Terms of Service
This page outlines the Terms of Service (hereafter the "Agreement") under which the Services provided by Attorney Blaster.com (hereafter the "Services").
Please read this page carefully. By using the Site and/or paying for the Services, you are indicating your acceptance to be bound by this Agreement. If you're unwilling to be bound this Agreement, do not use this Site or pay for Services.
For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Attorney Blaster.com" shall include VP Ventures, The Legal News and Plan B Legal, their officers, agents, vendors, employees and affiliates. Please note that we may revise the Agreement at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page periodically to review the Agreement, as it is binding upon you.
By entering into this Agreement you further acknowledge your understanding and acceptance of our information gathering, use and dissemination practices.
Intellectual Property Rights
All content on the Site (including but not limited to text, graphics, images, logos, buttons, icons, software and other materials, hereafter "Content") are the sole property of Attorney Blaster.com and is protected by U.S. copyright and international treaties. Attorney Blaster.com does not authorize you to view and download copies of the Content on the Site. Unauthorized use of the Content may violate copyright, trademark and other laws. You must retain all copyright, trademark, service mark, and other proprietary notices contained in the Content on any copy you make of the Content. You may not reproduce, modify, display, sell, or distribute the Content, or use it in any other way for public or commercial purpose. This includes copying or adapting the HTML code used to generate Web pages. Additionally attempting to decipher, recompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Site or service is expressly prohibited.
Attorney Blaster.com designs, copy, graphics and logos and certain other names or logos are service marks or trademarks. In addition, the "look" and "feel" of the Site (including color combinations, button shapes, layout, design and all other graphical elements) are also protected by trademarks, service marks and copyrights. All other product and service marks contained on the Site are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Acceptable Use of The Site
The Site and its Services are intended solely for individuals seeking employment. The Site may be used only for lawful purposes within this stated context of the intended and acceptable use. Attorney Blaster.com holds the sole and exclusive right to interpret the meaning and definition of "acceptable use".
As one of the conditions of your use of the Site and Service, you represent, warrant and agree that you will not use (or plan, encourage or help others to use) the Site for any purpose or in any manner that is prohibited by this Agreement or by applicable law. It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of the Site complies with This Agreement.
Security Rules
Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Site, including, without limitation: accessing data not intended for such user or logging into a server or account which the user is not authorized to access; attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Site, overloading, "flooding", "mail bombing" or "crashing"; sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting.
Use of any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or services of Attorney Blaster.com, or taking any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site's infrastructure or the infrastructure of Attorney Blaster.com is expressly prohibited.
Violations of these Security Rules may result in civil or criminal liability. Attorney Blaster.com will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.
Username and Password
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your information, username and password. You shall be responsible for all uses of your registration, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify Attorney Blaster.com of any unauthorized use of your registration, information, username or password.
Agency Relationship
By using the Site and Service you acknowledge that you have pro-actively hired Attorney Blaster.com to act on your behalf, as your Agent (hereafter "Agency Relationship"), to create accounts and blast your resume to our clients, subject to the terms, conditions, rules and regulations governing the services provided herein.
You additionally acknowledge your understanding that Attorney Blaster.com has standardized its web based information gathering forms (hereafter "Forms") in order to make easy the re-posting of your Personal Information on the various web forms and in the various formats required by the various Career Sites. With this understanding you further authorize Attorney Blaster.com to make its best efforts to interpret some of your answers to questions provided on the Forms in order to re-post whatever information Attorney Blaster.com believes, in its sole discretion, are substantially similar answers amongst the available choices.
By entering
into this Agreement you're accepting full and total responsibility for
the actions Attorney Blaster.com performs on your behalf and at your
request, as if you had performed those actions yourself. Your further
acknowledge and agree that you will take full responsibility and are
personally liable for any consequences arising from the use of the Site
and Services and from this Agreement.
Posting Your Resume Confidentially
If you select "Keep My
Identity Confidential" during an Online Order Interaction with
Attorney Blaster.com, Attorney Blaster.com will keep your contact information
confidential option. Attorney Blaster.com will replace your personally
identifiable information as follows:
"First Name & Last Name" are replaced with "Confidential
User"
"Street Address" is replaced with "Address Withheld"
"Phone Number" is replaced with "A/C-555-1212"
"Most Recent Company" is replaced with "Confidential".
