Terms of Service:
The following terms and conditions govern all use of the RyenGroup.com website and all content, services, and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, consulting services (taken together, our Services). Our Services are offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, RyenGroup Technologies’ Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time by RyenGroup Technologies (collectively, the “Agreement”). You agree that we may automatically upgrade or improve our Services, and these terms will apply to any upgrades or improvments.
If you reside in the United States, your agreement is with RyenGroup Technologies, and if you reside outside of the United States, your agreement is with RyenGroup Technologies. (each, “RyenGroup Technologies” or “we”).
Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using our Services. By accessing or using any part of our services, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access or use any of our services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by RyenGroup Technologies, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms.
Our Services are not directed to children younger than 13, and access and use of our Services is only offered to users 13 years of age or older. If you are under 13 years old, please do not register to use our Services. Any person who registers as a user or provides their personal information to our Services represents that they are 13 years of age or older.
Some of our Services may require the registration of an account. You agree to provide us with complete and accurate information when you register for an account. You will be solely responsible and liable for any activity that occurs under your username. You are responsible for keeping your password secure.
1. RyenGroup.com.
Your RyenGroup.com Account. If you create an account on RyenGroup.com, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the account. You must immediately notify RyenGroup Technologies of any unauthorized uses of your account, or any other breaches of security. RyenGroup Technologies will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
Responsibility of Contributors. If you comment on any part of RyenGroup.com, post material to RyenGroup.com, post links on RyenGroup.com, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available (any such material, “Content”), you are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content or your conduct. That is the case regardless of what form the Content takes, which includes, but is not limited to text, photo, video, audio, or code. By using RyenGroup.com, you represent and warrant that your Content and conduct do not violate these terms. By submitting Content to RyenGroup Technologies for inclusion on our website(s), you grant RyenGroup Technologies a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing, and promoting RyenGroup. This license allows RyenGroup Technologies to make publicly-posted content available to third parties selected by RyenGroup Technologies so that these third parties can analyze and distribute (but not publicly display) your content through their services. You also give other RyenGroup.com users permission to share your Content on other RyenGroup.com websites and add their own Content to it, so long as they use only a portion of your post and they give you credit as the original author. If you delete Content, RyenGroup Technologies will use reasonable efforts to remove it from RyenGroup.com, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, RyenGroup Technologies has the right (though not the obligation) to, in RyenGroup Technologies’s sole discretion, (i) reclaim your username due to prolonged inactivity, (ii) refuse or remove any content that, in RyenGroup Technologies’s reasonable opinion, violates any RyenGroup Technologies policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (iii) terminate or deny access to and use of RyenGroup.com to any individual or entity for any reason. RyenGroup Technologies will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.
Advertisements.
RyenGroup Technologies reserves the right to display advertisements on RyenGroup.com.
Payment and Renewal.
General Terms. Paid services are available (any such services, a “Service”). By selecting a Service you agree to pay RyenGroup Technologies the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated for that service. Payments will be charged on a pre-pay basis on the day you sign up for a Service and will cover the use of that service for a monthly or annual subscription period as indicated.
Automatic Renewal. Unless you notify RyenGroup Technologies before the end of the applicable subscription period that you want to cancel a Service, your subscription will automatically renew and you authorize us to collect the then-applicable annual or monthly subscription fee for such Service (as well as any taxes) using any credit card or other payment mechanism we have on record for you.
2. Responsibility of Visitors.
RyenGroup Technologies has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, posted to our Services, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating our Services, RyenGroup Technologies does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful, or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Our Services may contain content that is containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. RyenGroup Technologies disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of our Services, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
3. Content Posted on Other Websites.
We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which RyenGroup.com links, and that link to RyenGroup.com. RyenGroup Technologies does not have any control over those non-RyenGroup.com websites, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-RyenGroup.com website, RyenGroup Technologies does not represent or imply that it endorses such website. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. RyenGroup Technologies disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-RyenGroup.com websites and webpages.
4. Copyright Infringement.
As RyenGroup Technologies asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by RyenGroup.com violates your copyright, you must notify RyenGroup Technologies. RyenGroup Technologies will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. RyenGroup Technologies will attempt to terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Website if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of RyenGroup Technologies or others. In the case of such termination, RyenGroup Technologies will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to RyenGroup Technologies.
5. Intellectual Property.
This Agreement does not transfer from RyenGroup Technologies to you any RyenGroup Technologies or third party intellectual property, and all right, title, and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with RyenGroup Technologies. RyenGroup Technologies, RyenGroup.com, the RyenGroup.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with RyenGroup.com or our Services, are trademarks or registered trademarks of RyenGroup Technologies or RyenGroup Technologies’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with our Services may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of our Services grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any RyenGroup Technologies or third-party trademarks.
