TERMS OF USE 

1.  Your use of this website. If you do not agree with any term in either this Terms of Use or in our Privacy Policy, you should not use this website. Your use of this website indicates that you agree with all the terms of both this Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.

2.  Prohibited Uses. You shall not use this website to participate in any communication or use of material of any kind when the transmission, receipt or possession of such communication or material would constitute or encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to a civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law.

3.  Content.

       3.1. Content collectively refers to any information, data, documents, text (including but not limited to names of files, databases, directories and groups/workgroups of the same), messages and other communications, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics and video that are uploaded or caused to be uploaded onto, or downloaded or caused to be downloaded from, this website by you or others.

       3.2. By submitting any Content to this website, you warrant that:
              (i) you are the owner of such Content, or have been granted all the rights necessary from the owner of such Content to submit such Content to this website, and
              (ii) the use of such Content by visitors to this website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of or otherwise violate the rights of any third party or any law or regulation.

       3.3. You shall not use this website to:
              (a) upload or otherwise transmit any Content or domain name that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; 
              (b) harm minors in any way; 
              (c) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, any LAVA representative, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity; 
              (d) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through this website; 
              (e) upload or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); 
              (f) upload or otherwise transmit any Content or domain name that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any person; 
              (g) upload or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, ‘junk mail,’ ‘spam,’ ‘chain letters,’ ‘pyramid schemes,’ or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas of this website that may be designated for such purpose; 
              (h) upload or otherwise transmit any material 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; 
              (i) interfere with or disrupt PublishPal or servers or networks used by PublishPal, where PublishPal is the website publishing and hosting service used by this website; 
              (j) violate any applicable law or regulation, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and any rules of any securities exchange, and laws regarding the export of technical data; 
              (k) incite or provide instructional information about illegal activities; or 
              (l) conduct raffles, contests, lotteries or sweepstakes, except in those areas of this website that may be designated for such purpose.

       3.4. We do not pre-screen Content, but we have the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content from this website that violates this Terms of Use or our Privacy Policy or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content.

4.  Spam. You may not use this website to email or otherwise transmit, distribute, publish or disseminate any unsolicited advertising, survey, promotional materials, ‘junk email,’ ‘spam,’ ‘chain letters,’ ‘pyramid schemes,’ or any other form of solicitation or duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise) with respect to any business, product or service, and may not use this website as the return address on any unsolicited communication. Without limitation, you may not use services like the ‘Invite Others to This Site’ feature to send e-mail communications to anyone unless you have a reasonable basis to believe that the recipient will want to receive said invitation. We encourage you to help us enforce this policy. To report a violation, contact us using the Contact LAVA form. We will cooperate with legal authorities in releasing information about those who violate this anti-spam policy.

5.  Privacy. Your use of this website is subject to our Privacy Policy, and you consent to the use of your information in accordance with such privacy statement. You will not participate in or facilitate any breach of our Privacy Policy.

6.  No Resale. You shall not copy, sell, resell, rent or sublicense (including offering the use of this website to anyone), lease, loan, redistribute, or create a derivative work of any portion of this website, use of this website, or access to this website.

7.  Unauthorized Access. You shall not attempt to access or use any other of the systems, programs or data that are not made explicitly available for your use or the use of this website. You agree not to access or use nor allow others to access or use this website by any means other than through the interface that is provided by us for using this website.

Los Angeles Venture Association
Last updated June 6, 2004