Terms of use

What It Means

Local Care Source offers any member the choice to utilize the Local Care Source website. If you create a Profile on, upload your information to or apply to a job through or otherwise use the Local Care Source website, you are specifically consenting to the use of any personal information you have provided to Local Care Source as set forth herein and in the Terms of use. By submitting any message, information, data, text, software, images, or other materials to the Website, you automatically grant Local Care Source.com a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully paid up, transferable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, translate, communicate to the public, create works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide.

You automatically grant Local Care Source.com to incorporate information, data, text, software, images, or other materials in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed without restriction or compensation, and to grant and authorize sublicenses thereof. In addition, you warrant that you have waived all so-called "moral rights" in the Content. Local Care Source.com and its designees shall have the right, but not the obligation, in their sole discretion to edit, refuse to post, or remove any Content posted on the Website that violates these Terms of Use or is otherwise objectionable. By providing Content to the Website, you represent and warrant that

·         You own the Content,

·         You are entitled to submit it to us and

·         The Content is accurate, truthful, not confidential, and not in violation of any contractual restrictions or other third party rights.

You Must be 14 or Older to Use this Website

You must be fourteen (14) years of age or older to visit or use our Website in any manner. By accessing our Website and accepting these Terms of Use, you represent and warrant to us that you have reached the age of fourteen (14) years of age or older, and that you have the right, authority and capacity to agree to, and abide by, these Terms of Use.

Website Polls and surveys

Polls and surveys may be conducted by Local Care Source, our Members or our Sponsors. As a Member, you may be invited to participate in polls and surveys from our Website. Your selection may be random, or it may be based on your non-personally identifiable information, such as  title, geographic location etc. Whether or not you decide to participate in a poll or survey is completely up to you.

After you complete a poll, you will be given access to the responses of the poll on a results page. Some third parties may target advertisements to you on the results page based on your answers in the poll. Further, we or our Sponsors may follow up with you via e-mail account regarding your participation unless you have opted out of receiving such e-mail messages.

We may use third parties to deliver incentives to you to participate in surveys or polls. If the delivery of incentives requires your contact information, you may be asked to provide Personal Information to the third party fulfilling the incentive offer, which will only be used for the purpose of delivering incentives and/or verifying your contact information. It is up to you whether you provide this information, or whether you desire to take advantage of an incentive.

Your Right to Use our Website

For as long as you comply with these Terms of Use and your obligations, you have a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-sublicense able and revocable license to access and use our Website through a generally available web browser only for its intended purpose and only as provided in these Terms of Use. Local Care Sourceis only for your personal and noncommercial use. You may not access our Website through scraping, spidering, crawling or any other technology or software used to access data without our express written consent. Except as specifically permitted, you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any content or information included on our Website.

In addition, you may not

·         Rent, lend, sublease or transfer this limited license or any data residing on our Website or any of your rights under these Terms of Use to anyone else,

·         Develop or derive for commercial sale any data in machine-readable or other form that incorporates or uses any part of our Website, or

·         Transfer to or store any data residing or exchanged over our Website in any electronic network for use by more than one Member without obtaining prior written permission from us.

If you violate any of these Terms of Use, we may immediately terminate your limited license to use our Website. Any other use of our Website contrary to our mission and purpose (such as seeking to connect to someone you do not know or trust, or to use information gathered from our Website commercially unless expressly authorized by us) is strictly prohibited and a violation of these Terms of Use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in these Terms of Use, including, without limitation, title, ownership, intellectual property rights, and all other rights and interest in this Website and all related items.

In using our Website you agree

YOU WILL

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 Review and comply with notices sent by us concerning the Website and our operation thereof;

4.      Use the Website in an honest, respectful and professional manner.

YOU WILL NOT:

1.      Act dishonestly or unprofessionally by engaging in unprofessional behavior or by posting inappropriate, inaccurate, or objectionable content to our Website;

2.      Duplicate, license, sublicense, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, sell, rebrand, or otherwise transfer information found on our Website (excluding Content posted by you) except as permitted in these Terms of Use or as expressly authorized by us;

3.      Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for any underlying intellectual property used in connection with the Website, or any part thereof;

4.      Include information in your profile or elsewhere, except in designated fields, that is confidential in nature or that reveals your identity or sensitive personal information such as an email address, phone number or address;

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

6.      Utilize information, content or any data you view on and/or obtain from our Website to provide any service that is competitive, in our sole discretion, with our Website or our business;

7.      Imply or state, directly or indirectly, that you are affiliated with or endorsed by Local Care Source.com, unless you have entered into a written agreement with us to that effect;

