GENERAL: The Government of Puerto Rico, including its agencies, public corporations and instrumentalities (hereinafter “PRDIB”) d/b/a www.puertoricodoesitbetter.com, offers you, the user (“you” or “User”) access to this website located at http://www.puertoricodoesitbetter.com (the “Site”) based strictly on the terms set forth and agreed by you in these Terms and Conditions of Use and in PRDIB´s Privacy Policy (the Terms and Conditions of Use, and the Privacy Policy, collectively referred herein as the “Terms” or the “Agreement”). By visiting, using the Site, and/or utilizing any social networking capabilities through the Site (individually and collectively, the “Service”) you are accepting and agreeing to be bound by each of the Terms set forth herein. PRDIB may discontinue or modify these Terms at any time and without notice as it deems necessary or appropriate. Any amendments to the Terms set forth herein are effective upon being posted. You should, therefore, review these Terms from time to time. Your access and use of the Site and/or the Service after the effective date of any amendment to the Terms means that you have accepted such amendment and constitutes your agreement to be bound by the then current Terms.

You may only use the Service in accordance with these Terms, as well as any additional terms that may be presented in connection with any particular feature or function of the Service from time to time.

PRDIB shall be entitled to rely on your representations under these Terms. PRDIB will not be subject and will not accept any claims from any parties claiming that they did not authorize the furnishing, delivery and/or receipt of any information or Service, whether or not through the Site. Accordingly, you are the sole responsible for your use of the Service, and for any consequences under these Terms.

This Site provides an interactive online service operated by PRDIB, through which we generally respond to any e-mail questions, requests for services, and other inquiries that we receive. We may also retain these inquiries to improve our services and web site, and for other disclosed purposes. We may retain contact information so that we can send individual updates or other important information.

The www.puertoricodoesitbetter.com Website is designed to support and enable PRDIB’s mission to diversify and strengthen Puerto Rico's economy and create better employment opportunities for its citizens by supporting, attracting and helping to create businesses in innovative, high-growth industries. In order to take advantage of the website and receive electronic communications, PRDIB recommends that you complete our registration form. You must provide PRDIB with accurate, complete and updated registration information when creating your account and keep your account information current at all times. For more information about our collection of personal information, please view our Privacy Policy.

The right to use this Site is personal to User and is not transferable to any other person or entity. User shall be responsible for protecting the confidentiality of User’s password(s), if any. User acknowledges that, although the Internet is often a secure environment, sometimes there are interruptions in service or events that are beyond the control of PRDIB, and PRDIB shall not be responsible for any data lost while transmitting information on the Internet. While PRDIB´s objective is to make the Site accessible 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, the Site may be unavailable from time to time for any reason including, without limitation, routine maintenance. You understand and acknowledge that due to circumstances both within and outside of the control of PRDIB, access to the Site may be interrupted, suspended or terminated from time to time.

PRDIB shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the Site, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability and equipment needed for access or use. Further, PRDIB may discontinue disseminating any portion of information or category of information, may change or eliminate any transmission method and may change transmission speeds or other signal characteristics.

EXTERNAL SITES: As a convenience to you, the Site, the Service, electronic communications delivering content and electronic versions of products or services may contain links to External Sites (the “External Sites”) that are owned and/or operated by a third-party. By offering you these External Sites, PRDIB is not endorsing any of them and PRDIB has no responsibility or liability, directly or indirectly, for such External Sites, including without limitation, for their content. You access linked sites at your own risk.

PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES: The following activities shall be prohibited when using any of the Services offered in the Site, including but not limited to, the Site’s social networking capabilities such as discussion boards, comments posts and others:

