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Introduction

These Terms of Use are property of CrownLand.
CrownLandInvest.com is a land banking investment site accessible via Internet. Most features of the CrownLand Services are accessible free of charge. Others Services are paid for by our Members.

We ask you to carefully read the Terms of Use below before participating with CrownLand, as a CrownLand Member, in the use and development of a responsible and high quality site. In becoming a Member of CrownLand, you undertake to comply with these Terms of Use. If you do not accept these Terms of Use, you should not register with CrownLand. Registration for one or more Services, as well as use of this site, implies full and complete acceptance of these Terms of Use by the Member. By checking the box containing the words "I certify that I have read the CrownLand Terms of Use", located at the bottom of the registration page, in order to confirm registration, the Member acknowledges that he/she is bound by all clauses of these Terms of Use.

Article 1. definitions

The list of words below, which start with a capital letter, have been defined for the purposes of these Terms of Use as follows:

"CrownLand" refers to the group of Products and Services with the purpose to facilitate and undertake investments in Land in the Republic of Panama. CrownLand is accessible from multiple platforms, with and without payment.

"Service(s)" refers to the entirety of the Services accessible to CrownLand Members, whether paid or unpaid.

"Paid Services" refers to all Services accessible by CrownLand Members with sufficient Credits. All rates are quoted by CrownLand.

"Member(s)" refers to any or all validly registered users of the CrownLand Service who have or have not paid to use CrownLand.

"Terms of Use" refers to this contract.

Article 2. access and registration for the CrownLand Services

2.1. Terms of access and registration

The equipment (computer, software, telecommunications systems, etc.) used to allow access to Services shall be the responsibility of the Member, as shall the telecommunications costs incurred by its use.

To be a CrownLand Member you must be at least 18 years of age and complete all compulsory fields appearing on the registration forms.

The Member guarantees that all of the data supplied by him or her is accurate and true. The Member undertakes to immediately inform CrownLand in the case of a change in any of the information he or she has supplied when registering, or, as appropriate, to update these changes himself or herself in his or her private pages on the CrownLand Site.

When the conditions required for registration are met, each Member will have one or more identifier(s) (login) and one or more password(s), according to the different Services with which the Member is registered (Internet, newsletters). These identifier(s) and password(s) are strictly private and confidential and must not be passed on or shared with any third parties.

If a Member disseminates or uses these elements in a manner deemed contrary to its original purpose, CrownLand will terminate the Member's Account.

The Member shall be solely liable for the use of this identification information by third parties or for the actions or statements made through the Member's account, whether these be fraudulent or not. The Member holds CrownLand harmless against all claims of this kind. In addition, as CrownLand does not have the obligation or the technical means to check the identity of every person registered with its Services, CrownLand is not liable in the event a Member's identity is used by someone else. If the Member has reason to believe that a person is using his or her Member identification information or account, he or she must inform CrownLand immediately.

When a Member wishes to sponsor a friend and provides CrownLand with the contact details of said friend, such member must have obtained the prior consent of this friend for CrownLand to process his or her data that will be used solely in order to address an electronic message informing him/her of CrownLand and its Services. The said message is addressed in the name and in the account of the Members having provided CrownLand with their personal data. In such a case, the Member supplies such information freely and voluntarily and under his/her sole responsibility.

For security and quality purposes, CrownLand will deactivate the accounts of Members who have not used the Service for a period of 6 months or more, and for whom no subscription remains valid. The six-month period referred to above shall commence on the date that the subscription term expires.

2.2. Right of withdrawal

The Member is informed that he/she enjoys a period of seven calendar days from the time he/she accepts the Services to exercise his or her right of withdrawal, without penalty and without the need to provide any reason. However the right of withdrawal may no longer be exercised once the Member has accessed the Services concerned.

Article 3. use of CrownLand

Upon registration the Member can take advantage of access to Services available on CrownLand. Prices and terms of payment for the Paid Services can be found under the Article "Prices and Terms of Payment" of these Terms of Use, which can be accessed at any time via the CrownLand site during the presentation or the use of the Paid Service(s) that the Member wishes to access, as well as its/their respective price(s).

