ExpeditionQuestUser Agreement

NOTE: YOU ARE CONCLUDING A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT.

1.      INTRODUCTION.

A. Purpose.

The mission of ExpeditionQuest (EQ) is to provide an online community for people who are passionate about field research, adventure and exploration and who wish to share information and stories and form groups and expeditions. We work to fulfill this mission by helping you, your connections, and thousands of other outdoor enthusiasts meet, exchange ideas, learn, connect, discuss, join expeditions, find opportunities or employees and make decisions in a network of trusted relationships and groups.

Being part of ExpeditionQuest means sharing information about yourself with other outdoor enthusiasts, students and arm-chair adventurers. By default, your account is set up to share the information that we have found the vast majority of our members are interested in sharing. But the amount and type of information you decide to share, and with whom you share it, is up to you.

B. Scope and Intent.

You agree that by registering with ExpeditionQuest or by using our website, including our mobile applications, developer platform, premium services, or other information provided as part of the ExpeditionQuestservices (collectively “ExpeditionQuest” or the “Services”), you are entering into a legally binding agreement with ExpeditionQuest, Inc., 13110 NE 177^th Place, Woodinville, WA 98072 based on the terms of this User Agreement and the ExpeditionQuest Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference (collectively referred to as the “Agreement”) and become an ExpeditionQuest user and member (“User”).

If you are using ExpeditionQuest on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you are nevertheless individually bound by this Agreement even if your company has a separate agreement with us. If you do not want to register an account and become an ExpeditionQuestUser, do not conclude the Agreement, do NOT click “JoinExpeditionQuest” and do not access, view, download or otherwise use any ExpeditionQuest webpage, information or services. By clicking “Join Now,” you acknowledge that you have read and understood the terms and conditions of this Agreement and that you agree to be bound by all of its provisions. By clicking “Join Now,” you also consent to use electronic signatures and acknowledge your click of the “Join Now” button as one. Please note that the ExpeditionQuestUser Agreement and Privacy Policy are also collectively referred to as EQ’s “Terms of Service.”

2.       TYPES OF MEMBERSHIP

A.       Standard Membership (Free)

Standard members register to gain limited access to the EQ website. There is no charge for this level of membership. Members provide their username, password, location, age and gender upon joining. Email addresses and passwords are protected and are not shared.

B.      Premium (VIP) Membership (Paid)

Premium members have increased access to most areas of the site, can file their resumes to join expeditions and seek employment, can create their own profile pages and interact with other EQ members, can upload stories, videos and news content to EQ, can download mobiles apps to manage their EQ account and send us news using mobile devices, and have unlimited use of the ExpeSearch Index and Search system to locate other EQ members with similar interests.

3.       YOUR OBLIGATIONS.

A. Applicable laws and this Agreement

You must comply with all applicable laws, the Agreement, as may be amended from time to time with or without advance notice, and the policies and processes explained in the following sections:

1.       DOs and DON’Ts;

2.       Complaints Regarding Content Posted on the ExpeditionQuest Website;

3.       EQ’s Privacy Policy.

B. License and warranty for your submissions to ExpeditionQuest.

You own the information you provide ExpeditionQuest under this Agreement, and may request its deletion at any time, unless you have shared information or content with others and they have not deleted it, or it was copied or stored by other users. Additionally, you grant ExpeditionQuest a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sub licensable, fully paid up and royalty-free right to us to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, process, analyze, use and commercialize, in any way now known or in the future discovered, any information you provide, directly or indirectly to ExpeditionQuest, including, but not limited to, any user generated content, ideas, concepts, techniques or data you submit to EQ, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties. Any information you submit to us is at your own risk of loss.

By providing information to us, you represent and warrant that you are entitled to submit the information and that the information is accurate, not confidential, and not in violation of any contractual restrictions or other third party rights. It is your responsibility to keep your EQ profile, resume, and ExpeSearch information accurate and updated.

C. Service Eligibility.

To be eligible to use the Service, you must meet the following criteria and represent and warrant that you: (1) are 16 years of age or older or have an EQ Student badge issued by an EQ Registered educator; (2) are not currently restricted from the Services, or not otherwise prohibited from having an ExpeditionQuest account, (3) have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and doing so will not violate any other agreement to which you are a party; (4) will not violate any rights of ExpeditionQuest, including intellectual property rights such as copyright or trademark rights.

