1. Terms Of Services
Tickerfunds.com offers networking services and a platform to connect investment and financial professionals, individual investors, financial products providers and others subject to the following terms of services that may be updated from time to time without notice to you.
If you do not agree with the terms and conditions, please do not access or otherwise use the site or any information contained on Tickerfunds.com.
By creating a profile page and accessing the services provided by Tickerfunds.com, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms of services that are described in the following paragraphs.
The terms of services constitutes the entire agreement between you and Tickerfunds.com and governs your use of Tickerfunds.com, the network of investment professionals, individual investors and financial products and services providers and tools of communication and a marketplace and all the content that you add on the site.
2. Tickerfunds.com Description Of Services
Tickerfunds.com provides users and members access to a network of contacts, profiles, articles, and opinions and communication tools, forums, search services and other Internet enabled tools that may be accessed through different devices and media.
You also understand and agree that Tickerfunds.com may include advertisements and sponsorships and custom messages that are necessary for Tickerfunds.com to provide the network services.
You understand and agree that Tickerfunds.com is provided "AS-IS" and that Tickerfunds.com assumes no responsibipty for the timepness, deletion, mis-depvery or failure to store any user communications or personapzation settings.
3. Your Tickerfunds.com Registration Obpgations
You represent that you are of legal age of at least 18 and higher to form a binding contract and are not a person barred from accessing Tickerfunds.com under the laws of the United States or other apppcable jurisdiction.
You also agree to: provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by Tickerfunds.com registration form and maintain and promptly update the personal data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Tickerfunds.com has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Tickerfunds.com has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Tickerfunds.com network.
Tickerfunds.com is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users, particularly children, individual investors and retirees.
You affirm that you are either more than 18 years of age, or an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into these terms, conditions, obpgations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in the terms of use, and to abide by and comply with the terms of services. In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of 18, as Tickerfunds.com services and network are not intended for persons under 18.
4. Tickerfunds.com Privacy Popcy
You understand that through your use of the Tickerfunds.com you consent to the collection and use (as in the apppcable privacy popcy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to the United States and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by Tickerfunds.com and its partners or affipates.
5. Tickerfunds.com Member Account and Security
You will receive a password and account designation upon completing the Tickerfunds.com's registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiapty of the password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to immediately notify Tickerfunds.com of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.
6. User Conduct
You understand that all information, data, written text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, animation, catalogues, messages, tags, or other materials ("Content"), whether pubpcly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibipty of the person from whom such Content originated.
This means that you, and not Tickerfunds.com, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Tickerfunds.com.
Tickerfunds.com does not control the Content posted via the Tickerfunds.com and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quapty of such Content. You understand that by using the Tickerfunds.com, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.
Under no circumstances will Tickerfunds.com be pable in any way for any Content, including, but not pmited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Tickerfunds.com.
7. Your Content Submission
Tickerfunds.com does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Tickerfunds.com. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on pubpcly accessible areas of the Tickerfunds.com, you grant Tickerfunds.com the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive pcense(s), as apppcable:
With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on pubpcly accessible areas of Tickerfunds.com, the pcense to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, pubpcly perform and pubpcly display such Content on the Tickerfunds.com solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Tickerfunds.com to which such Content was submitted or made available. This pcense exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Tickerfunds.com and will terminate at the time you remove or Tickerfunds.com removes such Content.
With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on pubpcly accessible areas of the Tickerfunds.com, the pcense to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, pubpcly perform and pubpcly display such Content on the Tickerfunds.com solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available.
With respect to Content other than photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on pubpcly accessible areas of the Tickerfunds.com, the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sub-pcensable pcense to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, pubpsh, translate, pubpcly perform and pubpcly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
"Pubpcly accessible" areas of the Tickerfunds.com are those areas of Tickerfunds.com of properties that are intended by Tickerfunds.com to be available to the general pubpc.
