Terms

Please review carefully the terms and conditions set forth below before using the FreelancerDubai.com web site. The terms "You", "Your", "User", or "Users" refer to anyone accessing our services or web site for any reason. The terms "We", "Us", or "Our" refer to FreelancerDubai.com (or FreelancerDubai). The FreelancerDubai.com web site is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance of the terms, conditions, restrictions and notices contained herein. FreelancerDubai.com may amend or modify these terms and conditions without notice, effective immediately, by updating this posting. Your use of the FreelancerDubai.com web site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, restrictions and notices.

ELIGIBILITY FOR REQUIREMENTS

FreelancerDubai.com shall have absolute discretion as to whether or not it accepts a particular applicant or site for participation in the service. FreelancerDubai.com's web site is available only to individuals who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. If you are already employed in a full-time position in the UAE your participation on this site is restricted as per the UAE Labor Law. The services of this web site are not available to minors. If Users do not qualify, they cannot legally use any of FreelancerDubai.com's services including, but not limited to, those that require the User's ability to form legally binding contracts.

REMOVAL FROM NETWORK

FreelancerDubai.com reserves the right to terminate the participation of any member or site without reason but expressly including any member site that FreelancerDubai judges to be in violation of the terms and conditions.

Members in violation of FreelancerDubai's Terms and Conditions will be immediately deactivated. FreelancerDubai may deactivate members with no prior notification. Members found in violation of the Terms and Conditions will not receive any credit or payment from FreelancerDubai. Members that are terminated by FreelancerDubai on any basis other than violation of these Terms and Conditions will be entitled to receive any payment due from FreelancerDubai.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

FreelancerDubai.com offers a wide range of tools, content, products, services, benefits, and other resources on its web site. These services are for use only under a non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-assignable license under these terms and conditions of use. You do not have the right to copy, sell, or otherwise exploit for any commercial purpose the services or content (in whole or in part), access to this service or use of this service.

Some of the services offered at FreelancerDubai.com may include feedback to questions by Users of this service and/or articles with original content and opinions. Use of this content or links to this content is at the User's own risk. User understands and agrees to the following:

Some of the content provided at FreelancerDubai.com may relate to various subjects such as information pertaining to legal matters, financial matters, and other matters for which the content of is provided in an advisory nature. This information is provided solely for informational and general non-advisory purposes. If desired, Users should use their own efforts to confirm such information with a professional(s) in the pertinent field(s). All of the information that FreelancerDubai.com provides should not be considered professional, medical, legal, technical, or any other discipline-specific advice.

FreelancerDubai.com is a dynamic time-sensitive web site. As such, the information on FreelancerDubai.com will be changed frequently. It is possible that some information could be considered offensive, harmful, or inaccurate, and in some cases may be mislabeled or deceptively labeled accidentally by FreelancerDubai.com or accidentally or purposefully by a third-party, regardless of whether such third parties are with or without a legitimate business purpose.

FreelancerDubai.com provides unmonitored access to third-party content. FreelancerDubai.com is only acting as a venue and/or portal, and has no liability based on, or related to, the third-party content on this Site, whether arising under the laws of copyright or other intellectual property, defamation, libel, privacy, obscenity, or any other legal discipline. This web site may contain links to third-party web sites. FreelancerDubai.com does not control nor always review the web sites to which we link from FreelancerDubai.com. We, therefore, cannot endorse the content, products, services, practices, policies, or performance of the web sites we link to from FreelancerDubai.com, and Users should not treat any link as such an endorsement or acceptance of veracity or value.

FreelancerDubai.com does not have the resources to nor does it undertake any obligation to, control, research, verify, validate, or approve the content that is received or viewed on its web site. We expect that the User will undertake necessary activities and practices and will use caution and common sense when using FreelancerDubai.com.

E-MAIL ADDRESSES

Members agree not to post their e-mail address on the site, except in the "e-mail" field of the signup form, or when asked by FreelancerDubai.com at any other time. There should be no need to give anyone your e-mail address. It is automatically provided if  a freelancer shows interest in your project. This does not only apply to e-mail addresses, but to all methods of communication, including phone, ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, etc... See "Avoiding Commissions" on the next page for the reason.

PROVIDING CONTACT INFORMATION

You are prohibited from making direct contact with another member, unless it's for a project you (a Freelancer) have paid for the information on the Project posted, or you (an Employer) have picked a Freelancer for the Project. This includes giving out your e-mail address, ICQ number, phone number, or any other method of contact outside of this site. FreelancerDubai.com allows you to Discuss with Employer, which should be sufficient for pre-project planning.