Additionally, it is recommended you remove all unwanted personal information
from the "cut and paste" version of your resume and cover
letter, as these will be posted exactly as you provide them via the
Forms.
For more information on this
feature please review our Privacy
Policy.
Email Services
Managed Email
Spam Filtering & Email Forwarding Service
Putting an
email address on the Internet can sometimes give rise to unwanted email
("Spam"). To alleviate this issue, Attorney Blaster.com provides
its Spam Filtering & Email Forwarding Service as defined in this
section.
Emails sent
to your Managed Email Address will automatically go through our Spam
Filtering servers before being forwarded to your email Inbox. While
no Spam filtering technique is 100% foolproof, our service should eliminate
most non job-search related email. This keeps the email address you
provide during registration private, secure and relatively Spam free.
By using our
Spam Filtering service, you give Attorney Blaster.com the permission
and power to choose, in its sole discretion, which emails sent to your
Managed Email Address should be filtered as Spam and which should be
forwarded to your email Inbox. You further give Attorney Blaster.com
the permission to append or alter the content of emails sent to your
Managed Email Address for any reason. You also give Attorney Blaster.com
the permission to store copies of your Managed Email on its servers.
These Spam
Filtering & Forwarding Services and services of its type are not
100% effective and from time to time our Service may misclassify Spam
as legitimate mail and legitimate mail as Spam. Attorney Blaster.com
makes no guarantees that all Spam will be blocked from being forwarded
to your email Inbox, nor that all legitimate email will be delivered
to your email Inbox. If you suspect that legitimate mail has been erroneously
filtered as Spam, please contact us.
Privacy of Your Communications
Attorney Blaster.com considers email transmitted via the Managed Email Services to be the private correspondence of the sender and recipient. Attorney Blaster.com generally will not monitor, review or disclose the contents of your Managed Email correspondence, except: (a) as required by law; (b) if necessary to enforce this Agreement; (c) to respond to claims that such contents violate the rights of third parties; (d) as necessary for the maintenance, monitoring and quality assurance of the operations of the Site or Services; or (e) to protect the rights, or property of Attorney Blaster.com, its third party service providers, or others.
Limitations on Use of Email Services
Managed Email and related Services are made available to you for your personal use only and solely for the purpose of facilitating job search related correspondence resulting from the use of the Attorney Blaster.com Resume Promotion Services. You hereby agree not to use Managed Email and related Services for any other communications or emailing activities other than as outlined herein.
You agree: (a) not to use the Services for illegal purposes; (b) not to interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services; (c) to comply with all requirements, procedures, policies, and regulations of networks connected to the Services; and (e) to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States.
You further agree not to upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit through the Services: (a) any unlawful, harassing, libelous, privacy invading, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, indecent, tortuous, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind; (b) any material that violates the rights of another, including, but not limited to, the intellectual property rights of another; (c) any material that violates any applicable local, state, national, or international law or regulation; or (d) unsolicited or unauthorized advertisements, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," or other forms of solicitation. (e) any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
General Email Services Provisions
Please be advised that there is a risk involved whenever downloading email and/or associated attachments to your computer. Attorney Blaster.com Services may not be able to detect or repair viruses, or control or foresee any potential damages of using this Service.
Attorney Blaster.com assumes no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store, deliver or deliver in a timely manner email messages. Additionally, Attorney Blaster.com, in its sole discretion, and without prior notice may place limits on the amount of email a user may send, receive and/or store on or through its servers within in any period of time for any reason whatsoever. Any notice provided by Attorney Blaster.com to you in connection with such limit(s) shall not create any obligation to provide future notification regarding any change(s) to such limit(s). Attorney Blaster.com additionally retains the right to deactivate any Managed Email Address account or related service, with or without prior notice, for any reason without any liability whatsoever and you hereby release Attorney Blaster.com from any such liability.