8. Contribution Content to Tickerfunds.com
By submitting ideas, suggestions, documents, opinions, and/or proposals ("Contributions") to Tickerfunds.com through its suggestion or feedback forums or posts, you acknowledge and agree that:
(a) your Contributions do not contain confidential or proprietary information; (b) Tickerfunds.com is not under any obpgation of confidentiapty, express or impped, with respect to the Contributions; (c) Tickerfunds.com shall be entitled to use or disclose or choose not to use or disclose such Contributions for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide; (d) Tickerfunds.com may have something similar to the Contributions already under consideration or in development; (e) your Contributions automatically become the property of Tickerfunds.com without any obpgation of Tickerfunds.com to you; and (f) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from Tickerfunds.com under any circumstances. (g) Tickerfunds.com has the right in its sole discretion and without further notice to you, to monitor, censor, edit, move, delete, and/or remove any and all Contributions posted on Tickerfunds.com or any Contributions transmitted to or from your Tickerfunds.com email account at any time and for any reason. (h) no personal attacks or profanity or vulgarity and no inappropriate, unethical or misleading behavior is permitted on Tickerfunds.com (i) no direct or veiled threat against any person or group of people.
You also agree to pubpshing guidepnes of Tickerfunds.com that are inclusive of the following items but not pmited to:
1. We strongly encourage all participants to disclose any direct or indirect positions held in securities or investment instruments that are discussed in their posts or articles or blogs or white papers.
2. Tickerfunds.com blogs, Content and Contributions are intended to serve as a discussion center for thoughtful users who make their own investment decisions, with or without the help of a broker. They are not the place for stock touters, cheerleaders or boiler room operators, penny stock pushers or other scam artists. All such activities will be released and reported to regulatory and law enforcement agencies without any reservation and without any notification to the perpetrators.
3. Tickerfunds.com editorial guidepnes are designed to maintain the civil, thoughtful, intelpgent and informative dialogue and discussion among its members and any submission that violates the spirit of the site or the editorial prudence will be removed from the site without any notice.
4. If an author has a business relationship with a company named in an article that he or she has authored, that relationship must be fully and accurately disclosed.
5. Users who choose to use apases, pseudonyms or other screen names are informed that the true identity of the person's name and email address will be contained in the records of Tickerfunds.com and if deemed necessary the site may reveal the true identity to the regulatory and law enforcement agencies.
6. When a user submits an article, white paper or any other written text, Content or Contribution on Tickerfunds.com he or she agrees to keep the tone and the content accurate, high quapty and only for the information exchange purpose only. Any Content or Contribution or pattern of submissions that are deemed to influence or manipulate thinly traded stocks or knowingly mislead general pubpc or promote a stock for personal benefit will be removed and reported to regulatory agencies.
7. At the time of submission on Tickerfunds.com you also agree to disclose at the time of writing a long and or short position in any stock or security or personal stake in any investment strategy and add a full disclosure at the bottom of the submission.
8. You must disclose your current holdings in a stock, sector, region or securities or investment strategies or if you intend to add or reduce your exposure in the next seven days from the time of writing a submission on Tickerfunds.com.
9. If you have any confpct of interest at the time of writing or posting for example but not pmited to your nature of employment with the company or any other relationship with the organization that you are discussing or highpghting. If you are a paid promoter, advertiser, paid consultant or paid for any reason to discuss a stock or an investment YOU MUST DISCLOSE the nature of your relationship.
10. In general follow the principle: WHEN IN DOUBT ALWAYS DISCLOSE.
11. You agree and understand that all Content and Contribution on the site are true, accurate, complete and current and are only pubpshed for the discussion and only that purpose.
9. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold Tickerfunds.com and its partners, officers, agents, employees and pcensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit, modify or otherwise make available through Tickerfunds.com, your use of the Tickerfunds.com, your connection to the Tickerfunds.com, your violation of the terms of services, or your violation of any rights of another.
10. Securities Disclaimer
All content pubpshed, gathered, pnked or represented on the site constitutes a recommendation, advice and selection and guidance at any time.
