When you use PBV Monitor Services you agree to all of these terms.
Your use of our Services is also subject to our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy , which covers all the matters concerning use, share, and store of your personal information.
By clicking “Join”,” Sign Up”, or similar, registering, accessing and using our Services, you agree to enter into a legally binding contract with PBV Monitor. If you do not agree to this Contract (User Agreement), do not click on the aforementioned “Join”, “Sign Up” and similar nor access or use our Services in any way.
You can terminate this Contract at any time by closing the account and no longer accessing nor using PBV Monitor Services.
This Contract applies to PBVMonitor.com, PBV Monitor-branded apps, and other PBV Monitor-related sites such as Global Legal Chronicle, apps, communications and services, including off-site Services, but excluding services that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy.
You are entering into this Contract with PBV Monitor (also referred to as “we” and “us”).
PBV Monitor uses the term “Designated Countries” to refer to countries in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland.
This Contract applies to Members: the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy (which includes our Cookie Policy and other reference document in it) and updates.
When you register and join the PBV Monitor Services, you become a Member.
We may modify this Contract, our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy from time to time. In case of any material change to it, we will notify you about the changes through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. We agree that changes can be retroactive. Your continued usage of PBV Monitor Services after being notified about the changes means that you are consenting to the updated terms. If you do not agree to any changes, you may close your account at any time.
You will be responsible to keep your password a secret. You will not share an account with anyone else and will follow our rules and the law. As a Member, you agree to use a strong password and keep it confidential; not to transfer any part of your account and follow the law. You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse.
You will honor your payment obligations and you are okay with us storing your payment information. You understand that there may be fees and taxes that are added to our prices.
Refunds are subject to our policy.
If you buy any of our paid Services (“Premium Services”), you agree to pay us the applicable fees. Failure to pay these fees will result in the termination of your paid Services.
Also, you agree that:
You agree to us providing notices and messages to you through our websites, apps, and contact information. If your contact information is out of date, you may miss out important notices.
When you take actions on our Services, when you share information on PBV Monitor Services, others can see, copy and use that information.
PBV Monitor allow messaging and sharing of information in many ways (your profile, articles, group posts, links to news articles, job postings, messages and DMs. Information) and any content that you share, or post may be seen by other Members.
We will make sure to honor the choices you make about who can see your content or information where we made the settings available.
We are not obligated to publish any information or content on our Service and can remove it with or without notice.
You are the owner of the any content, feedback and personal information you provide to us, but by using our Services you are also granting us a non-exclusive license to it.
We will make sure to honor the choices you make about who can see your content, including how it can be used for ads.
As between you and PBV Monitor, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services, and you are only granting PBV Monitor and our affiliates the following non-exclusive license: worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish and process, information and content that you provide through our Services and the services of others, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others.
These rights are limited in the following ways:
You agree with us, PBV Monitor, that if the content includes personal data, it is subject to our Privacy Policy. You agree that we may access, store, process and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with, the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).
You promise to only provide information and content that you have the right to share, and that your PBV Monitor profile will be truthful, that does not violate the law nor anyone’s rights (including intellectual property rights). PBV Monitor might be required by law to remove certain information or content in certain countries.
If you submit suggestions or feedback concerning our Services, you are agreeing that We can use and share such feedbacks for any purpose, without compensation to you.
We may change or end any Service or modify our prices prospectively. We may also change, suspend or discontinue any of our Services. We may modify our prices effective prospectively upon reasonable notice to the extent allowed under the law.
Your use of others’ content and information posted on our Services, is at your own risk. Others may offer their own products and services through our Services, and we aren’t responsible for those third-party activities. You agree that we are not responsible for others’ (including other Members’) content or information. We cannot always prevent this misuse of our Services, and you agree that we are not responsible for any such misuse. Members have choices regarding this feature.
We have the right to limit how you connect and interact on our Services, including the number of your connections and your ability to contact other Members. PBV Monitor reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if you breach this Contract or the law or are misusing the Services.
We’re providing you notice about our intellectual property rights.
PBV Monitor reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Services. Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services are the trademarks of their respective owners. PBV Monitor, and “in” logos and other PBV Monitor trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of PBV Monitor.
We use data and information about you to make relevant suggestions to you and others.
We use the information and data that you provide and that we have about Members to make recommendations for connections, content and features that may be useful to you.
These are our disclaimers of legal liability for the quality, safety, or reliability of our Services and the limits of legal ability we may have to you.