AVOIDING COMMISSIONS

You are strictly prohibited from attempting to negotiate the fee for a project with another member directly (outside of FreelancerDubai.com) after that project has been created/opened and before that project has been closed (basically, during an ongoing project). But this also applies to any project that was closed without a Freelancer having contacted the Employer, and then contacting them about the project anyway.

COPYRIGHTS

No copyrighted material can be posted on FreelancerDubai.com. This includes creative work, designs, photographs or programming-related content, scripts or code which is sold or owned by the author, or graphic design content which is sold or owned by the author. Only posting sections, excerpts or examples of such content, will be permitted. A "section" or "excerpt" being no more than 10% of the original content, and "example" being a draft or pseudo-coded program. This is necessary to protect the author's intellectual property rights.

MODIFICATIONS

FreelancerDubai reserves the right to change the Terms of Service at any time. It is the member's responsibility to check these Terms and Conditions from time to time for such changes. In the event FreelancerDubai offers any additional or replacement services then this agreement shall apply to such services in the absence of any new agreement specific to such services which is entered into between the parties.

USER CONTENT

User is solely responsible for content or any other information User provides to FreelancerDubai.com. User understands and agrees to the following:

FreelancerDubai.com is only acting as a venue for the online distribution and publication of User content. However, no warranties as to the actual distribution or publication of User content are made or implied. FreelancerDubai.com has the right (but no obligation) to take any action deemed appropriate with respect to User content if it is believed that such content may create liability for FreelancerDubai.com, harm our business operation or reputation, or cause FreelancerDubai.com to lose the services of our suppliers.

User represents and warrants that User's content: (a) will not infringe upon or misappropriate any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property right or proprietary right or right of publicity or privacy; (b) will not violate any law or regulation; (c) will not be defamatory or trade libelous; (d) will not be obscene or contain child pornography; (e) will not include incomplete, false or inaccurate information about User or any other individual; and (f) will not contain any viruses or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.

By submitting User content to FreelancerDubai.com (including, but not limited to creating your Account; posting a resume, posting a profile, posting a portfolio, posting a Project; sending messages through or to FreelancerDubai.com). You hereby grant to FreelancerDubai.com a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, display, and perform User content, under all User intellectual property and proprietary rights worldwide. For the avoidance of doubt, providing links to content hosted on servers other than that of FreelancerDubai.com (such as a portfolio of sample works hosted on Your own web site) will not be considered "submitting" such content for purposes of this license grant.

USER RESTRICTIONS

Advertising
Users are prohibited from advertising your website when posting any projects or portfolio on FreelancerDubai.com. Any URL posted in a bid, project description, portfolio, must relate to a project on FreelancerDubai.com.

Employer agrees that:
   1. Employer will not redistribute any of the content on FreelancerDubai.com.
   2. Employer will not use Employer's Account to post false or misleading project descriptions.
   3. Employer will not post project descriptions that are inappropriate to FreelancerDubai.com's audience, viewers, or ?visitors in the judgment and discretion of FreelancerDubai.com.
    4. Employer will not falsify Freelancer's own or any other identity.
    5. Employer will comply with all FreelancerDubai.com's policies.

Freelancer agrees that:
    1. Freelancer will not redistribute any of the content on FreelancerDubai.com.
    2. Freelancer will not falsify Freelancer's own or any other identity.
    3. Freelancer will comply with all FreelancerDubai.com policies.

General Restrictions
    1. Users (Employers and Freelancers) will not use any automated collection mechanism or any manual process to monitor or copy the web pages comprising the FreelancerDubai.com web site or the content contained therein without the prior written permission of FreelancerDubai.com .
    2. Users (Employers and Freelancers) will not distribute unsolicited commercial messages ("spam") through User's account.
    3. Users (Employers and Freelancers) will not contact employers or freelancers through our site or through information gained from our site with the intent of subverting them from using our services.
    4. Users (Employers and Freelancers) will not engage in personal attacks, negative or other unfair criticism or other forms of discourteous and unprofessional online conduct or practices.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION
These terms and conditions shall be governed by, and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of UAE. The courts of UAE shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any disputes that may arise. Any disputes regarding arrangements between Employers and Freelancers remain solely between Employers and Freelancers. We are not involved in any transactions between You and any other users of FreelancerDubai.com. You acknowledge and agree that FreelancerDubai.com will not be a party to any such dispute or be obligated to take any action or refrain from taking any action toward resolving any such dispute. If you have a dispute with any other users of the Site, you hereby release FreelancerDubai.com from any and all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, related to such a dispute.

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