Terms and conditions

Introduction

WorkStickers is the Internet environment trough which, individuals and organizations alike, create, manage and showcase their online identity in relation to Career Development.

Comprehensive online tools and services are made available to WorkStickers Users to develop their human capital, learn and exchange opinions, meet and interact with other professionals or organizations, find or promote related opportunities.

Binding Agreement

The Terms and Conditions (and any other amendments) presented in this document form a legal binding agreement between you and WorkStickers. You agree that this Agreement constitutes the entire, complete and exclusive agreement between you and WorkStickers and that it supersedes any prior provisions, understandings or agreements established by custom, practice, precedent or policies with respect to this document. Registering an Account, accessing or using WorkStickers platform or services indicates your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. Once this Terms and Conditions are accepted, usage of WorkStickers platforms or services is done at own risk.

If any portion of this Statement is found to be unenforceable, void or illegal, the unenforceable provision shall be modified so as to render it effective and enforceable and to affect the intention of the provision. In such case the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement will not be affected and will remain in full force.

While using WorkStickers, you must comply with all applicable laws, these Terms and Conditions and any of its additions, annexes or appendixes such as Privacy Policy. This document can be amended with or without prior notice.

Service Eligibility

Users eligible for WorkStickers Services, must meet the following criteria:

1. Are not currently restricted from having a WorkStickers account
2. Have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and doing so will not violate any other agreement to which hey are a party
3. Will not violate any rights of WorkStickers, including but not restricted to intellectual property rights, copyright or trademarks
4. Are not proved or suspected to be involved in acts of terrorism and terrorist financing, money laundering or receipt of proceeds from criminal activities, corruption, trade or trafficking in restricted items, human trafficking, sanction busting, embezzlement, fraud or any other activity that is defined as criminal by the laws.

Individual Users eligible for using WorkStickers are defined as:

An adult who has legally assumed control over their persons, actions, and decisions, thereby terminating the legal control and legal responsibilities of their parents or guardian over and for them. 

As a standard, the legal adulthood age is considered 18 years old.  However, various national laws or regulations impose age-based restrictions regarding minimum age for admission to various form of work, reason for which, in such cases, local jurisdiction supersedes the above-mentioned condition in regard to eligibility.

Organizations eligible for using WorkStickers are defined as:

A legally registered entities, such as but not restricted to Academic, Business partnership, Cooperative, Freelance, Governmental, Joint Venture, Non profit organization, Private Company, Professional association, Public corporation, other organizations.

The Organization’s WorkStickers Profile Administrator is a person who has full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and doing so will not violate any other agreement to which they are a party. The Administrator is responsible for creating, claiming, editing and use of the Organization Profile.  In the case of Organization consisting of a single person, the administrator must be this person.  

The Administrator must ensure that his actions, while using WorkStickers, are in good faith and within the limits of his contractual authorization of representation and do not violate any terms and conditions of this Agreement. WorkStickers reserves the right to suspend access or baring future usage of it's services if it deems that any behavior on the Administrators part is contrary to the purpose of this Agreement or the best interest of any of it's Users. Should this occur, the Organization Profile will temporarily be deactivated.

The Organization’s WorkStickers Profile Administrator’s authorization, can be revoked by the Organization or an other person can receive, as a replacement, the administrator authorization rights once Workstickers has been prior informed. The Organization may only transfer contractual rights to third parties with prior written consent from WorkStickers.

Organizations represents, warrants and covenants that any material belonging to and provided by the Organization for use in connection with services provided by WorkStickers will not violate any laws, regulations, any agreements with or third-party property rights including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks.

By using WorkStickers services, Organization hereby grants WorkStickers worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use the provided materials and to hyperlink to Organization’s websites in connection with agreed services.

License to Use WorkStickers

WorkStickers hereby grants you a limited, terminable, non-exclusive rights to access and use the website and any other related platform for your personal use or in the interest of the organization you represent, with the intent to seek career development opportunities and promote related materials. This authorizes you to access website facilities for your personal, noncommercial use.

You agree that you are solely responsible for the content of any document, opinion, comment or any other actions you post on WorkStickers and any consequences arising from such activity. Usage of WorkStickers  is a privilege that can be suspended or terminated, for any reason, at any time, with or without prior notice, in WorkStickers sole discretion.

Sign-In Credentials

The User is solely responsible for any activity which occurs with in and trough her / his / its account, from the moment the account is activated until it is closed down, provided no security breach had occurred and consequently proof of misuse is observed.

