TERMS OF USE
This website belongs to and is maintained by Small Business Majority Foundation, Inc., a District of Columbia nonprofit corporation (“SBM” or “we” or “us”).
By logging into this website and viewing or using any of the information set out in this website, you (and if you are a corporation, partnership, company, association or other entity, your members, directors, officers and employees)(collectively “You”) agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (“TOU”) and Privacy Policy, set forth below, agree to be bound by other legal notices that may be posted on this site from time to time. The legally binding terms of these documents set out your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of this website (the “Website”) .
By logging into this website and viewing or using any of the information set out in this website, you (and if you are a corporation, partnership, company, association or other entity, your members, directors, officers and employees)(collectively “You”) agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (“TOU”) and Privacy Policy, set forth below, agree to be bound by other legal notices that may be posted on this site from time to time. The legally binding terms of these documents set out your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of this website (the “Website”) .
1. Modification of TOU
We may change or update this TOU from time to time, and any such modifications shall be effective upon posting on the Website. Your use of the Wesbite after a change has been posted signifies your consent to any such changes. You should review this TOU periodically to make sure you are up to date on any changes.
2. Information Relating to Participating Lenders; Other Website Content
Small business lenders, credit marketplaces and brokers who fill out and submit the Attestation Form available through this Website are listed as signatories to the Small Business Borrower’s Bill of Rights, indicating that these companies have represented to SBM that they abide by the SBBOR. SBM does not independently verify that any of these companies or entities in fact abide by the SBBOR and you should not rely solely on the listing of these companies and entities in determining whether or not any particular company or entity does in fact abide by the SBBOR.
The listing of these companies and entities as signatories to the SBBOR on this Website (the “Signatory Companies”) does not imply that SBM endorses the use of any of the Signatory Companies.
The content of the Website is provided "AS-IS" and SBM expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose and further expressly disclaims any implied warranty and terms and conditions. SBM cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Website.
3. Intellectual Property Rights
You acknowledge and agree that all copyright and other rights in and to the computer programs, computer applications, web applications, database programs, web content files and all written, graphic, audio and audiovisual works constituting, incorporated into and/or utilized on this Website and all databases of any kind, database elements and data fields included in such databases (except to the extent that the foregoing have been created by and licensed to SBM by third parties) shall be and remain the sole and exclusive property of SBM (“SBM Intellectual Property”). You agree not to contest SBM’s ownership of any and all such rights.
You agree that you will not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any of the SBM Intellectual Property. You agree not to remove, obscure, or alter any copyright notice or trademark notice whether of SBM or third parties, appearing in or on the Website or in any results or content generated by your use of the Website. You agree that you will not, will not attempt to, and will not permit any third party to, copy, distribute sell, disclose, lend, transfer, convey, modify, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any software program or application used in the functioning of the Website.
4. Limitation of Liability
You agree that SBM will not be liable for any failure of any Signatory Company to comply with or abide by the SBBOR or for any other act or omission of any Signatory Company.
You hereby agree to release SBM and its respective officers, directors, agents and employees from claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with your use of the Website. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code § 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.”
You agree to release and forever discharge SBM, its directors, officers, employees, consultants and agents from any claim for death, injury to person, injury or damage to property or other damages, costs, losses or expenses of whatsoever nature, arising out of or based upon the posting of any information on this Website (including without limitation the listing of the Signatory Companies), your use of or reliance on any such information, or SBM’s sponsorship of this Website or any content posted on this Website.
SBM assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, user communications. SBM is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Site or combination thereof, including injury or damage to users of the Website or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials.
Except where restricted or prohibited, in no event will SBM be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including lost profits arising from your use of the Website even if SBM has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
We may change or update this TOU from time to time, and any such modifications shall be effective upon posting on the Website. Your use of the Wesbite after a change has been posted signifies your consent to any such changes. You should review this TOU periodically to make sure you are up to date on any changes.
2. Information Relating to Participating Lenders; Other Website Content
Small business lenders, credit marketplaces and brokers who fill out and submit the Attestation Form available through this Website are listed as signatories to the Small Business Borrower’s Bill of Rights, indicating that these companies have represented to SBM that they abide by the SBBOR. SBM does not independently verify that any of these companies or entities in fact abide by the SBBOR and you should not rely solely on the listing of these companies and entities in determining whether or not any particular company or entity does in fact abide by the SBBOR.
The listing of these companies and entities as signatories to the SBBOR on this Website (the “Signatory Companies”) does not imply that SBM endorses the use of any of the Signatory Companies.
The content of the Website is provided "AS-IS" and SBM expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose and further expressly disclaims any implied warranty and terms and conditions. SBM cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Website.
3. Intellectual Property Rights
You acknowledge and agree that all copyright and other rights in and to the computer programs, computer applications, web applications, database programs, web content files and all written, graphic, audio and audiovisual works constituting, incorporated into and/or utilized on this Website and all databases of any kind, database elements and data fields included in such databases (except to the extent that the foregoing have been created by and licensed to SBM by third parties) shall be and remain the sole and exclusive property of SBM (“SBM Intellectual Property”). You agree not to contest SBM’s ownership of any and all such rights.
You agree that you will not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any of the SBM Intellectual Property. You agree not to remove, obscure, or alter any copyright notice or trademark notice whether of SBM or third parties, appearing in or on the Website or in any results or content generated by your use of the Website. You agree that you will not, will not attempt to, and will not permit any third party to, copy, distribute sell, disclose, lend, transfer, convey, modify, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any software program or application used in the functioning of the Website.
4. Limitation of Liability
You agree that SBM will not be liable for any failure of any Signatory Company to comply with or abide by the SBBOR or for any other act or omission of any Signatory Company.
You hereby agree to release SBM and its respective officers, directors, agents and employees from claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with your use of the Website. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code § 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.”
You agree to release and forever discharge SBM, its directors, officers, employees, consultants and agents from any claim for death, injury to person, injury or damage to property or other damages, costs, losses or expenses of whatsoever nature, arising out of or based upon the posting of any information on this Website (including without limitation the listing of the Signatory Companies), your use of or reliance on any such information, or SBM’s sponsorship of this Website or any content posted on this Website.
SBM assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, user communications. SBM is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Site or combination thereof, including injury or damage to users of the Website or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials.
Except where restricted or prohibited, in no event will SBM be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including lost profits arising from your use of the Website even if SBM has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
