Site Terms of Use [revised 4.27.11]

This page contains the Terms and Conditions (the "Agreement") under which you may use the Web Site owned and operated by www.referwork-jobs.com ("REFERWORK™" or "Web Site" or the "Company" or "Us"). As used herein, the terms "You", "Your" and "Site User" refer to all individuals or entities accessing this Web Site for any reason. By accessing, browsing and/or using this Web Site You agree that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by the Agreement each and every time You use the Web Site, and which includes all forms of entry into Web Site. If this is not acceptable or You are not in agreement with this the only alternative is to refrain from using the Web Site.

Modifications The Company may modify, change, alter, append or update any content, services, rules or operating procedures along with any portion of this Agreement at any time without notice. Any such modification will be binding and effective immediately following posting of the revised Agreement on the REFERWORK^™ web site at www.referwork-jobs.com. It is recommended that Site User periodically review the site to remain current with these modifications. Your continued use of Web Site following any modifications will constitute binding acceptance of the modification.

Background The Company provides informational services relating to all phases of residential and commercial construction, employment and other projects and topics, including a resource for listing resumes ("Resume Postings") and job openings("Job Postings") and more (collectively the "Service").
The Web Site is operated by the Company within the State Of Ohio, United States of America.

Payment & Fees Job Postings and Renewals are made available on a 30 or 60 day basis and You agree to make payment by check for the run time chosen. [see our Refund Policy - all sales are final once postings are placed and no refunds are given] and job posting will go live within a reasonable period of time following receipt of check payment. If arrangements are made through an agency or job posting service with whom You authorize to initiate job postings on Your behalf, You agree to make payments through the agreed upon party. Databased resumes may be viewed with (1) current job posting which may take 24-48 hrs from start of live job posting (note: if You are posting through an agent or job posting service, you may only view resumes by email request while including Your full name, company name and address). In the event You cancel or choose to not have any job posting shown live after being posted, We may comply with Your request but only on the condition that You agree that any such cancellation is at Your discretion and responsibility and that all Terms and Conditions are to remain in effect with no refunds or credits being issued as a result with the full amount due.

In the event checks or funds are issued that result in non-sufficient funds or that incur return fees, the terms and conditions of this Agreement become cancelled and You will be subject to a $35 fee due Company for any funds issued that result in non-sufficient funds or that incur return fees which will survive termination of this Agreement.

Representations By registering with the Company, You hereby represent and warrant to Us that You are at least 18 years of age, can enter into a binding legal agreement and the statements and information You made in connection with such registration, or by way of update, are in fact complete and accurate. You represent that You are either the sole owner of such information being put forth or are explicitly authorized to act from another company or organization on their behalf.

You have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on behalf of REFERWORK™, or to obligate or bind in any respect on behalf of REFERWORK™

Acceptable Site Use General Use: Site User may not use Web Site in order to transmit, distribute, store or destroy material in violation of any applicable law, statue, ordinance or regulation or in a way or manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark right, trade secrets or any intellectual property rights of REFERWORK™ or any third party. Site User may not post information on any others behalf that will violate the privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights of others or that is political, defamatory, libelous, abusive, lewd, pornographic, obscene, vulgar, threatening, harassing, violent, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. Site User will not post, upload or promote "pyramid schemes" or "chain letters" or "junk mail". Site User will not provide or post information that is incomplete, false, misleading, inaccurate, impersonating or not Your own.

All Job Postings, Job Renewals and Resumes Postings must be made using the proper case and using proper english spelling and grammer with the relevant job contact placed outside of the job description. You agree not to attempt to place multiple job openings under a single Job Posting or Renewal.

Please note that we do not handle the processing of resumes and are not involved with the hiring process and this applies even if our logo appears on an applicant page of another url address. As such, You agree that all pertinent or otherwise important information should be directed to and facts verified with the hiring party.

Any third party hiring agency or organization such as recruiters, employment agencies, temporary agencies, staffing firms or headhunters must identify themselves.

The Company at their sole discretion may suspend, cancel or modify Your use of Web Site at any time for any reason.

Framing of the Web Site is not permitted, unless given express written permission.

Security Rules: Site User is strictly prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Company including without limitation attempts to the following:

-access information or data not intended for You, or not assigned Your username or password
-breach of any parties Site User authentication
-promote violence or contain hate speech
-upload, post, submit or transmit any information or content that contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs or mail bombs, cancelbots or other similar harmful programming routines or routines that may probe, scan, monitor, test vulnerability, interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality or place an unreasonable or disproportionately large load or overload on the network infrastructure.

