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TERMS & CONDITIONS...

WEBSITE OWNER AND BINDING OF TERMS

 

 

Welcome to Quiet Value Woman [https://www.qvwoman.com].

 

This website is for women and people who identify with the female gender. It is a member based platform bringing under one space everything from stories and poems to anecdotes and personal experiences aimed at opening up networking and interactive opportunities for women. (It is owned and operated by Aparna Saligrama). We've put together here some detailed terms and conditions. You should read and understand Quiet Value Woman's (QVW henceforth)Terms and Conditions as well as Privacy policy before you start using the website and its content. By accessing or using the website of our service, you approve that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms.

 

 

WHO CAN USE QUIET VALUE

 

In order to use our website and/or receive our services, you must be at least 13 years of age enter into these Terms as a binding agreement. You are not allowed to use this website and/or receive services if doing so is prohibited in your country or under any law or regulation applicable to you. By signing up on QVW, you agree to receive occasionally promotional emails and announcements. 

 

 

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

 

Under these Terms of Use, Quiet Value  Woman (QVW henceforth) owns all the intellectual property rights and materials contained in this Website. You are granted limited license only for purposes of viewing the material contained on this Website. (Images and / or other materials from third party sources when used, are clearly mentioned and credits attributed therewith. All images used from external parties have been obtained with permission from pertinent sources. Those that do not have any credit attributed to them are royalty free. Members who upload their own images or other images on their posts are doing so at their own volition and QV Woman cannot be held responsible for their views or images used. )

 

The website and all materials therein or transferred thereby, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music and all Intellectual Property Rights related thereto, are the exclusive property of Quiet Value Woman & its owner.

 

 Unless otherwise mentioned explicitly, nothing in these Terms shall be deemed to create a license in or under any such Intellectual Property Rights.

 

RESTRICTIONS

 

 You agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works thereof. You can only edit or delete your own contributions to blogs and forums.

 

You are specifically restricted from all of the following:

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  • Publishing any QVW material in any other media without prior explicit permission;

  • Selling, sublicensing and/or otherwise commercializing any material on this website;

  • Publicly performing and/or showing any Website material without explicit written permission from the owner of the website; 

  • Using the QVW website in any way that is or may be damaging to this website;

  • Using this website in any way that impacts user access to this website (including ALL the pages on the site);

  • Using the Quiet Value Woman website contrary to applicable laws and regulations, or in any way may cause harm to the website, or to any person or business entity;

  • Engaging in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to this Website;

  • Using this Website to engage in any advertising or marketing unless explicit written permission is obtained from the owner of Quiet Value Woman.

 

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RIGHT TO SUSPEND OR CANCEL USER ACCOUNT

 

We may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend your access to the service without notice and liability for any reason, including if in our sole determination you violate any provision of these Terms or any applicable law or regulations.

 

Further, we hold final say on content published by contributors / members and any piece deemed to not stay on topic or purposefully hurtful or not abiding by our basic rules will be removed. 

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This website is meant for knowledge dissemination and users who are disruptive or disrespectful of this as determined by us will have their membership terminated. You may discontinue use and request to cancel your account and/or any services at any time.

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AUTHENTICITY

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In order to keep things secure and authentic every member is required to furnish an image of themselves and an email that is valid and one they access and have access to. We will use this email to contact you. Your image is for sake of authenticity alone and will NOT be shared with any other media platform, partners  or by QVW and its sister affiliates for any reason. 

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POSTING AND ASKING A QUESTION POLICY

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You can use any category to post your thoughts and ask questions pertaining to that category. You can post images and short videos but be warned, videos may take longer to upload and stream depending on your geographic location. Consider embedding links for videos than posting a video directly. 

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Any post or question that is hateful, containing profanity, racism, or demeaning language or content will not be posted. It will be deleted and membership suspended until the member contacts QVW admin and sorts things out. A second abuse results in permanent ban from the site. 

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Quiet Value Woman or its owner(s) cannot be held responsible for the opinion and views of our members who post and comment.. We ensure that that posts conform to our overall terms of use, post apolitical and areligious** views and are non offensive to any one group or individual in an overt manner. Quiet Value Woman however cannot be held responsible for individual beliefs and opinions of individual posts and comments.

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We prefer you post in English for now. As we expand our services, we will look into including more languages.