You acknowledge that Attorney Blaster.com makes no guarantees or warrantees of any kind related to Attorney Blaster.com Email Services, and that your election to utilize this Service is completely at your own risk. Attorney Blaster.com shall not accept any responsibility whatsoever or be held liable for any damages caused by your decision to use these services.
You further acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for all acts or omissions that occur under your Attorney Blaster.com account or password, including the content of your profile, and that Attorney Blaster.com may recover damages from you if you violate any of the terms of this Agreement.
Indemnification
By using the Services you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Attorney Blaster.com from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from this Agreement, your breach of this Agreement, your use of the Site and Services, the provision by you of any Content to the Site or other Career Sites, or the Agency Relationship. Attorney Blaster.com shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you at your expense in their defense.
Release and Limitations of Liability
You further agree to release Attorney Blaster.com from any claims, demands and damages (actual, consequential, direct and indirect) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with this Agreement or the Agency Relationship. IN NO EVENT SHALL ATTORNEY BLASTER.COM BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, INCOME, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA, LOST EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR ACCESS TO, OR THE INABILITY TO USE OR ACCESS, SITE AND THE CONTENT AND/OR ANY DOCUMENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ATTORNEY BLASTER.COM IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
BECAUSE SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF THIS EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS HELD INAPPLICABLE OR UNENFORCEABLE FOR ANY REASON, THEN ATTORNEY BLASTER’S MAXIMUM LIABILITY FOR ANY TYPE OF DAMAGES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE SERVICES PROVIDED HEREUNDER.
Warranties
By entering into this Agreement you acknowledge that Attorney Blaster.com is simply acting as a conduit or messenger and that it makes no warranties of any kind relating to the recruiters that Attorney Blaster.com sends you to. Attorney Blaster.com will simply pass through information provided by you and will not verify the accuracy of that information nor accept any responsibility for your activities or conduct.
Attorney Blaster.com is not an employment agency or recruiting firm. Attorney Blaster.com makes no warrantees or guarantees about any customer's ability to procure employment. Attorney Blaster.com does not control any of the recruiters it sends your resume to, nor does it control any portion of the hiring process related to its customer. Attorney Blaster.com therefore makes no representations or guarantees regarding the effectiveness or timeliness of its Site, Services, Content, or its effectiveness in meeting the employment or any other objectives of its customers.
Furthermore nothing on the Site shall be considered an endorsement, representation, assumption of responsibility or warranty with respect to any third party, whether in regards to their web site, products, technologies, services, business practices or otherwise.
Additionally, Attorney Blaster.com makes no warranties of any kind related to its standardization and interpretation of the information gathered. You acknowledge and agree that accuracy of your Personal Information is your sole responsibility, and that Attorney Blaster.com is not responsible for correcting, changing or modifying any information provided to 3rd parties on your behalf.
ATTORNEY BLASTER.COM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ITS SITE OR SERVICES WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT THE SITE OR ITS SERVERS ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL MECHANISMS. IF YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE CONTENT RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, ATTORNEY BLASTER.COM IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.
YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR USE OF THIS SITE AND THE INTERNET IN GENERAL. THE SITE AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ATTORNEY BLASTER.COM, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. ATTORNEY BLASTER.COM MAKES NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE CONTENT, SERVICES, SOFTWARE, TEXT, GRAPHICS AND LINKS.
Grants
By submitting your Personal Information to the Site you automatically grant Attorney Blaster.com the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Personal Information (in whole or part) worldwide or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, without restriction or compensation. In addition, you warrant that all so-called "moral rights" in the Personal Information have been waived.
General Provisions
International Access: Attorney Blaster.com is based in Montgomery County, Texas. Attorney Blaster.com makes no claims that the Content of its Site is appropriate or legal to be viewed by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Site or Services from outside of the United States, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.
Partial Validity: If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term.
Equitable Relief: You understand and agree that due to the nature of This Agreement, in addition to money damages, Attorney Blaster.com will be entitled to equitable relief upon a breach of this Agreement by you.
Governing Law: This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Texas without respect to its conflict of laws principles. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under this Agreement shall lie exclusively with the state or federal courts in Montgomery County, Texas.
Headings: Headings used in this Agreement are provided for convenience only and shall not be used to construe meaning or intent.