D. Sign-In Credentials.

You agree to: (1) Keep your password secure and confidential; (2) not permit others to use your account; (3) refrain from using other Users’ accounts; (4) refrain from selling, trading, or otherwise transferring your ExpeditionQuestaccount to another party; and (5) refrain from charging anyone for access to any portion of ExpeditionQuest, or any information therein. Further, you are responsible for anything that happens through your account until you close down your account or prove that your account security was compromised due to no fault of your own. To close your account, please visit ExpeditionQuest’scustomer service page.

E.  Indemnification.

You indemnify us and hold us harmless for all damages, losses and costs (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) related to all third party claims, charges, and investigations, caused by (1) your failure to comply with this Agreement, including, without limitation, your submission of content that violates third party rights or applicable laws, (2) any content you submit to the Services, and (3) any activity in which you engage on or through ExpeditionQuest.

F.  Payment.

If you purchase any services that we offer for a fee, either on a one-time or subscription basis (“Premium Services”), you agree to ExpeditionQueststoring your payment card information. You also agree to pay the applicable fees for the Premium Services (including, without limitation, periodic fees for premium accounts) as they become due plus all related taxes, and to reimburse us for all collection costs and interest for any overdue amounts. Your obligation to pay fees continues through the end of the subscription period during which you cancel your subscription. You may cancel your Premium Services at any time on your Account page.You also acknowledge that ExpeditionQuest’s Premium Services are subject to this Agreement and any additional terms related to the provision of the Premium Service.

G.Notifications and Service Messages.

For purposes of service messages and notices about the Services to you, ExpeditionQuest may place a banner notice across its pages to alert you to certain changes such as modifications to this Agreement. Alternatively, notice may consist of an email from ExpeditionQuest to an email address associated with your account, even if we have other contact information. You also agree that EQ may communicate with you through your EQ account(Inbound Page)  or through other means including email, mobile number, telephone, or delivery services including the postal service about your ExpeditionQuest account or services associated withExpeditionQuest. Please review your Account Settings to control what kind of messages you receive from EQ. You acknowledge and agree that EQ shall have no liability associated with or arising from your failure to maintain accurate contact or other information, including, but not limited to, your failure to receive critical information about the Service.

H. ExpeditionQuest Applications.

ExpeditionQuestmay offer the Services through applications built using  ExpeditionQuest’s platform. Examples of EQ Applications include its smart phone applications (Mobile App for Iphone and Android, VENUS – Voice Activated News Update System, CIRRUS – Climate Information Regional Reporting Update System, etc. ), and EQ’s “Share” buttons and other interactive plugins distributed on websites across the web. If you use an ExpeditionQuest Application or interact with a website that has deployed a plugin, you agree that information about you and your use of the Services, including, but not limited to, your device, your mobile carrier, your internet access provider, your physical location, and/or web pages containing ExpeditionQuest plugins that load in your browser may be communicated to us.

Further, by importing any of your ExpeditionQuest data through the EQ Application, you represent that you have authority to share the transferred data with your mobile carrier or other access provider. In the event you change or deactivate your mobile account, you must promptly update your ExpeditionQuest account information to ensure that your messages are not sent to the person that acquires your old number and failure to do so is your responsibility. You acknowledge you are responsible for all charges and necessary permissions related to accessing ExpeditionQuest through your mobile access provider. Therefore, you should check with your provider to find out if the Services are available and the terms for these services for your specific mobile devices.

Finally, by using any downloadable application to enable your use of the Services, you are explicitly confirming your acceptance of the terms of the End User License Agreement associated with the application provided at download or installation, or as may be updated from time to time.

I.   User-to-User Communication and Sharing (ExpeSearch, Messages, Stories, etc).

ExpeditionQuest offers various forums such as News, Expedition Field Reports, CIRRUS discussions, forums,  updates, stories and blogs, video galleries and more where you can post your observations and comments on designated topics. EQ also enables sharing of information by allowing users to post updates, including links to news articles and other information such as job opportunities, product recommendations, and other content to their profile and other parts of the site such as the Expedition Channels.

EQ may close or disable anyExpeditionQuest  groups, blogs and discussions   and remove content from them if the content violates this Agreement or others’ intellectual property rights.