PBV Monitor and its affiliates make no representation or warranty about the services, including any representation that the services will be uninterrupted or error-free, and provide the services (including content and information) on an “as is” and “as available” basis. to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, PBV Monitor and its affiliates disclaim any implied or statutory warranty, including any implied warranty of title, accuracy of data, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
To the fullest extent permitted by law (and unless PBV Monitor has entered into a separate written agreement that overrides this contract), PBV Monitor, including its affiliates, will not be liable in connection with this contract for lost profits or lost business opportunities, reputation (e.g., offensive or defamatory statements), loss of data (e.g., down time or loss, use of, or changes to, your information or content) or any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages.
PBV Monitor and its affiliates will not be liable to you in connection with this contract for any amount that exceeds (a) the total fees paid or payable by you to PBV Monitor for the services during the term of this contract.
The limitations of liability in this Section 4 are part of the basis of the bargain between you and PBV Monitor and shall apply to all claims of liability (e.g., warranty, tort, negligence, contract and law) even if PBV Monitor or its affiliates has been told of the possibility of any such damage, and even if these remedies fail their essential purpose.
These limitations of liability do not apply to liability for death or personal injury or for fraud, gross negligence or intentional misconduct, or in cases of negligence where a material obligation has been breached, a material obligation being such which forms a prerequisite to our delivery of services and on which you may reasonably rely, but only to the extent that the damages were directly caused by the breach and were foreseeable upon conclusion of this Contract and to the extent that they are typical in the context of this Contract.
We can each end this Contract, but some rights and obligations survive.
Both you and PBV Monitor may terminate this Contract at any time with notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use the Services.
The following shall survive termination:
In the unlikely event we end up in a legal dispute, you and PBV Monitor agree to resolve it in Milan courts using Italian law.
This section shall not deprive you of any mandatory consumer protections under the law of the country to which we direct Services to you, where you have your habitual residence.
If you live in the Designated Countries:
You and PBV Monitor agree that the laws of Italy, excluding conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern any dispute relating to this Contract and/or the Services. You and PBV Monitor agree that claims and disputes can be litigated only in Milan, Italy, and we each agree to personal jurisdiction of the courts located in Milan, Italy.
For others outside of Designated Countries:
You and PBV Monitor agree that the laws of Italy, excluding conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern any dispute relating to this Contract and/or the Services. You and PBV Monitor agree that claims and disputes can be litigated only in Milan, Italy, and we each agree to personal jurisdiction of the courts located in Milan, Italy.
Here are some important details about the Contract.
If a court with authority over this Contract finds any part of it unenforceable, you and we agree that the court should modify the terms to make that part enforceable while still achieving its intent. If the court cannot do that, you and we agree to ask the court to remove that unenforceable part and still enforce the rest of this Contract.
This Contract (including additional terms that may be provided by us when you engage with a feature of the Services) is the only agreement between us regarding the Services and supersedes all prior agreements for the Services.
If we don’t act to enforce a breach of this Contract, that does not mean that PBV Monitor has waived its right to enforce this Contract. You may not assign or transfer this Contract (or your membership or use of Services) to anyone without our consent. However, you agree that PBV Monitor may assign this Contract to its affiliates or a party that buys it without your consent. There are no third-party beneficiaries to this Contract.
You agree that the only way to provide us legal notice is at the addresses provided.
You agree that you will:
You agree that you will not:
PBV Monitor respect the intellectual property rights of others. We require that information posted by Members be accurate and not in violation of the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties. We provide a policy and process2 for complaints concerning content posted by our Members.
1 Except as required by law, payments are non-refundable, including fees and other charges. Please see additional details below.
2 PBV Monitor respects the intellectual property rights of others and desires to offer a platform which contains no content that violates those rights. Our User Agreement requires that information posted by Members be accurate, lawful and not in violation of the rights of third parties. To promote these objectives, We provide a process for submission of complaints concerning content posted by our Members.
Our policy and procedures are described and/or referenced in the sections that follow.
Please note that whether or not we disable access to or remove content, PBV Monitor may make a good faith attempt to forward the written notification, including the complainant’s contact information, to the Member who posted the content and/or take other reasonable steps to notify the Member that PBV Monitor has received notice of an alleged violation of intellectual property rights or other content violation. It is also our policy, in appropriate circumstances and in our discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of Members, or groups as the case may be, who infringe or repeatedly infringe the rights of others or otherwise post unlawful content.
Please note that any notice or counter-notice you submit must be truthful and must be submitted under penalty of perjury.
A false notice or counter-notice may give rise to personal liability. You may therefore want to seek the advice of legal counsel before submitting a notice or a counter-notice.