We help Scouts discover and Innovators commercialize great technologies; we do not buy or sell them on behalf of third parties.  We do not transfer legal ownership of any goods (including intellectual property) from any seller to any buyer, and nothing in these Terms of Use shall modify the governing provisions of NY Uniform Com. Code § 2-401(2) and Uniform Com. Code § 2-401(2) under which legal ownership of an item is transferred upon its delivery by its seller to its buyer. 

Only individuals over eighteen years old who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law and have agreed to our terms for Scouts or Innovators (as applicable) may use the TechScout.com Service. If you do not qualify, please do not visit our site or use the TechScout.com Service. 

We may in our sole discretion temporarily or indefinitely suspend your use of the TechScout.com Service. 

We respect your privacy and desire to keep your interests confidential. Our policy is simple: we will not disclose that you have registered for theTechScout.com Service or your activity in the Boutique (e.g., that you are interested in a particular innovation) to a third party without your consent, except as reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with legal process or (ii) to enforce these Terms of Use.  

At your written request, we will remove your Technologies from our website, however if these Tecchnologies have already been distributed to Scouts (example, through a Personalized Catalog), we cannot reclaim these distributed documents.

We may modify information that you submit to us in order to ensure that your identity is concealed in any Innovation Report that presents your technology.

You shall be solely responsible for your own Public User Content and the consequences of posting or publishing it. You understand and agree that any loss or damage of any kind that occurs as a result of the use of any Public User Content that you send, upload, download, stream, post, transmit, display, or otherwise make available or access through your use of the TechScout Service, is solely your responsibility. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any Public User Content that you or any third party posts or transmits over the TechScout Service. 

Note that your identity will revealed to other users of the TechScout.com Service when you use certain publicly accessible features on our InnovatorCircle, such as our message boards, and that the name and company of new members of our InnovatorCircle will be temporarily displayed on the InnovatorCircle homepage when they join the InnovatorCircle.

For the purposes of this these Terms of Use, “Intellectual Property Rights” means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights, and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory, or other jurisdiction.

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You agree to evaluate and bear all risks associated with use of any content transmitted through the TechScout.com Service by any person, including risk arising from relying on the accuracy, completeness or utility of such content.  You agree that we shall not under any circumstances be liable in any way for (i) posting or enabling anyone to post content through the TechScout.com Service, including without limitation for any errors or omissions in any content, (ii) any losses or damages of any kind incurred as a result of use of content posted or transmitted through the TechScout.com Service or (iii) any investment decisions based on content transmitted through the TechScout.com Service.

You agree to promptly information regarding you and your company that you provide to us when you register to use the TechScout.com Service so that it remains true, accurate and complete.

You agree to or remove any other out-of-date and inaccurate information that you submit to us or post on the TechScout.com Service.

You agree to fully comply with the Universal Terms on our homepage.  If you wish to commercialize a technology, you will agree to our Commercialization Guidelines, which are found in “Terms” in the general navigation of the InnovatorCircle.  If you do not wish to commercialize a technology, the Commercialization Guidelines shall not apply.

Last Update Date: 06 Nov 2013 12:21