• (1) You may not hack the Site or place any content on the Site that, in PRDIB´s sole determination:
  • a. Is or may be fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive
  • b. Is or may be harassing, manipulative, hateful or degrading
  • c. Is or may be illegal, abusive or threatening
  • d. Infringes on the copyrights and trademarks of others
  • e. Is or may be sexually explicit
  • f. Is or may be vulgar, profane, obscene, or pornographic
  • g. Is or may be defamatory or libelous
  • h. Is or may be harmful to minors
  • i. Constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law
  • j. Is otherwise objectionable
  • k. Is not permitted by the Site under its normal operation
  • l. Disables or otherwise blocks partial or full functionality of the Site to others and/or to PRDIB.
• (2) You may not use the Site or your account within the Site for any commercial or political advertisements, business, solicitations or promotions.
• (3) You may not upload any destructive programs, information, file, or software such as viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots and/or self-replicating code, or take any other actions to harm, interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Site, other computer software or hardware, nor any electronic or telecommunications equipment.
• (4) You may not send unsolicited e-mail messages, including advertising, promotional materials, spam, junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation, to any other User of the Site or the Service.
• (5) You may not solicit passwords or other personal information from any other Users of the Site or the Service.
• (6) You may not post or transmit any message which discloses private or personal matters concerning any person.
• (7) You may not post or transmit any message, data, image or program in a fashion that would violate the property rights of others, including unauthorized copyrighted text, images or programs, trade secrets or other confidential proprietary information, and trademarks or Site marks used in an infringing fashion.
• (8) You will not allow any other person other than yourself, including any former user whose account has been terminated, suspended or cancelled, to use the Service through your Service account.
• (9) You may not transmit, broadcast, retransmit, rebroadcast, distribute, redistribute, or make any commercial use of the Site and/or the Service. You may not copy, reproduce or prepare derivative works from, publicly perform, publicly display or distribute the Service or the Site in any manner not expressly authorized by PRDIB.
• (10) You will not reverse engineer, decrypt, decompile, or otherwise alter or interfere with the Site or the Service, or attempt to do so, or assist or encourage others in doing so.
• (11) You may not register for, activate or use more than one account.
• (12) You may not register for an account on behalf of any group or entity without such group or entity’s written authorization.
• (13) You may not submit through the Site or through the Service false, misleading, or incorrect information to PRDIB when creating your account, using the Service, or at any other moment.

Any conduct by a User that in PRDIB´s exclusive discretion restricts or inhibits any other User from using or enjoying this Site and/or any of the External Sites is strictly prohibited. User shall not use this Site or any of the External Sites to advertise or perform any commercial, religious, political or non-commercial solicitation, including, but not limited to, the solicitation of Users of this Site and/or the External Sites to become Users of other online or offline services directly or indirectly competitive or potentially competitive with PRDIB.

If you breach or infringe, or PRDIB reasonably suspects that you may have breached or infringed any of the Terms of this section, or any other clauses, representations, and covenants of these Terms, PRDIB may, in its sole discretion, suspend, cancel, and/or terminate your account and/or access to the Site and/or the Service or any part thereof with or without previous notice to you. Also, to the extent PRDIB reasonably suspects a User has engaged in fraudulent, abusive, manipulative or illegal activities, such User may be referred to the appropriate law enforcement agencies. PRDIB may, in its sole discretion, terminate these Terms or suspend, cancel or terminate any right or license granted in these Terms, your Service account and/or the Service or any part thereof for any or no reason with or without notice to You. This includes, but is not limited to, circumstances in which PRDIB may have reasonable grounds to suspect that the information provided by you in creating your account is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete.

You understand and agree that any unauthorized use of the Site or the Service will result in irreparable injury to PRDIB, its business partners, and/or licensors for which monetary compensation would be inadequate, and in such event and/or in a breach of these Terms, PRDIB, its business partners, and/or licensors, as applicable, shall have the right, in addition to other remedies available at law and in equity, to immediate injunctive relief against you. Nothing contained in this paragraph or elsewhere in these Terms shall be construed as to limit remedies or relief available pursuant to statutory or other claims that PRDIB, its business partners, and/or licensors may have under other clauses of these Terms or under separate legal authority, including but not limited to, any claim for intellectual property infringement.

COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS: The PRDIB name and logo, the Service, as well as all the content included in the Site and the External Sites, including without limitation the text, graphics, logos, icons, screens and configurations, photographs, audio and video clips, music and sound, picture images, website architecture, format, layout and data structures, product names, logos, commercial symbols, trade names and slogans are the EXCLUSIVE property of PRDIB or its licensors (or is a nominative use of trademark) and are protected by United States and international copyright and trademark laws. All software used in the Service and in this Site is the property of PRDIB or its software suppliers and is also protected by United States’ and international copyright laws. You do not acquire any ownership rights by agreeing, accepting or consenting to these Terms. You do not acquire any ownership rights by printing or downloading any information or using the Site and/or the Service. Any use of the content or software of the Service or the Site other than for the express Service provided is strictly prohibited, including without limitation REPRODUCING, MODIFYING, DISTRIBUTING, TRANSMITTING, REPLICATING OR PUBLIC EXHIBITION, CREATING DERIVATIVE WORKS, COPYING, POSTING, LINKING, OR OTHERWISE MODIFYING OF THIS SITE OR ANY OF THE EXTERNAL SITES. Any violation of this policy may result in a copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right infringement that may subject User to civil and/or criminal penalties.