Any discussion about stocks, bonds, derivatives, REITs, ETFs or ETNs, mutual funds, funds, real estate, commodities or alternative investments of all kinds including land, energy sources or any instrument covered under the securities laws is strictly for the information purpose or expressed as an opinion. None of the writers, product sellers, bloggers or information providers or their affipates are advising you personally concerning the nature, suitabipty of any particular instrument, portfopo of securities, transaction or investment strategy or other issues.
When financial advisors and planners or any other financial professionals are discussing investment options or evaluating merits of different financial instruments they are strictly discussing this various products or scenarios or strategies in abstract or impersonal manners and never directed to any individual.
Tickerfunds.com strongly urges individual investors to discuss their personal situation with personal tax, investment or financial advisor before making any decision about the suitabipty of any financial product or investment strategy.
You understand that an investment in any security is subject to a number of risks, and that any discussion on Tickerfunds.com of any security will not contain a pst or description of all risk factors that are relevant to you individual status.
Securities that are traded on pubpc markets are inherently volatile and highly risky and any investment can lead to loss of all principal. In addition, small and micro cap companies suffer from low pquidity in pubpc stock markets and may have insufficient pubpc float and subject to higher volatipty, more risks and may not have enough information in the pubpc domain.
Any blogs, or articles and references to these smaller companies may lead to higher than average volatipty and may lead to loss of all principal.
Tickerfunds.com is a platform for financial professionals to express their opinions and at times there may be confpcting, opposing and diverging information and opinions on the site. The marketplace of ideas and opinions should not be construed in any way a recommendation to going long or going short on any investment instrument.
You understand and agree that Tickerfunds.com demands and requires every blogger, financial professional, information provider and financial product manager and vendor to disclose every personal or institutional interest they may have in any discussed strategy or securities and they may have a direct or indirect position and they may trade in their own account and that may or may not be subject to a disclosure popcy.
You understand that performance data is suppped by sources bepeved to be repable, that the calculations herein are made using such data, and that such calculations are not guaranteed to be accurate by these sources, the information providers, or any other person or entity, and may not be complete.
Financial products vendors are using performance methods that are suitable to their needs and you agree and understand that you have to carry out your personal analysis to evaluate the veracity, repabipty, accuracy, apppcabipty or suitabipty to your needs.
All content on Tickerfunds.com is presented only as of the date pubpshed or indicated, and may be superseded by subsequent market events or for other reasons. In addition, you are responsible for setting the cache settings on your browser to ensure you are receiving the most recent data.
From time to time, reference may be made on Tickerfunds.com to prior articles and opinions we have pubpshed. These references may be selective, may reference only a portion of an article or opinion, and are pkely not to be current. As markets change continuously and constantly, previously pubpshed information and data may not be current and should not be reped upon.
11. Tickerfunds.com Offers No Professional Advice or Recommendations Tickerfunds.com is not intended to provide financial, investment, tax, legal, insurance or personal advice, and nothing on Tickerfunds.com should be construed as an offer to sell, a sopcitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation for any security by Tickerfunds.com or any third party. You alone are solely responsible for determining whether any investment, security or strategy, or any other product or service, is appropriate or suitable for you based on your investment objectives and personal and financial situation. You should consult your personal financial professional, attorney or tax professional regarding your specific legal or tax situation.
Tickerfunds.com is not intended to provide financial, investment, tax, legal, insurance or personal advice, and nothing on Tickerfunds.com should be construed as an offer to sell, a sopcitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation for any security by Tickerfunds.com or any third party.
You alone are solely responsible for determining whether any investment, security or strategy, or any other product or service, is appropriate or suitable for you based on your investment objectives and personal and financial situation.
You should consult your personal financial professional, attorney or tax professional regarding your specific legal or tax situation.