In this perspective, you agree to: 

1. Maintain your password confidential and secure.
2. Not to share, sell, trade or in any other aspect transfer the access to your account to a third party.

Forwarding career development opportunities.

WorkStickers expressly prohibits Users to engage in forwarding any materials and specially any post related to career development opportunities, actions which can be classified as breach of or violation of any local, state, federal or international laws, rules or regulations, including, without limitation, the federal CAN SPAM Act of 2003.

Privacy

The usage of information, including personally identifiable data you submit, is protected by local or international laws, standards and regulation and is governed by the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated, by reference, in this document.

By becoming a user, you acknowledge that you have red, understood and agreed upon this document and any of its updates and that any information or data you choose to submit is voluntary on your part.

Indemnification

By becoming a user, you indemnify and hold harmless WorkStickers for any damages, losses and costs related to any third party claims, charges or investigations caused by: 

1. Yours or any other users failure to comply with this Terms and Conditions
2. Any content or data you submit which can infringe on or violate any third party rights or applicable laws
3. Any activity you engage within or trough WorkStickers.

Notify us of acts contrary to the Agreement.

If this Terms and Conditions do not cover any entitlements you may be granted under a specific mandatory law, you agree to provide us, within a minimum of 30 days, a detailed and substantiated written explanation, before you choose to act contrary to this Terms and Conditions. We will asses whether we may provide an alternative.

Notifications and Service Messages

In order to inform Users of it's services, changes to this document or any other related matters, WorkStickers may choose to place banners across its pages, send notifications via its intranet messaging system, send emails from WorkStickers to an User associated email address or to use alternative means of communications, including but not restricted to telephone or postal services.  All above-mentioned updates are published on the related pages on WorkStickers.

Failure to receive critical information about WorkStickers should not be associated with, nor should WorkStickers be hold responsible as it is the sole reasonability of the User to be informed of any changes of policies, procedures  or practices contained in this or any affiliated documents.

Contributions to WorkStickers

By sending feedbacks, enquiries or any ideas to WorkStickers, trough it’s feedback or contact pages, you agree that:

1. Your ideas do not infringe on third parties intellectual property rights
2. Workstickers is not restricted, under any circumstances, by any confidentiality obligations related to your ideas or the process of receiving them and in consequence is entitled, if it chooses so, to disclose them for any purpose and in any way
3. WorkStickers may have the same or similar ideas under consideration or in development
4. All rights to your Contributions are irrevocably assigned to WorkStickers and you are not entitled, under any circumstances, to any compensation of any kind from WorkStickers.

WorkStickers Rights, Obligations and Liability

Services Availability

WorkStickers makes its services and products available and thrives to improve, expand and protect them. WorkStickers may choose, at any given time, to deactivate, modify or suspend, partially or entirely any of its services, including access to WorkSticker. All this changes shall be active upon their posting on the website or otherwise noted.

Since there are no 100% secured hardware, software or online environments, we can not warrant the security of any content sent to or published via Workstickers. There are no guarantees that information may not be accessed, altered, destroyed or disclosed trough a breach of technical, physical, procedural or environmental safeguards. As a consequence WorkStickers has no obligation to store any user-generated content. More to, WorkStickers reserves the right to suspend the view or delete any user-generated content, with or without prior notice if deemed by WorkStickers to be contrary to this Agreement

Disclosure of User Information

You understand, accept and agree that any information which you provided upon and after your registration can be accessed and disclosed, by WorkStickers or any of it's legal representatives, at it's sole discretion, in good faith that such action is reasonably necessary or if required by law, whether or not the inquiry is initiated by a User, legal institution or government agency to: 

1.     Comply with legal processes, civil or criminal subpoenas, court orders or any other mandatory disclosures. 

2.     Respond to any third party claims for rights infringements, including but not restricted to patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights or other intellectual proprietary rights

3.     Protect any rights, property or personal safety of any party, including WorkStickers and its subsidiaries, employees or subcontractors. Any disclosure of private information will observe the enforcement of this Terms and Conditions and will comply with the norms stipulated in the Privacy Policy.

Liability

Due to the nature of the Internet and its related technologies, WorkStickers can not guarantee a continuous and full access to its services. Workstickers can not be held liable for any limitation of access to it's services or errors in functioning due to maintenance operations, site's content updates or technical upgrades, system network failures or any unforecasted disruptions which are or not to its related operation.  Furthermore, WorkStickers cannot be held liable for any damages caused by such disruptions.