Entire Agreement: Except as expressly provided in a particular Legal Notice, Software License or other notices or Content published on the Site, these terms represent the entire binding Agreement between us, and our respective successors and assigns, and supersede any and all prior understanding, statements or representations, whether electronic, oral or written, regarding Attorney Blaster.com, the Site, or Services.
Digital Admissibility: You hereby agree that a printed version of this Agreement and of any other notice given in electronic form by Attorney Blaster.com or in the Site, which is based upon or relating to this Agreement, shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings and subject to the same conditions as other agreements, business documents or records originally generated, entered into, signed or maintained in printed form.
Additional Terms of Use
Certain areas of this Web Site and additional services provided are subject to additional terms of use. By using such areas or any part thereof, you agree to be bound by the additional terms of use applicable to such areas.
Questions Related to Terms of Use
Questions concerning our Terms and Conditions should be addressed by contacting us here or by postal mail at:
Attorney Blaster.com
The Austin Building
25511 Budde Road, Suite 202
The Woodlands, Texas 77380
Privacy Policy
Our Beliefs About Privacy
Attorney Blaster.com is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. We created this Privacy Statement so you'll have the information you need to make a confident and informed online buying decision.
We value your trust and pledge to do everything we can to handle your personal, private or sensitive information carefully, responsibly and securely. Below are the information gathering, use and dissemination practices for Attorney Blaster.com. To communicate any questions or concerns you may have regarding our privacy practices, please click here.
Posting Your Resume Confidentially
If you select "Keep My Identity Confidential" during our registration process, we will replace your personally identifiable information as follows:
"First & Last Name"
is replaced with "Confidential User"
"Street Address" is replaced with "Address Withheld"
"Phone Number" is replaced with "A/C-555-1212"
"Most Recent Company" is replaced with "Confidential".
Handling of Information Gathered from Customers
Personal Information
On our web site you provide contact information, your desired job requirements, your relevant experience and other personal information (collectively "Personal Information"). Your Personal Information will be electronically reformatted and submitted to various recruiters.
Attorney Blaster.com will not rent or sell any information gathered from a customer's use of our web site. Your personal information will not be shared with any 3rd parties for any reason other than what's described in this Privacy Statement or lawfully requested by federal or state authorities.
Payment Information
Payment Information collected from customers on the Attorney Blaster.com web site is securely transmitted for payment processing. Upon real-time response, credit card or checking account numbers are immediately deleted from the Attorney Blaster.com system for both authorized and declined transactions.
We use secure connections and encryption technology, which transmits your payment information for validation and processing to an authorized and reputable payment-processing clearinghouse.
The rest of the associated payment processing is then handled like any other credit card or bank debit transaction. To the best of our knowledge all of the companies and banking institutions involved in our payment processing do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any purpose outside of processing our payments.
In rare instances due to real-time data transmission failures outside of our control, we'll inform customers that their Payment Information has been captured for later processing. Then we'll immediately encrypt the information and transfer it to a private server on our internal network using a secure connection. Only our Security Administrator has the encryption key to unlock Payment Information for processing.
Log In's
When a customer logs in to our website with their user name and password a record of that log in may be captured, time stamped and stored in our database along with records of certain activities or functions performed by the customer during that session.
The log in information will help us identify the customer associated with those activities and will be used for both statistical analysis as well as customer service. Log in information may also be used to trigger an email to communicate with a customer regarding a procedure they may have started but not finished or to inform them that something they requested is now available online.
Employee Accountability
Only those Attorney Blaster.com employees that have a legitimate business purpose for accessing and handling personal information obtained by us are given authorization to do so. The unauthorized access or use of such information by any Attorney Blaster.com employee is prohibited and constitutes grounds for disciplinary action.
Additionally, our information management systems are configured in such a way as to block or inhibit employees from accessing information that they have no authority to access.
Information Generated By Our Web site
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small data file that gets sent by a web site to your web browser and may then be stored on your computer. Most web browsers allow users to choose to: never to accept cookies, automatically accept cookies, be notified prior to accepting receipt of a cookie from a web site. A received cookie is usually stored in a directory that can be deleted from your computer at any time.
