedure Manual, news articles and corporate
forms, to communicate with us and each other, and participate in
discussion forums. We call this facility IFX Online Extranet System.
The following are the terms and conditions of use of the IFX Online
Extranet System ("Terms of Use"). Please read them carefully. When you
respond to this message with this statement: "I AGREE TO BE BOUND BY
ALL OF THE IFX Online Extranet System TERMS OF USE", we will issue a
special User ID and two passwords to you. By logging onto IFX Online
Extranet System the first time and each subsequent log-on, you confirm
that you are eligible to access IFX Online Extranet System and you
agree to observe and be bound by all these Terms of Use, as may be
amended from time to time.
Section 1: Introduction
Because IFX Online Extranet System will continually evolve and because
we may change, supplement or delete any of its functions, we reserve
the right to modify these Terms of Use.
IFX Online Extranet System is owned and operated by IFX International,
Inc., and its affiliates. Questions concerning IFX Online Extranet
System or its operation should be directed to the system administrator
at the contact point listed below.
We provide IFX Online Extranet System "AS-IS" and "AS AVAILABLE". We
assume no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or
failure to store any of your communications or settings.
To use IFX Online Extranet System, you must be able to access the World
Wide Web, and you must pay any Internet access fees associated with
your access. You must also provide all equipment necessary to connect
to the World Wide Web, including a computer and modem or other access
device.
Section 2: Passwords and Security
You will receive your User ID, a level 1 password and a level 2
password from the system administrator for IFX Online Extranet System.
Because anyone who uses your User ID and passwords gains access to our
confidential Policy and Procedure Manual and other confidential
information, you must take care to maintain the confidentiality of your
passwords and User ID.
Your User ID and passwords are unique to you. Neither you nor your
employees may use another person's User ID and passwords to access
IFX Online Extranet System or allow another person to use their User
IDs or passwords. You should memorize your User ID and passwords. If
you need to write them down, do not record your User ID at the same
place you record your passwords. You are responsible for maintaining
the confidentiality of your User ID and passwords, and you are
responsible for all activities that occur under your User ID and
passwords. If you are a franchisee, you are also responsible for the
use your employees make of their User IDs and passwords.
You agree (a) to notify the system administrator immediately of any
unauthorized use of your User ID or passwords, or any other breach of
security that comes to your attention, and (b) to log out of your IFX Online
Extranet System account at the end of each session.
We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from
your failure to comply with the requirements stated in this Section 2.
Section 3: Privacy and Data Collection
We will record your User ID and passwords when we issue them to you. We
record each instance that your User ID and password are used to access
IFX Online Extranet System. We may also record the time and duration of
each session of your User ID's use of IFX Online Extranet System. We
may also record when and the number of instances that you access
certain information on IFX Online Extranet System, such as when you
open an update to the Policy and Procedure Manual or the number of
instances and how often you access the Policy and Procedure Manual. We
will not provide information you provide about your customer base,
customer profile and other demographic information to our advertisers
and vendors. However, your first and last name will be transmitted with
each message sent under your User ID. In addition, we will not provide
your email address to any other entity or any person other than our
employees. However, your email address and other personal information
as provided on the Intranet will be available for other users of the
Intranet.