User shall NOT upload, post or otherwise make available on this Site any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right. PRDIB does not have any express burden or responsibility to provide User with indications, markings or anything else that may aid User in determining whether the material in question is copyrighted or trademarked. User shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, trademarks, proprietary rights or any other harm resulting from such a submission.

PRDIB reserves the right to terminate its Agreement with any User who repeatedly infringes third-party copyrights upon prompt notification to PRDIB by the copyright owner or the copyright owner’s legal agent.

LICENSE & RIGHTS GRANTED: Subject to these Terms, PRDIB grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable and revocable right to a limited use of the Site for the purposes stated in these Terms in order to access and observe through an Internet browser its content, if available and provided by PRDIB, and to use the limited functionalities of the Site such as registration, and logging in and out, as may be provided, changed and limited by PRDIB from time to time.

You grant PRDIB a transferable, assignable, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, edit, translate and distribute, in whole or in part, the information, content, communications, comments, messages, information or material you supply to the Site (the “User Generated Content”) including, but not limited to, the use of the information to provide you products or services and to execute any appropriate charges as further explained in these Terms. PRDIB may assign the Terms and its rights that arise thereunder. You may not assign your rights under these Terms.

By posting User Generated Content on or through this Site or any External Sites, User shall be deemed to have granted to PRDIB a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the User Generated Content alone, or as part of other derivative works, in any form, media, or technology whether now known or hereafter developed without territorial or time limitations; to use such User Generated Content for promotions, advertising, market research or any other lawful purpose; and to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees.

NO WARRANTY & RELEASE: THE SITE AND THE SERVICE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY AND ALL PARTS THEREOF, ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER AND THE USE OF THE SITE AND/OR THE SERVICE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY AND ALL PARTS THEREOF, IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

PRDIB AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, REPRESENTATIVES, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND AFFILIATES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SITE AND THE SERVICE, THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES INCLUDED IN THE SITE AND THE SERVICE, WARRANTIES OF THIRD PARTY MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND THE STATUTORY WARRANTY AGAINST NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS.

THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE OR THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT YOUR ACCESS TO THE SAME WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR VIRUS OR ERROR-FREE. PRDIB AND/OR PRDIB’S ENTITIES, AS APPLICABLE, DO NOT WARRANT, GUARANTEE, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE SERVICE OR THE SITE WITH RESPECT TO PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, CONTENT, COMPLETENESS, LEGALITY, RELIABILITY, SECURITY CAPABILITY, OPERABILITY, AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION OR MATERIAL, CURRENTNESS OR OTHERWISE AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR UNAVAILABLE NETWORK CONNECTIONS, FAILED OR INCOMPLETE OR DELAYED COMPUTER TRANSMISSIONS, ONLINE FAILURES, HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE OR OTHER TECHNICAL MALFUNCTIONS OR DISTURBANCES, OR ANY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS FAILURES OR CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING, DISRUPTING OR CORRUPTING THE PRDIB SERVICE IN ANY MANNER INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE USER’S ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY GIVEAWAYS, RECEIVE NOTIFICATIONS, OR ANY OTHER FUNCTION OF THE PRDIB SERVICES AND SITE. YOU WILL NOT HOLD PRDIB AND/OR PRDIB´S ENTITIES OR INSTRUMENTALITIES, AS APPLICABLE, RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM YOU ACCESSING THE SERVICE OR USING THE SERVICE, AND/OR THE SITE INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY INFECTIONS OR CONTAMINATIONS OF THE DEVICES YOU USE TO ACCESS THE SAME OR TO TRANSFER INFORMATION OR DATA THAT MAY RESULT FROM THAT USE. NO ORAL ADVICE OR WRITTEN INFORMATION GIVEN BY PRDIB AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, REPRESENTATIVES, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR AFFILIATES, THIRD PARTY MERCHANTS OR BUSINESS PARTNERS, WILL CREATE A WARRANTY AND YOU MAY NOT RELY ON ANY SUCH INFORMATION OR ADVICE. PRDIB IS NOT RESPONSIBLE TO YOU FOR ANY CONTENT PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE OR FOR ANY DOWNLOAD OR CONTENT YOU FIND OBJECTIONABLE.