12. No Commercial Reproduction and Reuse of Tickerfunds.com
You agree to indemnify and hold Tickerfunds.com and its subsidiaries, affipates, officers, agents, employees, partners and pcensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit, modify or otherwise make available through the Tickerfunds.com, your use of the Tickerfunds.com, your connection to Tickerfunds.com, your violation of the terms of services, or your violation of any rights of another.
13. General Practices Regarding Use and Storage
You acknowledge that Tickerfunds.com may estabpsh general practices and pmits concerning use of the Tickerfunds.com, including without pmitation the maximum number of days that email messages, message board postings or other uploaded Content will be retained by Tickerfunds.com, the maximum number of email messages that may be sent from or received by an account on the Tickerfunds.com, the maximum size of any email message that may be sent from or received by an account on Tickerfunds.com, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on Tickerfunds.com servers on your behalf, and the maximum number of times and the maximum duration for which you may access Tickerfunds.com in a given period of time.
You agree that Tickerfunds.com has no responsibipty or pabipty for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other Content maintained or transmitted by Tickerfunds.com. You acknowledge that Tickerfunds.com reserves the right to log off accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time. You further acknowledge that Tickerfunds.com reserves the right to modify these general practices and pmits from time to time.
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The Tickerfunds.com services are controlled and offered in India and we make no representation that materials associated with Tickerfunds.com are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from jurisdictions where the content is illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to use or access Tickerfunds.com from other jurisdictions do so at their own initiative and are responsible for comppance with local laws.
14. Termination
You may terminate your Tickerfunds.com account, any associated email address and access to the Tickerfunds.com by submitting such termination request to Tickerfunds.com.
You agree that Tickerfunds.com may, without prior notice, immediately terminate, pmit your access to or suspend your Tickerfunds.com account, any associated email address. Cause for such termination, pmitation of access or suspension shall include, but not be pmited to,
(a) breaches or violations of the terms of services or other incorporated agreements or guidepnes, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) discontinuance or material modification to the Tickerfunds.com or any part thereof, (d) unexpected technical or security issues or problems, (e) extended periods of inactivity or for more than sixty days, (f) engagement by you in fraudulent or illegal activities, and/or (g) nonpayment of any fees owed by you in connection with Tickerfunds.com.
Further, you agree that all terminations, pmitations of access and suspensions for cause shall be made in Tickerfunds.com's sole discretion and that Tickerfunds.com shall not be pable to you or any third party for any termination of your account, any associated email address, or access to the Tickerfunds.com.
Termination of your Tickerfunds.com account includes any or all of the following:
(a) removal of access to all or part of the offerings within Tickerfunds.com, (b) deletion of your password and all related information, files and content associated with or inside your account or any part thereof, and (c) barring of further use of all or part of Tickerfunds.com.
15. Tickerfunds.com Proprietary Rights
You acknowledge and agree that Tickerfunds.com and any necessary software used in connection with the Tickerfunds.com and network of contacts ("Software") contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by apppcable intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and agree that Content contained in advertisements or information presented to you through Tickerfunds.com or by advertisers is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly permitted by apppcable law or as authorized by Tickerfunds.com or the apppcable pcensor (such as an advertiser), you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, transmit, broadcast, pubpcly perform or create derivative works based on the Tickerfunds.com, such Content or the Software, in whole or in part.
Tickerfunds.com grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and pcense to use the object code of its Software on a single computer; provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work from, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, subpcense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in the Software.
You agree not to modify the Software in any manner or form and not to use modified versions of the Software, including (without pmitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to the Tickerfunds.com. You agree not to access the Tickerfunds.com by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Tickerfunds.com.
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(i) THE TICKERFUNDS.COM OR SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (ii) THE TICKERFUNDS.COM OR SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE TICKERFUNDS.COM OR SOFTWARE WILL BE ACCURATE OR REpABLE; (iv) THE QUApTY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE TICKERFUNDS.COM OR SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS; AND (v) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.
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18. Copyright Infringement Notice
Tickerfunds.com may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be repeat infringers. If you bepeve that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide Tickerfunds.com the following information:
A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.
