Terms & Conditions

Last Modified: November 20, 2008

PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT (THE “AGREEMENT”) CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SERVICES. BY USING THE WEB SITE WWW.ONEWIRE.COM (THE “SITE”), YOU SIGNIFY YOUR ASSENT 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, YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY RIGHT TO USE THE SERVICES. ONEWIRE’S ACCEPTANCE IS EXPRESSLY CONDITIONED UPON YOUR ASSENT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHER TERMS; IF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE CONSIDERED AN OFFER BY ONEWIRE, ACCEPTANCE IS EXPRESSLY LIMITED TO THESE TERMS.

The purpose of the Site, owned and operated by OneWire Inc. (“OneWire”), a Delaware corporation, is to link employers and jobseekers in the financial services industry (the “Services”). The Site is accessed by you (“User” or “you”) under the following terms and conditions:

1.                  ACCESS TO THE SERVICES. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, OneWire may offer to provide the Services, as described more fully on the Site, and which are selected by you, solely for your own use, and not for the use or benefit of any third party. Any use of the Site other than for the purpose of locating employees or employment opportunities is strictly prohibited and a violation of this Agreement. Services shall include, but not be limited to, any services OneWire performs for you, as well as the offering of any materials displayed or performed on the Site (including, but not limited to text, graphics, news articles, and data, also known as the "Content") on the Site. OneWire may change, suspend or discontinue the Services including any Content for any reason, at any time, including the availability of any feature, database, or content. OneWire may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Services without notice or liability. OneWire reserves the right, at its discretion, to modify this Agreement or Content at any time by posting a notice on the Site, or by sending you a notice via email or postal mail. You shall be responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with any such modifications. Your use of the Services following such notification constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement as modified.

You certify to OneWire that if you are an individual (i.e., not a corporation) you are at least 18 years of age. You also certify that you are legally permitted to use the Services and access the Site, and take full responsibility for the selection and use of the Services and access to the Site. This Agreement is void where prohibited by law, and the right to access the Site is revoked in such jurisdictions.

OneWire will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the Site and Services are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. However, there will be occasions when the Site and/or Services will be interrupted for maintenance, upgrades and emergency repairs or due to failure of telecommunications links and equipment. Every reasonable step will be taken by OneWire to minimize such disruption where it is within OneWire’s reasonable control. YOU AGREE THAT NEITHER ONEWIRE NOR THE SITE WILL BE LIABLE IN ANY EVENT TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR ANY SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, DISCONTINUANCE OR LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF THE SITE, THE SERVICES, YOUR USER CONTENT (AS DEFINED HEREIN) OR OTHER CONTENT.

You shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining any equipment or ancillary services needed to connect to, access the Site or otherwise use the Services, including, without limitation, modems, hardware, software, and long distance or local telephone service. You shall be responsible for ensuring that such equipment or ancillary services are compatible with the Services.

2.                  SITE CONTENT. You may download or copy the Content, and other items displayed on the Site for download, for personal use only, provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained in such Content. You shall not store any significant portion of any Content in any form. Copying or storing of any Content for reasons other than personal, noncommercial use is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from OneWire, or from the copyright holder identified in such Content's copyright notice. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names which appear on the Site (other than those appearing in any Content posted by a User) are proprietary to OneWire and/or third parties. You shall abide by all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Services. The Site is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions, and other copyright laws.

