Terms and Conditions of Use

Access to this web site is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with the terms, conditions, notices and disclaimers contained in this document (known as "Terms and Conditions"). Your use of, and/or access to, the site constitutes your agreement to the Terms and Conditions.

STAR Technology Solutions (“STAR”) reserves the right to amend the Terms and Conditions at any time. Since you are bound by these Terms and Conditions, you should periodically refer to them in this document and elsewhere on the site.

Copyright & Trade Marks

Intellectual property and restrictions on use of Content on the Site

All information, text, material, graphics and advertisements on the Site ("Content") are Copyright © STAR, its suppliers and/or licensors unless expressly indicated otherwise on the Site.
You must not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, frame, upload to a third party, post, transmit or distribute this Content in any way except as expressly provided for on the Site or expressly authorised in writing by STAR. Strictly on the condition that you keep all Content intact and in the same form as presented on the Site (including without limitation all copyright, trade mark and other proprietary notices and all advertisements), you may:

  1. using an industry-standard Web browser, download and view the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, or
  2. if you are an Internet service and/or access provider, supply the Content to your subscriber.

You must not use the Site in any manner or for any purpose which is unlawful or in any manner which violates any right of STAR or which is prohibited by the Terms of Use.

Trade Marks of STAR

All trade marks displayed on the Site are trademarks of STAR or their respective owners. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting any license or right of use of any trademark displayed on the Site without the express written permission of STAR or third party owner.



Links

The Site may contain hyperlinks and other pointers to Internet web sites operated by third parties. These linked web sites are not under the control of STAR, and STAR is not responsible for the contents of any linked web site or any hyperlink contained in a linked web site. STAR provides these hyperlinks to you as a convenience only, and the inclusion of any link does not imply any endorsement of the linked web site by STAR.

Limitation of liability

Under no circumstances (including but not limited to any act or omission on the part of STAR) will STAR be liable for any indirect, incidental, special and/or consequential damages or loss of profits whatsoever which result from any use or access of, or any inability to use or access, the Site or any Content.
You expressly acknowledge and agree that STAR does not exert control over users of the Site (including individuals referred to on the Site as guests and experts) and is not liable either for their opinions or their behaviour including any information and/or advice and any defamatory statements or offensive conduct.
The maximum liability to the client by STAR shall in all cases be limited to the value of the order.

Online Services

In order to access our online Members’ area, you must be a customer of STAR and be registered with a password.
You must take reasonable care to keep your password confidential. If you decide to tell someone your Password, they become your Nominee and are subject to these Conditions of Use. We recommend that you do not record your Password. If you do so, you are responsible for keeping any records of your Password secure and protected, and separate from any records of your username.

Payments

You are liable for all transactions carried out by you or by anyone carrying out a transaction with your authority or express or implied consent, regardless of when the transaction is processed to your account.
You should check your statements and records carefully. If you believe a transaction is wrong or unauthorised you should contact us immediately.

Payment Terms:
Translation Services and Technology: All product and services sales to registered clients are invoiced on product delivery with payment terms of 15 days from date of invoice. For translation services, product delivery is defined as translated project files delivered to client. For projects recognised of significant value payment terms are 40% on project start approval, or PO issue and 30% on completion of project, 30% on final customer signoff.

Web Site Availability

We will make all reasonable effort to ensure that the Site is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, electronic services are subject to interruption or breakdown. Therefore, access to our web site is offered on an "as is" and "as available" basis only.

Acceptance of Terms and Conditions

Your use of this web site indicates your agreement to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Some of the features or services offered through the Service may be subject to additional terms and conditions promulgated by STAR from time to time; your use of such features and services is subject to those additional terms and conditions, which are incorporated into these Terms of Use by this reference. The Service is available only to corporate entities and individuals who are at least 18 years old. You represent and warrant that, if you are an individual, you are of legal age to form a binding contract, and that all registration information you submit is accurate and truthful. STAR may, in its sole discretion, refuse to offer the Service to any person or entity and change its eligibility criteria at any time. This provision is void where prohibited by law and the right to access the Service is revoked in such jurisdictions.

Modification of Terms of Use.

STAR reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any of the Terms of Use, or change, suspend, or discontinue the Service (including without limitation, the availability of any feature, database, or content) at any time by posting a notice on the Site or by sending you an email. STAR may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Service without notice or liability. It is your responsibility to check the Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Service following the posting of any changes to the Terms of Use constitutes acceptance of those changes.

Confidentiality

STAR shall treat all knowledge of clients' intentions, production methods and business organisation as confidential and shall not, at any time, divulge such information without written consent from the client. STAR shall not divulge any information relating to or arising from the work commission and the work carried out in relation to it unless or until such information lawfully comes into the public domain. The client will not divulge any information relating to or arising from the commission and the work carried out in relation to it unless or until such information lawfully comes into the public domain. For specific project security requirements STAR can additionally provide specific Non-Disclosure Agreements.

Rules and Conduct.

STAR offers the Service to, among other things, facilitate the translation of content (“Projects”) by connecting users on the Site seeking translation services (“Customers”) and our translation project management team who provide translation services (“Service Provider”). As a condition of use, you promise not to use the Service for any purpose other than those expressly permitted by the Terms of Use. The Service (including, without limitation, any Content or User Submissions (both as defined below)) is provided only for your own internal business purposes. You are responsible for all of your activity in connection with the Service. For purposes of the Terms of Use, the term “Content” includes, without limitation, any User Submissions, videos, audio clips, written forum comments, information, data, text, photographs, software, scripts, graphics, and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made accessible by STAR or its partners on or through the Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you shall not (and shall not permit any third party to) either (a) take any action or (b) upload, download, post, submit or otherwise distribute or facilitate distribution of any content on or through the Service, including without limitation any User Submission, that:

Additionally, you shall not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by STAR in its sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on STAR’s (or its third party providers’) infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service or any activities conducted on the Service; (iii) bypass any measures STAR may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service (or other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Service); (iv) run Maillist, Listserv, any form of auto-responder or “spam” on the Service; or (v) use manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to “crawl” or “spider” any page of the Site.
You shall not (directly or indirectly): (i) decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive any source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of any part of the Service, except to the limited extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction, (ii) modify, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of any part of the Service, or (iii) copy, rent, lease, distribute, or otherwise transfer any of the rights that you receive hereunder. You shall abide by all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations.
STAR does not guarantee that any Content or User Submissions (as defined below) will be made available on the Site or through the Service. STAR has no obligation to monitor the Site, Service, Content, or User Submissions. However, STAR reserves the right to (i) remove, edit or modify any Content in its sole discretion, including without limitation any User Submissions, from the Site or Service at any time, without notice to you and 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 STAR is concerned that you may have violated the Terms of Use), or for no reason at all and (ii) to remove or block any User Submissions from the Service.

Termination.

STAR may terminate your access to all or any part of the Service at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately, which may result in the forfeiture and destruction of all information associated with your membership. If you wish to terminate your account, you may do so by following the instructions on the Site. Any fees paid hereunder are non-refundable. All provisions of the Terms of Use which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

Other

This agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Ireland. If any provision of this agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of law, such invalidity or unenforceability will not affect the remainder of the agreement, which will continue in full force and effect.

All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.