Terms of Service

1. Description of Service:
The Service is a web service. You understand and agree that the Service is provided to you on an as is and available basis. pcipolicyportal.com disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service. pcipolicyportal.com also reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any liability to you. pcipolicyportal.com reserves the right to refuse or limit access to the Service to anyone at any time without notice for any reason. Additionally, for the product being purchased from this site, which is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) Information Security Policy and Procedures Manual (the "product"), you agree to hold pcipolicyportal.com harmless and not liable for any financial or legal liabilities (damages, losses, claims, settlements and any other liabilities as warranted) as a result of using this product. Moreover, the purchaser of the product agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless pcipolicyportal.com and its owners for any third-party claims which may arise from the use of this product. Using this product does not guarantee or is intended to guarantee compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) initiatives.

2. Proper Use.
You agree that you are responsible for your own use of the Service, for any posts you make, and for any consequences thereof. You agree that you will use the Service in compliance with all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations, including any laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from your country of residence and all United States export control laws. You also agree to abide by the following Weblog Content Policy:

Weblog Content Policy: Our content policy plays an important role in maintaining the experience for you, the users. Please respect these guidelines. Users may not publish materials that contain: Pornography and/or obscenity, including materials that contain nudity, sexually graphic material, or material that is otherwise deemed explicit by pcipolicyportal.com; Hateful Content including material that promotes hate toward groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity; Violent Content, including material that contains direct threats of violence against any person or group of people; Private and Confidential Information, including the publishing of information, such as credit card numbers, Social Security Numbers, and driver's and other license numbers.

pcipolicyportal.com reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to investigate your use of the Service in order to (a) determine whether a violation of the Agreements has occurred or (b) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

3. Content of the Service.
pcipolicyportal.com takes no responsibility for third-party content (including, without limitation, any viruses or other disabling features), nor does pcipolicyportal.com have any obligation to monitor such third-party content. pcipolicyportal.com reserves the right at all times to remove or refuse to distribute any content on the Service, such as content which violates the terms of the Agreements. pcipolicyportal.com also reserves the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as it reasonably believes is necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (b) enforce the Agreements, including investigation of potential violations hereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (d) respond to user support requests, or (e) protect the rights, property or safety of pcipolicyportal.com, its users and the public. pcipolicyportal.com will not be responsible or liable for the exercise or non-exercise of its rights under the Agreements.

By its very nature, the Weblog feature may carry inaccurate or postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. We expect that you will use caution and common sense and exercise proper judgment when using the Service. pcipolicyportal.com does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any communications posted via the Service or endorse any opinions expressed via the Service. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted via the Service will be at your own risk.

4. Intellectual Property Rights.
pcipolicyportal.com's Intellectual Property Rights. You acknowledge that pcipolicyportal.com owns all right, title and interest in and to the Service, including all intellectual property rights (the "pcipolicyportal.com Rights") as protected by U.S. and international intellectual property laws. Accordingly, you agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or create derivative works from the Service. You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service. As described immediately below, pcipolicyportal.com rights do not include third-party content appearing on the Service.

Your Intellectual Property Rights. pcipolicyportal.com claims no ownership or control over any content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through the Service. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Service and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By submitting, posting or displaying content on or through pcipolicyportal.com services which are intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant pcipolicyportal.com a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, publish and distribute such content. pcipolicyportal.com furthermore reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any content in its sole discretion.

5. Representations and Warranties.
You represent and warrant that (a) all of the information provided by you to pcipolicyportal.com to participate in the Service is correct and current; and (b) you have all necessary right, power and authority to enter into the Agreements and to perform the acts required of you hereunder. You also represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any content submitted. You may choose to submit, post, and display any materials on or through the Service under a public license (e.g. a Creative Commons license), by manually marking your materials as such. For avoidance of doubt, pcipolicyportal.com is not a party to any such public license between you and any third party. Additionally, it should be noted that, the Indemnification, Limitation on Liability, and the Disclaimer, as contained in the pcipolicyportal.com Terms of Use are hereby incorporated and applicable to the Service.

6. No Resale of the Service.
Unless expressly authorized in writing by pcipolicyportal.com, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes (a) any portion of the Service, (b) use of the Service, or (c) access to the Service.

7. Publicity.
Any use of pcipolicyportal.com's trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features ("Brand Features"), must be in compliance with the Agreements.

8. Additional Rights and Disclosures
You agree to allow pcipolicyportal.com to display your corporate name and logo on our website for an indefinite period as a customer who has purchased The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) Information Security Policy and Procedures Manual (the "product"). Additionally, you allow pcipolicyportal.com the right to share your contact information with other third-party entities who may wish to market to you directly regarding products and services which may assist in your compliance efforts with PCI DSS.

9. This is a non-refundable policy document. You agree to this non-refundable policy when purchasing this document from pcipolicyportal.com.