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Welcome to Connect Marketplace!

These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of CONNECT MARKETPLACE's Website, located at www.connect-mart.com.

By accessing this website, we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use Connect Marketplace if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.

Cookies:

The website uses cookies to help personalize your online experience. By accessing Connect Marketplace, you agreed to use the required cookies.

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

We may use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical or marketing purposes to operate our website. You have the ability to accept or decline optional Cookies. There are some required Cookies that are necessary for the operation of our website. These cookies do not require your consent as they always work. Please keep in mind that by accepting required Cookies, you also accept third-party Cookies, which might be used via third-party provided services if you use such services on our website, for example, a video display window provided by third parties and integrated into our website.

License:

Unless otherwise stated, CONNECT MARKETPLACE LLC and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Connect Marketplace. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from Connect Marketplace for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

• Copy or republish material from Connect Marketplace
• Sell, rent, or sub-license material from Connect Marketplace
• Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from Connect Marketplace
• Redistribute content from Connect Marketplace
• This Agreement shall begin on the date hereof.

Copyright

This section contain some copyright information, such as how to protect your own copyrighted works and avoid infringing on the copyrights of others when posting to Connect Marketplace, as well as how Connect Marketplace handles copyright infringement reports. Fill out this form if you feel someone is utilizing your copyrighted work without your permission.

Please keep in mind that legislation in different nations may differ. More information about copyright law can be found on the websites of the United States Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Because Connect Marketplace cannot give legal advice, you should consult with an attorney if you have more questions concerning copyright.

Please keep in mind that only original works are eligible for copyright protection. To be considered original enough for copyright protection, a work must be created by the author and contain some degree of ingenuity.

In general, names, titles, slogans, or brief phrases are not considered unique enough to warrant copyright protection. For example, the symbol "+" is unlikely to be protected by copyright, whereas a painting full of forms and colors arranged in a unique pattern is likely to be.

Although copyright does not normally protect facts or ideas, it may protect the original words or visuals that express a fact or idea. This means that you may be able to communicate the same idea or truth as another author as long as you do not replicate that author's style of expression. A dramatist, for example, may not be able to copyright the idea of a guy waking up to repeat the same day over and over again, but the script for a play or movie conveying that idea may be.

In general, the creator of an original work (Vendor in this case) holds the copyright. For example, if you make a painting, you most certainly own the copyright to it. Similarly, if you take a photograph, you almost certainly own the copyright to that photograph. The same goes for any other video or text matterials created by Vendor and/or third party engaged by the Vendor. If you’re not sure about the extent of your copyright in an original work, you may want to contact an attorney to advise you on your rights.

Posting and setting up Content on Connect Marketpalce

You can only publish content to Connect Marketplace that does not infringe on the intellectual property rights of others. The easiest strategy to ensure that your Connect Marketplace content do not infringe copyright law is to only publish content that you have created yourself. When you share someone else's content on Connect Marketplace, you may infringe on their copyright, even if you:

• Bought or downloaded the content (ex: a song from iTunes)
• Gave credit to the copyright owner
• Didn’t intend to profit from it
• Modified the work or added your own original material to it
• Found the content available on the internet

All content created by the Vendor or created at the Vendor's request as part of our standard maintenance that is part of our content creation business policy or the initial site setup is part of the Vendor's copyright and as such belongs exclusively to the Vendor.

All other merchants may only share content, banners, items, product descriptions, video content, or brochures with the Vendor's permission and their unauthorized use is a violation of copyright law, and Connect Marketplace, as well as the content owner (Vendor), will take action immediately.

If the Vendor decides to quit his collaboration with Connect Marketplace, he has the following options:

• Duplicate all material, compile it into one file, and download it after the store is closed, or pay Connect Marketplace to do it on the vendor's behalf.
• Migrate an entire instance of the site, including all necessary files, in order to rebuild it on another platform, either on your own or through a third-party.
• For a financial cost specified in our pricing list (ask for pricelist on info@connect-mart.com), request that Connect Marketplace build its instance with supporting modules and entire software architecture on a separate server.

Keep in mind that Connect Marketplace is developed on a non-standard framework concept that is incompatible with standard platforms such as Magento, Shopify, WordPress, and so on. As a result, direct migration to such platforms without the assistance of programmers is not possible.

Parts of this website offer users an opportunity to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website. CONNECT MARKETPLACE LLC does not filter, edit, publish or review Comments before their presence on the website. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of CONNECT MARKETPLACE LLC, its agents, and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the person who posts their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, CONNECT MARKETPLACE LLC shall not be liable for the Comments or any liability, damages, or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on this website.

CONNECT MARKETPLACE LLC reserves the right to monitor all Comments and remove any Comments that can be considered inappropriate, offensive, or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.

You warrant and represent that:

• You are entitled to post the Comments on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
• The Comments do not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent, or trademark of any third party;
• The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent, or otherwise unlawful material, which is an invasion of privacy.
• The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.
• You hereby grant CONNECT MARKETPLACE LLC a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats, or media.

Hyperlinking to our Content:

The following organizations may link to our Website without prior written approval:

• Government agencies;
• Search engines;
• News organizations;
• Online directory distributors may link to our Website in the same manner as they hyperlink to the Websites of other listed businesses; and
• System-wide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our Web site.

We may consider and approve other link requests from the following types of organizations:

• commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources;
• dot.com community sites;
• associations or other groups representing charities;
• online directory distributors;
• internet portals;
• accounting, law, and consulting firms; and
• educational institutions and trade associations.

We will approve link requests from these organizations if we decide that:

• (a) the link would not make us look unfavorably to ourselves or to our accredited businesses;
• (b) the organization does not have any negative records with us;
• (c) the benefit to us from the visibility of the hyperlink compensates the absence of CONNECT MARKETPLACE LLC; and
• (d) the link is in the context of general resource information.

These organizations may link to our home page so long as the link:

• (a) is not in any way deceptive;
• (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and
• (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site.

If you are one of the organizations listed in paragraph 2 above and are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an e-mail to CONNECT MARKETPLACE LLC. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Website, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response.

Approved organizations may hyperlink to our Website as follows:

• By use of our corporate name; or
• By use of the uniform resource locator being linked to; or
• Using any other description of our Website being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party's site.

No use of CONNECT MARKETPLACE's logo or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement.

Content Liability:

We shall not be held responsible for any content that appears on your Website. You agree to protect and defend us against all claims that are raised on your Website. No link(s) should appear on any Website that may be interpreted as libelous, obscene, or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third party rights.

Reservation of Rights:

We reserve the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our Website. You approve to immediately remove all links to our Website upon request. We also reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and its linking policy at any time. By continuously linking to our Website, you agree to be bound to and follow these linking terms and conditions.

Removal of links from our website:

If you find any link on our Website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform us at any moment. We will consider requests to remove links, but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.

We do not ensure that the information on this website is correct. We do not warrant its completeness or accuracy, nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

Disclaimer:

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties, and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:

• limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;
• limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
• exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer:

• (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and
• (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort, and for breach of statutory duty.

As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.