You acknowledge and agree that if you use any of the Services to contribute Content to the Site (“User Content”), OneWire is hereby granted a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable right to fully exploit such User Content (including all related intellectual property rights) and to allow others to do so. To the extent allowed by law, the foregoing includes all rights of paternity, integrity, disclosure and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as or referred to as “Moral Rights.” To the extent you retain any such Moral Rights under applicable law, you hereby ratify and consent to any action that may be taken with respect to such moral rights by OneWire and agree not to assert any Moral Rights with respect thereto. You warrant, represent, and agree that you have the right to grant OneWire and the Site the rights set forth above. You represent, warrant, and agree that you will not contribute any User Content that (a) infringes, violates or otherwise interferes with any copyright or trademark of another party, (b) reveals any trade secret, unless you own the trade secret or have the owner’s permission to post it, or other information that you do not have the right to disclose under law or a contractual or fiduciary relationship (including but not limited to proprietary or confidential information learned or disclosed as part of an employment relationship or nondisclosure agreement), (c) infringes any intellectual property right of another or the privacy or publicity rights of another, (d) is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, indecent, threatening, harassing, hateful, offensive or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, (e) contains a virus, trojan horse, worm, time bomb or other computer programming routine or engine that is intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information, or (f) remains posted after you have been notified that such User Content violates any of sections (a) to (e) of this sentence.

OneWire reserves the right to remove any User Content from the Site at any time, for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such User Content or if OneWire is concerned that you may have breached the immediately preceding sentence), or for no reason at all. You are responsible for all User Content posted or developed under your username, including User Content contributed by a third party under your username (whether in the form of comments to a Circle or any other form). If you believe User Content residing on the Site infringes a copyright, please see our <Copyright Policy>.

Any comments, suggestions, or feedback relating to the Site or the Services (collectively “Feedback”) submitted to OneWire shall become the property of OneWire or its designee. OneWire will not be required to treat any Feedback as confidential, and will not be liable for any ideas (including without limitation, product, Site or advertising ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in our future Site, Services, or operations. Without limitation, OneWire will have exclusive ownership of all present and future existing rights to the Feedback of every kind and nature everywhere and will be entitled to use the Feedback for any commercial or other purpose whatsoever, without compensation to you or any other person sending the Feedback. You acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material you submit, and you, not OneWire, have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.

3.                  RESTRICTIONS. You are responsible for all of your activity in connection with the Services and accessing the Site. You may not post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted, any communication or solicitation designed or intended to obtain password, account, or private information from any OneWire User.

You will not, and will not permit any third party to: reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code or underlying structure, ideas or algorithms of the Services or any software, documentation or data related to the Services (“Software”) in any way through any medium or otherwise translate any of the Software in such a manner so that it appears to be part of your own or a third party’s web site (provided that reverse engineering is prohibited only to the extent such prohibition is not contrary to applicable law). You may not access the Site if you are a direct competitor of OneWire, except with OneWire’s prior written consent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you also agree not to (i) modify, translate, create derivative works, copy, store, distribute, sell, license, sublicense, publish, or otherwise transfer any or all of the Services or the Site without prior written permission of OneWire or the copyright holder identified in the applicable copyright notice, including without limitation use of any robot, spider, packet sniffer, or other automated device to monitor or copy the contents of the Services or the Site; (ii) frame, link or otherwise use or display the Site in such a manner that it appears to be part of your own or a third party’s web site; (iii) deep link to any page of the Site or otherwise link in a manner that bypasses OneWire’s homepage for the Site; (iv) build a competitive product or service or make or have made a product using similar features, functions or graphics of the Site; (v) directly or indirectly use the Site other than in accordance with this Agreement and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, (vi) restrict or inhibit any other User from using and enjoying the Site, or (vii) use the Site in any manner that in OneWire’s reasonable discretion adversely impacts the stability of OneWire’s servers or adversely impacts the behavior of other applications using the Site.

You shall not use any part of the Site or Services to violate the security of any computer network, crack passwords or security encryption codes, transfer or store material that is deemed threatening or obscene, or engage in any kind of illegal activity. You will not run Maillist, Listserv, any form of auto-responder, or spam on the Site, or any processes that run or are activated while you are not logged in.