Please note that ideas you post and information you share may be seen and used by other Users. Therefore, if you have an idea or information that you would like to keep confidential and/or don’t want others to use, or that is subject to third party rights that may be infringed by your sharing it, do not post it to any EQ group, into your Stories or Updates, or elsewhere on EQ. EXPEDITIONQUEST IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR A USER’S MISUSE OR MISAPPROPRIATION OF ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION POSTED ON ANY EQ FORUMS.

J.        Privacy.

You should carefully read our full Privacy Policy before deciding to become a User as it is hereby incorporated into this Agreement by reference, and governs our treatment of any information, including personally identifiable information you submit to us. Please note that certain information, statements, data, and content (such as photographs, stories and videos) which you may submit to ExpeditionQuest or ExpeSearch,may reveal your gender,  nationality, location, age, and/or other personal information about you. You acknowledge that your submission of any information, statements, data, and content to us is voluntary on your part.

4.       YOUR RIGHTS.

On the condition that you comply with all your obligations under this Agreement, including, but not limited to, the Do’s and Don’ts Section, we grant you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nonassignable, nonsublicenseable license and right to access the Services, through a generally available web browser, mobile device or application (but not through scraping, spidering, crawling or other technology or software used to access data without the express written consent of EQ  (or its Users), view information and use the Services that we provide on EQ webpages and in accordance with this Agreement.  Any other use of ExpeditionQuest contrary to our mission and purpose such as using information gathered from ExpeditionQuestcommercially, unless expressly authorized by EQ is strictly prohibited and a violation of this Agreement. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in this Agreement, including, without limitation, title, ownership, intellectual property rights, and all other rights and interest in ExpeditionQuest and all related items, including any and all copies made of the EQ website.

5.       OUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.

A. Services Availability.

For as long as ExpeditionQuest continues to offer the Services, EQ shall provide and seek to update, improve and expand the Services. As a result, we allow you to access ExpeditionQuest as it may exist and be available on any given day and have no other obligations, except as expressly stated in this Agreement. We may modify, replace, refuse access to, suspend or discontinue ExpeditionQuest, partially or entirely, or change and modify prices for all or part of the Services for you or for all our users in our sole discretion. All of these changes shall be effective upon their posting on our site or by direct communication to you unless otherwise noted. ExpeditionQuest further reserves the right to withhold, remove and or discard any content available as part of your account, with or without notice if deemed by EQ to be contrary to this Agreement. ExpeditionQuest has no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any content that you or other Users provide when using the Services.

B. Disclosure of User Information.

You acknowledge, consent and agree that we may access, preserve, and disclose your registration and any other information you provide if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is reasonably necessary in our opinion to: (1) comply with legal process, including, but not limited to, civil and criminal subpoenas, court orders or other compulsory disclosures; (2) enforce this Agreement; (3) respond to claims of a violation of the rights of third parties, whether or not the third party is a User, individual, or government agency; (4) respond to customer service inquiries; or (5) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of ExpeditionQuest, our Users or the public.

Disclosures of User information to third parties other than those required to provide customer support, administer this agreement, or comply with legal requirements are addressed in the Privacy Policy.

C. Connections and Interactions with other Users.

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Users. ExpeditionQuest may limit the number of connections you may have to other Users and may, in certain circumstances, prohibit you from contacting other Users through use of the Services or otherwise limit your use of the Services. ExpeditionQuest reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members and to restrict, suspend, or close your account if EQ determines, in our sole discretion, that doing so is necessary to enforce this Agreement.

6.       DISCLAIMER.

SOME COUNTRIES AND JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED TERMS IN CONTRACTS WITH CONSUMERS AND AS A RESULT THE CONTENTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

DO NOT RELY ON EXPEDITIONQUEST, ANY INFORMATION THEREIN, OR ITS CONTINUATION. WE PROVIDE THE PLATFORM FOR EXPEDITIONQUEST AND ALL INFORMATION AND SERVICES ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. EXPEDITIONQUEST DOES NOT CONTROL OR VET USER GENERATED CONTENT FOR ACCURACY. WE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY EXPRESS WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED OR HARMED BY EXPEDITIONQUEST OR ANYTHING RELATED TO EXPEDITIONQUEST, YOU MAY CLOSE YOUR EQ ACCOUNT AND TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 (“TERMINATION”) AND SUCH TERMINATION SHALL BE YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY.

