Updated 25-Apr-2022
Welcome to Buzzzy. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this site. Thank you.
This site is operated by Buzzzy Limited (Buzzzy, we, our or us). Buzzzy is registered in Puerto Rico. Our registered address is at 165 Ponce de Leon Ave. STE 201, San Juan, PR US 00917.
These terms and conditions (terms) govern your use of our website at buzzzy.com (site).
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to them, you must not use our site.
Our site is a platform operated by us to facilitate the introduction of freelancers to client organizations who need help with a project. If you register on our site as a freelancer, additional terms and conditions which govern our services to freelancers will apply to you, and you’ll be shown these as part of the process of agreeing assignments. If you are using our site as a client organization to book freelancers for your project, terms and conditions which govern how you use our services for that will apply to you. You’ll be shown these as part of the sign-up process, or we may have agreed them separately with you.
When you use our site, you will be providing us with personal data about you. You can see how we use personal data by going to our Privacy Policy. Depending on whether you are a freelancer or a user at a client organization, we will be using your personal data in slightly different ways. So please do take a look at our Privacy Policy.
When you register for our site you will be asked to create your user credentials. You are responsible for all use of our site associated with your user credentials.
You agree to keep your user credentials secret. We may disable any user credentials, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you believe or suspect that your user credentials have been compromised, please notify us at privacy@buzzzy.com and update your user credentials immediately. Thank you.
We do not guarantee that our site will always be available or be uninterrupted or error free. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We will not be responsible to you if for any reason our site is unavailable to you.
We may update, change, suspend or withdraw our site, in whole or part, at any time for our own business reasons. We will try and give you reasonable notice, “30 days”, of any suspension or withdrawal. Please refer to the standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We will not be liable to any third party for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.
We have the right to remove any content you place on our site if, in our opinion, it does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and platform, being any and all rights under patent law, copyright law, trade secret law, trade mark law, and any and all other proprietary rights.
Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such content for any purpose. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, distribute and publish such uploaded content.
Our site and platform are protected by international laws, including copyright, authors' rights and database right laws. The compilation of all content included in or made available through our site and platform is the property of Buzzzy and is protected by US and international copyright and database right laws.
You may not extract and/or re-utilize parts of the content of our site or platform without our express written permission (for example, as set out in the separate freelancer terms or client terms). You may not utilize any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools to extract (whether once or many times) for re-utilization any substantial parts of the content of our site or platform, without our express written permission. You may also not create and/or publish your own database that features substantial parts of our site or platform (e.g. our freelancer database) without our express written permission.
Subject to your compliance with these terms we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and make personal and internal business use of our site and platform. This licence does not include any resale or commercial use of our site or platform, or their contents, or any collection and use of any freelancer listings or their underlying content (such as freelancer portfolios); any derivative use of our site or platform; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
All rights not expressly granted to you in these terms are reserved and retained by us or our licensors, suppliers or other content providers.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether expressed or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up-to-date.
In particular (but without limitation) we, our suppliers and licensors give no warranty that (i) our site will meet your requirements; (ii) our site will be provided on an uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free basis; (iii) any information obtained by you using our site will be accurate, up-to-date or reliable; or (iv) any defects or errors will be corrected.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by US law.
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with use of, or inability to use, our site; or use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
Please note that in particular, we will not be liable for loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; business interruption or loss or damage to computers, devices or any software or data; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation. Nor will we be liable for any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.
We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to any liability relating to any freelancer assignment, as governed by its relevant terms.
You will protect, indemnify, defend and hold harmless us, our directors, officers, investors, employees, agents, partners, suppliers and licensors from any third-party claim or demand, including reasonable lawyers' fees, relating to or arising from (a) your uploading any content to our site; (b) your use of our site and activities and behaviours occurring during such use of our site; (c) any violation by you of these terms; or (d) your violation of any third-party rights. This obligation will survive the termination of these terms and your use of our site.
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
If you do not comply with these terms we may suspend or end your right to use of our site until you comply. If it is not possible for you to comply, we may end your use of our site completely.
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from viruses. You are responsible for ensuring your own virus protection measures.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will end immediately.
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. They were last updated on 25-Apr-2022.
If any of the terms and conditions are found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the rest of these terms and conditions shall remain in full force and effect.
Only Buzzzy and you shall be entitled to enforce these terms. No third party shall be entitled to enforce any of these terms and conditions.
These terms and conditions set out the entire agreement between you and Buzzzy with respect to your use of the site and supersede any and all representations, communications and prior agreements (written or oral) made by you or Buzzzy in relation to your use of our site.
These terms of use, their subject matter and formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by US law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Puerto Rico and the United States.
To contact us, please email us at info@buzzzy.com.
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