3.1. Obligations of CrownLand

CrownLand will remotely and by electronic means supply an on-line Investment Service via Internet. CrownLand's activity does not include supplying access to the Internet network, or providing an electronic communication Service to the public. Consequently, CrownLand has no legal obligation to identify Members when they connect to the CrownLand Internet site or to monitor content published by Members. Because CrownLand is technically incapable of providing such Services, CrownLand does not undertake contractually to identify Members or to moderate in respect of content which they publish under their own responsibility.

CrownLand cannot be held liable for false declarations made by a Member. Therefore, it is imperative that Members take certain precautions when arranging to interact with another Member. CrownLand assumes no responsibility for communication between Members of CrownLand.

In this respect, CrownLand reminds its Members that they are prohibited from disclosing information that allows them to be identified, such as last name, postal/e-mail address, telephone number, to other Members of CrownLand through the Services.

3.2. Obligations of the Member

The provisions of this Article shall apply without prejudice to the Article " Termination ".

When using the Services, the Member undertakes in particular to comply with contract law, the rights of third parties and these Terms of Use.

3.2.1. General Obligations :

The Member has the following General Obligations:

To act fairly in respect of CrownLand and other Members;
To respect the intellectual property rights relating to content supplied by CrownLand and by other Members; and
To understand that he/she alone defines the boundaries of his/her privacy and that it is his/her responsibility only to communicate to CrownLand and to other Members such personal information the dissemination of which he/she considers cannot cause him/her any harm.

3.2.2. Essential Obligations:

The Member has the following Essential Obligations:

Not to use CrownLand for advertising purposes;
Not to post, disseminate, or broadcast in any form whatsoever inaccurate or false information or content;
Not to make comments, propagate or disseminate in any form whatsoever content that contravenes the rights of others or that is defamatory, injurious, obscene, offensive, violent or inciting to violence, political, racist or xenophobic and, in general, any content that is contrary to the purpose of CrownLand, current rules and laws in force or acceptable norms and standards. In particular, photographs, videos and any other information in terms of data or files supplied by a Member of CrownLand must be decent and refer exclusively to the Member or to a third party from whom the Member has expressly obtained consent and are the sole responsability of the Member concerned;
Not to mention on the CrownLand web site any personal information provided by a CrownLand Member (email address, postal address, telephone number, etc) enabling a Member to contact another Member without using CrownLand;
Not to post, disseminate, or broadcast in any form whatsoever information or content that has the effect of diminishing, disorganizing or preventing normal usage of the Services, or of interrupting and/or slowing down normal circulation of communications between Members through the Services, such information comprising, for example, software, worms, viruses, software bombs, mass mailing, etc. CrownLand reserves the right to delete messages sent in mass mailings by a Member in order to maintain the quality of use of the Services provided to its Members;
Not to post, disseminate, or broadcast in any form whatsoever information or content that incorporates links to third-party websites that are illegal in character, contrary to what is generally acceptable and/or not in accordance with the principles of CrownLand;
To use his/her password and/or ID only for their purpose of identification for the Services. In this regard, the Member must not, without limitation, communicate, disseminate, share or make accessible, in any way, his/her passwords and/or IDs to any third party;
To ensure that the personal data of his/her entourage is communicated legally and without risk of harm. The Member must thus obtain the prior consent of Members of said entourage to receive, on the Member's behalf, an e-mail from CrownLand; and
To use the Services in accordance with the purpose set out in these Terms of Use.

Failure to comply with the Essential Obligations as set out above shall constitute a serious breach by the Member of his/her obligations. Without prejudice to the provisions of the Article "Termination", CrownLand shall, where the Member fails to comply with one or more of these Essential Obligations, be entitled to terminate the contract and will definitively delete the account of the Member concerned.

Article 4. prices and terms of payment

The use of the Paid Services assumes that the Member can pay by credit card (via Internet).

In any event, prices and terms of payment for various Paid Services are constantly accessible on the CrownLand site, at the latest, from the time of presentation or use of Paid Service(s) that the Member wishes to access, as well as their respective charge(s).

