United Chambers of Commerce respects the privacy of its members. UCC highly recommends that these terms and conditions should be read in conjunction of UCC Privacy Policy. Please view our privacy policy here.

Acceptance of Terms and Conditions
This has been created to protect the usage of United Chambers of Commerce website and the United Chambers of Commerce Services (referred to hereafter as "the United Chambers of Commerce Service", "UCC Service" or "the Service"). The term "United Chambers of Commerce/UCC/We/Us/Our/Ours" refer to United Chambers of Commerce.

The UCC Service is open for membership to all individuals who are 18 years old and over. Your registration to United Chambers of Commerce constitutes your acceptance of this agreement (referred to hereafter as "Terms and Conditions") and full compliance with terms, conditions, disclaimers, policies, and notices contained in this terms and conditions and elsewhere on United Chambers of Commerce Service. You (referred to hereafter as "Member", "You", or "User") comply and agree to be held by these terms and conditions upon using the United Chambers of Commerce Service.

Membership
You are responsible for all the transactions and activities undertaken on your UCC membership including any content or material that you enter on UCC site. You are responsible to keep the secrecy of your login credentials (username and password) and you agree to report immediately to UCC if in an event there is an unauthorized use of your account. You agree that you will be held liable against any claims, chargeback, penalties, fines or fees incurred by United Chambers of Commerce, a Member, or third party due to your breach of this Agreement, and/or use of the services on this site.

United Chambers of Commerce reserves the right to terminate your UCC membership if you violate the following conditions of membership:

1. The member must not send unsolicited email ('SPAM') to strangers to promote United Chambers of Commerce; or must not send SPAM to other UCC members to promote their business or website.
2. Each registered email address can only belong to one member;
3. The Member must not register or join and use the UCC service on behalf of another party without the party’s explicit consent.
4. Any other reason that UCC may consider inappropriate in using the service.
   

Payments and Refunds
All sale transactions are final. In case a UCC Accreditation Seal Application is declined the applicant will receive an email indicating the reasons behind UCC decision. The applicant will be given the chance to amend their services or site to meet UCC Accreditation Standard and to reapply for UCC Accreditation. The second review of their application is not subject for additional payments however, after the two reviews and still their application is declined there will be additional charges. The accreditation fee is refundable if the application has not been approved.

For account verification and security purposes, United Chambers of Commerce reserves the right to request proof of identification documents from an applicant. In case the applicant failed to provide identification the application will be automatically denied and UCC may cancel the member's account.

The accreditation seal is only valid for one year. Accredited members may need to pay for the renewal of the seal. However, UCC reserves the right to decline the renewal if the member no longer meets the UCC Accreditation Standard or any other reason deemed inappropriate in the opinion of UCC.

While United Chambers of Commerce strives to be error free, if certain fee is credited to a member due to human or computer error, UCC reserves the right to adjust or reverse such a transaction without notice.

Proper use of this website
While using or accessing this website you agree not to use this site for any unlawful or prohibited by this terms and conditions. You understand that United Chambers of Commerce will not be held liable against any damage or loss of your data that may occur while using this website.

Outage Policy
On certain circumstances, United Chambers of Commerce website may experience outages, in which members or visitors may not be able to view and access the website, or may affect the UCC Seal image displayed on accredited business domains.

United Chambers of Commerce reserves the right but is under no obligation, to provide discretionary compensation for members as a result of system outages.

Links on this website/ or Hyperlinking
United Chambers of Commerce may link to other organizations or websites that we think will provide contextual information or relevance to our products and services and may be useful to all users of this site. You understand that we included such links for your convenience and not to endorse their products or services. You also understand that United Chambers of Commerce is not liable, directly or indirectly to any loss or damage that is caused or alleged to have been caused in connection with the use of links (or third party sites) provided on this site.
The organizations listed on this site or any other organizations may link to UCC provided that the link: (1) is not misleading to any users (2) does not falsely imply any kind of sponsorship or membership (3) is in context of the webpage of the linking party.