4.                  WARRANTY DISCLAIMER. OneWire has no special relationship with or fiduciary duty to you. You acknowledge that OneWire has no control over, and no duty to take any action regarding: which Users gain access to the Site; what Content you access via the Site; what effects the Content may have on you; how you may interpret or use the Content; or what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content. You release OneWire from all liability for your having acquired or not acquired Content through the Site. The Site may contain, or direct you to sites containing, information that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. OneWire makes no representations concerning any content contained in or accessed through the Site, and OneWire will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Site. THE SERVICES, CONTENT, SITE AND ANY SOFTWARE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, ONEWIRE DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, COMPLETENESS, LEGALITY OR OPERABILITY OF THE MATERIAL OR SERVICES PROVIDED ON THIS SITE. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ONEWIRE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY HARM RESULTING FROM (1) USE OF THE SITE; (2) DOWNLOADING INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THE SITE; (3) UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION OR DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD OR STORAGE OF CONTENT POSTED BY USERS; (4) THE TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INABILITY TO ACCESS OR RETRIEVE ANY USER CONTENT FROM THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, HARM CAUSED BY VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES, OR ANY SIMILAR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE PROGRAM; (5) CONTENT POSTED IN ANY FORUM OR COMMUNITY AREA OF THE SITE; AND (6) UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION OR DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD, OR STORAGE OF POSTED CONTENT.

ONEWIRE IS NOT AN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY OR A RECRUITING FIRM, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR GUARANTEES REGARDING THE EFFECTIVENESS OR TIMELINESS OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICE IN MEETING YOUR OBJECTIVES. ONEWIRE DOES NOT GUARANTEE ANY RESULTS, AND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY EMPLOYMENT DECISIONS.

5.                  THIRD PARTY WEB SITES. Users of the Site may gain access from the Site to third party sites on the Internet through hypertext or other computer links on the Site. Third party sites are not within the supervision or control of OneWire or the Site. Unless explicitly otherwise provided, neither OneWire nor the Site make any representation or warranty whatsoever about any third party site that is linked to the Site, or endorse the products or services offered on such site. OneWire and the Site disclaim: (a) all responsibility and liability for content on third party web sites and (b) any representations or warranties as to (i) the security of any information (including, without limitation, credit card and other personal information) you might be requested to give any third party, and (ii) the functionality of third party sites if you export User Content onto them. You hereby irrevocably waive any claim against the Site or OneWire with respect to such sites and third party content.

6.                  REGISTRATION AND SECURITY. As a condition to using Services, you will be required to register with OneWire and select a password and provide your real name and certain information about your work and life experiences. You shall provide OneWire with accurate and complete registration information and maintain its accuracy and completeness. Failure to do so shall constitute a breach of this Agreement, which may result in immediate termination of your account. You may not (i) select or use as your username a name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person; or (ii) use as your username a name subject to any rights of a person other than you without appropriate authorization. OneWire reserves the right to refuse registration of, or cancel a username in its discretion. You shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your OneWire password.

You hereby irrevocably authorize OneWire to disclose your personally identifiable information at the request of any state or federal agency or in response to any judicial process (including, without limitation, a subpoena).

7.                  INDEMNITY. You will indemnify and hold OneWire, its director, officers, parents, subsidiaries, and employees, harmless, including costs and attorneys' fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of your access to the Site, use of the Services, your violation of this Agreement, or your infringement, or the infringement by any third party using your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.

8.                  LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. IN NO EVENT SHALL ONEWIRE, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES OR MEMBERS BE LIABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE OR THE SERVICES FOR (A) ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER; (B) DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, PROFITS, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, DATA, USER CONTENT OR OTHER INTANGIBLES; (C) DAMAGES FOR UNAUTHORIZED USE, NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, ERRORS OR OMISSIONS; OR (D) DAMAGES RELATED TO DOWNLOADING OR POSTING CONTENT. ONEWIRE’S AND THE SITE'S COLLECTIVE LIABILITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE LIMITED TO THREE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO USER.

9.                  TERMINATION. Either party may terminate the Services at any time by notifying the other party by any means. OneWire may also terminate or suspend any and all Services and access to the Site immediately, without prior notice or liability, if you breach any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement. Any fees paid hereunder are non-refundable. Upon termination of your account, your right to use the Services, access the Site and any Content will immediately cease. You may delete the information in your user profile but your name and contact information will remain in OneWire’s database unless you send OneWire a written request to delete it. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, and limitations of liability.

