Terms of Use

Nature of service
VentureDeal.com contains statements and figures that have been obtained from sources believed to be reliable but are not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. References to any specific securities do not constitute an offer to buy or sell securities. VentureDeal provides certain financial information to paid users of the site ("Subscribers"). VentureDeal also allows unpaid users ("Users") to visit the site and read or receive certain financial information free of charge.

Disclaimers
Neither VentureDeal nor its Information Providers, defined as the various sources of press release information, article content information and any links form the website to any other non-related website, can guarantee the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or correct sequencing of any of the Information on VentureDeal.com, including, but not limited to Information originated by VentureDeal, licensed by VentureDeal from Information Providers, or gathered by VentureDeal from publicly or privately available sources. The Information may become old, out of date or no longer relevant. There may be delays, omissions, or inaccuracies in any information on VentureDeal.

NEITHER VENTUREDEAL NOR THE INFORMATION PROVIDERS SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY, CONTINGENT OR OTHERWISE FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, OR CORRECT SEQUENCING OF THE INFORMATION OR FOR ANY DECISION MADE OR ACTION TAKEN BY YOU IN RELIANCE UPON THE INFORMATION ON VENTUREDEAL.COM, OR FOR INTERRUPTION OF ANY DATA, INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER ASPECT OF VENTUREDEAL.COM.

NEITHER VENTUREDEAL NOR ITS INFORMATION PROVIDERS MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES CONTAINED ON VENTUREDEAL.COM.

Limitation of liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL VENTUREDEAL BE LIABILE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER SUBSCRIBER OR USER FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITES, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Not a broker/dealer
VentureDeal is not an intermediary, broker/dealer, investment advisor or exchange and does not provide services as such.

"As is" policy
VENTUREDEAL SERVICES PROVIDED HEREUNDER ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WHERE IS, AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS (EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, ARISING BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE IN LAW OR FROM A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OR TRADE). VENTUREDEAL MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE QUALITY, IDENTITY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY SUBSCRIBER OR USER OR THIRD PARTY, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OF THE POSTINGS MADE ON THE VENTUREDEAL.COM SITE BY ANY SUBSCRIBER OR USER.

Profiles
The Profiles area allows Subscribers to input their own contact and description information which, after VentureDeal review and approval, is posted to VentureDeal.com. Please remember that any information you disclose in the Profile area, including your e-mail address and user name, will become public information. We post Subscriber and User information and e-mail addresses to encourage responsible, productive discussions, but we can not prevent Subscribers and Users from accessing this public information. Please remember that, by disclosing your name and e-mail address in the Profiles area, you open yourself up to the possibility that you may receive unsolicited e-mail from parties outside of VentureDeal.

Be skeptical
We encourage you to maintain a healthy skepticism about any information posted to the Profile area and to investigate any facts important to you. Subscribers and Users writing in the Profiles area may not be who they claim to be, may not know what they say they know or may not be affiliated with whom they say they are affiliated. The Profiles area of VentureDeal.com is offered for general information and discussion purposes only. What they say may be completely erroneous. Such information may also be offensive or harmful. VentureDeal reserves the right to remove any Subscriber or User from VentureDeal whom VentureDeal believes, in its sole discretion, is engaged in appropriate, unprofessional, or unlawful conduct. VentureDeal does not endorse any information posted by Subscribers or Users.

You agree to be fully responsible for your own postings and agree to access and use the Profiles area at your own risk on an as-is basis. VentureDeal.com has no obligation to monitor the Profiles area.

VentureDeal cannot and does not guarantee any result from your posting on the Profiles area. Also, VentureDeal reserves the right to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in VentureDeal's sole discretion.

Subscriber and User rules
You must abide by the following rules in connection with your use of the Profiles area. Including other rules as may be set forth herein, you additionally agree:

  • not to post any offering of securities for sale, barter or exchange.
  • to post only business contact information or messages that relate to the subject matter of the website.
  • not to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others.
  • not to impersonate any person or entity, including, for example, a VentureDeal employee or officer, a website leader, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
  • not to post messages that contain material that is inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, or indecent. This includes any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. You agree to give attribution to others when you quote or paraphrase materials owned by others, and to limit your quotations to no more than 50 words.
  • not to upload files, or cause subscribers or users to upload files, that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may adversely affect the operation of another's computer.
  • not to conduct contests, distribute chain letters through the Profiles area, or conduct "pyramid schemes" or "multi-level marketing schemes."
  • not to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law in connection with your use of the Profiles area. This includes, among other things, any securities law or regulation.

