XMETHODS TERMS OF SERVICE

These terms apply to all of XMethods services that are publicly provided at no charge , including , but not limited to web service listings, utility services, and demonstration services.

1. XMethods Services are provided to you by XMethods, Inc. under the terms expressed in this document named XMETHODS TERMS OF SERVICE.   By using the service, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms.
2. We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Service from time to time without notice. Please review these Terms of Service from time to time so that you will be apprised of any changes.
3. XMethods reserves the right to change or discontinue the XMethods services at any time with or without notice to you. XMethods shall be in no way liable for any consequence to anyone or anything which results from our decisions regarding continuing, changing, or discontinuing this service.   Further, XMethods shall not be liable for forwarding or retrieving documents.
4. XMethods assumes no liability for any of the data which is stored through the use of XMethods services, be it obscene, offensive, illegal, or if it is an infringement of property rights of anyone.
5. The services and clients listed on XMethods are developed by people over whom XMethods exercises no control.  XMethods does not inspect every service and client before including them on listings.  XMethods accepts no responsibility for the operation of any service or client published by an external party, nor makes any warranty about service and client  function. XMethods accepts no liability for any damage or loss that may result from the usage of any service or client listed on XMethods.  
6. The sites linked to by XMethods are developed by people over whom XMethods exercises no control. XMethods does not screen the sites before including them in the list . Sites linked to by XMethods may include material that some people find objectionable, inappropriate, or offensive. We cannot guarantee that an XMethods listing will not contain objectionable content and assume no responsibility for the content of any site linked to by XMethods.
7. You agree that you are the only person responsible for the security of your account and XMethods is not.
8. The XMethods Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only, unless permission for commercial use has been explicitly granted by XMethods, except for demonstration purposes, as noted below . You may not use the XMethods Services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales. You may not take any feature or listing provided by XMethods and reformat and display or mirror the XMethods home page or results pages on your Web site. You may not "meta-search" XMethods. If you want to make commercial use of the XMethods Services, you must enter into an agreement with XMethods to do so in advance. Please contact us for more information.
9. You may use the XMethods Demo Services for any demonstration purposes.  If you do so, you must provide attribution to XMethods as the source for the service.  We request that you send an email to support@xmethods.net notifying us of which service you plan to demonstrate.
10. You agree that this service comes with no warranty and is "as is" and "as available" only. You assume all risks associated with accepting a service of this kind. Further, XMethods expressly disclaims every type of warranty whether implied or unimplied. Also, XMethods takes no responsibility for damage done to your property as a result of using XMethods services or software. Further if anyone who is an employee or agent of XMethods makes any sort of statement, it shall not be construed as a warranty. If superceded by your jurisdiction's law for XMethods to exclude certain warranties, then only the exclusions allowed by law apply to you.
11. You also agree that XMethods will not be liable for any special, direct, consequential, indirect, or incidental damages which result from use, cost, errors, security breaches, or anything else related to the use of XMethods services. (If it is illegal for us to exclude certain liabilities for you because of your legal jurisdiction, the illegal exclusions do not apply to you.)
12. When using XMethods, you agree to follow U.S. laws regarding transmitting data, and not to make illegal use of the XMethods Services or use it for purposes which are illegal. Further, you agree not to use the Services for transmitting vulgar, obscene, harmful, libelous, abusive, or unlawful material. You agree not to attempt to gain access to other computer systems. Also, you agree not to interfere with anyone else who is a member of XMethods in their use of the XMethods services or other XMethods products. You agree to not transmit anything over XMethods which could cause civil liability against anyone, or break applicable international regulations, international laws, national laws, national regulations, state laws, state regulations, or local laws, or local regulations.
13. You agree to indemnify and hold XMethods and its affiliates, officers, stockholders, and employees harmless from any type of demand or any type of claim which would include attorneys' fees which are reasonable, which are made by any third party as a result of your use of the XMethods Services, be it any type of infringement such as intellectual property or other rights, or other users of XMethods using your computer, or an infringement of these terms of service by you.
14. You agree to be solely and completely responsible for all of your transmissions onto and off of your XMethods, and the contents of those transmissions. XMethods holds the right to terminate your access to the XMethods Services at any time with or without reason, at XMethods' discretion. At the point at which you are terminated you have no further permission to access the XMethods Services and XMethods is not obligated to give you access to any data which you have uploaded or inserted into XMethods in any way.
15. You must understand and agree that all textual, graphical, musical, visual files which are in the XMethods system as well as all of XMethods's software are protected by patents, trademarks, copyrights, service marks, and other property rights and laws. Therefore you must have appropriate authorization before reproducing, distributing, copying, or taking and changing any of these contents. Further, your use of the XMethods Services must be in accord and governed by all appropriate state, federal, local, international, and national laws and regulations.
16. If anything which is inserted into this terms of service document is found by the appropriate legal jurisdiction and authority to be in violation of the relevant law then the other parts of the terms of service shall be understood as close to their original meaning as possible and the parts which were not in violation of a law remain in full effect, and full force.
17. If XMethods fails to act on any of the terms of this document it should not be construed as a waiver of any provision unless XMethods agrees to any such waiver in writing.