PRDIB HAS NO CONTROL OVER THE INTERNET AND CANNOT PREVENT THE INTERCEPTION OF MESSAGES BY UNAUTHORIZED PARTIES OR GUARANTEE THAT SUCH UNAUTHORIZED PARTIES MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DECRYPT ENCRYPTED MESSAGES. ACCORDINGLY, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL PRDIB BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE INCURRED BY ANY USER AS THE RESULT OF UNAUTHORIZED INTERCEPTION OR DECRYPTION OF INFORMATION TRANSMITTED TO OR BY PRDIB. USERS MUST IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY PRDIB OF ANY KNOWN OR SUSPECTED UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A USER’S ACCOUNT OR ANY KNOWN OR SUSPECTED BREACH OF SECURITY, INCLUDING LOSS, THEFT, OR UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF A USER’S PASSWORD, IF ANY.

PRDIB WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY ALLEGED CLAIM OF COPYRIGHT OR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT RESULTING OUT OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THE SITE BY USERS.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL PRDIB OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, REPRESENTATIVES, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, BUSINESS PARTNERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND AFFILIATES, AS APPLICABLE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE AND/OR THE SITE, EVEN IF PRDIB AND/OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, REPRESENTATIVES, BUSINESS PARTNERS, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND AFFILIATES, AS APPLICABLE, HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

RELEASE:
YOU HEREBY RELEASE AND FOREVER DISCHARGE PRDIB AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, REPRESENTATIVES, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, FROM ANY AND ALL MANNER OF LIABILITY, CLAIMS, COUNTERCLAIMS, DEMANDS, SETOFFS, DAMAGES OR CAUSES OF ACTION, WHICH YOU NOW HAVE OR WHICH MAY HEREAFTER ACCRUE, WHETHER HERETOFORE ASSERTED OR UNASSERTED, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY RELATING TO THE USE OF THE SITE OR ANY SERVICE BY YOU OR TO THE PURCHASE OF ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE BY YOU, SPECIFICALLY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY CLAIMS BASED IN WHOLE OR IN PART UPON THE ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE OF PRDIB IN OPERATING THE SITE, THE SERVICE OR OTHERWISE.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY & INDEMNIFICATION: NEITHER PRDIB NOR ANY OF ITS REPRESENTATIVES, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS OR CONTENT PROVIDERS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR TRANSACTIONS THROUGH THIS SITE OR THE INABILITY TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE SITE. YOU AGREE THAT, IN NO EVENT SHALL PRDIB OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, LICENSORS OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE, AND YOU RELEASE ALL SUCH PERSONS FROM ANY LIABILITY, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE, LIABILITY OR EXPENSE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE USE OF THIS SITE OR THE USE OF THE SERVICE THROUGH THIS SITE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH LOSS, DAMAGE, LIABILITY OR EXPENSE RESULTS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM PRDIB. IN ANY EVENT, PRDIB´S LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED TO $100.00.

PRDIB may in its sole discretion terminate the Terms or change, modify, discontinue, inactivate, suspend, cancel or terminate your account and/or the Site and/or the Service or any part thereof for any or no reason with or without previous notice to you. PRDIB shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification and/or discontinuation of the Site and/or the Service or any part thereof.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold PRDIB and its officers, directors, representatives, independent contractors, employees, agents, and affiliates (collectively, the Indemnitees) harmless for, from and against any loss, claims, actions, demands, causes of action, and other proceedings (collectively the “Claims”) by reason of, in any way relating to, or arising out of: (a) your use of the Site and/or the Service or any part thereof and any violation of any law, rule or regulation arising out of such use; (b) any misuse of information, including email addresses and email content arising out of or relating to your use of the Site and/or the Service; (c) any content or information uploaded by you or through your account to the Site, the Service, the computer systems running the Site and/or the Service or otherwise including any information You provide to PRDIB; and (d) any violation of these Terms. You agree to reimburse any and all Indemnitees on demand for any losses, costs, judgments, fees, fines, and other expenses they incur including without limitation attorney’s fees and court and filing fees and costs, as result of any Claims.