8.      Adapt, modify or create derivative works based on our Website or the technology underlying our Website, or other Members' content, in whole or part;

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

10.  Deep-link to our Website for any purpose, (i.e. including a link to one of our web pages other than our Website's home page) unless expressly authorized in writing by us or for the purpose of promoting your profile on our Website;

11.  Use manual or automated software, devices, scripts, robots, or other means or processes to access, "scrape," "crawl" or "spider" our Website;

12.  Use bots or other automated methods to add or download contacts, send or redirect messages or perform other permitted activities;

13.  Access, via automated or manual means or processes, our Website for purposes of monitoring its availability, performance or functionality or for any competitive purpose;

14.  Engage in "framing," "mirroring," or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of our Website;

15.  Attempt to or actually access our Website by any means other than through the interfaces provided by us;

16.  Attempt to or actually override any security component included in or underlying our Website;

17.  Engage in any action that directly or indirectly interferes with the proper working of or places an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, including but not limited to unsolicited communications to other Members or our personnel, attempts to gain unauthorized access, or transmission or activation of computer viruses;

18.  Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on our Website, including ours or any Sponsor's;

19.  Remove, cover or otherwise obscure any form of advertisement included on our Website;

20.  Harass, abuse or harm another person, including sending unwelcome communications to others using our Website;

21.  Collect, use or transfer any information, including but not limited to, personally identifiable information obtained from our Website except as expressly permitted in these Terms of Use or as the owner of such information may expressly permit;

22.  Share information of non-Members without their express consent;

23.  Interfere with or disrupt our Website, including but not limited to any servers or networks connected to our Website;

24.  Invite people you do not know to join My Account;

25.  Upload a cartoon, symbol, drawing or any content other than a head-shot photograph of yourself in your profile photo (if applicable);

26.  Use or attempt to use another's account without our authorization, or create a false identity on our Website;

27.  Infringe or use our brand, logos and/or trademarks, including, without limitation, using the words "Local Care Source" or "Local Care Source.com," or words likely to be confused with those words, in any business name, email, or URL, except as expressly permitted by us in writing;

28.  Participate, directly or indirectly, in the setting up or development of a network that seeks to create a pyramid scheme or other similar practice.

29.  Upload, post to My Account, email, transmit or otherwise make available or initiate any content 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.            Is unlawful, libelous, abusive, obscene, discriminatory or otherwise objectionable;

                                  c.            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 us);

                                 d.            Includes information that you do not have the right to disclose or make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as insider information, or proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);

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

                                  f.            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 (i) using our Website to send messages to people who don't know you or who are unlikely to recognize you as a known contact; (ii) using our Website to connect to people who don't know you and then sending unsolicited promotional messages to those connections without their permission; and (iii) sending messages to distribution lists, newsgroup aliases or group aliases;

                                 g.            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 ours or any Member; and/or

                                 h.            Forges headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any communication transmitted through our Website.

User to User Communications

We offer various forums and blogs on our Website where you can post your resume and communicate with other Members. Ideas you post and information you share may be seen and used by other Members, and we cannot guarantee that other Members will not use the ideas and information that you share on our Website. Therefore, if you have an idea or information that you would like to keep confidential 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 our Website. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR A MEMBER'S MISUSE OR MISAPPROPRIATION OF ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION YOU POST IN ANY COMMUNITY FORUMS ON OUR WEBSITE SUCH AS MY ACCOUNT.

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Members. We may limit the number of connections you may have to other Members and may, in certain circumstances, prohibit you from contacting other Members through use of the Website or otherwise limit your use of the Website. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members and to restrict, suspend, or close your account if we determine, in our sole discretion, that doing so is necessary to enforce these Terms of Use.

If you decide to close your account with us, we will remove your name and other Personal Information from our publicly viewable database. If you close your account, we have no obligation to retain your information, and may delete any or all of your account information without liability. However, we may retain certain data contributed by you if we believe it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis. of aggregated, non-personally identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. We may Local Care Source may also retain and use your information if necessary to provide our Website services to other Members. For example, just as an email you may send to another person through an email service provider resides in that person's inbox even after you delete it from your sent files or close your account, emails you send via the My Account portion of our Website to other Members, as well as your contributions to discussion groups, may remain visible to others after you have closed your account. Similarly, other information you have shared with others, or that other Members have copied, may also remain visible. We disclaim any liability in relation to the deletion or retention of information or any obligation not to delete the information. We do not control when search engines update their caches, which may contain certain public profile information that has since been removed from our publicly viewable database.