Article 5. personal privacy and protection of Member data

CrownLand upholds the strictest of standards with respect to protection of privacy and of personal information

Some information, comments or content (photographs or video) that the Member optionally provides may possibly, under the responsibility and on the initiative of the Member concerned, reveal the ethnic origin of the Member and/or his or her nationality. By providing such information, all optional, the Member concerned manifests his/her intention and, consequently, expressly consents to, and takes sole responsibility for, the processing of this said "sensitive" data by CrownLand, and freely takes the exclusive responsibility.

Each Member can, access or request access to information concerning him or her in order to have it modified, deleted or to forbid any use by CrownLand of it. Such request access shall be exercised by filing out the contact forms, and each Member shall carefully identify the senders personal identification.

Each Member can, at the time of registration or at any time thereafter, request to receive and, subsequently, request without charge via CrownLand to cease to receive, the CrownLand newsletter and/or promotional offers sent to her or him by e-mail or to cellular phone from CrownLand and/or its partners.

5.1. When and why do we gather information about you?

The Member is asked to supply information about himself or herself when he or she registers with the Service, participates in a contest, responds to a survey, participates in a chat or acquires a paid service. Certain items of information are mandatory in order to gain access to Services.

5.2. What sort of information do we gather?

Personal information gathered by CrownLand can include your name, postal and/or email address, landline and/or cellular phone number, bank information, information about projects, photographs, video, personal values, interests and your use of the Service.

Furthermore, certain non-personal information is also gathered, such as the version of the Member's and any other visitor's web browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.), the operating system (Windows 98, Mac Os, etc.) and the IP address of the computer from which they are visiting.

Finally, CrownLand uses cookies, designed to store information used to identify the Member while they are browsing on the CrownLand Internet site, in order to allow the Member to continue browsing without having to re-enter this information for each new page. The Member always has the option of preventing the use of cookies by modifying the options of his or her web browser.

5.3. Who has access to your information?

The information gathered about you when you register with CrownLand and subscribe to our Services is used to offer you our different Services. All precautions have been taken on our databases to archive your information in a secure environment. Only a small number of our employees have access to your information, which is only accessible in case of necessity. The personal information you provide at the time of registration which does not comprise your personal ad and your profile will not be accessible by third parties, nor passed on, sold or exchanged., except in the cases named below and subject to your prior information and agreement, or in assumption of your non opposition hereto.

We may send you promotional offers from some of our partners, subject to your explicit and informed consent given during registration, unless you oppose it during your registration or at any moment thereafter. If you do not wish to receive any special offers by from CrownLand or our partner companies let us know when you subscribe, or alternatively at any time through the area entitled "My Account" on the CrownLand site, or by post.

CrownLand may occasionally share general socio-demographic information that does not include names with selected partners to allow them to target their announcements (by age category, gender, etc.). In this case, we will not send these partners any information that would allow them to identify you.

The information contained in your personal ads and search criteria and your profile can be accessed on CrownLand, on the Web, by email (newsletters) or by cellular telephone. In addition, this information may be broadcasted directly by CrownLand or via our partners to persons interested in CrownLand, through newsletters or third-party websites, or by all other electronic (e-mail, SMS, etc.) or audiovisual (radio, television, etc.) communication tools, or by written press (newspapers, magazines, etc.).

Article 6. intellectual property

6.1. Content broadcast by CrownLand

The trademarks, logos, graphics, photographs, animations, videos and texts featuring on the CrownLand site and in the CrownLand Service are the intellectual property of CrownLand or its partners and may not be reproduced, used or represented without the express permission of CrownLand or its partners, under threat of legal action.

The rights of use accorded by CrownLand to the Member are strictly limited to accessing, downloading, printing and reproduction on all media (hard disk, floppy disk, CD-ROM, etc.) and to use of these documents for private and personal purposes in the scope of and for the duration for of the Member's membership with CrownLand. Any other use by the Member is prohibited without the authorization of CrownLand.

In particular, the Member is prohibited from modifying, copying, reproducing, disseminating, transmitting, exploiting for commercial gain and/or distributing in any form whatsoever the Services, the CrownLand site pages or software codes for elements comprising the CrownLand Services and site.

6.2. Content provided by Members

The Member grants CrownLand a license to use the intellectual property rights attached to the content provided by the Member for the purpose of broadcasting on the CrownLand Site.