USER IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INTERACTIONS WITH THIRD PARTY MERCHANTS, IF ANY, AND OTHER USERS OF THE SITE OR EXTERNAL SITES. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS, USER HEREBY RELEASES PRDIB FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS OR LIABILITY RELATED TO ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE OF THIRD PARTY MERCHANTS, IF ANY, ANY ACTION OR IN-ACTION BY SUCH THIRD PARTY MERCHANTS, INCLUDING A THIRD PARTY MERCHANTS’ FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND/OR FAILURE TO ABIDE BY THE TERMS OF DEALS OR OFFERS, AND ANY CONDUCT OR SPEECH, WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE, OF ANY OTHER USER.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION: These Terms shall be exclusively construed and governed by the laws of Puerto Rico without regard to its conflict of law provisions or the laws of any other state or country or your actual state or country of residence. You agree that the federal and state courts located in Puerto Rico shall have exclusive jurisdiction and venue over any action brought to enforce the rights and obligations in or arising from these Terms and you irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of such courts.

MONITORING & PRIVACY: As part of the Service, PRDIB may provide the ability to integrate certain social networking internet sites into the PRDIB Site. PRDIB shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of the Site and any External Sites at all times, including any chat rooms, discussions, comments posted and forums that may hereinafter be included as part of the Site, to determine compliance with these Terms and any operating rules established by PRDIB, as well as to satisfy any applicable law, regulation or authorized government request. Without limiting the foregoing, PRDIB shall have the right, but not the obligation, to remove any material that PRDIB, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise undesirable, objectionable, or inappropriate. PRDIB shall not be responsible for any such removal, failure to remove or delay in removing such content.

User acknowledges that all comments, bulletin or message board services, chat rooms and/or other message or communication facilities (collectively “Postings” or “Posting”) are public and not private communications, and that, therefore, others may read User’s communications without User’s knowledge. PRDIB is not responsible for material submitted or posted on the site by other Users, does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Posting, and, therefore, PRDIB specifically disclaims any liability concerning the Postings and any actions resulting from Users’ participation in any Posting, including any objectionable content.

END OF AGREEMENT & THIRD-PARTY RESPONSIBILITY: PRDIB may terminate this Agreement at any time. Without limiting the foregoing, PRDIB shall have the right to immediately terminate or suspend any passwords or accounts of User in the event of any conduct by User or which PRDIB, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by User of this Agreement.

Your cancellation of your account is your sole right and remedy with respect to any dispute with PRDIB and you agree that such right is proper and represents the allocation of risk and conforms to the pricing, fees and considerations under these Terms.

In many instances, the content available through this Site represents the opinions and judgments of the respective information provider, User, or other user not under contract with PRDIB. PRDIB neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made on PRDIB by anyone other than authorized PRDIB employee spokespersons while acting in official capacities. Under no circumstances will PRDIB be liable for any loss or damage caused by a User’s reliance on information obtained through PRDIB. It is the responsibility of User to evaluate the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice, etc., or other content available through PRDIB.

MISCELLANEOUS & DISCLOSURES: This Agreement, and any operating rules for PRDIB as may be established by PRDIB from time to time, constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder is a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall be of no legal force or effect. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the enforceability of any other provisions contained in this Agreement, and the remaining portions of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. The failure of either party to exercise any of its rights under this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver or forfeiture of such rights or any other rights provided hereunder.

You should note that parental control protections are readily and commercially available that may assist you in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors.

FORCE MAJEURE & EXPORT RESTRICTIONS: PRDIB will not be liable in any amount for failure to perform under these Terms if such failure is caused by power, Internet or communication outages, fire, flood, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, wars, acts of God, force majeure, or the occurrence of any other unforeseen contingency or event beyond the control of PRDIB. If you fail to receive the Service because of network congestion or unavailability, you may contact PRDIB at the email provided below.

United States export laws and regulations restrict the exportation and/or re-exportation through downloading or otherwise into certain embargoed countries. By downloading from the Site, you are representing that you are not located in any of the prohibited countries.

