Acceptance of Terms and Conditions

1. You acknowledge and agree that the following Terms of Use constitute a legally binding agreement (hereinafter the “Agreement”) between you (hereinafter the “USER”) and Directory Trends (hereinafter “DIRECTORY TRENDS”) in relation to your use of DIRECTORY TRENDS’ Internet platform at directorytrends.com (hereinafter “Website”) and any services that DIRECTORY TRENDS provides (hereinafter “Services”). You represent and warrant to DIRECTORY TRENDS that you have read and understood the Terms of Use, and that you have the legal capacity to enter into this Agreement.
2. DIRECTORY TRENDS reserves the right to change, alter, replace or otherwise modify these Terms of Use at any time. The date of last modification is noted at the end of the Terms of Use. It is the USER’s responsibility to check the Terms of Use from time to time for updates.
3. If these Terms of Use are changed to the disadvantage of the USER, DIRECTORY TRENDS will notify USER and the revised Terms of Use will become effective within six (6) weeks after such notification, unless User terminates his/her account in writing. If USER does not agree to the revised Terms of Use, USER’s may also immediately cancel his/her USER account and stop using DIRECTORY TRENDS’ Website and Services.
4. In the future, DIRECTORY TRENDS may release new services and/or features including the release of new tools and resources on its Website. Such new features or services shall also be subject to the present Terms of Use as well as any additional Terms of Use that DIRECTORY TRENDS may release for those new features or services.

Description of Service

1. DIRECTORY TRENDS is a directory list provider providing USER with an Internet platform, directory list, directory tools (like whois, security service, etc), directory articles and directory blog.
2. DIRECTORY TRENDS’s Website and Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. USER acknowledges to use DIRECTORY TRENDS’s Website and Services at own risk.

User Account

1. When USER registers for DIRECTORY TRENDS’s Services, USER may choose a username and password and will receive a user account from DIRECTORY TRENDS. The USER is solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of his/her username, password and account, and shall be responsible for all uses of his/her username and password, whether or not authorized by USER.
2. USER shall be liable for all activities and transactions occurring under USER’s account, except for damages caused by the gross negligent or intentional conduct of DIRECTORY TRENDS.
3. USER shall notify DIRECTORY TRENDS immediately in writing of any unauthorized use of USER’s account including, without limitation, unauthorized use of USER’s password and/or username, or any other breach of confidentiality or data security.
4. DIRECTORY TRENDS may disallow or remove certain usernames and may, with or without prior notice, close USER’s account if and when activities occur on that account which constitute, at DIRECTORY TRENDS’s reasonable discretion, a violation of the present Terms of Use and/or an infringement of other applicable laws and regulations or third party rights.
5. USER can cancel his/her account at any time in the profile settings. USER is solely responsible for cancelling his/her account properly. A telephone request or e-mail from USER to cancel the account will not be considered a proper cancellation. Upon cancellation of USER’s account, any and all music, videos, photos, pictures, graphics, comments, communications and other content, data or information of USER will be irretrievably deleted by DIRECTORY TRENDS, with the exception of such data DIRECTORY TRENDS may be obligated to store for a certain period of time in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

No Liabilty for Links, Third Party Websites and Services

1. DIRECTORY TRENDS’s Website and Services may contain features and functionalities that may link USER to, or provide USER with certain functionalities and access to, third party websites, databases, networks, servers, information, software, programs, systems, directories, applications, products or services (hereinafter “External Websites”).
2. DIRECTORY TRENDS does not have any control over those External Websites, and is not responsible for their content or their use. By linking to an External Website, DIRECTORY TRENDS does not represent or imply that it endorses such website, its content or any other information and/or material contained therein.
3. USER is solely responsible for his/her dealings with any third party related to the External Website, including the delivery of and payment for goods and services. USER should make whatever investigation he/she feels necessary or useful before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any third party related to External Websites. The USER is solely responsible for taking precautions as necessary or useful to protect him-/herself from fraud etc., and his/her computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content and material on External Websites.
4. DIRECTORY TRENDS disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from USER’s accessing External Websites, and USER irrevocably waives any claim against DIRECTORY TRENDS with respect to such sites and third-party content.

Competitions

DIRECTORY TRENDS may run, host or support competitions, promotions, prize draws and other opportunities on the Website or in its Services and these opportunities will be subject to separate terms and conditions of the organizer of such opportunities. Details of the specific competition, promotion, prize draw and/or other opportunity and a link to the applicable terms and conditions will be posted on the Website. It is your responsibility to read those terms and conditions for details and any eligibility requirements. DIRECTORY TRENDS does not bear any responsibility or liability for the actions of any third parties who organize or are otherwise involved in any of these opportunities.

Changes of Website and Services

1. DIRECTORY TRENDS may change or modify the products, services and functionalities of the Website and/or Services at any time without notice.
2. USER agrees that DIRECTORY TRENDS and its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders shall not be liable to USER or to any third party for any changes or modifications of Website and/or Services and/or USER’s possibility to use or access DIRECTORY TRENDS’s Website and/or Services.

Termination of Website and Services

1. DIRECTORY TRENDS reserves the right at any time to suspend, discontinue, terminate or close down its Website and/or Services (or any part thereof), temporarily or permanently, without notice.
2. USER agrees that, DIRECTORY TRENDS and its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders shall not be liable to USER or to any third party for any suspension, discontinuance, termination or close down of the Website and/or Services and/or USER’s possibility to use or access DIRECTORY TRENDS’s Website and/or Services.

Severability Clause

Should one ore more provision of the present Terms of Use be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, such provision(s) shall be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use; the remainder of the Terms of Use will thus remain in full force and effect.

Entire Agreement

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between DIRECTORY TRENDS and USER with respect to DIRECTORY TRENDS’s Website and Services, and supersedes any prior agreement between DIRECTORY TRENDS and USER.