Terms and conditions

Introduction

Please read the following terms and conditions of use (“Terms”) carefully as the Terms are a legal agreement between you and Silicon Valley Insight Inc ("Silicon Valley Insight" or "SVI" or "we" or "our" or "us"). If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not access or otherwise use this Site.

By accessing or using any portion of Silicon Valley Insight’s website, with its homepage located at www.siliconvalleyinsight.com, (the “Site”) you consent and agree that your access to or use of the Site is acceptance of these Terms and your access to or use of the Site is subject to and governed by the Terms and all applicable laws.

Silicon Valley Insight may, without notice to you, at any time revise these Terms and information contained on the Site by updating this posting. Silicon Valley Insight may also make alterations to, changes, or deletions of any product, service or program described on this Site at any time and for any reason without notice.

These Terms are effective as of October 27, 2021.

Privacy

Silicon Valley Insight’s Privacy Policy [link to Privacy Policy page] also governs your access or other use of the Site. Silicon Valley Insight’s Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by this reference.

Links

The Site may, from time to time, contain hyperlinks (“Link”) to other websites operated and maintained by unrelated or related parties other than Silicon Valley Insight. Such Links are provided for reference and convenience only and the presence of such Link on this Site does not imply or mean that Silicon Valley Insight endorses the content, policies, operator, or operation of these websites. Silicon Valley Insight does not control and is not responsible for the contents, availability, or policies of any website accessed via a Link, including any Links to social media sites (such as LinkedIn or Twitter) even if the Link is to a page where a Silicon Valley Insight employee participates in their personal capacity. Silicon Valley Insight makes no warranties, representations, or other commitments about any non-Silicon Valley Insight websites. Furthermore, Silicon Valley Insight is not a party to or responsible for any access, use or transactions you may engage in with third parties, even if you learn of such parties from this Site. You acknowledge and agree that Silicon Valley Insight is not liable for the websites associated with Links on this Site and your sole remedy for use, access, or transactions on such a website is against that website or its owner.

Third party, non-Silicon Valley Insight websites, even those that may contain Silicon Valley Insight’s name or logo but are simply linked from this Site, that are accessed via a Link are independent of Silicon Valley Insight. It is solely your responsibility to protect yourself from any and all viruses, potentially destructive programs, or use of your information as you deem appropriate.

Your conduct and responsibility

You agree that your access or use of the Site:

• Will comply with and in no way violate the laws of the jurisdiction from which you are accessing the Site or any applicable local, state, national or international law in connection with your use of the Site;
• Will ensure that your representations contained in these Terms are accurate;
• Will only submit information that you are legally entitled to submit;
• Will not collect or use information about users of the Site without such users express consent;
• Will not republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute or re-appropriate content available on the Site, whether posted by Silicon Valley Insight or by third parties, without the express, prior, written permission of the applicable party and proper attribution;
• Will not restrict or inhibit any other visitor of the Site, including without limitation, by means of “hacking” or defacing any portion of the Site;
• Will not express or imply that your statements, or actions regarding use or access to the Site are endorsed or condoned by Silicon Valley Insight;
• Will not modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Site;
• Will not "frame" or "mirror" any content available on the Site; or
• Will not use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to download, retrieve, index, "data mine," or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the content available on the Site.

Further you represent:

• You are responsible for all activities that occur or are related to your access or use of the Site;
• You are eighteen years or older (or the minimum legal age in the jurisdiction in which you are viewing this Site) and legally able to enter into these Terms; and
• You have the lawful right to make any and all submissions you make to the Site.

Confidentiality

Unless expressly stated otherwise herein, any and all information submitted by you through this Site, including without limitation Comments as defined herein, will be deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary and Silicon Valley Insight will have no obligation or duty to maintain the confidentiality of such submissions. By sending Silicon Valley Insight any information or material, you grant Silicon Valley Insight an unrestricted, irrevocable license to copy, reproduce, publish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, publicly display, perform, disclose in any way, modify, create derivative works from, and otherwise freely use, those materials or information. You also agree that Silicon Valley Insight is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques that you send us for any purpose. Silicon Valley Insight may, without any obligation to you for compensation, accounting, or otherwise, develop, use and freely disclose or publish similar ideas as contained in your submission and Silicon Valley Insight has no liability to you for disclosure of such submissions or ideas contained therein. Because of the open nature of the Internet and availability of this Site on the Internet, we recommend that you not submit information you consider confidential or proprietary. In the event that Silicon Valley Insight has a pre-existing business relationship with you, you should understand that any such submission to this Site (unless expressly stated otherwise herein) will be considered a public disclosure and not subject to any agreement related to confidentiality.

Warranty

Silicon Valley Insight makes no warranties or representations of any kind concerning this Site or the information contained herein and, without limiting the foregoing, the Information is not promised or guaranteed to be correct, current, complete and may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Furthermore, Silicon Valley Insight makes no assurances that any reported problems will be resolved, even should Silicon Valley Insight elect to provide information with the goal of addressing an issue. Accordingly, you should confirm the accuracy and completeness of all posted information before making any decision related to any services, products, or other matters described in this site.

THIS SITE AND THE INFORMATION, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES CONTAINED IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND SILICON VALLEY INSIGHT EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHER WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE (EVEN IF ADVISED OF THAT PURPOSE), INFORMATIONAL CONTENT, SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, INTERFERENCE WITH ENJOYMENT, OR OTHERWISE. SILICON VALLEY INSIGHT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. SILICON VALLEY INSIGHT DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS WEBSITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, OR OTHERWISE.

USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT IF YOU DOWNLOAD OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN MATERIALS, INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, SOFTWARE, PROGRAMS, OR SERVICES, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT MAY RESULT, INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA OR DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM.