DXC Site Terms
This site located at [“leadingedgeforum.com”] or [“wardleymaps.com”]is a website (Site) owned and operated by DXC Technology Company and/or its affiliates (DXC or Our or We or Us) and is intended to provide information that might be of interest to users.
Your access to, and use of the Sites hosted at “dxc.com”, and “leadingedgeforum.com” and any other websites controlled by DXC (together Our Sites) and all the content of them that DXC and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies may make available to you, as well as any services We may provide through any of Our Sites, are governed by and subject to these DXC Site Terms (Terms) and all applicable laws. Please read them carefully.
By accessing and browsing Our Sites, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these Terms and acknowledge that Other Agreements between you and DXC are, subject to section 12 (Other Agreements; Access to Software and Services) of these Terms, superseded and of no force or effect.
1. Copyright
All content of Our Sites, including but not limited to the text, graphics, logos, button icons, audio clips, video clips, data compilations, Software, and images, and their arrangement or compilation on Our Sites (Content), unless otherwise noted, are the copyrighted material of DXC or its content providers and are protected by United States and international copyright laws. Copyright © 2005-2018 DXC. All rights reserved.
2. Trademarks
“DXC Technology”, “DXC”, and the DXC logo and other DXC graphics, logos and service names are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade dress of DXC in the United States and/or other countries. DXC’s trademarks or trade dress many not be used in connection with any other product or service that is not DXC’s, or in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among existing or future customers, or in any manner which denigrates or discredits DXC. All other trademarks and logos or registered trademarks and logos found on Our Sites or mentioned in them belong to their respective owners. Nothing contained on Our Sites should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark displayed on Our Sites without the written permission of DXC or such third party that owns the trademarks. DXC will enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent permitted by law. You may not use the name, logo, proprietary Content or any trademark of DXC without DXC’s express written permission.
3. Limited License
DXC grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive license to access and make personal use of Our Sites (License), and not to download (except for page caching) or modify any portion of it without DXC’s express written consent. This License is for online access only and does not allow you to commercially exploit Our Sites or any of their Content. This License does not allow you to make derivatives of Our Site or use any data mining or other data extraction or gathering tools on Our Sites. Unless otherwise specified by DXC in a separate license or Other Agreement your right to use any Software, data, documentation or other Content that you access or download from Our Sites is subject to these Terms. You may create a hyperlink to Our Site homepage subject to strict compliance with these Terms. Any unauthorized use of Our Sites in contravention of these Terms or a breach of this License terminates the permissions granted under this License with immediate effect.
4. Access to Our Sites
When you access Our Sites, you are responsible for complying with these Terms as well as any use of Our Sites through any account that you may setup through or on Our Sites. Some Content will only be available to you if you have created an account.
Whenever you access Our Sites or create or maintain any account on Our Sites you agree to provide true, accurate, current, and complete information. It is your responsibility to obtain and maintain all equipment, services and Software needed for access to and use of Our Sites as well as paying any related charges. It is also your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your login credentials and password(s) and to restrict access to your computing device used to access your account. Should you believe your password or other security information for any of Our Sites has been breached in any way, you must immediately notify Us. DXC reserves the right to refuse you access to Our Sites and to terminate accounts in Our sole discretion.
5. Professional Services and Advice
In accessing any of Our Sites, no client, advisory, fiduciary or professional relationship is implicated or established and neither DXC nor any other person is, in connection with Our Sites, engaged in rendering auditing, accounting, tax, legal, advisory, consulting or other professional services or advice.
6. Liability and Warranties
OUR SITES AND ALL CONTENT IN THEM HAS BEEN COMPILED FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES AND OUR SITES MAY INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. EVERYTHING ON OUR SITES (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) IS PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOUR USE OF OUR SITES IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
DXC DOES NOT WARRANT THAT OUR SITES, VARIOUS SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH OUR SITES, AND ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE OR OTHER MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM OUR SITES, WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
DXC MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS AS TO THE ACCURACY OF THE CONTENT ON OUR SITES. DXC ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE CONTENT OF OUR SITES. DXC USES ALL REASONABLE EFFORT TO ENSURE THE ACCURACY OF THE CONTENT ON OUR SITES BUT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION OUR SITES, IN ANY WAY AND/OR AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT NOTICE.
UNLESS SPECIFIED IN AN OTHER AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND US, AND TO THE EXTENT ALLOWABLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, DXC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OUR SITES OR FROM YOUR USE OF ANY CONTENT (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) OR SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH OUR SITES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, AND INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST REVENUES, LOST PROFITS, OR THIRD PARTY CLAIMS, EVEN IF DXC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANOTHER PARTY.