EQ IS NOT RESPONSIBLE, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES FOR THE DELIVERY OF ANY MESSAGES (SUCH AS INBOUND MESSAGES, POSTING OF UPDATES OR NEWS, OR TRANSMISSION OF ANY OTHER USER GENERATED CONTENT) SENT THROUGH EQ TO ANYONE. IN ADDITION, WE NEITHER WARRANT NOR REPRESENT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES. ANY MATERIAL, SERVICE, OR TECHNOLOGY DESCRIBED OR USED ON THE WEBSITE MAY BE SUBJECT TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OWNED BY THIRD PARTIES WHO HAVE LICENSED SUCH MATERIAL, SERVICE, OR TECHNOLOGY TO US.

EXPEDITIONQUEST DOES NOT HAVE ANY OBLIGATION TO VERIFY THE IDENTITY OF THE PERSONS SUBSCRIBING TO ITS SERVICES, NOR DOES IT HAVE ANY OBLIGATION TO MONITOR THE USE OF ITS SERVICES BY OTHER USERS OF THE COMMUNITY; THEREFORE, EQ DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR IDENTITY THEFT OR ANY OTHER MISUSE OF YOUR IDENTITY OR INFORMATION. IN THE CASE OF EXPESEARCH, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION AS TO THE AUTHENTICITY OR VALIDITY OF ANY CRITERIA REGARDING SKILLS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE OF EQ MEMBERS AS PUT FORTH IN THE INDEX FORM AND MEMBER RESUMES. EQ DIGITAL BADGES MAY BE ISSUED TO JOURNALISTS, EXPEDITIONS AND EDUCATORS  WHO HAVE PROVIDED A MINIMAL AMOUNT OF INFORMATION (IE: A WEBSITE PAGE OR EMAIL ADDRESS SHOWING THEIR AFFILIATION) HOWEVER, EQ MAKES NO CLAIM AS TO THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED TO EQ AND THEREFORE CANNOT FOR CERTAIN GUARANTEE BADGE RECIPIENTS ARE WHO THEY SAY THEY ARE .  STUDENT BADGES ARE ISSUED BY REGISTERED EQ EDUCATORS AND EQ MAKES NO WARRANTY AS TO THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE STUDENT BADGES.

EXPEDITIONQUEST DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICES IT PROVIDES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS IN FUNCTIONING. IN PARTICULAR, THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICES MAY BE INTERRUPTED DUE TO MAINTENANCE, UPDATES, OR SYSTEM OR NETWORK FAILURES. EQ DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY ANY SUCH INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS IN FUNCTIONING. FURTHERMORE, EXPEDITIONQUEST DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY MALFUNCTIONING, IMPOSSIBILITY OF ACCESS, OR POOR USE CONDITIONS OF THE EXPEDITIONQUEST SITE DUE TO INAPPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT, DISTURBANCES RELATED TO INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, TO THE SATURATION OF THE INTERNET NETWORK, AND FOR ANY OTHER REASON.

7.       TERMINATION.

A. Mutual rights of termination.

You may terminate this Agreement, for any or no reason, at any time, with notice to ExpeditionQuest pursuant to Section 9.C. This notice will be effective upon EQ processing your notice. EQ may terminate the Agreement and your account for any reason or no reason, at any time, with or without notice. This cancellation shall be effective immediately or as may be specified in the notice. For avoidance of doubt, only ExpeditionQuest or the party paying for the services may terminate your access to any Premium Services. Termination of your ExpeditionQuest account includes disabling your access to EQ and may also bar you from any future use of ExpeditionQuest.

B. Misuse of the Services.

ExpeditionQuest may restrict, suspend or terminate the account of any User who abuses or misuses the Services. Misuse of the Services abusing the ExpeSearch Messaging services; creating multiple or false profiles; using the Services commercially without ExpeditionQuest’s authorization, infringing any intellectual property rights, violating any of the EQ Do’s and Don’ts listed in Section 10, or any other behavior that ExpeditionQuest, in its sole discretion, deems contrary to its purpose. In addition, EQ has adopted a policy of terminating accounts of Users who, in EQ’s sole discretion, are deemed to be repeat infringers under the United States Copyright Act.

