Social Media Terms of Usage

By using this social media services provided by TechMatrix Corporation, you the user are agreeing to the terms of its usage as follows, regardless of whether or not you followed the Company's procedure of registering as a user. Please read and confirm the terms, and agree to obey them.

Article 1 (Scope of Application)

These terms of usage apply to you and all others who decide to use this service. However, if these terms of usage differ from the terms, policies and stipulations of one or more of the individual social media sites the Company maintains, then the terms, policies and stipulations of the individual social media sites will take priority over these terms.

Article 2 (Agreements and Rules)

We ask that you agree to obey the following rules.
  1. 1. You are responsible for your own actions on this service. Whether that action involves expressing your own opinions or disclosing information by submitting, posting, sharing, exhibiting or otherwise providing them on this service, you are solely responsible for the substance, information content and consequences of the expression of your opinions or disclosure of information.
  2. 2. The Personal Information Protection Policy of TechMatrix Corporation shall apply to any and all personal information you provide on this service.
  3. 3. You are solely responsible for the safekeeping of the password you use to access this service. Furthermore, you are solely responsible for any incidents that may arise as a consequence of the use of your password.
  4. 4. If you cause damage to other people and organizations by using this service, you are solely responsible for your own actions, and for the monetary expenses of compensating for the damages incurred and resolving your conflict with the aggrieved parties. You must also not involve TechMatrix Corporation in the matter in any way.
  5. 5. TechMatrix Corporation takes no responsibility for any damage you may incur as a result of using this service, unless the Company intentionanlly caused the damage or was grossly negligent.
  6. 6. If you break the terms in this and the following articles and incur damage on TechMatrix Corporation, the Company reserves the right to demand monetary compensation from you.

Article 3 (Forbidden Acts)

We forbid you to commit the following acts in your use of this service.
  1. 1. Acts that risk violating or infringing the rights and property of TechMatrix Corporation, of other users of this service and of third parties.
  2. 2. Defamatory acts that risk slandering TechMatrix Corporation, other users of this service or third parties. Also forbidden are acts that risk slandering or disclosing groundless information regarding the products, services or other business items of TechMatrix Corporation, of other users of this service or of third parties.
  3. 3. Acts infringing on the privacy of others, such as the publishing of personal information including the names, telephone numbers and addresses of other users of this service or third parties.
  4. 4. Acts comprising election campaigning or similar.
  5. 5. Acts proselytizing and soliciting membership of specific religions, organizations and groups.
  6. 6. Acts that use or reproduce the information and other content provided by this service for purposes other than personal use.
  7. 7. Acts of sending malicious computer programs, disguised files or suchlike to this service, or of overwriting data.
  8. 8. Acts that comprise using this service exclusively as a site for downloading files.
  9. 9. Acts that obstruct access or use by other users to all or part of this service.
  10. 10. Acts that comprise using this service to upload or in other ways send content for which you have no legal, fiduciary or contractual transmission rights. (This includes disclosing internal Company information or exclusive and confidential information you were given or were able to know in the course of work or under a nondisclosure agreement).
  11. 11. Acts of using this service to upload or in other ways send software viruses or other types of computer codes, files or content containing programs designed to obstruct, destroy or restrict the functions of the software or hardware of a computer, or of telecommunications equipment.
  12. 12. Acts of password mining, hacking and other activities that attempt to gain unauthorized access to services, accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the servers of this service.
  13. 13. Acts attempting to access content and information by means other than the methods TechMatrix Corporation has consciously made available.
  14. 14. Acts involving the use of copyrights, trademarks, service marks, brand names, logos and graphics belonging to this service without obtaining prior written consent from TechMatrix Corporation.
  15. 15. Acts using network monitoring and detection software to determine the site architecture of this service, or to obtain information about other users, their personal identities and their usage of this service.
  16. 16. Acts of monitoring or copying all or part of this service either manually, or by using automated software or devices, including robots and spiders.
  17. 17. Acts compromising the interests of TechMatrix Corporation, other users of this service or third parties.
  18. 18. Acts violating or at risk of violating public order and decency or the relevant laws and regulations.
  19. 19. Acts providing or otherwise supplying information of a harmful, indecent or violent nature, or that portrays such a nature.
  20. 20. Acts connected with or at risk of being connected with criminal conduct.
  21. 21. Act that may be construed as unpleasant by other users of this service or third parties, including acts of viciousness and discrimination.
  22. 22. Acts obstructing the operation of this service and acts defaming the credibility of TechMatrix Corporation.
  23. 23. Acts of fraudulent personal identification or impersonation committed for the purpose of tampering with the information of others.
  24. 24. Other acts deemed inappropriate by TechMatrix Corporation.

Article 4 (Breach of the Terms of Usage)

In the event you, the user, violate any one of the articles of the terms of usage to this service, TechMatrix Corporation reserves the right to erase the information, content and other data you have disclosed on this service, or take any other necessary action proportionate to the nature and extent of the violation, without giving prior notice to you.

Article 5 (Treatment of Intellectual Property)

  1. 1. The information disclosed on this site in the course of using this service is the property of TechMatrix Corporation or the relevant information provider. Of this information, photographs, video images, and other content protected by copyrights, trade marks and other intellectual property rights, are also the property of the relevant information provider. You, the user, are forbidden from reproducing, publicly disclosing, transmitting (including publicly transmitting), distributing, transferring, leasing, translating, adapting or otherwise reprinting all or part of the content contained in this service without obtaining the prior written consent of the relevant information provider.
  2. 2. The relevant information providers other than TechMatrix Corporation shall all grant the Company a license to use their information that is available on this site. This license shall be non-attributive, transferrable, sublicenseable, free of charge, and apply throughout the world.

Article 6 (Revision to the Terms of Usage)

TechMatrix Corporation may revise the terms of usage of this service without obtaining the consent of its users. In such a case, the revised terms of usage of this service shall take effect the moment they are disclosed and published on TechMatrix Corporation’s Social Media Policy site.

Additional Clause
These terms of usage shall take effect on and from October 1, 2011.