6. Changes.
We are constantly updating our Services, and that means sometimes we have to change the legal terms under which our Services are offered. RyenGroup Technologies encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If we make changes that are material, we will let you know by posting on one of our blogs, websites or by sending you an email or post to our twitter feed @RyenTech or other communication before the changes take effect. The choice of communication channel for such notifications are made at the sole discretion of RyenGroup Technologies. The notice will designate a reasonable period of time after which the new terms will take effect. If you disagree with our changes, then you should stop using our Services within the designated notice period. Your continued use of our Services will be subject to the new terms. However, any dispute that arose before the changes shall be governed by the Terms (including the binding individual arbitration clause) that were in place when the dispute arose.
7. Termination.
RyenGroup Technologies may terminate your access to all or any part of our Services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your RyenGroup.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using our Services and delete your account. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
8. Disclaimer of Warranties.
Our Services are provided “as is.” RyenGroup Technologies and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither RyenGroup Technologies nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that our Services will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted unless explicitly stated in a separate, explicit contract of service between RyenGroup Technologies and the customer. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, our Services at your own discretion and risk.
9. Limitation of Liability.
In no event will RyenGroup Technologies, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this Agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to RyenGroup Technologies under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. RyenGroup Technologies shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
10. General Representation and Warranty.
You represent and warrant that (i) your use of our Services will be in strict accordance with the RyenGroup Technologies Privacy Policy, with this Agreement, and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States, Norway or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of our Services will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
11. US Economic Sanctions.
You expressly represent and warrant that your use of our Services and or associated services and products is not contrary to applicable U.S. Sanctions. Such use is prohibited, and RyenGroup Technologies reserve the right to terminate accounts or access of those in the event of a breach of this condition.
12. Norwegian Economic Sanctions.
You expressly represent and warrant that your use of our Services and or associated services and products is not contrary to applicable Norwegian Sanctions. Such use is prohibited, and RyenGroup Technologies reserve the right to terminate accounts or access of those in the event of a breach of this condition.
13. Indemnification.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless RyenGroup Technologies, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of our Services, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
14. Translation.
These Terms of Service were originally written in English (US). We may, but are not obligated to, translate these terms into other languages. In the event of a conflict between a translated version of these Terms of Service and the English version, the English version will control.
15. Miscellaneous.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between RyenGroup Technologies and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of RyenGroup Technologies, or by the posting by RyenGroup Technologies of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of our Services will be governed by the laws of Norway, excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in Oslo, Norway. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place either in London, England or in Oslo, Norway, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any Norwegian court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; RyenGroup Technologies may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us.
RyenGroup and RyenGroup Technologies (“RyenGroup Technologies”) operates several websites including ryengroup.com. It is RyenGroup Technologies’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, RyenGroup Technologies collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. RyenGroup Technologies’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how RyenGroup Technologies’ visitors use its website. From time to time, RyenGroup Technologies may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
RyenGroup Technologies also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on RyenGroup.com or other RyenGroup sites. RyenGroup Technologies only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to RyenGroup Technologies’ websites choose to interact with RyenGroup Technologies in ways that require RyenGroup Technologies to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that RyenGroup Technologies gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment or post material at RyenGroup.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with RyenGroup Technologies – by purchasing access to any of our Services, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, RyenGroup Technologies collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the customer or visitor’s interaction with RyenGroup Technologies. RyenGroup Technologies does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
RyenGroup Technologies may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. RyenGroup Technologies may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, RyenGroup Technologies does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
RyenGroup Technologies discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on RyenGroup Technologies’ behalf or to provide services available at RyenGroup Technologies’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using RyenGroup Technologies’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. RyenGroup Technologies will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, RyenGroup Technologies discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when RyenGroup Technologies believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of RyenGroup Technologies, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a RyenGroup Technologies website and have supplied your email address or have chosen to opt in to one or more newsletter subscriptions, RyenGroup Technologies may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with RyenGroup Technologies and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. RyenGroup Technologies takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. RyenGroup Technologies uses cookies to help RyenGroup Technologies identify and track visitors, their usage of RyenGroup Technologies website, and their website access preferences. RyenGroup Technologies visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using RyenGroup Technologies’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of RyenGroup Technologies’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If RyenGroup Technologies, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the very unlikely event that RyenGroup Technologies goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of RyenGroup Technologies may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by RyenGroup Technologies and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, RyenGroup Technologies may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in RyenGroup Technologies’ sole discretion. RyenGroup Technologies encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a WordPress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.