Any such violation to security may result in civil or criminal liability. The Company will cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting such violations.

Usernames and Passwords Usernames and Passwords are issued solely to the person, company or organization requesting them. You agree to not share such Username or Password to any other person or third party and are responsible for such uses and also agree that only a single user may be logged on at a time.You agree to notify us immediately if you encounter any problems accessing your control panel with your Username/Password.

In absolutely no event will REFERWORK™ be liable for unauthorized use or misuse of Your Username and/or Password.

Submissions You give REFERWORK™ the right to display, edit, modify or create derivative works from any content or information you submit. REFERWORK™ reserves the right to perform edit and/or remove or delete in whole or in part any information or data submitted, account information or material, at its sole discretion at any time without explanation; whether Resume Postings, Job Postings, contact information, or any submissions of any sort or content. The Company reserves the right to delete material submitted and to terminate any account information at its sole discretion.

You agree that all submissions will be in the view of the general public without recourse by You.
You are soley responsible for all content that you submit or post to the Web Site. You acknowledge to submit only a top-level domain at registration, if you choose to submit one at all. Sites that are not live or are under construction, subdomains, shared or free sites and pages under the top-level domain hierarchy will not be accepted.

Communications You agree to receive all communications from Us whether written, by telephone or electronic form including letter, email, telephone and fascimile transmission respectively. All communications will be in relation to current and future services of the Company, which may originate from and relate services offered at the Company site located at www.referwork.com. All communications may also be made by Company representatives.

You agree to provide Company with valid contact email addresses and telephone numbers at time of registration and to update as they change. Same applies to any fascimile numbers if choosen though is not required. The Company may check at its sole discretion by various method(s) the information submitted from You. This may include, though is not limited to, information provided by credit bureau(s), confirmation by URL address, and contacts by telephone and by email.

Privacy Policy While You visit the Web Site the Company may monitor traffic, statistics and collect and gather information. This is intended to better gauge Site User interests, to streamline the experience, to balance the server load and to achieve a more efficient management of the Web Site too make it more useful. Certain third parties may be placing and reading cookies on Your browser, or using web beacons for collecting information in the course of ads being served on this Site. To manage or disable cookies with Internet Explorer 6 go to: Tools > Internet Options > Privacy tab In order to manage or disable cookies on another browser, see your browser options or the browsers' website for more information. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting Google ad and content network privacy policy

Interpretation of Relationship Nothing contained herein or as a result of Your use of the Web Site shall be interpreted as creating any form of partnership, venture, joint enterprise, agency, employment or franchise relationship between You and the Company.

The Company and You shall act as independent contractors and shall have no authority to obligate or bind the other in any respect.

Headings, Severability Headings used in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no effect on the meaning or construction of the Agreement. If any term or condition of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the remainder of the Agreement continues in full force and effect.

Trademarks, Copyright and Intellectual Property REFERWORK™ is a federally registered trademark owned by this content provider. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Content and collective makeup of the site is the legal property of this content provider and any unauthorized use of any content in any way is prohibited unless given express written permission by the Company. In the event express written permission is granted by the Company, You agree to promptly remove from wherever placed, all content, tradenames, trademarks, logos, text of any kind, links, graphics, and computer code upon request of the Company.

You shall not include any registered trademark in your domain name and may not adopt any names, trademarks, service marks or domain names that are confusingly similiar to REFERWORK™ . You may not purchase or bid for placement on trademarked company or Web Site names or any variations or deliberate misspellings thereof within any search engine, search facility or directory type arrangement. You acknowledge that all rights to the registered mark and content are the exclusive property of this content provider and that all goodwill generated through the use of the registered mark will inure to the benefit of the Company, its successors and assigns. You agree that you gain no title or interest whatsoever, either directly or indirectly, in any trademark or intellectual property rights as a result of Your use the Web Site.

Additionally you may not copy or modify in any way, any icons, buttons, banners graphic files or content that is made available to You through Your use of the Web Site.

If you send any creative ideas, concepts, suggestions, drawings, information, or materials (collectively the "Information") to the Company in printed form, electronic means or otherwise, the Information shall be deemed to be the property of REFERWORK™ and shall not be subject to any obligations of confidence, non-disclosure, or non-usage. REFERWORK™ is hereby entitled to unrestricted usage of the Information on a worldwide basis without compensation to the provider of the Information.