WorkStickers can temporarily or definitely restrict access to it's services in case of it's suspension of activity or in the event of any court ordered or amicable liquidation in which cases, this agreement shall be terminated as a direct consequence of the action invoked. 

WorkStickers does not provide any warranties or representations for any user generated content. WorkStickers does not guarantee nor verify the accuracy, truthfulness, suitability or lawful character of any information generated by it's users and in consequence, declines any liability for any damage resulted from the use of any content provided by a member.

WorkStickers declines any liability for the transmission of any user generated content, trough In-mails, posting of comments or any other means of delivery trough the site, associated but not restricted to the use of its services and any damage which can result from incorrect or incomplete delivery of such information.

WorkStickersis not responsible and makes no representation or warranties for the veracity of the identity of any person or organization which subscribes to its services. In consequence, WorkStickers disclaims all liability for Identity theft, misuse of identity or infringement in third parties intellectual property rights, as a result of such actions.

More to, WorkStickers should not be held liable for any consequence that might occur as a result of contacts established between members, or between members and non-members, as a result of the use of the site and services.

WorkStickers does not warrant nor represents that the use of its services will not infringe on third parties rights. Any content described or used on the website, may be subject to intellectual property rights.

Limitation of liability

To the extend allowed by applicable laws, WorkStickers is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis, without any express or implied warranties, including but not restricted to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. In consequence, under no circumstances, shall WorkStickers, its subsidiaries, employees or shareholders be held liable for any lost profits, unrealized earnings or other consequential, incidental, punitive, special or indirect damages, resulting from loss of data or any other operation related losses out of or in connection with the usage or restriction in usage of the website, services or content, regardless or whether claims are on the basis of a guarantee, a contract or a civil offense or any other legal theory and whether is known or unknown to third parties or WorkStickers .

Users Rights, Obligations and Liability

Hardware / Software related obligations

Users are solely responsible to ensure that adequate hardware and software resources, on their behalf, are available to access and use the Site and its Services. It is the User's responsibility to take al suitable measures to protect their software and hardware systems from possible contamination with viruses or malicious software.

Under this Terms and Conditions, Users are prohibited to insert, promote, transmit or in any circumstances initiate or encourage, directly or indirectly trough posted content, any malicious computer code such as but not restricted to viruses, worms, scripts robots, bots or any other automated processes or tools that: 

1. Can interfere, limit or disrupt the functionality of the website and its services or which poses any threat to the functionality of any computer software or hardware equipment of WorkStickers or any of its Users .
2. Place an unreasonable load on WorkStickers infrastructure, including, but not limited to, upload of big amounts of data, sending unsolicited communications to Users or any overloading of functions available on the website.
3. Indirectly or directly disguise the origin of any communication sent trough WorkStickers In-mail system by forging headers or manipulating identifiers.
4. Can access, scrape, crawl or spider any web pages of functions contained in the website
5. Transmit or activate computer viruses through or on WorkStickers
6. Can grant access to WorkStickers or its services, add or download data, monitor or send messages, monitor availability, functionality or performance or in any way interfere with other functions or perform any other activities trough or related to WorkStickers.

By becoming a User, you agree not to copy, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher, create similar or otherwise attempt to derive the source code unless WorkStickers expressly authorizes you trough a written consent.

Limitations in access to WorkStickers website and its services are expressly governed by this Terms and Condition. Any attempt to or actual override any direct or related security component of the website, computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment belonging to or associated to WorkStickers, comes in violation to this Agreement.

Posting Content related obligations

Users are solely liable for any operation made within, trough or from their WorkStickers account and any damages caused by any type of data uploaded, stored, posted, transmitted or distributed by the User while using the Website and its Services, with respect to WorkStickers and, if applicable, to any third party.  More to, you recognize and agree that WorkStickers has no obligation nor exercises any preliminary check of stored, posted or transmitted content or data within, trough or from the Website and it's Services and in consequence is not liable for any direct or indirect damages resulted from the usage of such data.

WorkStickers is not responsible for any User-generated content or for the misuse or misappropriation of any content by a third party.

WorkStickers present public information, which can be found, viewed or shared on the open Internet. The User-generated content, unless is set up as Private, can be viewed or used by anyone.  More to, any content set up as Private, although is accordingly marked, can be viewed by your direct WorkStickers contacts and in consequence, shared, even on the open Internet. There for, any information that you would like to keep confidential or if the result of publishing it constitute an infringement of intellectual property or any other third party rights, should not be published on WorkStickers. 