8.       DISPUTE RESOLUTION

A. Law and Forum for Legal Disputes

This Agreement or any claim, cause of action or dispute (“claim”) arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the state of Washington regardless of your country of origin or where you access ExpeditionQuest. You and EQ  agree that all claims arising out of or related to this Agreement must be resolved exclusively by a state or federal court located in King County, Washington, except as otherwise agreed by the parties. You and ExpeditionQuest agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within King County, Washington for the purpose of litigating all such claims. Notwithstanding the above, you agree that ExpeditionQuestshall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.

9.       GENERAL TERMS.

A. Severability.

If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction or arbitrator to be illegal, void, or unenforceable, the unenforceable provision will be modified so as to render it enforceable and effective to the maximum extent possible in order to effect the intention of the provision; and if a court or arbitrator finds the modified provision invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement will not be affected in any way.

B. Language.

Where ExpeditionQuest has provided you with a translation of the English language version of this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, and/or any other documentation, you agree that the translation is provided for your convenience only and that the English language versions of this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, and any other documentation, including additional terms of service for Premium Services, will govern your relationship with ExpeditionQuest.

C. Notices and Service of Process.

In addition to Section 2.h. (“Notices and Service Messages”), we may notify you via postings on www.expeditionquest.com. You may contact us here:

                                ExpeditionQuest, Inc.

                                ATTN: Legal Department

                                13110 NE 177^th Place

                                Woodinville, WA 98072

                                USA

Additionally, ExpeditionQuest accepts service of process at this address. Any notices that you provide without compliance with this section on Notices shall have no legal effect.

D. Entire Agreement.

You agree that this Agreement constitutes the entire, complete and exclusive agreement between you and us regarding the Services and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, whether written or oral, or whether established by custom, practice, policy or precedent, with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other ExpeditionQuest services, third-party content or third party software.

E.  Amendments to this Agreement.

We reserve the right to modify, supplement or replace the terms of the Agreement, effective upon posting at www.expeditionquest.com or notifying you otherwise. For example, EQ presents a banner on the site when we have amended this Agreement or the Privacy Policy so that you may access and review the changes prior to your continued use of the site. If you do not want to agree to changes to the Agreement, you can terminate this Agreement at any time per Section 7 (Termination).

F.  No Injunctive Relief.

In no event shall you seek or be entitled to rescission, injunctive or other equitable relief, or to enjoin or restrain the operation of the Service, exploitation of any advertising or other materials issued in connection therewith, or exploitation of the Services or any content or other material used or displayed through the Services.

G.Potential Other Rights and Obligations.

You may have rights or obligations under local law other than those enumerated here if you are located outside the United States.

10.   EXPEDITIONQUEST USER/MEMBER “DOS” and “DON’TS.”

As a condition to access ExpeditionQuest, you agree to this User Agreement and to strictly observe the following DOs and DON’Ts:

A. Do this:

1.       Comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property laws, export control laws, tax laws, and regulatory requirements;

2.       Provide accurate information to us and update it as necessary;

3.       Review and comply with our Privacy Policy;

4.       Review and comply with notices sent by ExpeditionQuest concerning the Services;

5.       Use the Services in a professional manner, and

6.       Protect sensitive personal information such as your email address, phone number, street address, or other information that is confidential in nature.

B. Don’t do this:

1.       Posting inappropriate, inaccurate, or objectionable content to ExpeditionQuest;

2.       Publish inaccurate information in the designated fields on the profile form and ExpeSearch Index forms (e.g., do not include a link or an email address in the name field);

3.       Create a user profile for anyone other than a natural person;

4.       Harass, abuse or harm another person, including sending unwelcomed communications to others using ExpeditionQuest;

5.       Upload a profile image that is not your likeness.

6.       Use or attempt to use another's account without authorization from the Company, or create a false identity on ExpeditionQuest;

7.       Upload, post, email, send via ExpeSearch to Inbound pages, transmit or otherwise make available or initiate any content including stories that:

a.       Falsely states, impersonates or otherwise misrepresents your identity, including but not limited to the use of a pseudonym, or misrepresenting your current or previous positions and qualifications, or your affiliations with a person or entity, past or present;

b.      Misrepresents your academic, technical and outdoor credentials on the Expesearch Index Form.

c.       Is unlawful, libelous, abusive, obscene, discriminatory or otherwise objectionable;

d.      Adds to a content field content that is not intended for such field (i.e. submitting a telephone number in the “title” or any other field, or including telephone numbers, email addresses, street addresses or any personally identifiable information for which there is not a field provided by ExpeditionQuest);

e.      Includes information that you do not have the right to disclose or make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships.

f.        Infringes upon patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights or other proprietary rights;

g.       Includes any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation. This prohibition includes but is not limited to (a) using EQ Stories or Expesearch to connect to people who don’t know you and then sending unsolicited promotional messages to those direct connections without their permission; and (b) installing inline links in blogs and stories  which lead to promotional sites for counterfeit products.

h.      Contains software viruses, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment of ExpeditionQuest or any User of ExpeditionQuest;

8.       Duplicate, license, sublicense, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, sell, rebrand, or otherwise transfer information found on ExpeditionQuest (excluding content posted by you) except as permitted in this Agreement.