Attorney Blaster.com uses cookies solely for the following reasons:
- To track a customers movement through our web site and provide meaningful related information from page to page.
- To help aggregate all the information a customer provides on several web page forms into a single set of customer information.
- To avoid the necessity of a customer having to continually enter his or her username and password after having logged on to our web site.
- The information contained in a cookie created by the Attorney Blaster.com web site includes a randomly generated session ID and is combined with a portion of the customers IP address for added security. A cookies usefulness along with all related records on our web server expire within hours of having been used.
Web Site Log Information
While not associated with any particular web site visitor's contact information, we retain standard log information gathered by our web server software package for an indefinite period of time. This information will be used solely for statistical analysis. Standard log information includes:
- The web page requested.
- The host name or IP address of the user making the request.
- The date and time of the request.
- The web page address visited prior to the request.
- The users browser type.
- The users operating system.
Protection of Your Payment Information
To protect your Payment Information online we use SSL encryption technology and offer Credit Card Fraud Protection.
SSL Encryption Technology
Attorney Blaster.com holds a digital certificate from a trusted third-party Certification Authority. At Attorney Blaster.com we pride ourselves on our use of secure e-commerce servers complete with digital certificates, secure server ID's, SSL encryption technology, and SSL authentication. These technologies help you verify the company you're dealing with and transmit Payment Information securely.
Credit Card Fraud Protection
In the case of unauthorized use of your credit card, with proper notification to your issuing bank the Fair Credit Billing Act provides that your maximum liability is limited to $50.00 US. In the event you're held liable for unauthorized credit card charges resulting from a Attorney Blaster.com secure web site transaction, we'll happily reimburse you for your liability up to $50.00 US with the submission of supporting documents.
Marketing
General Advertising
Attorney Blaster.com services may be advertised using a variety of methods. Examples can include print, radio, television, banner, public relations and email marketing.
In order to determine the effectiveness of different advertising vehicles, Attorney Blaster.com may create different website addresses for advertising vehicles in order to track and understand which vehicles are most effective. This would allow us to identify by virtue of the advertisement responded to, certain information about a customer that the customer didn't necessarily provide, such as their reading, viewing, listening or web surfing interests and habits. Attorney Blaster.com may use this information internally to determine what other products or services our customers may be interested in as well as for statistical analysis of what type of customers or advertising vehicles are most effective.
Customer Surveys
Attorney Blaster.com may from time to time conduct surveys that ask you for feedback on our products and services. We use that information for market research, to improve our product offerings, identify desirable new products, and perform site and service enhancements. We do not release information from individual survey responses outside Attorney Blaster.com without prior permission. We may occasionally share aggregated data with selected business partners. Some surveys may be performed by outside professional firms on our behalf to minimize bias. Those professionals are bound by these same restrictions.
Email To Existing Customers
Attorney Blaster.com may from time to time send its customers a promotional email messages to market a service or activity. However, we'll only send promotional email when we reasonably believe our customers would be interested in the subject matter. Nonetheless in every case we will provide clear and simple instructions on how to be removed from our mailing list.
Example topics for email messages to customers include: information about a new product or service, offers to try one of our existing services, invitations to beta test a new service or requests to participate in a survey.
Children's Use of Our Web Site
Our web site is not targeted to nor is it particularly interesting or useful to children. Nevertheless our web site does not contain any mature or other content, which would be considered objectionable to a parent whose child may arbitrarily find our web site. Moreover, there's nothing inherent in our services or advertising that would likely attract children.
Our services are targeted and advertised specifically to adults who are looking to further their career. In order to use our web site a customer must have given a reasonable amount of thought to their career objectives and must be prepared to answer detailed questions about career requirements and background. Additionally they must have a credit card or checking account.
Contact Us
We invite your comments and assistance in helping us maintain our commitment to your privacy. If you feel that Attorney Blaster.com, its affiliates, or any of their representatives or employees is violating this Privacy Statement, or you feel we can be handling private information more responsibly, please contact us online or by postal mail at:
Attorney Blaster.com
The Austin Building
25511 Budde Road, Suite 202
The Woodlands, Texas 77380