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GUEST BLOGS

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The opinions of guest bloggers are their own and Quiet Value Woman or its owner(s) cannot be held responsible for this. We ensure that the guest bloggers conform to our overall terms of use, post apolitical and areligious** views and are non offensive to any one group or individual in an overt manner. Quiet Value Woman however cannot be held responsible for individual beliefs and opinions of our guest bloggers.

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Guest bloggers please note that by agreeing to write for Quiet Value Woman, you will not reproduce the same content on another portal without proper attribution to us. You are welcome to link this, or even copy/paste the entire content, as long as you mention clearly that this piece first appeared on Quiet Value Woman. Failing to do so will result in your blog being deleted immediately. 

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COMMENTING POLICY

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QVW Reserves the right to approve, disapprove or delete any comment. This includes comments that are posted as SPAM, including but not limited to, comments that are posted purely for SEO, linkbacks or keyword optimization.

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All comments containing profanity, racism, hateful or demeaning language will not be posted. For now, comments that are not in English will not be accepted, but we are working on expanding this to other languages as our user database grows. You are free to critique material posted and point out errors and irregularities as long as they are legitimate and constructive.

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INDEMNITY

 

By Using Quiet Value Woman, you agree to indemnify and hold Quiet Value Woman, its owner and any/all contributors harmless from any demands, loss, liability, claims or expenses (including attorneys’ fees), made against them by any third party due to, or arising out of, or in connection with your use of the website or any of the services offered on the website.

 

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LIABILITY

 

Under no circumstances shall QVW & those contributing to it, be held liable for anything arising out of or in any way connected with your use of this Website whether such liability is under contract.  QVW and its owner, contributors shall not be held liable for any indirect, consequential or special liability arising out of or in any way related to your use of this Website.

 

Further, opinions and thoughts expressed by QVW contributors are their own and QVW cannot be held responsible for it.

 

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall QVW and its owner, be liable for any indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including without limitation, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to the use of, or inability to use, the service.

 

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, QVW and its owner assume no liability or responsibility for any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content; (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to or use of our service; and (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information stored therein.

 

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RIGHT TO CHANGE TERMS

 

We reserve the right to modify these terms from time to time entirely at our sole discretion. Therefore, you should review these page periodically. When we change the Terms in a material manner, we will notify you that material changes have been made to the Terms. Your continued use of the Website or our service after any such change constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms. If you do not agree to any of these terms or any future version of the Terms, do not use or access (or continue to access) the website or the service.

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GOVERNING LAW

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These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Illinois, U.S.A. without regard to conflict of laws provisions. If any provision or provisions of these terms shall be held to be invalid, illegal, unenforceable or in conflict with the law of any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, and shall remain in full force and effect.

 

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These Terms will be applied fully and affect to your use of this Website. By using this Website, you agreed to accept all terms and conditions written in here. You must not use this Website if you disagree with any of the Terms and Conditions mentioned here.

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**Note: Apolitical and areligious does not mean you cannot mention anything religious or political. It means you cannot give an opinion that is in support of, or could be construed as propaganda material about any religion, politician or political party. We do not tolerate any talk around how one religion or one political party is superior or better to another and so on. We have created this as a safe space for our members and readers, to be free of petty mindedness and simply enjoy information and learn and share. Anyone found flouting this rule will be immediately banned from our platform. 

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PRIVACY POLICY

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This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for qvwoman.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website.

 

It will notify you of the following:

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  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.

  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

  3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.

  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

 

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

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We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you explicitly ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

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Your Access to and Control Over Information

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You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.

  • Change/correct any data we have about you.

  • Have us delete any data we have about you.

  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

 

You have the option of making your member profile public or not. Should you choose to make it public, you assume all responsibility herewith regarding information you give on your profile and QVW assumes no role in what you enter in your profile.

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Outside Links

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This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

 

 

Cookies

 

We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

 

 

Security, Information Storage and Access.

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This website has been created using Wix and as such all the materials are on the Wix server. The information is secure per Wix's conditions and assurances. Quiet Value is in full compliance of Wix's policies and Terms of Use. (Please read Wix's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for further clarifications.)

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We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

We are not at this point soliciting donations or membership charges and as such NO credit card details or any financial transaction expected from you. We do however take security seriously and have taken measures to ensure that. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline.  The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

 

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at +1- 815-900-2331 or via email. You can also use the Contact Us Form at the bottom of the page.

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