7. External Links
Links on Our Sites may lead to servers maintained by individuals or organizations other than DXC. DXC has no control and makes no warranties or representations as to the accuracy, timeliness, suitability or any other aspect of the information located on such servers, and neither monitors nor endorses such servers or content.
8. Submission of Personal Information
Please read DXC’s Privacy Policy. These Terms are deemed to incorporate, and should be read together with, DXC’s Privacy Policy.
9. Notices
By providing Us with your email address, you agree to receive all required notices electronically, to that email address. DXC will use this email address in accordance with DXC’s Privacy Policy. You agree that any notices, agreements, disclosures, or other communications that we send to you electronically will satisfy any legal communication requirements, including that such communications be in writing.
10. Images
Images of people or places displayed on Our Sites are either the property of, or used with permission by, DXC. Your use of these images is strictly prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms, specific permission provided elsewhere on Our Sites or you write directly to and obtain permission from DXC. Please contact “webmaster@DXC.com” for permission.
11. Revisions to Content
DXC may at any time revise these Terms by updating this posting. You are bound by the most current Terms every time you visit Our Sites, therefore you should periodically and carefully review these Terms to which you are bound.
12. Other Agreements; Access to Software and Services
DXC may provide products (such as hardware or software), services (such as software subscription services, hardware maintenance or repair or software maintenance, installation, or training) or access via Our Sites under the terms of a separate agreement between You and DXC, such as a license agreement, acceptable usage policy or separate terms of sale and warranty terms (each, an Other Agreement). DXC’s obligations regarding any product, service, or access that it makes available to you under any Other Agreement shall be governed solely by the Other Agreement under which such product, service or access is provided and these Terms shall not be deemed or construed to alter the terms of any such Other Agreement. If there is an inconsistency between these Terms and any Other Agreement, the terms of the Other Agreement will control.
For example, the use of any software that is made available to download from Our Sites (Software) is governed by the terms of the end user license agreement, if any, that accompanies or is included with the Software (License Agreement). You may not install any Software that is accompanied by or includes a License Agreement unless you first have agreed to the License Agreement. If there is no License Agreement, then these Terms will govern your use of that Software.
13. User Provided Content
You are solely responsible for all data and other content that you upload, publish, submit, share or display (“Post”) on or through Our Sites, or transmit to or share with other members of Our Sites (collectively the “User Content”). You understand and agree that DXC may, but is not obligated to, review and delete or remove (without notice) any User Content in its sole discretion, including without limitation User Content that in DXC’s sole judgment violates these Terms, any applicable policies which have been notified to You or any User Content which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of DXC, members, users or others.
You, not DXC, shall have sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability, appropriateness, and intellectual property ownership or right to use of all your User Content, and DXC shall not be responsible or liable for the deletion, correction, destruction, damage, loss or failure to store any of this data.
By Posting User Content to any part of Our Sites, you automatically hereby grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to DXC an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. This license is limited to DXC’s use of such data for your benefit (e.g., to make available or support your use of Our Sites) and for other uses required by law. Where your User Content is used by Us for the benefit of others (except if shared by you with others), DXC shall make it available only in aggregated or anonymized form that does not identify you or your company individually.
You may remove your User Content from Our Sites at any time but you acknowledge that once you have Posted any User Content to Our Sites and made it accessible to DXC and other users, DXC and those other users may have retained a copy of your User Content and may still have access to those copies despite your removal of the User Content from Our Sites.
You agree and acknowledge that your User Content may persist in backup copies, derivative works or aggregate form for a period of time. You represent, warrant and agree that no User Content submitted through your account or otherwise Posted or shared by you through Our Sites will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights; or contain libelous, defamatory or otherwise unlawful material.
14. Account usage and log in credentials
You may not use anyone else’s account credentials or account at any time without the express permission and consent of the holder of those account credentials or account. DXC cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these obligations.
If you chose to complete a [user profile, a project page or a profile page], you agree to accurately represent yourself, your background and experience, and company affiliation, and any other personal or company information you chose to share. You also agree not to impersonate any person, company or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, or your affiliation with any person, company or entity.
15. Choice of Law, Jurisdiction and Severability
The contents of Our Sites are governed by the laws of the state of Virginia in the United States, and any claims rising directly or indirectly out of any materials contained on Our Sites are subject to these same laws without regard to any conflict of law principles.
Any dispute that arises out of your use of Our Sites or to services provided by DXC where the aggregated amount of such claim is greater than $10,000 shall be heard in a state or federal court in the state of Virginia, and you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts.
If any clause of these Terms shall be deemed to be invalid, void or unenforceable for any reason, that clause shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the enforceability of the remainder of these Terms.
This document was last updated Jul 1, 2019.