10.              PRIVACY. Please review our <Privacy Policy>, which governs the use of personal information on the Site and to which you agree to be bound as a user of the Site.

11.              MISCELLANEOUS. The failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder. OneWire shall not be liable for any failure to perform its obligations hereunder where such failure results from any cause beyond OneWire’s reasonable control, including, without limitation, mechanical, electronic or communications failure or degradation. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. This Agreement is not assignable, transferable, or sublicensable by you except with OneWire’s prior written consent. OneWire may transfer, assign, or delegate this Agreement and its rights and obligations without consent. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to the conflict of laws provisions thereof. Both parties agree that this Agreement (including the Privacy Policy) is the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding of the parties and supersedes and cancels all previous written and oral agreements, communications, and other understandings relating to the subject matter of this Agreement. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of this Agreement and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind OneWire in any respect whatsoever. Any notice to the Site that is required or permitted by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed effective upon receipt, when sent by confirmed email to support@onewire.com or when delivered in person by a nationally recognized overnight courier or mailed by first class, registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to OneWire Inc., 540 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10022, Attn: Legal Dept.

Copyright 2008 OneWire Inc. All rights reserved.

Copyright Policy

OneWire has adopted the following general policy toward copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf). The address of OneWire’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement (“Designated Agent”) is listed at the end of this policy. It is OneWire’s policy to (1) block access to or remove Content that it believes in good faith to be copyrighted material that has been illegally copied and distributed by any of our advertisers, affiliates, content providers, members or Users; and (2) remove and discontinue service to repeat offenders. If you believe that Content residing on or accessible through OneWire Site or Service infringes a copyright, please send a notice of copyright infringement by facsimile or regular mail (not email) to OneWire Inc., Attn: Copyright Agent, 540 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10022 Fax: (212) 751-1958, containing the following information:

  • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that has been allegedly infringed;
  • Identification of works or materials being infringed;
  • Identification of the Content that it is claimed to be infringing including information regarding the location of the Content that the copyright owner seeks to have removed, with sufficient detail so that OneWire is capable of finding and verifying its existence;
  • Contact information about the notifier including address, telephone number and, if available, email address;
  • A statement that the notifier has a good faith belief that the Content is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
  • A statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided is accurate and the notifying party is authorized to make the complaint on behalf of the copyright owner.

Once proper infringement notification is received by the Designated Agent, it is OneWire’s policy to remove or disable access to the infringing Content and to notify the Content provider or User that it has removed or disabled access to the Content; that repeat offenders will have the infringing Content removed from the Service and that OneWire will terminate such content provider’s or User’s access to the Site and the Service.

In the event that OneWire notifies User that OneWire has received proper infringement notification about User’s Content, User may elect to send OneWire a counter notice.

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability.

The process for counter-notifications is governed by Section 512(g) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

To file a counter notification with OneWire, User must provide the following items to us in writing:

  1. The specific URLs of material that OneWire has removed or to which OneWire has disabled access.
  2. User’s name, address, telephone number, and email address.
  3. A statement that User consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or New York County, New York if your address is outside of the United States), and that User will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.
  4. The following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled."
  5. User’s signature.

Send the written communication to the following address:

OneWire Inc.
540 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Attn: DMCA Counter-Notification
Tel: (212) 751-0055
Fax: (212) 751-1598
Email: support@onewire.com

After we receive User’s counter-notification, we will forward it to the party who submitted the original claim of copyright infringement. Please note that when we forward the counter-notification, it includes User’s personal information. By submitting a counter-notification, User consents to having User’s information revealed in this way. We will not forward the counter-notification to any party other than the original claimant.

After we send out the counter-notification, the claimant must notify us within ten (10) days that he or she has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on OneWire. If we receive such notification we will not display, distribute or otherwise exploit the material. If we do not receive such notification, we may elect to do so.