Terms of Agreement
Stock Market Advisors - Terms of Agreement
SOC, (Stock, Options, and Currency), Advisors Terms of Agreement
THIS AGREEMENT WAS LAST UPDATED ON June 30, 2009.
Welcome to SOCAdvisors.com, Stocks, Options and Currency Advisors, Inc. and its affiliates. It is very important that you read carefully the following Terms of Use and agree with them before you register. If you visit or register SOCAdvisors.com, you accept these conditions.
Stocks, Options, and Currency Advisors, Inc. (SOC Advisors) provides its registered members with a number of benefits, including access to selected articles, web casts, monthly newsletters, Market Picks and selected tools from third parties and other services (collectively, the " Membership Services"), for their individual usage, subject to compliance with the terms and conditions set forth herein.
AGREEMENT
BY ACCESSING AND USING THIS SOCADVISORS.COM WEB SITE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE.
In consideration of SOC Advisors providing you with these Membership Services, you agree to comply with the following Terms of Use for Membership. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions contained in the Terms of Use, you may not become a member, and SOC Advisors does not consent to provide you with access to SOC Advisors' Membership Services.
By using this web site, which is a service from SOC Advisors, you are representing to SOC Advisors that you are at least 18 years old (or the minimum legal age in the jurisdiction in which you are viewing this SOCAdvisors.com website). You may not use this SOCAdvisors.com web site for any unlawful purpose. You may print a copy of these Terms of Use for your reference. You understand and agree that SOC Advisors may discontinue or change this SOC Advisors.com website at any time, without notice, or impose fees, charges or other conditions for use of the SOCAdvisors.com web site (with reasonable notice). You also understand and agree that SOC Advisors may discontinue or restrict your use of this SOCAdvisors.com web site for any reason without notice.
CHANGES TO TERMS OF USE FOR MEMBERSHIP OR MEMBERSHIP SERVICES
SOC Advisors may change any term in these Terms of Use at any time, without notice to you. The changes will appear in these Terms of Use, and your use of this SOCAdvisors.com web site after any changes have been posted will constitute your agreement to the modified Terms of Use and all of the changes. Your use of the Membership Services after such changes will be deemed acceptance of such changes. SOC Advisors operates in a constantly changing business environment. The Terms of Use, as well as our Privacy Policy may change also. Therefore, you should check these Terms of Use frequently when you access this SOCAdvisors.com web site to see recent changes.
Additionally SOC Advisors reserves the right at any time to: Change the Membership Service, including eliminating or discontinuing any content or feature of the Membership Service; or impose fees, charges or other conditions for use of the Membership Service (with reasonable notice).
If any of the terms contained in the Terms of Use become unacceptable to you in the future, you may cancel your membership by notifying our Customer Membership Service Department by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please allow at least five business days for such cancellation to become effective.
REGISTRATION AND PRIVACY
In order to become a member and gain access to SOC Advisores’ Membership Service, you must choose a unique (and inoffensive) User Name and password, as required on the registration page. If the information you provide is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete or outdated, or we have reasonable grounds to suspect it is, SOC Advisors has the right to suspend or terminate your membership, and to prohibit your current or future use of the Membership Service. SOC Advisors' policy with respect to the collection and use of your personal information is set forth in our Privacy Policy.
As a member of the SOC Advisors.com web site, you also have certain other obligations relating to your account:
§ You may not transfer or resell your use of or access to the Membership Services to any third party;
§ You are responsible for all activities that occur under your account;
§ You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your User Name and password; and
§ You agree to notify us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you become aware of any possible unauthorized use(s) of your account or any possible breach of security, including loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure of your User Name or password.
USER CONDUCT
When using the Membership Services you may not republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute content available through the Membership Services to online bulletin boards, message boards, newsgroups, chat rooms, or in other any manner, without our prior written permission. Modification of the content or use of the content for any purpose other than your own personal, noncommercial use is a violation of our copyright and other proprietary rights, and can subject you to legal liability.
You must abide by the following rules in connection with your use of the Membership Services:
§ You agree not to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law in connection with your use of the Membership Services. This includes, among other things, any securities law or regulation.
§ You agree not to restrict or inhibit any other visitor from using the Membership Service, including, without limitation, by means of "hacking"or defacing any portion of any of our web sites;
§ You agree not to express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent;
§ You agree not to modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of SOC Advisors' web site or the Membership Services;
§ You agree not to "frame" or "mirror" any content available through SOC Advisors' web site and the Membership Services without our prior written authorization;
§ You agree not to 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 through SOC Advisors' websites or the Membership Service; or
§ You agree not to harvest or collect information about users of the Membership Services without their express consent.
