Terms of Use

 A. INTRODUCTION.

In this statement, the JONAS means the Jonas Software and includes its related bodies, which may be referred to as "JONAS", "Department", "us" or "we"; and "you" means any and all users of or visitors to this Web site.

JONAS makes available a variety of resources (collectively the "Services") through this site. These Services are subject to the following terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions"), which are legal obligations. The Services include any updates, new features, enhancements and the addition of new Web properties.

The purpose of these terms and conditions are:

to help you enhance your use of the internet and the services accessible from the Web site by preventing unacceptable use,
to protect the network, to comply with applicable laws and to act as a responsible resource for information pertaining to the industries regulated by the Department. These terms and conditions do not aim to place unnecessary and onerous restrictions on your use of our Web site or network, inasmuch as you are responsible for your use of the services and content accessible from our Web site.

B. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

By using the Services, you agree to be bound by, and to comply with, these Terms and Conditions and any other rules or guidelines which we may implement for any individual Web site or Service. JONAS reserves the right to update these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice to you. You may review the most current version of the Terms and Conditions by clicking the hypertext link located at the bottom of our Web pages.

C. CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE.

1. ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES

You are prohibited from making use of our network to engage in any illegal or unlawful activity.
These include, but are not limited to the transmission of content which:

violates any foreign, federal, state or local law or regulation;
carries any defamatory, discriminatory or obscene material;
carries child pornography;
carries religious or racial slurs;
is used in connection with any infringement of another persons intellectual property rights (for example copyright and trademark);
engages in the transmission of pirated software;
threatens or encourages bodily harm;
destroys tangible or intangible property;
use of the Services for any purpose prohibited by these Terms and Conditions;
engage in any conduct that JONAS, in its sole discretion, believes is or may be harmful to another user, visitor or to any other party, directly or indirectly;
using the Services in a manner that could impair, disable, overburden or damage any JONAS server, or the network(s) connected to any JONAS server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Services;
uses the network to collect or attempt to collect personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent; and
attempting to gain unauthorized access to any Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any JONAS server or to any of the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means.

2. FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY

You are prohibited from making use of our network to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services or to offer or solicit for any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes" and "chain letters"

3. NETWORK SECURITY BREACHES

You are prohibited from using our network to attempt to, or penetrate, or gain unauthorized access or circumvent any security measures implemented by JONAS. Such activities may result in criminal or civil proceedings being instituted against you, it being understood that JONAS will co-operate with investigations being conducted by the administrators of other Web sites or networks in the investigation of suspected circumventions or penetrations on their Web sites or networks by you from the JONAS network.

4. DISRUPTION

You are prohibited from using our network to disrupt the normal functioning of the network, the Web site or any part of the internet which includes, but is not limited to, all manner of "denial of service attacks", attempted password cracking and utilizing another subscribers account without that subscribers permission.

5. USE OF PROPRIETARY MATERIAL

You are prohibited from using the network to obtain material protected by inter alia copyright (such as digital images, text and software for example) and trademark, unless you have obtained the written consent of the owner of the protected material. You are, however, entitled to the network to obtain and download materials in the public domain (such as digitized images, text and software for example), provided that such material are clearly marked as available for download in this manner.

D. BREACH OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Your failure to adhere to JONAS terms and conditions of use will constitute a breach of these Web site terms and conditions of use.

If you suspect that another visitor is breaching any of the above terms and conditions, you are requested to report such breach to JONAS at [email protected].

Should you breach any of the above terms and conditions, JONAS shall be entitled, but not obliged to exercise any of its rights that it may have in law and to respond to any complaint lodged by you in one or more of the following manners:

to institute legal proceedings against a subscriber or visitor for specific performance, or for any loss or damage sustained by JONAS (irrespective of whether such loss or damage is consequential, incidental, indirect or special, including, without limitation, business interruption, loss of business information, loss of data or other pecuniary loss, regardless of whether such liability is based on breach of contract, delict, strict liability or otherwise); and
to respond to the compliant in any other manner deemed appropriate by JONAS.

E. REGISTRATION AND PRIVACY.

Certain of the Services may require you to register. You will provide us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You agree to update this data when necessary to keep it current and accurate. You will be solely responsible for choosing and maintaining in confidence your password and user name. JONAS will not be responsible should someone else use your password or account, and you agree to notify JONAS promptly of any unauthorized use of your account or other breach of security.

All registrations become JONAS's exclusive property, and JONAS reserves the right to use all registrations and personally identifiable user information, subject to JONAS's Privacy Policy. Please click here to review our complete Privacy Policy.