Section 4: Confidentiality of Certain Information
You hereby acknowledge that IFX International, Inc., is the sole owner
of all proprietary rights in and to the IFX International, Inc., System
and each and every part thereof and all material and information now or
hereafter revealed to you under the IFX International, Inc., Franchise
Agreement(s) entered into between you and IFX International, Inc.,
(collectively, the "Franchise Agreement") relating to the IFX International,
Inc., System (as defined therein). You acknowledge that
the products, methods of doing business, and other elements of the
IFX International, Inc., System, which may or may not be disclosed on
IFX Online Extranet System, are unique and distinctive and have been
developed by IFX International, Inc., at great effort, time and
expense. You further acknowledge that the IFX International, Inc.,
System, in its entirety, constitutes trade secrets of IFX
International, Inc.,, which are revealed to you on IFX Online Extranet
System in confidence, solely for the purpose of enabling you to
establish and operate your IFX International, Inc., business (es) in
accordance with the terms of the Franchise Agreement. Such trade
secrets include, but are not limited to, product catalogs, price lists,
training manuals, policy manuals, sales promotion aids, business forms,
accounting procedures, marketing reports, informational bulletins. You
agree that you (a) will not reveal any of such trade secrets to any
other person, firm, or entity, and (b) will not use any of such trade
secrets in connection with any business or venture in which you have a
direct or indirect interest, whether as a proprietor, partner, joint
venture, shareholder, officer, director, or in any other capacity
whatever, other than in connection with the operation of your IFX
International, Inc., business (es). All confidentiality non-disclosure
and non-competition provisions in the Franchise Agreement shall apply
to confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets disclosed
to by us on IFX Online Extranet System.
Section 5: Conduct and Content
As a condition of your continuing use of the IFX Online Extranet
System, you promise that you will not use IFX Online Extranet System
for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use.
We provide IFX Online Extranet System to franchisees and their
employees and our approved vendors only for exchanges of information
and other uses directly related to the IFX International, Inc., System.
You may use IFX Online Extranet System only for purposes related to the
operation of your franchise and not for personal or unrelated business
use. Any unauthorized use of IFX Online Extranet System is expressly
prohibited, and we reserve the right to delete inappropriate material
and to suspend the account of any person who uses IFX Online Extranet
System for an unauthorized purpose.
You should understand that all messages, data, text, photographs,
graphics, video and other Policy and Procedure Manual or information
transmitted via IFX Online Extranet System (except information that we
post), whether posted for general viewing or transmitted privately
("User Content"), are the sole responsibility of the person from which
an item of User Content originated. If you upload, post, send a message
or otherwise transmit any User Content, you are responsible for its
compliance with these Terms of Use. Although we have the right to, we
do not screen, edit or control User Content. We do not accept
responsibility for the truthfulness, accuracy or suitability of User
Content. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any
User Content, including errors or omissions in any User Content, or for
any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any
User Content posted, sent in a message or otherwise transmitted via
IFX Online Extranet System.
You agree not to use IFX Online Extranet System to:
- upload, post, send in a message or otherwise transmit any User
Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's
privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise offensive;
- Impersonate any person or entity;
- disguise the authorship or origin of any User Content you transmit;
- upload, post, send in a message or otherwise transmit any User
Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under
contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information,
proprietary information and confidential information);
- upload, post, send in a message or otherwise transmit any User
Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright
or other proprietary rights of any person;
- upload, post, send in a message or otherwise transmit any
unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional Policy and
Procedure Manual, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," or any other
form of solicitation;
- upload, post, send in a message or otherwise transmit any
material that contains software viruses or any other computer code,
files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the
functionality of any computer software or hardware or
telecommunications equipment;
- disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to "scroll"
faster than normal, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively
affects other users' ability to engage in orderly exchanges;
- interfere with or disrupt servers or networks connected to IFX Online Extranet System;
- "stalk" or otherwise harass another; or
- collect, store or share personal data about other users or otherwise violate any privacy or data protection laws or regulations.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to block or remove any
objectionable User Content that you transmit via IFX Online Extranet
System. Without limiting the breadth of our right, you are advised that
we have the right to remove any User Content that violates these Terms
of Use, your Franchise Agreement or is otherwise objectionable (in our
sole determination).
We store and preserve User Content in accordance with established
policy and may disclose it if required by law or in the good faith
belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary (a) to comply with
legal process, (b) to enforce these Terms of Use, (c) to respond to
claims that any User Content violates the rights of third-parties, or
(d) to protect the rights, property and personal safety of IFX
International, Inc., its affiliates, our and their respective employees,
and our franchisees.
We may transmit and store your User Content over various networks,
computer servers and other technological means, and we may modify your
User Content to conform and adapt it to technical requirements of
connecting networks or devices.