Grant of license to VentureDeal
By posting a message, uploading a file, or engaging in any other form of communication through a Profile, you are granting VentureDeal a perpetual, royalty-free and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer, and sell any such plan, opportunity, messages, files or communications.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold VentureDeal and its affiliates and their respective officers, directors and employees harmless from any claims, damages, losses or costs (including reasonable attorney's fees) that arise out of any of your postings and any material contained therein.

Reporting violations
If you believe that a posting in a Profile violates these Terms of Use, we encourage you to contact VentureDeal by sending an email that identifies the applicable posting and the identity of the person who made the posting. VentureDeal cannot guarantee that any action will be taken as a result of your email.

Anti-Spam policy
VentureDeal prohibits the use of its services in any manner associated with the transmission, distribution or delivery of any unsolicited bulk email ("Spam"). You may not use any VentureDeal services to send Spam. You also may not deliver Spam or cause Spam to be delivered to any of VentureDeal's services or its Subscribers or Users. You may use VentureDeal to send individual email to single addresses for commercial purposes only.

In addition, e-mail sent, or caused to be sent, to VentureDeal's Subscribers or Users may not:

  • use or contain invalid or forged headers;
  • use or contain invalid or non-existent domain names;
  • employ any technique to otherwise misrepresent, hide or obscure any information in identifying the point of origin or the transmission path;
  • use other means of deceptive addressing;
  • use a third party's internet domain name, or be relayed from or through a third party's equipment, without permission of the third party;
  • contain false or misleading information in the subject line or otherwise contain false or misleading content;
  • fail to comply with additional technical standards described below;
  • otherwise violate VentureDeal's Terms of Use.

VentureDeal does not authorize the harvesting, mining or collection of e-mail addresses or other information from or through VentureDeal.com for the purpose of sending Spam. VentureDeal does not permit or authorize others to use VentureDeal.com to collect, compile or obtain any information about its customers, Subscribers or Users, including but not limited to Subscriber or User e-mail addresses, which are VentureDeal's confidential and proprietary information, for the purpose of sending Spam. Use of VentureDeal is also subject to the VentureDeal Privacy Policy.

Unauthorized use prohibited
VentureDeal does not permit or authorize any attempt to use VentureDeal.com website in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair any aspect of any of VentureDeal.com, or that could interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any VentureDeal.com.

If VentureDeal believes that unauthorized or improper use is being made of any VentureDeal.com service, it may, without notice, take such action as it, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate, including blocking messages from a particular internet domain, mail server or IP address. VentureDeal may immediately terminate any account on any VentureDeal.com account which it determines, in its sole discretion, is transmitting or is otherwise connected with any e-mail that violates this policy.

Nothing in this policy is intended to grant any right to transmit or send e-mail to, or through, VentureDeal.com. Any failure by VentureDeal to enforce any provisions of such policy shall not constitute a waiver of VentureDeal's rights.

Unauthorized use of VentureDeal.com in connection with the transmission of unsolicited e-mail, including the transmission of e-mail in violation of this policy, may result in civil, criminal, or administrative penalties against the sender and those assisting the sender.

Trademarks
VentureDeal, the VentureDeal logo and VentureDeal.com are trademarks of VentureDeal. All other VentureDeal products and proprietary tools are trademarks of VentureDeal. All other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.

Copyright Ownership
All Information available through and from VentureDeal.com is the property of VentureDeal or its Information Providers, defined as the various sources of press release information, article content information and any links form the website to any other non-related website, and is protected by copyright and intellectual property laws. All rights reserved.

You may not reproduce, retransmit, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast, or circulate the Information without the express written consent of VentureDeal. You are entitled to use the Information it contains for your private, non-commercial use only.

Copyright policy
Pursuant to 17 USC. § 512 as amended by Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"), VentureDeal has instituted procedures to receive written notification of claimed infringements and to process such claims in accordance with the DMCA.

If you believe your copyrights are being infringed by a Subscriber or User available at www.venturedeal.com domain and sub-domains at www.venturedeal.com, please fill out a Notice of Infringement below and fax it to VentureDeal at (650) 587-5476.

The Notice of Infringement contains requested information that substantively complies with the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 USC. § 512(c)(3)(A), providing that:

  • To be effective under this subsection, a notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication provided to the designated agent of a service provider that includes substantially the following:
  • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online Site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that Site.
  • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
  • Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
  • A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
  • A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  • Notification from a copyright owner or from a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner that fails to comply substantially with the provisions above shall not be considered as providing actual knowledge or an awareness of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent.