This license in particular incorporates the right for CrownLand to reproduce, represent, adapt, translate, scan, use for publicity purposes, commercial or non-commercial, sub-license or assign the content concerning the Member (information, images, videos, descriptions, search criteria, etc.) on all or part of the CrownLand Services (on the CrownLand site, by e-mail) and/or in mailings sent by CrownLand and, in a general manner, on all distribution media, in particular electronic (e-mail, SMS, MMS, WAP, Internet, CD-Rom or DVD-Rom), or through audiovisual communications media (press, radio, analogue television, digital television, cable or satellite).

The Member expressly authorizes CrownLand to modify this content in order to conform to the look and feel of the CrownLand Services and/or other communications media above, and/or to make this content compatible with its technical processes or appropriate media formats. These rights are awarded on a global basis for the legal duration of the rights awarded, under French and foreign law, as well as current and future international conventions including any extensions that might eventually be agreed to this duration. The Member is prohibited from copying, reproducing or otherwise using for any purpose the content relating to other Members, except for the explicit requirements for usage of the Services for the Member's own strictly personal and private purpose.

Article 7. liabilities and warranties

7.1. Functioning of the CrownLand site and Services

To use the Services, the Member must have the necessary hardware equipment and software and the necessary parameters required to properly use CrownLand: Navigator Internet Explorer 6 or equivalent, Javascript functions enabled, cookies enabled, and pop-ups enabled.

The Member must have the skills, hardware and software required to use the Internet or, as appropriate, Internet and telephone Services, and acknowledges that the characteristics and constraints of the Internet mean that the security, availability and integrity of Internet data transmissions cannot be guaranteed.

CrownLand does not guarantee that the Services will function if the Member activates a popup killer tool. In this case, the function should be deactivated before using the Service.

CrownLand does not guarantee that the Services will be usable if the Member's Internet Service provider is unable to provide its Service properly. In this context, CrownLand cannot be held responsible for the non-functioning, non-availability or adverse conditions of usage of the CrownLand site resulting from incorrect hardware, problems experienced by the Member's Internet Service Provider or blockages on the Internet networks or for all other reasons outside the sphere of influence of CrownLand. Moreover, due amongst other things to the specifics of their Internet browser.

Under these conditions, CrownLand does not guarantee that the Services shall function without interruption or error. In particular, the use of this Site may be interrupted at any time for the purposes of maintenance, updates or technical improvements, or to develop its content and/or presentation. Whenever possible, CrownLand shall inform its Members prior to maintenance work or updates.

7.2. Information and content supplied by the Members

The information supplied by a Member of CrownLand must be accurate and conform to reality. The consequences of disclosing information on the life of the Member or of other Members are the sole responsibility of the Member concerned. It is the Member who takes the initiative to divulge and disseminate via CrownLand personal information, data, text, content and images. Consequently, s/he waives all recourse against CrownLand, notably on the basis of any possible damage to the Member's right to his or her image, the Member's honour and reputation, or the Member's privacy, resulting from the dissemination or revelation of information concerning the Member under the conditions foreseen by this agreement, in particular by Article 5 "Personal Privacy and Protection of Member Data", since the Member has given his or her prior, free and express consent to such revelation through his/her registering with the Service and in application of these Terms of Use.

CrownLand cannot be held liable for (and the consequences of) the accuracy or inaccuracy of the information and content provided by other Members, site visitors and/or the Member himself or herself. Correspondingly, CrownLand cannot be held responsible for content distributed by a Member that might contravene the rights of one or more other Members or third parties.

The quality demanded of the CrownLand meeting Service by both CrownLand and its Members necessitates compliance with certain ethical standards in Members' expression and behavior, respect of third parties' rights, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. In the scope of this requirement for quality, individual responsibility and ethics, CrownLand allows Members to notify to CrownLand, on the CrownLand site, the data (photograph, text, video), behavior or words of a Member which seem to them to infringe applicable laws or regulations, the image or the purpose of the CrownLand Service, the rights of any third party, or general good standards. Consequently, Members acknowledge and accept that the data they provide, as well as their behavior and words on the Service, may be notified by other Members, moderated and/or monitored by CrownLand, on the basis of objective assessment criteria. Where such notification or monitoring reveals a breach by a Member of any applicable laws or regulations or of his/her contractual obligations, the provisions of these Terms of Use, in particular the Article "Termination", may be applied.