You grant to Us a non-exclusive license to utilize Your corporate, service and trade names, domain name(s), company names and logos submitted to Us. This license shall terminate upon the expiration of Your use of the Site within a reasonable period of time.

No Resale and Assignability You agree not resell, assign or transfer Your rights or obligations under this Agreement or to make an unauthorized commercial use of the Web Site without the prior written consent of the Company. We reserve the right to assign or transfer this Agreement or any right or obligation under this Agreement automatically without Your consent, in the event of a merger or aquisition.

You may not to reproduce, copy, duplicate, sell, disseminate, or exploit any portion of the Web Site or Services, or any means of access to Web Site or Services.

Links to Other Sites Third party links are contained on the Web Site. As these links are provided as a matter of convenience, the Company does not endorse, sponsor, guarantee, make warranties or representations whatsoever either expressed or implied, and is not responsible for the content and accuracy on such third or other party Web Sites that are arrived at via hyperlink or by other means.

Idemnity You agree to defend, idemnify and hold harmless the Company, its employees, agents, and information providers from and against any and all liability, claims, losses, damages, injuries and expenses, including without limitation reasonable attorney and accounting fees, arising out of, or in connection with, Your use or any use or alleged use of the Web Siite or any matter related to this Agreement, and the content it incorporates.

General You agree and acknowledge that the Services of the Company occur in Lebanon, Ohio, the principal place of business. This Agreement constitutes the entire Agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter, and supercedes all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter.

Disclaimer of Warranties; Limitation of Liability ALL COMPANY SERVICES ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND ARE PROVIDED ON AN 'AS IS' and 'AS AVAILABLE' BASIS WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR EXPECTATIONS OF PRIVACY.

THE COMPANY OFFERS NO ASSURANCES OR GUARANTEES THAT RESUME POSTINGS OR JOB POSTINGS WILL RESULT IN POSITIONS BEING FILLED AS A RESULT OF OUR EFFORTS. ADDITIONALLY YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE COMPANY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY EMPLOYMENT DECISIONS MADE REGARDLESS OF REASON OR BY WHOM.

THE COMPANY DOES NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS AS TO THE TRUTHFULNESS, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS OR RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION REGARDLESS OF TYPE OR SOURCE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE NOT TO RELY EXCUSIVELY ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE COMPANY, REGARDLESS OF PURPOSE OR REASON, AND WILL HOLD THE COMPANY HARMLESS FOR ANY DAMAGES INCURRED.

THE COMPANY ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSSES DUE TO ERRORS OR OMMISSIONS, DOWNTIME, OR ANY LOSSES WHATSOEVER EVEN IF ADVISED OR GIVEN PRIOR NOTICE OF SUCH LOSS.

SITE USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN ACCESSING AND USING THE SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE TO USE THE SITE SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK AND ASSUME ANY AND ALL RESPONSIBILITY AS A RESULT OF DOING SO. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION OR POSTINGS YOU MAKE TO THE WEB SITE AS WELL AS FOR ANY LOSS, LIABILITY, DAMAGE OR COSTS YOU MAY SUFFER AS RESULT OF YOU USE OF THE WEB SITE.

THE COMPANY DOES NOT SCREEN OR ENDORSE AND WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR THE VALIDITY, TRUTHFULNESS OR ACCURACY OF INFORMATION POSTED BY POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS OR POTENTIAL JOB CANDIDATES OR OTHERS.

THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL OPERATE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. SITE USERS UNDERSTAND THAT INACCURACIES, TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND OMMISSIONS ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE SITE FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS NOT HELD LIABLE. ALSO, THE COMPANY WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY COST OR DAMAGE ARISNG IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATIONSHIP TO THE USE OF THE SITE OR ANY THIRD PARTY SITE, WHETHER CAUSED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. THIS INCLUDES ANY LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS DUE TO DAMAGE AND RELATED COSTS TO REPLACE OR REPAIR COMPUTER AND EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS, SUCH AS FROM VIRUS OR SIMILAR CONTAMINATION OR DESCRUCTIVE FEATURES OR FROM DOWNTIME.

Some states do not allow exclusion of implied warranties, or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to You. In such states, the liability of the Company, third party content providers and their respective agents shall be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.