If you are interested of linking to United Chambers of Commerce website please inform us via email: links@unitedchambersofcommerce.com

Limitation of Liability
You understand that United Chambers of Commerce will not be held liable to any direct, indirect, special, consequential loss or damages that result from use or inability to use United Chambers of Commerce Services.

Disclaimer of Warranty
United Chambers of Commerce and its affiliates does not warrant the accuracy of the data or information contained on this website. The service or information made available on this site is provided "as is" and holds no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. You consent that you are using United Chambers of Commerce services at your own risk.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the United Chambers of Commerce, and its Affiliates, Services Providers, Respective Officers, Directors and Employees, from any and all claims (including third party claims) or demands, damages, losses, costs and expenses (including legal costs) arising out of or consequential upon the use of the Service or relating to breach of your agreement contained in this terms and conditions.

Intellectual Property Rights
The United Chambers of Commerce, or the UCC name including its logos and seals are registered trademarks of United Chambers of Commerce. All the information, content, and services included on or used for all transactions on this website are owned by United Chambers of Commerce and its affiliates.

Modification of this Agreement
United Chambers of Commerce reserves the right to modify, change or terminate this Terms and Conditions at any time without any prior notice. Please regularly check this page for any modification that has been made.

Questions?
If you have any questions regarding this TERMS AND CONDITIONS and UCC PRIVACY POLICY please do not hesitate to contact us.

General Statement
The United Chambers of Commerce respects the privacy of its members and visitors. Subject to the provisions of applicable laws, any information you submit to the United Chamber of Commerce will not be used in any manner to which you have not consented. While the United Chambers of Commerce does analyze its Website logs to monitor the flow of website's traffic and to make improvements on its content. Website logs are not personally identifiable, and no attempt to link them to individual visitors to this site is made.

Personally Identifiable Information
Unite Chambers of Commerce do not collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about you without your knowledge or action. Your information is collected through the membership registration form, business registration and other event. This information includes, but is not limited to, your full name, business name, business address, phone number, fax number and email address. We can use this information for such purposes as responding to your requests, providing our services (e.g. Evaluation of your Application for the UCC seal) and communicating with you.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information
We reserve the option to share your contact information with certain third parties. These can include financial institutions, service providers, contractors, or affiliate organizations. You will always have the ability to opt out from receiving information from the United Chambers of Commerce as well as from said third parties.

Automatic Information we Collect
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses our sites.

What are Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser.

Use of "Cookies"
Our Web site uses "Cookies" to help us track your usage of our website. Cookies do not include personal information about you.
You can refuse our cookies by turning them off in your browser (for more information, please refer to your browser's documentation). Cookies are not really needed for you to browse our website; however, without cookies certain of the automated functions and features of our Web site will not be available to you.

Third Party use of personal information
The United Chambers of Commerce Web site contains links to other Internet Web sites, including co-branded or other affiliated sites. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites, including such sites' use of any information.

Security
You understand and agree that there is no "perfect" security that exists, including on the Internet. Credit card information you send will be highly encrypted between your computer and our server. Also, other information you send to this site, including email messages, will not be encrypted unless we advise you to do so. Our Web site is protected by a firewall and monitored for security purposes.

Updating and Deleting Information
The United Chambers of Commerce give its users the option to update or delete any information previously provided. However, we will maintain copies of user information to the extent retained as part of our Web site's standard backup/archive process.

In addition, these procedures will not remove such of your information that has been provided by you to, or collected from you by, the Web sites of our business partners.

We are not responsible for ensuring the removal or deletion from the Web sites of our business partners of your information provided by us to our business partners as permitted by you or otherwise in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Notice about changes
Changes may be necessary to this policy in the future. We may use the information we collected to notify you. Changes may include new services and special offers we think may be valuable to you. We will also email you and post those changes on the website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.

Questions?
For questions regarding your privacy, we encourage you to contact us at support@unitedchambersofcommerce.com