In the case where the responsibility of CrownLand is pursued due to a breach by a Member of his or her obligations as defined in the scope of the law or by these present Terms of Use, the Member undertakes to protect CrownLand against all claims or damages against CrownLand, including full indemnification for any costs that might be incurred including lawyers' fees and court costs.

7.3. Links

CrownLand can supply or third parties may include hypertext links to other websites other than the CrownLand site and to Internet sources. As CrownLand is unable to supervise these external sites and sources, it cannot be held responsible for the availability of these external sites and sources, and cannot be responsible for their content, advertising, products, Services or any other element made available on or from any of these external sites or sources. Any difficulty relating to a hypertext link must be submitted to the administrator or webmaster of the site to which it pertains. It should, furthermore, be noted that the consultation and/or utilization of these external sites and sources are governed by their own Terms of Use.

Finally, if during the scope of a search performed on the CrownLand site where the result of this search would point the Member to access sites, pages or forums of which the content and/or purpose constitutes a violation of the Panamanian law, the Member is required to cease consultation of the site concerned in order to avoid being held responsible for such violation.

7.4. Limitation of responsibility

CrownLand can be held responsible by a Member only where certain and definitive proof is adduced before the courts demonstrating a wrongful act committed by CrownLand having caused that Member damage.

In this regard, CrownLand shall in no circumstances be liable for direct or indirect damage to the Member where the Member's behavior contributed to the occurrence of the damage he or she claims to have suffered. By way of illustration, CrownLand shall not be liable for direct or indirect damage suffered by the Member in the event of non-performance or incorrect performance of these Terms of Use by the Member.

Article 8. termination

A Member may at any time and without the need to provide any reason end his or her registration with CrownLand by requesting the closure of his/her account in the area of the CrownLand Site designated for such purposes. Such request shall be deemed effective from the first working day after receipt by CrownLand of the request for closure of the account concerned. Such request does not trigger reimbursement.

Without prejudice to the other provisions hereof, where the Member commits a serious breach, CrownLand will terminate the Member's account without prior notification or warning. Such termination shall have the same effects as a termination by the Member.

Without prejudice to the other provisions hereof, where the Member commits a breach, CrownLand will terminate the Member's account seven (7) days after having sent to the Member an e-mail requesting unsuccessfully that he or she comply with these Terms of Use.

Such termination shall take effect without prejudice to any damages that CrownLand might claim from the Member or his or her beneficiaries and legal representatives, in compensation of the harm suffered as a result of such breaches.

The Member will be informed by e-mail of the termination, or the confirmation of the termination, of his or her account. Data relating to the Member will be destroyed at his/her request or upon expiry of the legal time period following the termination of the Member's account.

Article 9. agreement between the Member and CrownLand

These Terms of Use, and the pages on the CrownLand site to which these terms refer, constitute a contract that governs the relationship between the Member and CrownLand. They cancel and replace any conditions that may have been agreed to in the past, even if not directly withdrawn or amended, and constitute the entirety of the rights and obligations of CrownLand and of the Member.

If any of the provisions of these Terms of Use is declared void in application of a law, a regulation, or a final decision of a court having proper jurisdiction, all other provisions shall remain fully in effect. Furthermore, failure by a Party to take action in respect of the breach by the other Party of any provisions of these Terms of Use, shall not be interpreted as constituting a waiver by said first Party of the right to take action in future in respect of such a breach.

Article 10. amendments by CrownLand to the Terms of Use

CrownLand may modify these Terms of Use at any time. The Member will be informed of the nature of these modifications as soon as they are posted on the CrownLand site. The modifications shall take effect one month after their posting on the Site.

Article 11. jurisdiction and applicable law

These Terms of Use shall be governed, construed and applied in accordance with the law, and in the event of dispute as to the meaning of a term or provision of these Terms of Use the language of interpretation shall be English. Subject to mandatory public order rules applicable to court jurisdiction, only the courts of the Republic of Panama shall be considered competent for all litigation relating to these present Terms of Use, inclusive, without this list being limiting, and to their validity, their interpretation, their execution and/or their termination and the consequences thereof.