We will immediately suspend or terminate the rights of any User ID that
we believe, in our sole discretion, is being used to disseminate spam
or other unsolicited bulk messages. In addition, because damages are
difficult to quantify, you agree to immediately pay us liquidated
damages of $5 for each piece of spam or unsolicited bulk messages
transmitted under or otherwise associated with your User ID.
We have the right, in our sole discretion, to discontinue sending hard
copies of any material, notices, etc. provided or made available to you
on IFX Online Extranet System unless otherwise required by the
Franchise Agreement.
Section 6: Ownership of User Content
Any User Content that you transmit via IFX Online Extranet System shall
be our property, and we may reproduce, distribute, transmit, publish,
sell or otherwise commercially exploit any such User Content in any
manner or through any medium we choose.
Section 7: Indemnity
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your User
ID, passwords and account, and for all activities that occur under your
account. You indemnify and agree to defend and hold us, our affiliates,
and our and their respective officers, directors, agents, co-branders
or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party with
respect to or arising out of User Content that you submit, post to or
transmit through IFX Online Extranet System, your use of IFX Online
Extranet System, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your
violation of any rights of another. You agree not to settle any such
claim or incur any liability or admission of guilt on our behalf
without our consent. We reserve the right, at our expense, to assume
the defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.
Section 8: Use and Storage
We may establish general practices and limits concerning use of IFX
Online Extranet System, including the maximum number of days that
messages, message board postings or other uploaded User Content will be
retained on or by IFX Online Extranet System. We disclaim any
responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any
messages and other communications or other User Content maintained or
transmitted by IFX Online Extranet System. We have the right to change
these general practices and limits at any time, in our sole discretion,
with or without notice.
IFX Online Extranet System and the information contained or referred to
herein do not constitute an offer or a solicitation of any offer for
the purchase or sale of any securities or franchises.
IFX Online Extranet System may contain information and press releases
about and by IFX International, Inc., franchisees. While information
prepared by us was believed to be accurate as of the date so prepared,
we disclaim any duty or obligation to update such information or to
verify the accuracy of information prepared by others.
Section 9: Modifications to IFX Online Extranet System
We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or
discontinue, temporarily or permanently, IFX Online Extranet System (or
any of its features), with or without notice. You agree that we shall
not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification,
suspension or discontinuance of IFX Online Extranet System.
Section 10: Termination
We may suspend your password, your user account or other use of IFX
Online Extranet System, and remove and discard any of your User Content
if you violate any of these Terms of Use. If you repeatedly breach
these Terms of Use, we may terminate your password, user account or
other use of IFX Online Extranet System and thereafter supply you paper
copies of bulletins and other Policy and Procedure Manual that we may
provide you in connection with your Franchise Agreement. We will
terminate your password, user account and other use of IFX Online
Extranet System when you are no longer a IFX International, Inc.,
franchisee. We shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any
termination or suspension of your access to IFX Online Extranet System.
We may suspend your User ID and Password if you are in default of
payment under your Franchise Agreement.
Section 11: Links and Advertising
IFX Online Extranet System may provide, or third parties (i.e., other
franchisees) may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or
resources. We are not responsible for the availability of such external
sites or resources, and we neither endorse nor assume any
responsibility for any content, advertising, products, or other Policy
and Procedure Manual on or available from such sites or resources. Use
of such third party websites is at your own risk. IFX International,
Inc., has no control over the content or policies of such third party
websites. We will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly,
for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in
connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or
services available on or through any such website or resource.
Your business dealings with, or participation in promotions of,
advertisers found on or through IFX Online Extranet System, including
payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms,
conditions, warranties or representations associated with such
dealings, are solely between you and the advertiser. We shall not be
responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any kind you incur as
the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of
such advertisers on IFX Online Extranet System.
We may place legal notices, disclaimers, our corporate logos and
slogans, advertisements, endorsements, trademarks, and other
identifying information on IFX Online Extranet System, all of which we
may modify, expand or eliminate at our option. All consideration
(monetary and non-monetary) received by us on account of the placement
or sale of advertisements, endorsements and sponsorships on IFX Online
Extranet System will belong only to us.