Upon entering this agreement, by acknowledging and agreeing with the Terms and Condition, You agree not to upload, store, post, transmit or distribute content that: 

1. Reflects or promotes, on your behalf or a third party’s, a dishonest, inappropriate, inaccurate or objectionable behavior or actions which are susceptible or proven to be unlawful, abusive, threatening, violence inciting, obscene, discriminatory or libelous including, but not limited to human trafficking, child labor, forced labor, nudity or pornography,  terrorism , corruption, hate speech, sanction busting, embezzlement, fraud or any other activity that is defined as criminal by law.

2. Infringes upon property rights, such as, but not restricted to intellectual property rights, copyrights, trademarks, patents or any information for which you do not have the right to disclose under any law or contractual relationship including but not limited to information learned as part of employment or under nondisclosure agreements.

3. Misrepresents or falsely states your identity, including but not limited to current or previous qualifications, affiliations or representations. More to, it is prohibited to publish anyone's legal identifications documents or sensitive financial information.

When you upload, store, post, transmit or distribute content that is covered by intellectual property rights, including but not limited to photos or videos, subject to your privacy settings, you specifically grant WorkStickers a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content you include on or in connection with WorkStickers. This license shall cease applicability when you delete your content from WorkStickers except if it was not shared with others and they have not deleted it.

WorksStickers reserves it's right to deactivate, restrict view or delete any profile, content or information if it suspects or is certain of any violation in regard to this Terms and Condition or any other associated documents or policies. WorkStickers will provide an opportunity to appeal in case you believe the removal was done by mistake.

Messaging or other actions related obligations

Any actions undertaken using Users account facilities, sharing tools or communication systems (such as but not restricted to comments, likes or direct messaging) should not direct cause, facilitate or encourage anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory. This prohibition includes but is not limited to:

1. Harass, abuse or harm, directly or indirectly an other person or organization, including but not restricted to abusive or denigrating comments or other means of communication.
2. Sending unwelcomed communications to other users, such as but not restricted to, unauthorized advertising, spam, junk mail or chain letters
3. Setting up, participate or encourage participation in pyramid schemes, networks of independent home salespeople or other similar practices.
4. Include inappropriate information in designated fields (E.g. malicious content in comments subject fields)

Personal data / Profile related obligations

The Privacy Policy, included in this Agreement, governs personal data protection and privacy regulations. WorksStickers recommends all Users to protect their personal identifiable or confidential information such as, but not restricted to Email address, phone number, street address, passwords and others. Responsibility for any data that was made available on WorkStickers, whether such data is available to the public, is communicated trough In-mail or is stored on its personal space within the Site, lies solely with the User.

WorkStickers present public information, which can be found, viewed or shared on the open Internet. The User-generated content, unless is set up as Private, can be viewed or used by anyone.  More to, any content set up as Private, although is accordingly marked, can be viewed by your direct WorkStickers contacts and in consequence, shared, even on the open Internet. There for, any information that you would like to keep confidential or if the result of publishing it constitute an infringement of intellectual property or any other third party rights, should not be published on WorkStickers. 

Users are also solely responsible to: 

1. Provide accurate information in regard to a natural person or registered organization, when creating a user profile and not create a false identity on WorkStickers or misrepresent an organization by including information for which they do not have a legal authorization to disclose. More to, WorkStickers reserves it's right to remove any user name if we believe that it violates this Agreement or infringes upon a third party’s identity or intellectual property rights.
2. Create not more than one personal account.
3. Use a profile image which is of their likeness or for which they have a copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights that allow them to disclose it.
4. Provide information in the correct filed (E.g. do not include the telephone number in the email designated field)

 Users are not permitted to:

1. Collect, use, copy, transfer or share any information, including, but not limited to, personally identifiable information obtained trough WorkStickers except as per the limitations included in this Agreement or if the owner of such information expressly permits it. 
2. Let anyone else access their WorkStickers account, share password or do anything else which might compromise the security of their account.