9.       Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for any underlying intellectual property used to provide the Services, or any part thereof.

10.   Utilize or copy information, content or any data you view on and/or obtain from ExpeditionQuest to provide any service that is competitive, in ExpeditionQuest’s sole discretion, withExpeditionQuest;

11.   Imply or state, directly or indirectly, that you are affiliated with or endorsed by ExpeditionQuest unless you have entered into a written agreement with ExpeditionQuest (this includes, but is not limited to, representing your expedition as endorsed by ExpeditionQuest) without written permission.

12.   Adapt, modify or create derivative works based on ExpeditionQuest or technology underlying the Services, or other Users’ content, in whole or part, except as authorized in writing by ExpeditionQuest.

13.   Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell access to ExpeditionQuest or any information therein, or the equivalent, in whole or part;

14.   Sell, sponsor, or otherwise monetize an EQ group or any other service or functionality of ExpeditionQuest, without the express written permission of EQ.

15.   Deep-link to the Site for any purpose, (i.e. including a link to an EQ  web page other than ExpeditionQuest’s home page) unless expressly authorized in writing by ExpeditionQuest or for the purpose of promoting your profile, story,  or a group or Expedition site on EQ.

16.   Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on ExpeditionQuest, including those of both EQ and any of its licensors;

17.   Remove, cover or otherwise obscure any form of advertisement included on ExpeditionQuest;

18.   Collect, use, copy, or transfer any information, including, but not limited to, personally identifiable information obtained from ExpeditionQuestexcept as expressly permitted in this Agreement or as the owner of such information may expressly permit;

19.   Share information of non-Users without their express consent;

20.   Infringe or use ExpeditionQuest’s brand, tradenames, logos and/or trademarks without the express consent of EQ.

21.   Use manual or automated software, devices, scripts robots, other means or processes to access, “scrape,” “crawl” or “spider” any web pages or other services contained in the site;

22.   Use bots or other automated methods to access ExpeditionQuest, add or download contacts, create databases, send or redirect messages, or perform other activities through ExpeditionQuest, unless explicitly permitted by ExpeditionQuest;

23.   Engage in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of EQ’s website;

24.   Duplicate any portion of the Expesearch Indexing Form in whole or part without the express written consent of ExpeditionQuest.

25.   Attempt to or actually access ExpeditionQuest by any means other than through the interfaces provided by ExpeditionQuest such as its mobile application or by navigating to http://www.expeditionquest.com using a web browser. This prohibition includes accessing or attempting to access ExpeditionQuest using any third-party service, including software-as-a-service platforms that aggregate access to multiple services.

26.   Attempt to or actually override any security component included in or underlying ExpeditionQuest;

27.   Engage in any action that directly or indirectly interferes with the proper working of or places an unreasonable load on ExpeditionQuest’s infrastructure, including, but not limited to, sending unsolicited communications to other Users or EQ personnel, attempting to gain unauthorized access to EQ, or transmitting or activating computer viruses through or on ExpeditionQuest;

28.   Interfere with or disrupt or game ExpeditionQuest or the Services, including, but not limited to, any servers or networks connected to ExpeditionQuest, in particular ExpeditionQuest’s search algorithms.

11.   COMPLAINTS REGARDING CONTENT POSTED ON THE EXPEDITIONQUEST WEBSITE.

We built EQ to help you connect with other outdoor enthusiasts who are passionate about field research, adventure and exploration. To achieving this purpose, we encourage our Users to share truthful and accurate information. We also respect the intellectual property rights of others. Accordingly, this Agreement requires that information posted by Users be accurate and not in violation of the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties. To promote these objectives, ExpeditionQuest provides a process for submission of complaints concerning content posted by our Users. Our policy and procedures can be found here: