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The Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at its own discretion. Your continued use after amendment or changes would mean your acceptance of any such changes. Intellectual Property Rights All materials in this site are property, copyright, and trademark of the Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning. Unauthorized changing, alteration, modification, of materials herein are strictly prohibited. All copyright, trademark, and other property notices at the Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning website are protected under copyright laws. 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For the Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning Jobs in Forecasting website, please post real jobs only. This page does not support postings that include (but not limited to) unsolicited advertising, promotional materials. Such solicitation is strictly prohibited. b. Emailing, contacting, or otherwise transmitting any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "work-at-home schemes", "pyramid schemes", "financial independence schemes", network marketing, multi-level marketing, arrangements which require payments, or any other form of solicitation is strictly prohibited. Please report inappropriate contact to ibf@ibf.org c. Transmitting, posting or sending of any material that contains unlawful, libelous, harassing, vulgar, lewd, obscene, hateful, or that is racially or ethnically objectionable that violate another's right of privacy or publicity is strictly prohibited. Please report inappropriate posting to ibf@ibf.org d. 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There is no intended employee-employer relationship that will be created between the Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning and its users by this Agreement. The, Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning will not be responsible for any employment decisions, nor to be considered to be an employer or agent with respect to your use of the web site. Responsibility Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning acts as a passive conduit for your online publication and distribution of your information and you expressly consent to certain exposure of your personally identifiable information to third parties, and the use of your information by us and third parties. AS A USER, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FORM, CONTENT AND ACCURACY OF YOUR POSTINGS, WEB PAGE OR MATERIAL CONTAINED THEREIN AND FOR WHATEVER CONSEQUENCE THESE POSTING MAY BRING OR FOR ANY AND ALL ACTIVITIES THAT SHOULD OCCUR UNDER YOUR ACCOUNT. However, the Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning may take any action with respect to the content if we believe it may create liability for us or may cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers. YOU ARE ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF YOUR PASSWORD AND ACCOUNT. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PASSWORD TO ANY THIRD PARTY, EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY LAW, COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR GOODWILL AND REPUTATION. You are responsible for your own communication. Downloaded data, or any material obtained from the Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning website is done at your own discretion, at your own risk and that you are solely responsible for the result, data loss or of any damage it may cost to your computer system. You are solely responsible for backing up or saving all of your files or data. 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