§ You agree not to login to SOCAdvisors.com from more than one computer at the same time.
FORUMS
Certain areas of this SOC Advisors.com web site available through the Member Services enable you to access online forums where you can post messages("comments") and read messages posted by other users (the"Forums"). Some of the Forums topics are selected by SOC Advisors and others are created by users. SOC Advisors does not endorse, and specifically disclaims any responsibility or liability for, any content posted on the Forums, whether the topic is first selected by SOC Advisors or a user. The Forums are a free service provided to users of SOC Advisors. By posting a message in the Forums, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions. If you do not want to be bound by these terms, then do not use the Forums.
You agree to be fully responsible for your own postings and agree to access anduse the Forums at your own risk on an as-is basis. While SOC Advisors has no obligation to monitor the Forums, it may, from time to time, monitor the Forums to determine whether postings comply with these Terms of Use, to guide the discussion on the Forums, for other reasons or no reason at all.
SOC Advisors cannot and does not guarantee that it will post or continue topost every message or other content you or other users submit to the Forum. Also, SOC Advisors reserves the right to edit or abridge postings for any reason and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or toedit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or inpart, in SOC Advisors' sole discretion.
You must abide by the following rules in connection with your use of the Membership Services:
§ You agree to post only messages that relate to the subject matter of the Forum;
§ You agree not to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others;
§ You agree not to impersonate any person or entity, including, for example, an SOC Advisor employee or officer, a forum leader, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
§ You agree not to post messages that contain material that is inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, or indecent. This includes any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. You agree to give attribution to others when you quote or paraphrase materials owned by others, and to limit your quotations to no more than 50 words;
§ You agree not to upload files, or cause users to upload files, that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may adversely affect the operation of another's computer;
§ You agree not to advertise or promote any goods or services in the Forums. This includes, among other things, "junk mail","spam", "chain letters", and "pyramid schemes;"
§ You agree not to conduct contests or distribute chain letters through the Forums;
§ You agree not to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law in connection with your use of the Forums. This includes, among other things, any securities law or regulation; and
§ By posting a message, uploading a file, or engaging in any other form of communication through a Forum, you are granting SOC Advisors a perpetual, royalty-free and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer, and sell any such messages, files or communications.
You agree to indemnify and hold SOC Advisors and its affiliates and their respective, officers, directors and employees harmless from any claims, damages, losses or costs (including reasonable attorney's fees) that arise out of any of your postings and any material contained therein.
What to do if you believe a posting violates these Terms of Use:
If you believe that a posting in a Forum violates these Terms of Use, we encourage you to contact SOC Advisors by sending an email using This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it that identifies the applicable posting and the screen identity of the person who made the posting.SOC Advisors cannot guarantee that any action will be taken as a result of your email.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
This SOCAdvisors.com web site contains hyperlinks to web sites operated by unrelated or related parties other than SOC Advisors. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only. SOC Advisors does not control these sites and is not responsible for their contents or policies. You agree not to hold SOC Advisors responsible for the content or operation of such websites. A hyperlink from this SOCAdvisors.com web site to another web site does not imply or mean that SOC Advisors endorses the content on that web site orthe operator or operations of that site. You are solely responsible for determining the extent to which you may use any content at any other web sites to which you might link from this SOCAdvisors.com web site. This web site may contain descriptions of and references to products, services, and firms. These references do not imply our endorsement of those products, services or entities. Under no circumstances shall any of our providers be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on or exposure to information obtained from or contained on the web site. Rather, you are responsible to evaluate the information, advice, and other content available through the web site and any products, services or firms referenced here.
If you wish to make purchases from an area of this SOCAdvisors.com web site or a "co-branded" web site operated by a person other than SOC Advisors (a "Co-Branded Site"), you may be asked by the merchant or operator of the Co-Branded Site or other person from whom you are making the purchase tosupply certain information, including credit card, debit card, or other payment mechanism information. You agree not to hold SOC Advisors liable for any lossor damage of any sort incurred as a result of any such dealings with any Co-Branded Site or merchant or operator of the Co-Branded Site or other person from whom you are making the purchase. You agree that all information you provide in connection with such purchase will be accurate, complete andcurrent. You agree to pay all charges incurred by users of your credit card, debit card, or other payment mechanism at the prices in effect when such charges are incurred. You also will pay any applicable taxes, if any, relating to any purchases you make. Each Co-Branded Site should contain a description ofthe site's privacy policy regarding any personal identifying information you may be required to disclose as part of the purchase. If it does not, we cannot advise you to proceed with such purchase.
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