ARBITRATION & REPRESENTATION: By using this Site, User agrees that: (1) any claim, dispute, or controversy User may have against PRDIB arising out of, relating to, or connected in any way with this Agreement, this Site, or any External Sites, or the purchase or sale of any products or services, shall be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration and conducted before a single arbitrator pursuant to the applicable Rules and Procedures (“Rules and Procedures”) established by Puerto Rico (“arbitration forum”); (2) the arbitration shall be held at the Puerto Rico or at such other location as may be mutually agreed upon by User and PRDIB; (3) the arbitrator shall apply Puerto Rico law consistent with the Federal Arbitration Act and applicable statutes of limitations, and shall honor claims of privilege recognized at law. If any part of this arbitration provision is deemed to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, or otherwise conflicts with the Rules and Procedures established by the arbitration forum, then the balance of this arbitration provision shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid, unenforceable, illegal or conflicting provision were not contained herein.

You represent that you are of legal age to form a binding contract. You must be at least 18 years old to be eligible to use the Site. However, if you are at least 16 years old but not yet 18, you may use the Site in conjunction with your parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms. No one under age 16 may use the Site.

CONTACTING US & CUSTOMER SUPPORT:
You may cancel your account at any time. You may do so by contacting us at support@PRDIB.com with the subject “Cancel Membership”. For other questions or inquiries you may also contact us at http://support.PRDIB.com.

SEVERABILITY OF AGREEMENT: These Terms constitute the entire Agreement between you and PRDIB and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, whether written or oral or otherwise, with respect to the subject matter of these Terms and Conditions of Use. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of the Terms and Conditions of Use is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void, unenforceable or against public policy, the remainder of these Terms and Conditions of Use shall remain in full force and effect and the unenforceable portion will be construed in accordance with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions of the parties. PRDIB’s failure to pursue any available claim or defense pursuant to these Terms will not be a waiver of such claim or defense. The headings used in this Agreement are for convenience only, and will have no effect on the interpretation or legal enforceability of the terms herein.

This is the Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applicable to this website (hereinafter the “Site”). This Policy is subject to and must be read in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”) of the Site. The Government of Puerto Rico, including its agencies, public corporations and instrumentalities (hereinafter “PRDIB”), through www.puertoricodoesitbetter.com, collects certain non-personal information and certain personally identifiable information that may be used to provide you (“you” or “User”) with customized services, content, industry information and/or advertisements.

By using the Site you are accepting and agreeing to be bound by each of the Terms set forth in this Policy. PRDIB may modify this Policy at any time. Amended Terms of this Policy are effective as of the date that they are posted. You should, therefore, review this Policy from time to time. Your access and use of the Site or any purchases made through the Site after the effective date of any amendment to this Policy means that you have accepted its amended Terms. If you do not agree to be bound by (or cannot comply with) the Terms of this Policy as amended from time to time, you agree that your sole remedy is to cease using the Site. Your continued use of the Site or any purchase made through the Site constitutes your agreement to be bound by the amended Terms (that is, the then current Terms) of this Policy.

For purposes of this Policy, to use, access and/or visit the Site includes visiting the Site or any of its pages, in order to, request or obtain any information from PRDIB, registering (partially or completely) in the Site, and logging in and out (“Use”).

In order to take advantage of the website and receive electronic communications, PRDIB recommends that you complete our registration form. Your information (both personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information) is collected when you register with the Site to receive certain services offered through PRDIB.

PRDIB and/or its agents may collect your personal identifiable information when you Use the Site or when you register to Use the Site. PRDIB may also collect your personal identifiable information when you otherwise submit information to PRDIB, including instances when you do not complete any applicable registration process in its entirety. The type of personal identifiable information that PRDIB collects may include, without limitation, your: (a) full name; (b) email address and telephone number; (c) name of the company you work for; (d) any and other information requested on the applicable registration form. PRDIB may contract or employ other companies, agents or entities to send mail or email to you, fix internal problems in relation to the handling personally identifiable information, analyze data, provide business and marketing analysis, and to perform other functions on behalf of PRDIB.