Please fax VentureDeal at the number provided above a separate Notice of Infringement each time you would like to report alleged acts of infringement.

Record downloading
As a convenience for the benefit of Subscribers, VentureDeal offers a feature that allows the downloading of certain Records via a Comma Separated Value (".CSV") file format. A Record contains Transaction information, Subscriber contact information, Technology Company contact information or Service Firm contact information in the VentureDeal database at the time of download. Subscriber hereby agrees to download records only through the .CSV file system download process as provided by the website. Downloading Records outside of the VentureDeal.com or exchanging Records with others is prohibited.

Trial use
From time to time, VentureDeal offers certain users ("Trial Users") the privilege of using certain features of the website at a discounted rate or free of charge for a period of time determined by VentureDeal. Trial Users are subject to all provisions of this agreement as though they were Subscribers. Furthermore, Trial Users are prohibited from Record Downloading in any manner and prohibited from using other website features as may be excluded from Trial Use from time to time by VentureDeal at it's sole and complete discretion.

Refund policy
The VentureDeal Refund Policy is based on a combination of (1) the amount of time remaining in a cancelled subscription period, and (2) the percentage of unused transaction record downloads.

Subscriptions
VentureDeal Subscribers enjoy the use of the database, either by viewing Records on their computer screen or downloading them via .csv file type to their computer from VentureDeal.com for performing the downloads.

Subscription details are as follows:

Subscription Cost Downloadable records allocated per period
Monthly Subscription $25  100

In the event a Subscriber cancels a pre-paid subscription to VentureDeal.com before the end of the period, the unused portion of paid subscription will be prorated and refunded to the Subscriber, less a fee for transaction downloads that have already taken place based on the maximum number of downloads allowed with that subscription.

Example
For example, cancellation of a subscription (100 download limit) after 15 days would result in a prorated refund of $12.50 if no downloads have taken place. If 50 (50/100) downloads have already occurred, the refund would be diminished by a factor of .50; if 30 (30/100), then by .30; and so on:

Subscription remaining:
$25 monthly subscription X unused subscription period (.50) = $12.50

Records remaining:
50 records/100 record limit = 50%

Total refund:
$12.50 - (12.50 x .50) = $6.25

Deregistration
A Subscriber or User may deregister his/her account at any time by visiting the My Account section of the website, then choosing the Database Subscription option and finally selecting the Cancel Subscription option. Alternatively, a User may email VentureDeal and request deactivation in writing. As a final alternative, a User may contact VentureDeal by phone and speak to a representative to request deactivation. Leaving a message on a voice mail or other message-storage device is not considered adequate notice.

After deactivation, the deactivated User's personal information will be available only to select VentureDeal personnel for administrative, accounting or legal purposes, including but not limited to fraud prevention, fee collections, dispute resolution, problem troubleshooting, investigation assistance, and compliance with applicable laws, court orders and legal requests.

Due Diligence Module
You agree not to post anything or otherwise make available content:

1. that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, mis-informative, or constitutes "bait and switch";

2. that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;

3. that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;

4. that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited commercial advertisement;

5. that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through the VentureDeal service;

6. that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

7. that advertises any illegal service or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law, including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by California law.

8. that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a VentureDeal employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;

9. that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on any basis;

10. that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way;

11. that is pornographic.

You also agree not to:

12. use any form of automated device or computer program that enables the submission of postings on VentureDeal without each posting being manually entered by the author thereof.

13. attempt to gain unauthorized access to VentureDeal's computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the VentureDeal service or the VentureDeal website; or

14. use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the VentureDeal service - unless expressly permitted by VentureDeal.

Notice of Infringement Form
VentureDeal
1263 El Camino Real, Suite L
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Attention: Chief Financial Officer

Date: ______________

Dear Sir:
I, the undersigned, CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that I am the owner or an agent authorized to act on behalf of the owner of certain intellectual property rights.

The name of such owner is ____________________________________ (the "Owner").

I have a good faith belief that the material identified below is not authorized by the above Owner, its agent, or the law and thus infringes the Owner's rights.

Please act promptly to remove or disable the access to the material or items claimed to be infringing.

State the location of the alleged infringing material: _____________________________
Describe the infringing material: ____________________________________________
Describe the copyrighted work you claimed is infringed: _________________________

You may contact me at:
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ___________________________________
Company: ________________________________
Street address: ____________________________
City, State: _______________________________
Zip: ___________________________________
Tel.: ___________________________________
Email: ___________________________________
Fax: _____________________________________

Truthfully,
By: _____________________________________
Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________