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Terms of Use
IMPORTANT – Please read these Terms of Use carefully as they are a binding agreement between you and Diligent Corporation (and Diligent Corporation’s group companies) (collectively, “Diligent”).
Diligent owns and operates diligent.com and its associated websites, including the websites where we make resources for our products available to users, such as our online training, community, tools and templates, and content gallery (collectively, the “Diligent Websites”). By accessing, browsing or using any part of the Diligent Websites, you accept these Terms of Use and agree to be bound by them.If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, you may not use the Diligent Websites.
Purpose of these Terms of Use
Diligent has established these Terms of Use in order to:
Protect the integrity of the Diligent Websites for all users of the Diligent Websites;
Ensure responsible use of the Diligent Websites;
Ensure compliance with applicable laws; and
Protect Diligent’s intellectual property.
General Use of the Diligent Websites
You are free to browse and use the Diligent Websites, and you may print or download content from the Diligent Websites, for your own personal, non-commercial use provided that:
You retain and keep intact all copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices (such as © 2024 Diligent Corporation. All Rights Reserved);
You only access the Diligent Websites from jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so (You may not access the Diligent Websites from jurisdictions subject to sanctions managed by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control or similar regimes or if you are a Special Designated National under such regimes);
You do not disseminate or distribute the content publicly or use it for any commercial gain; and
You abide by the terms and restrictions set out in these Terms of Use.
User Registration
Certain areas of the Diligent Websites require a user account and are password protected (“Registered Areas”). If you register for a user account with Diligent:
You are responsible for all activities that occur under your user account.
You must provide accurate, current and complete information when registering your account.
You must not provide false identity information to gain access to the Diligent Websites.
You must keep your user ID and password confidential and change your password periodically.
You must not allow any other person to use your User ID and password.
You must notify Diligent of any unauthorized use of your User ID and password.
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When you register for a user account for certain Diligent Websites, you may be asked to create a user profile including certain mandatory or optional data, which may include your first and last names, organization name, work title and work phone number. Please be aware that:
Information You provide may be publicly displayed in the community forums and user groups.
Your profile may be searchable by other community users and the public, even if they are not part of your organization.
Content that you share or post may be seen by other users of the community or the public, depending on the Diligent Website you are using.
By registering a user account, you consent to Diligent’s collection and use of your personal information as set out above and in accordance with the Diligent Privacy Policy at: www.diligent.com/legal/privacy.
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If there is any conflict between these Terms of Use and Diligent’s standard terms for its products and services, Diligent’s standard terms will apply and take precedence.
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You retain and keep intact all copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices contained in or on the Resources (such as © 2021 Diligent Corporation. All Rights Reserved);
You do not disseminate or distribute any Resources to anyone outside your organization or the Diligent user community in which you accessed such Resources; and
You do not use the Resources for any commercial gain.
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Resources are provided solely for education about Diligent products;
Resources are provided “as is” without any warranty and are used at your own risk;
Diligent does not promise that Resources will be accurate or operate properly with Diligent products; and
Resources may be varied or discontinued at any time.
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The Community portion of the Diligent Websites provides a forum where users can connect and share knowledge about Diligent products. Users of the Community forums and user groups are expected to behave professionally and to be courteous and respectful of others. You must not make or post any comments or discussions that are profane, discriminatory, degrading, defamatory, threatening, harassing or otherwise objectionable.
Where you are permitted to post or upload materials through the Diligent Websites:
You must own the materials or have obtained the necessary rights and consents to post or upload it.
The material must not be unlawful or objectionable.
The material must not damage or interrupt the proper working of the Diligent Websites (for example, by containing viruses or corrupted files).
You must use reasonable security measures (such as encryption and a secure network/system; not an open system or public computer).
You must not post or transmit spam, junk mail or chain letters.
You grant Diligent an irrecovable, royalty-free and worldwide right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivate works from, distribute, and display your posted content in any media.
Diligent is not responsible for the content of postings made by you or any third party and is not obliged to review, edit or filter the postings. Diligent reserves the right to modify, reject or remove any comments or materials posted on the Diligent Websites at any time in its discretion. Diligent does not endorse any comments or materials posted by users, and such comments and materials do not necessarily reflect the views of Diligent.
All posts are public and are not confidential. If a third party sues Diligent, or otherwise makes a claim against Diligent in connection with your usage of the Diligent Websites, you will indemnify Diligent against that suit or claim (including for any damages and expenses that Diligent incurs as a result of that suit or claim).
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You acknowledge that:
Posting or submitting Ideas does not make you an author, inventor or contributing author or inventor of any Diligent products, features or other works or inventions;
Diligent has no obligation to accept or use any Ideas;
To the extent any Ideas are not assignable, you grant Diligent a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to freely copy, use, make use of, publish, adapt, distribute, sell, license, create derivative works from and otherwise exploit your Ideas, including incorporating them into future versions of Diligent products, services or resources; and
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Forging headers or otherwise manipulating identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send on or through the Diligent Websites;
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Using any robot, spider, scraper, deep link or other automated data gathering or extraction tools, program, algorithm or methodology to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Diligent Websites;
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Diligent reserves the right to suspend your use of the Diligent Websites (including Diligent products and Resources), or take other appropriate remedial action, to address any prohibited conduct or any violation or suspected violation of these Terms of Use.
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Copyright Management Department
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The Registered Areas of the Diligent Websites may contain Confidential Information of Diligent. “Confidential Information” is anything which Diligent does not make generally available to the public, and which it considers to be proprietary. Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to: (a) scripts, code or other technology; (b) technical information about Diligent products, including product roadmaps; (c) personally identifiable information about an individual; (d) material or information which, given its nature, should reasonably be considered to be confidential; and (e) material or information which is marked “confidential”.
You must maintain the confidentiality of all Confidential Information you obtain or access.
You may use Confidential Information solely for the purpose for which it has been disclosed to you.
You must not disseminate or distribute Confidential Information.
You must not remove any proprietary notices contained in or on any Confidential Information.
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Except as expressly set out in these Terms of Use, you may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, transmit, distribute or create derivative works from any of the content on any of the Diligent Websites, without Diligent’s prior written consent.
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Links on the Diligent Websites to third party websites are provided for your convenience only. Diligent is not responsible for and does not endorse, control or make any representations or warranties as to the content, products or services offered from third party websites. You are responsible for complying with the terms of use for such third party websites, and for reviewing and understanding the privacy policies of such websites.
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All matters relating to your access to or use of the Diligent Websites will be governed by the law of the State of New York of the United States of America, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the State of New York of the United States of America.
Amendments
Diligent retains the right to amend these Terms of Use at any time, including the right to revoke any permissions.
If you have any questions regarding these Terms of Use you may contact Diligent at:
Diligent Corporation
61 W 23rd Street
4th Floor New York,
NY 10010
United States
Attention: Legal Department
Email: legal@diligent.com
These Terms of Use were updated January 6th 2022.
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