Terms of Use

Acceptable Use. This Site is intended to provide users with general information. We do not recommend or endorse any specific professionals, tests, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site. Reliance on any information provided by us, our employees, others appearing on the Site at our invitation, or other visitors to the Site is solely at your own risk. Your use of the Site is a privilege.

Rules of Conduct. We are the sole interpreter of the Site rules of conduct described in these Terms of Use. Users who violate these rules may have their access and use of the Site suspended or terminated at our discretion. We may at any time take any action with regard to user materials that we deem in our sole discretion to be necessary or appropriate.

Posting Rules. Materials you post to the Site may not contain: (1) URLs or links to websites that compete with the Site; (2) copyrighted material (unless you own the copyright or have the owner’s permission to post the copyrighted material); (3) trade secrets (unless you own them or have the owner’s permission to post them); (4) material that infringes on or misappropriates any other intellectual property rights, or violates the privacy or publicity rights of others; (5) anything that is sexually explicit, obscene, libelous, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, or hateful; or (6) anything that is embarrassing, offensive, or discriminatory to another person, group or entity.

You may not use your Materials to: (1) impersonate another person, living or dead; (2) post false, inaccurate or misleading information; (3) except as provided in your directories of you own services, post advertisements or solicitations of business (including, but not limited to, franchises, “club memberships,” distributorships, or anything requiring a monetary investment, including a request for payment to obtain job listings); (4) post chain letters or pyramid schemes; or (5) post opinions or notices, commercial or otherwise.

Materials that encourage our users to “email for more details” are not permitted. Materials from any third party charging a fee are not permitted.

We are under no obligation to monitor the materials posted on the Site by users, but we may monitor materials at random. Any materials we find in our discretion to violate these Terms of Use may be removed. If we are notified by a user that any user materials on the Site violate these rules, we may investigate and determine in good faith whether we agree with such allegation, in which case we may remove or request the removal of user materials. We are not required to make any such investigation or to remove any user materials, and we will not be liable to any user for taking or not taking such actions.

Conduct Rules. You may not respond to postings by other users in any manner or for any purpose other than that which is expected. Responses soliciting business are prohibited.

You may not send (or encourage or help others to send) unsolicited commercial emails to our users.

Report inappropriate postings or conduct to privacy@hellobackpack.com.

You may not delete or revise any material posted by any other person or entity.

Any conduct by a user that in our sole discretion restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Site is prohibited.

We are under no obligation to monitor the conduct of our users, but we may investigate and respond when violations are reported.

Security Rules. Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Site, including, without limitation: (1) accessing data not intended for such user or logging into a server or account which the user is not authorized to access; (2) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (3) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Site, overloading, flooding”, “mailbombing” or “crashing”; (4) sending unsolicited email, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; (5) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting.

Violation of these Security Rules may result in civil or criminal liability. We will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.

Registration Rules. To post certain material to the Site, such as comments and professional profiles in the directory, we will request information from you, including your name and email. You must provide us with true and accurate registration information. We will not share your registration information with third parties, except as necessary to provide you with services you request or with your permission as provided in the Site Privacy Policy.

We may assign a username and password to you. You may not share your account, username or password with anyone else, and you will be responsible for the actions of anyone who obtains your user name and/or password and uses them to access the Site. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your username and password.

If at any time during the term of this agreement, we come to the understanding that you: (1) misled us as to your business practices and/or services, or (2) purchased services that do not describe your precise business, we reserve the right to terminate your account. We may terminate your account and/or your access to the Site at any time if we deem in our sole discretion such to be necessary or appropriate.