PRDIB may use your personal information to provide or improve customer service, to provide you with information that you may request, customize your experience on the Site, and/or to contact you when necessary in connection with transactions you entered into. PRDIB may contact you through mail, email or over the phone (through calls or messages) to assist you or inform you about opportunities available with PRDIB. PRDIB may use your personal information to analyze and manage its business and for any other internal purposes. PRDIB may use third parties to help operate the Site, its business or for any other product or activity.

PRDIB reserves the right to release past or current personally identifiable information in the event that PRDIB believes that you are using or have used PRDIB’s products, services, and/or the Site (or any part thereof): (i) in violation of the Terms of the Site, as they may be amended from time to time; (ii) to break the law. Additionally, PRDIB may release your personally identifiable information if: (i) such information is subpoenaed or ordered to be disclosed by any authority; (ii) PRDIB is sold, acquired or merges with any other entity; and/or (iii) PRDIB deems it necessary or appropriate including, without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003), as amended from time to time, and the corresponding Federal Trade Commission’s implementing regulations.

By registering (partially or completely) at the Site, when you Use the Site to obtain, solicit, or download any products from the Site, and/or through any other means and/or when submitting information to PRDIB, you agree that such acts constitute an inquiry and/or application for purposes of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR §310 et seq.), as amended from time to time (the “Rule”), and any applicable state do-not-call regulations. As such, notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade Commission’s Do-Not-Call List and/or on any applicable state do-not-call lists, PRDIB may contact you via telemarketing in accordance with the Rule and any applicable state do-not-call regulations.

You agree to receive marketing from PRDIB, including but not limited to, text-message-based marketing. Even if your mobile telephone number is listed on any state and/or federal Do-Not-Call registries, PRDIB retains the right to contact you via text-message-based marketing in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.

Except as otherwise provided in this Policy, or if PRDIB requests from you and obtains your permission to share your personally identifiable information with third parties, PRDIB shall not share your personally identifiable information with third parties.

Personally identifiable information may be disclosed to the proper authorities in special situations where PRDIB has reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with PRDIB's rights, property, users, or anyone else who may be harmed by such activities. PRDIB may reveal personally identifiable information when it has been informed by law enforcement authorities or has established a good faith belief that the law requires PRDIB to do so.

For privacy and security purposes, your PRDIB account information may be password-protected. If the Site or any part or component thereof requires the use of a password, you have the responsibility to maintain the secrecy and/or integrity of your password by taking reasonable measures to ensure that your password in not misused. You must notify PRDIB immediately should you suspect that your password secrecy and/or integrity have been compromised.

Non-personally identifiable information (including without limitation, the type of browser that you use and its version, your IP address, your location or your general geographic location, the operating system that you use and its version, and the domain name of your Internet service provider, aggregate information from all Site visitors and/or registered users) may be collected by PRDIB and used to analyze and improve PRDIB’s service and products and to design, customize, and improve the Site and for any other purpose, including but not limited to commercial purposes. PRDIB may share non-personally identifiable information with third parties.

PRDIB may sell, rent, lease or otherwise provide the non-personally identifiable information that you supply to PRDIB (or that PRDIB generates from any non-personally identifiable or non-personally identifiable information or any other information) to any third party including, without limitation, as permitted by law to: (a) providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation; (b) e-mail marketers; (c) telemarketers; (d) text-based marketers; and (e) direct marketers. The aforementioned third parties may bring selected business, retail, product, service, sale, or other opportunities to you, with or without PRDIB’s endorsement.

When you visit or register in the Site, PRDIB may send a cookie and/or gif file (“Cookie”) to assign an anonymous, unique identifier to your Internet browser and/or your computer. A Cookie is a short string of data that allows our Site to remember who you are, serving much like a unique membership ID. PRDIB may use Cookies to remember reference keys to some of your Site preferences so that we can provide a more convenient experience during your next visit. A Cookie will be stored in your hard drive and contain non-personally identifiable information about you. You may delete and/or block Cookies from your browser, but this may affect the quality and/or performance of the Site. To disable and reject all Cookies, follow the instructions associated with your Internet browser. PRDIB reserves the right to retain Cookie data indefinitely. PRDIB reserves the right to retain personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information indefinitely.

Nothing in this Policy shall be interpreted as PRDIB representing, offering, or guaranteeing any products, services or programs to you. PRDIB is under no obligation to provide or maintain any services or the Site. The Site may contain links to other websites (“External Links”). PRDIB is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage users to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.