These terms explain who is involved in this agreement.
This part explains that you have to be over 18 to use myGengo.
This explains that we take all measures we can to ensure your private data is kept secure, and we do not pass on your information to others for promotional activity.
When you order a translation through myGengo it will be viewable to a number of translators before they start working on the job.
This section gives an overview of our services, and what happens when we take payment from a customer or pay a translator.
This section explains that we can't make guarantees about delivery dates or whether or not a particular translation will be completed.
Of course you are free to cancel a translation at any time if it is not completed.
This section explains our responsiblity to you in delivering a translation.
You must notify us within a time limit of your acceptance or rejection of a translation.
This section explains that we cannot be liable for any damages resulting from a translation or failure to complete a translation.
This section explains that by ordering a translation of a text through us you give us the right to store that work in our systems.
You still retain all intellectual property rights over the work.
This section explains that we will resolve all disputes related to services on our site.
This section explains that as a user of this site you are bound by certain codes of conduct and behaviour, and lists those rules.
Most of it is common sense.
This section explains that our statements are made without warranty, etc.
This agreement is bound by the laws of the United Kingdom
The date of this document and other details.
Use of the services is strictly prohibited to minors or any person under the legal age in his or her country and prohibited to any person under the age of 18. If you misrepresent your age, your registration as a member will be cancelled. By using the Site, you confirm and guarantee that you meet age restrictions requirements.
a. We may provide information to Service Providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Our Service Providers may have access to your personal information for use in connection with business activities.
b. We may be required to disclose customer information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law or to protect our interests or property. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
c. If the ownership of all or substantially all of the myGengo business or assets were to change, your user information would likely be transferred to the new owner(s).
d. We may share with, or disclose or sell to, third parties aggregated information which does not reference individually identifiable users.
a. You will only use the Website and the services in a manner that is accepted and legal according to all applicable laws and regulations.
b. You will adhere to our acceptable use policies and all other terms and conditions relating to your usage of the services in respect of the website, and will not transmit junk messages, advertisements or any type of solicitation whatsoever of any products or services to any other Members of the Service.
c. You are strictly prohibited from attempting to negotiate the fee for a project with another member directly (outside of myGengo.com) after that project has been created/opened and before that project has been closed (basically, during an ongoing project). This also applies to any project that was closed without translation results delivered by the service provider. We believe our commissions are very fair and justified for the service we provide, therefore we will absolutely not tolerate any of this activity on myGengo.
d. You will not in any way copy, modify, publish, transmit, display, sell, distribute or reproduce copyrighted material, trademarks or other protected proprietary information without the express written consent of the owner of such materials.
e. By posting information or content to any public area of the services, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant the Owner and other Members an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
f. Your use of the service is strictly at your own risk and you are solely responsible for your contact, whether it be written, verbal or in person, with any other Member/User of the Service. The Owner and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates and third parties assume no responsibility whatsoever for harm that may come to you as a result of your contact (of any form) with any other Member/User of the Service (including but not limited to emotional, verbal and physical abuse or assault)
g. You will not communicate, publish or display to any other member/user any form of defamatory, slanderous, offensive, inaccurate, abusive, profane, obscene, sexually offensive, threatening, harassing, racial, or illegal material, including but not limited to nude photos of yourself or others, pornographic photos or images and any other type of unlawful or unacceptable material, as decided by the Owner. The Owner reserves the right to remove any such material from the service without notice.
h. You will not engage in, and the Owner is not be responsible for, any form of harassment, offensive or abusive behavior of any kind whatsoever that may be harmful to any other Member/User of the service (including but not limited to physical and emotional damage).
i. You will not use the website, Services or your profile for any purpose other than translation services.
j. Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the website, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, forwarding commercial or other offers to other Members by this website or by email or other means external to the website, and unauthorized framing of or linking to the website will be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.
k. In order to protect our Members/Users from improper advertising or solicitation, and to maintain usage integrity on the website, we reserve the right to restrict access by all Members to all or certain elements of the Services on a per-action basis, such levels to be determined in our sole discretion from time to time, whether determined in respect of a 24 period or otherwise.
l. You agree that we reserve the right change any of the terms, rights, obligations, privileges or institute new charges for access to or continued use of services at any time, with or without providing such notice as the website may determine appropriate. All changes will be posted online or may be emailed to you at the Owner’s discretion, and you are responsible for reviewing the information and terms of usage as may be posted regularly to obtain timely notice of such changes. Continued use of the services or non-termination of your membership after changes are posted or emailed constitutes your acceptance or deemed acceptance of the terms as modified, regardless of whether the notice or email was successfully received, read, or lost during transmission.
m. You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Owner, Its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees on a solicitor and his own client basis) relating to or arising out of your use of the website or services, including any breach by you of the Terms of this Agreement or other terms and conditions posted on the website from time to time.
n.Please note you may be involuntarily exposed to offensive or obscene materials that may have been posted by Members/Users, hackers or unauthorized users from time to time. Please note that it is possible for others to obtain your personal information and use it to engage in an action that may be harmful to you or injure you. The Owner is not responsible for the use of any personal information that you choose to display, publish or distribute to other Members/Users.
o. The owner reserves the right but has no obligation, whether on the basis of complaints or on its own initiative, to monitor any messaging or other activity and the materials posted in the public areas of the service, and to review usage, activity or the content of any messages, materials or other interchanges which are otherwise posted, sent or transmitted via the website.
p. The owner shall have the right in its sole discretion to remove any material or profiles, regardless of whether the owner determines that such materials or profiles violate, or are alleged to violate, the law or this agreement.
q. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the owner does not undertake to monitor, control or edit any communications between its members, and such communications may be offensive to you. You assume full responsibility and you assume all risk for the use of the services, and you are solely responsible for evaluating the accuracy, completeness, and usefulness of all services, products, communications, and other information.
r. All communications between members are at the members/Users ’s sole control and risk.
s. In no event the owner or its affiliates will be liable for any incidental, consequential, or indirect damages (including, but not limited to, any deaths, threats, torts or injuries committed by any other users, damages for loss of data, loss of programs, cost of service interruptions or procurement of substitute services) directly or indirectly arising out of the use or inability to use the services, even if the owner, his agents or representatives know or have been advised of the possibility of such damages. notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the liability to you by the owner, its affiliates, for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you for the service during the term of membership.
t. Under no circumstances will the owner, or its affiliates be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from your use of the service, your reliance on information or other content posted on the service, or transmitted to members.
u. You will not use any automated collection mechanism or any manual process to monitor or copy the web pages comprising the myGengo.com web site or the content contained therein without the prior written permission of the Owner.
v. You will not create multiple user accounts to avoid fees, suspension or bad ratings on myGengo.
w. You will not contact users or members or freelance translators or translation companies through our site or through information gained from our site with the intent of subverting them from using our services.
