Website Terms of Use

PLEASE REVIEW BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE - IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.

General Description

Welcome to Public Sector Accounting Abstract Repository ("PSAAR"). The mission of the PSAAR is to provide the services related to hosting public sector accounting abstracts (collectively the "Services"). These Terms of Use contain ground rules for your use of the Services (the "Terms"). By accessing, using, or contributing to the Services, and in consideration for the Services provided to you, you agree to abide by the Terms.

PSAAR may change the Terms from time to time, at PSAAR’s sole discretion. Your continued use of this website following the posting of such changes will constitute your assent to all such changes. Please periodically visit this section of the site to review the current version of the Terms. These Terms supersede any verbal changes and can only be modified by written agreement signed by an officer of PSAAR.

Account Registration

To utilize the Services, or certain portions thereof, you may be required to complete a registration and submission process and establish a PSAAR account ("PSAAR Account"). You represent and warrant that all information provided by you is current, accurate, and complete, and that you will maintain the accuracy and completeness of this information on a prompt, timely basis.

Password and Security

As a registered user of PSAAR, you may receive or establish one or more passwords. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your password(s) and PRAAR Account(s). You understand and agree that you are fully responsible for all actions and postings made from your PSAAR Account(s). Any account you create is not transferrable. You  agree to notify the PSAAR immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your PRAAR Account.

Content

Personal Use Only

The Services are provided solely for personal, non-commercial use. 

Contributed Content

Contributed content should be relevant to the subject scope of PSAAR. Content may not be illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable. PSAAR does not pre-screen or regularly review any contributed content, but PSAAR has the right (though not the obligation) to remove, without notice, any content posted which we consider, for any reason, to violate these Terms or to be outside the subject scope of the Services. PSAAR may terminate any account, with or without notice, for posting such content.

Copyright and Trade Marks

Any person who provides any material for inclusion on PSAAR is responsible for ensuring that this material does not violate other parties' copyright or other proprietary rights and does not otherwise violate law or applicable PSAAR policy. As part of its general right to remove material, PSAAR reserves the right in its sole discretion to delete or make inaccessible files that do or may contain material that violates law, or applicable PSAAR policy, or the rights of third parties.

Termination

PSAAR reserves the right to terminate your PSAAR Account or restrict access to your PSAAR Account, or to delete any content posted through your PSAAR Account, with or without notice, for any or for no reason.

Community Participation Browsing

You understand that the abstracts made available via the Website are the work of individual authors and do not necessarily represent the view of PSAAR. PSAAR assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, suitability, or completeness of any content provided.

Linking

You understand that PSAAR has not and cannot review all material made available through websites linked or linking to any part of this site. You also understand that no such linking implies in any way that the PSAAR endorses or is affiliated with any third-party website. You agree that the PSAAR bears no responsibility or liability for any content accessed or harm caused from any third-party website.

User Representations and Warranties

By posting any content, you represent and warrant that you have all right, title, and interest to such posted content, including but not limited to any consent, authorization, release, clearance or license from any third party (such as, but not limited to, any release related to rights of privacy or publicity) necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, and that posting such content does not violate or constitute the infringement of any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of privacy, right of publicity, moral rights, or other intellectual property right recognized by any applicable jurisdiction of any person or entity, or otherwise constitute the breach of any agreement with any other person or entity. You represent and warrant that you will not use any software, which sends repeated queries to PSAAR, or otherwise send automated queries of any sort to PSAAR. You further represent and warrant that you are who you say you are, that you have not submitted fictitious, false or inaccurate information about yourself, and that all information contained in the posted content is true and your own work or work you are authorized to submit, and that the posted content does not contain any threatening, harassing, libelous, false, defamatory, offensive, obscene, or pornographic, material, or other material that would violate any other applicable law or regulation. You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading information. You represent and warrant that the content you supply does not violate the Terms.

Indemnities

You acknowledge and agree to indemnify and hold PSAAR, their affiliates, officers, employees and agents, harmless, including costs and attorneys' fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of PSAAR or the Services, your violation of these Terms, or the infringement by you or made under your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.

General Terms

Modifications

PSAAR reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.

Termination of Service

PSAAR disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any software provided through the Services. PSAAR reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Services or access to the Services without any notice at any time and without any liability to you.

No Waiver of Terms

Failure of PSAAR to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision in that or any other instance.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY and LIMITATION OF LIABILITIES

PSAAR IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. PSAAR MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE SITE'S OPERATION OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT OR MATERIALS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, PSAAR HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. PSAAR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOU USE THIS SITE SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL PSAAR OR ITS SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, ECONOMIC OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR LOSS OF USE DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS) ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THE SITE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ITS OPERATION, ITS CONTENTS OR THE INFORMATION OR MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN, OR THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE ANY OTHER SITE LINKED TO THE SITE, OR ANY CONTENT CONTAINED IN ANY SUCH SITE, OR THESE TERMS, OR THE PRIVACY POLICY APPLICABLE TO THIS SITE) EVEN IF PSAAR, ITS SUPPLIERS, OR LICENSORS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU IN SUCH STATES. THE RESPECTIVE LIABILITY OF PSAAR, ITS SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. This exclusion and limitation only applies to the extent permitted by law and is without prejudice to any express provisions to the contrary in any written license or subscription agreement from PSAAR in respect of the use of any online service provided via this web site.

Update 31/7/2014