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1.2 Some or all of the pages on the Solution Exchange website may be accessed only by use of a password, which will be provided to you after registration. The information supplied by you in connection with your registration is subject to Solution Exchange’s privacy policy. You agree not to share your password with anyone and to take reasonable care to protect your password from unauthorized disclosure. You agree promptly to report to the Moderator of Solution Exchange any known, suspected, or anticipated compromise of your password.

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1.4 Solution Exchange may amend these terms and conditions at any time simply by posting an amended version on this site and may make any amendment effective as it deems appropriate. It is your responsibility regularly to review these terms and conditions and to acquaint yourself with any changes. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, do not participate in Solution Exchange.

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2.1 By registering as a member with Solution Exchange and by agreeing to the terms and conditions, you will be entitled to participate in the Solution Exchange Knowledge Sharing Network.

2.2 Only members shall be entitled to post queries to the mail-group, whose moderator shall at their absolute discretion forward the query to the entire mailgroup. Members shall also be entitled to reply to queries in the form of sharing their experiences, examples, insights, best practices, offering suggestions and providing additional knowledge and / or information and resources.

2.3 Solution Exchange hereby reserves the absolute right of editorial discretion in the creation of a compilation of relevant answers known as a “Consolidated Reply” which shall then be posted to on the Network and retained on Solution Exchange’s website.

3.1 In keeping with the spirit of voluntary information exchange, all materials and information available in Solution Exchange shall be governed by the terms and conditions laid out in the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike Agreement Ver. 2.5 (“Creative Commons License”). The Creative Commons license grants all users the right to use, distribute, modify and redistribute the information, for non-commercial purposes, and provided that adequate credit is given to the author of the work.

3.2 Any person posting either a query or a reply, or any other information to the site shall retain their copyright over such information, but explicitly agree that by posting any information to Solution Exchange, the information is licensed under the terms and conditions of a Creative Commons License.

3.3 It shall be the duty and obligation of every member posting either a query or a reply to read and understand the Creative Commons license, and your participation and/ or use of the site shall imply that you have read and agreed to be bound by the Creative Commons license, in relation to any material or information posted by you.

3.4 In the event that any member has a doubt about the terms and conditions laid down by the Creative Commons license it shall be his/ her duty to ensure that they seek a legal opinion or clarification about the same. All the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license shall be construed as being supplemental to this agreement and shall be interpreted harmoniously with this agreement.

3.5 In the event that Solution Exchange uses any material or information posted by any member it shall provide adequate credit to the member. Members also agree that Solution Exchange will invest a lot of skill and judgment and value in creating the Consolidated Reply, and shall accordingly be the owner of the copyright in the Consolidated Reply.

3.6 In the event that any member uses or distributes any Consolidated Reply in its totality, it shall provide Solution Exchange full credit in the manner prescribed by Solution Exchange. Specifically, Re-users of this material must cite as their source Solution Exchange as well as the item’s recommender, if relevant, and must share any derivative work with the Solution Exchange

4.1 Members agree that Solution Exchange is designed to provide you and other members an opportunity to exchange ideas and information. By posting or submitting material to Solution Exchange, you represent that you have all necessary rights in and to such material and that such material will not infringe on any personal or proprietary rights of any third parties. You hereby agree to authorize the right to view, use, and distribute such material in any manner and in any medium, in perpetuity and as per Clause 3 of this agreement.

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4.3 Members may not post, transmit or otherwise distribute any virus, worm, or other code that may be damaging to software or hardware.

4.4 Members may not advertise or solicit on these pages without Solution Exchange’s express permission.

4.5 If you breach any of these terms and conditions, you are obligated to hold Solution Exchange harmless from, and to indemnify it against all liabilities and costs of any and every sort resulting from your breach.

4.6 Solution Exchange reserves the right to remove any content from the site at any time, for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such content or if Solution Exchange is concerned that user may have breached the immediately preceding sentence).

5.1 All members of the Solution Exchange hereby expressly agree that Solution Exchange is a voluntary platform for sharing knowledge of different individuals, and is not intended to provide prescriptive advice or consultancy services. The knowledge that is shared or made available on the site shall not be construed directly or indirectly as prescriptive advice or consultancy.

5.2 While Solution Exchange shall use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that the information available in the Consolidated Reply is accurate and useful, it shall not be liable for any loss or suffering caused as a result of relying on such information.

5.3 Members agree that Solution Exchange will not be able to monitor, verify or endorse all information or material submitted as a query or a reply, by any member. Members should therefore be aware that such information may be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.

5.4 We hereby disclaim all warranties and representations (whether express or implied) as to the accuracy of any information contained on the website or posted through a Consolidated Reply. We do not guarantee that such information will be fault free and do not accept liability for any errors or omissions.

5.5 In no event shall Solution Exchange be liable for any loss of profit, revenues, goodwill, opportunity, business, anticipated savings or other indirect or consequential loss of any kind in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise arising out of use of either the website or information posted in the Consolidated Reply. The subscriber acknowledges that use of the data requires the subscriber to use of its own skill and judgment.

5.6 Solution Exchange disclaims all liability for any losses suffered or claims arising from an inability to access the website for any reason whatsoever.

5.7 All members warrant that they have all the necessary skill and judgment required to understand the information and material available on the website or posted to them, and undertake at all times to exercise their own judgment in the use of such information and shall be solely liable for all decision, opinions, recommendations, forecasts or comments made or any action taken in reliance on such information.

5.8 The ideas and information posted by members and used by Solution Exchange in its Consolidated Reply do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Solution Exchange.

5.9 Solution Exchange reserves the absolute right, which it may or may not exercise, to review, edit, or delete any material that it deems to be inappropriate or in violation of these terms and conditions. It further has the absolute right, in its sole discretion, to deny or to withdraw access to anyone who violates these terms and conditions.

5.10 Solution Exchange may provide through the site or the Consolidated Reply hypertext links to other internet sites. By providing or permitting such a linking service, Solution Exchange is not undertaking any responsibility or liability for any third party information or publications available on the internet, even if accessed through Solution Exchange.

5.11 Members agree that these links are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by Solution Exchange of any of the products, services or opinions of the corporation or organization or individual. Solution Exchange bears absolutely no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links. It shall be the obligation of the member to contact the external site for any clarifications or answers to questions regarding its content.

5.12 In the event that any members redistribute any Consolidated Reply or any part thereof, it shall be their duty to inform all third parties about the terms and conditions that apply to such information from this agreement as well as those arising out of the creative commons license.

5.13 Members hereby represent that they shall not post any information or idea for which they intend to seek a patent. Members warrant that they are aware that in the event that they do post any such information, it may be construed as prior publication for the purpose of patent law, thereby affecting their chances of being granted a patent.

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6.3 In the event that any or any part of the terms, conditions or provisions contained in this agreement is be determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision shall to that extent be severed from the remaining terms and conditions which shall continue to be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

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