Copyright related obligations

WorkStickers brand encompasses words, phrases, symbols, structures and designs that are associated with WorkStickers or the services it provides. Unless permitted by this Agreement or expressly authorized by WorkStickers, Users are prohibited to:

1. Copy, distribute (such as but not restricted to publishing, broadcasting, displaying ) , license, sell or in any way utilize any information, content or data obtained directly or indirectly from WorkStickers (excluding content posted by themselves)

2. Remove, modify, cover or other wise obscure any logos, trademarks, brand assets or any other forms of intellectual property rights notices contained in or on WorkStickers, including but not restricted to those belonging to WorkStickers, WorkStickers users or third parties with which WorkStickers entered into a written agreement ( this includes, but is not limited to Advertisers and their materials )

3.  State or imply, directly or indirectly that they represent, are affiliated or are endorsed by WorkStickers and, in consequence assert or infringe on any rights over the WorkStickers brand, unless is expressly authorized by WorkStickers. This includes but is not limited to:

• Selling, trading, renting or in any way transmitting access or usage rights over any information found on or related to WorkStickers. 
• Using WorkStickers brand in any business name, title or job function, email,  text or visual presentation

4. Participate, directly or indirectly, in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or functions of WorkStickers.

Legal Disputes, Arbitration and Litigations

Any rights of the parties, claim, cause of action or disputes arising out of or relating to this Agreement, with or without regard to conflict of law provisions, shall be adjudged exclusively in a court of law located within the UAE and shall be governed by the RAK Investment Authority International Business Companies Regulations 2006, regardless of your country of origin or where you access WorkStickers, except as otherwise agreed by the parties or through binding non-appearance-based arbitration. Any and all claims, disputes or controversies arising under, out of, or in connection with the agreement, which the parties shall be unable to resolve within sixty (60) days, shall be mediated in good faith. The party raising such dispute shall promptly advise the other party of such claim, dispute or controversy in a writing, which describes in reasonable detail the nature of such dispute.  By not later than fifteen (15) business days after recipient has received such notice of dispute, each party shall have selected for itself a representative who shall have the authority to bind such party, and shall additionally have advised the other party in writing of the name and title of such representative.  By not later than thirty (30) business days after such notice of dispute, the party against whom the dispute shall be raised shall select a mediation firm and such representatives shall schedule a date with such firm for a mediation hearing.  The parties shall enter into good faith mediation and shall share the costs equally.  If the representatives of the parties have not been able to resolve the dispute within thirty (30) business days after such mediation hearing, the parties shall have the right to pursue any other remedies legally available to them.  For the purpose of litigating all such claims you hereby agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located in UAE. Notwithstanding the above, you agree that Workstickers shall still be allowed to apply for equitable remedy (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.

Workstickers shall be indemnified and held harmless from and against any damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) in the eventuality of any claim related to a User actions or content. WorkStickers prohibits any offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable content or actions and such can not be held liable for Users conduct, whether online or offline.

Mutual rights of termination

WorkStickers may terminate at its sole discretion this Agreement and any User account, at any time, with or without prior notice.

WorkStickers may choose to restrict or suspend access or baring future usage of its services if it deems that any behavior is contrary to the purpose of this Agreement.

The User may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause. The User may deliver notice of termination using the Email address: and shall include the User’s registered name and an email address of the User. The user shall allow a period of fifteen (15) business days for processing of such request before the termination comes in to effect.

Language

These Terms and Conditions of Use were negotiated and written in English. Any inconsistency between the Terms and Conditions of Use as expressed in English and any other language shall, to the full extent permitted by applicable law, be resolved by reference to the English version.

Amendments to this Agreement

WorkStickers reserves it's right to modify, supplement or replace the terms of the Agreement, with or without notice and shall be effective upon posting them on the website.  Registering an Account, accessing or using WorkStickers platform or services indicates your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions included but not restricted to any published changes or updates to this Document.  If you choose not to agree to any changes or updates to this Terms and Conditions, you can terminate this Agreement at any time.

Potential Other Rights and Obligations

This Agreement may not include provisions related to rights you may have or obligations governed by local laws. In the event of any non-compliance of this Agreement with any applicable legal provisions, The User shall deliver a written notice in this regard to WorkStickers and allow a period of fifteen (15) business days for processing.  Under such circumstances, you shall not seek the restrain of the operation of WorkStickers and its services neither pennant injunction, rescission of contracts neither any other equitable relief. 

FORCE MAJEURE

WorkStickers shall not be liable for any temporary or permanent unavailability of services, delay, failure in performance, loss or damage due to: fire, explosion, power blackout, earthquake, flood, the elements, embargo, labor disputes, acts of civil or military authority, war, acts of terrorism, national or Inter-national health risks, events described by the legal term as acts of God, acts or omissions of carriers or suppliers, acts of regulatory or governmental agencies, or other causes beyond such party's reasonable control.