Section 12: Intellectual Property Rights
We grant you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and
license to use the object code of the Software (defined below) on your
computers. You promise not to copy, modify, create a derivative work
of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover
any source code, or to sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security
interest in or otherwise transfer any right in the Software, either
directly or through your employees or independent contractors. You
agree not to modify the Software in any manner or form, or to use
modified versions of the Software for any purpose, including (without
limitation) that of obtaining unauthorized access to IFX Online
Extranet System. You agree not to access IFX Online Extranet System by
any means other than the interface that we provide for use in accessing
IFX Online Extranet System.
IFX International, Inc., is the primary licensee of, and will retain
all right, title and interest in and to the Software and all Owner
Content (as defined below) prepared for, or used on, IFX Online
Extranet System, and all intellectual property rights in or to any of
them.
"Owner Content" means all text, images, sounds, files, videos, designs,
animations, layouts, color schemes, trade dress, concepts, methods,
techniques, processes and data used in connection with, displayed on,
or collected from or through IFX Online Extranet System that we post or
provide.
"Software" means computer programs and computer code (e.g., HTML, Java)
used for, with or on IFX Online Extranet System, excluding any software
programs owned by third parties.
Except as provided for herein, nothing on IFX Online Extranet System
shall be construed as conferring any license under any intellectual
property right, including any right in the nature of trademark or
copyright, of IFX International, Inc., or any third party, whether by
estoppel, implication or otherwise. All brands and names are the
property of their respective owners.
Section 13: Disclaimer of Warranties
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
- YOUR USE OF IFX Online Extranet System IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
IFX Online Extranet System IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS-IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE"
BASIS. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT.
- WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) IFX Online Extranet System WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (ii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY
BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF IFX Online Extranet System WILL BE ACCURATE
OR RELIABLE, (iii) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION,
OR OTHER MATERIAL YOU PURCHASE OR OBTAIN THROUGH IFX Online Extranet
System WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, OR (iv) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE
WILL BE CORRECTED.
Section 14: Limitation of Liability
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT NEITHER WE NOR OUR AFFILIATES,
CONTRACTORS, VENDORS OR LICENSORS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES,
INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER
INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE
IFX Online Extranet System; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR
SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS
ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM IFX Online Extranet System; (iii)
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS, DATA OR
OTHER USER CONTENT; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON
IFX Online Extranet System; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO IFX
Online Extranet System.
Section 15: Notices
Notices to you or us may be made by any manner permitted in your
Franchise Agreement. In addition, IFX Online Extranet System may also
provide notices of changes to these Terms of Use or other matters by
displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on IFX Online
Extranet System.
Section 16: General
The Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us
relating to your use of IFX Online Extranet System and govern your use
of IFX Online Extranet System, superceding any prior agreements between
you and us. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions
that may apply when you use affiliate services, third-party content or
third-party software. These Terms of Use and the relationship between
you and us shall be governed by the laws of the State of California
without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and we agree to
submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located
within the county of San Diego County, California. Regardless of any
statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising
out of or related to use of IFX Online Extranet System or these Terms
of Use must be filed within one year after such claim of action arose
or be forever barred.
Any unauthorized access, modification or change of any information, or
any interference with the availability of or access to IFX Online
Extranet System is strictly prohibited. We reserve all legal rights and
remedies available to us and this disclaimer shall in no way be deemed
a limitation or waiver of any other rights we may have.
Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these
Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
If any provision of these Terms of Use 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 the other provisions of these Terms of
Use remain in full force and effect. The Section titles in these Terms
of Use are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
Section 17: Violations
Please report any violations of these Terms of Use to the system administrator.
Section 18: Contact Information
Neil Schneider, System Administrator, IFX International, Inc.
12750 High Bluff Dr. Suite 460
San Diego, CA 92130
Phone: (858) 724-1024
Fax: (858) 724-1043
Email: webmaster@ifxonline.com