Terms Of Use

Please read carefully the terms & conditions set forth below before using the LancerGlobal.com web site. The terms "You", "Your", "User", or "Users" refer to anyone accessing our services or web site for any reason. The terms "We", "Us", or "Our" refer to LancerGlobal.com (or LancerGlobal). The LancerGlobal.com web site is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance of the terms, conditions, restrictions and notices contained herein. LancerGlobal.com may amend or modify any terms & conditions without any notice, effective immediately, by updating this posting. Your use of the LancerGlobal.com web site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, restrictions and notices.   ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS LancerGlobal.com shall have absolute discretion as to whether or not it accepts a particular applicant or site for participation in the service. REMOVAL FROM NETWORK LancerGlobal.com reserves the right to terminate the participation of any member or site without reason but expressly including any member site that LancerGlobal judges to be in violation of the terms and conditions. Members in violation of LancerGlobal's Terms and Conditions will be immediately deactivated. LancerGlobal may deactivate members with no prior notification. Members found in violation of the Terms and Conditions will not receive any credit or payment from LancerGlobal. Members that are terminated by LancerGlobal on any basis other than violation of these Terms and Conditions will be entitled to receive any payment due from LancerGlobal. PAYMENTS LancerGlobal will typically make payments/withdrawals through PayPal. if the member requests it AND their account balance is equal to or greater than $20. All amounts are stated in and all payments will be made in US funds. We verify all deposits and might ask you to verify yours; If you refuse to send verification information via E-mail, Fax or Phone, we reserve the right to refund the deposit and terminate your account. New members cannot withdraw funds within 20 days of their first project payment. LancerGlobal  reserves the right to suspend a withdrawal if the source of the funds is suspected to be fraudulent. Any funds received from an account having made a fraudulent deposit (e.g. stolen credit card) will be reversed immediately. If in a fraudulent payment situation a withdrawal has already been processed, you will be expected to return the funds to your LancerGlobal account or face account termination. LancerGlobal cannot be held liable for deposits reversed without its authorization due to reasons, including, but not limited to, fraud, chargebacks or complaints.LancerGlobal may request proof of programming services performed at any time before authorizing a withdrawal of funds received for that project. As previously stated, any member site that LancerGlobal removes from the service due to violation of the Terms and Conditions will receive no credit or payment. DEPOSIT DISPUTES Members may not file a complaint with one of our payment processors, including PayPal, regarding the funds deposited into their account. LancerGlobal staff will do its best to resolve any problem a member may have. Refunds will be processed, if deemed necessary, at a time of LancerGlobal  staff's choosing. Due to the incompatible communication systems between our payment processors and LancerGlobal  staff members, payment disputes logged directly with those processors cannot be properly managed and will cause further delays. Due to this, members who make a complaint to our payment processor will face account termination without notice. COPYRIGHTS No copyright material can be posted on LancerGlobal . Only posting sections of articles or scripts, as examples, will be permitted. A "section" being no more than 10% of the contents. This is meant to protect the author's rights. We also do not tolerate projects requesting unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted or patented material. MODIFICATIONS Lancerglobal reserves the right to change the member Terms and Conditions at any time. It is the member's responsibility to check these Terms and Conditions from time to time for such changes. In the event ScriptLance offers any additional or replacement services then this agreement shall apply to such services in the absence of any new agreement specific to such services which is entered into between the parties. OWNERSHIP Members agree that all information contained on a website operated by ScriptLance, and all information compiled by ScriptLance through operation of the affiliate program, is the proprietary information of ScriptLance. Personal information provided by members to ScriptLance will be kept confidential and will not be distributed to any third party. E-MAIL ADDRESSES Members agree not to post their e-mail address on the site, except in the "e-mail" field of the signup form, or when asked by LancerGlobal at any other time. There should be no need to give anyone your e-mail address. It is automatically provided if you choose a programmer (or you are the programmer chosen for) a project, and before that time you can use the message board to communicate. This does not only apply to e-mail addresses, but to all methods of communication, including phone, ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger,Yahoo,Gmail, etc... See "Avoiding Commissions" below for the reason. PROVIDING CONTACT INFORMATION You are prohibited from making direct contact with another member, unless it's for a project you (a programmer) have been picked for, or you (a buyer) have picked a programmer for. This includes giving out your e-mail address, ICQ number, phone number, or any other method of contact outside of this site. LancerGlobal provides you with message boards, which should be sufficient for pre-project planning. The only exception to this is on "Featured" projects. If a project has the "Featured" graphic on it, that means the buyer has paid a flat fee in advance, and you ARE allowed to provide contact information in the message board. Note that the LancerGlobal system does not distinguish between featured and non-featured message board posts, so you will still get a warning when submitting an e-mail address, even if the project is featured. AVOIDING COMMISSIONS You are strictly prohibited from attempting to negotiate the fee for a project with another member directly (outside of  LancerGlobal ) after that project has been created/opened and before that project has been closed (basically, during an ongoing project). But this also applies to any project that was closed without a programmer being chosen, and then contacting them about the project anyway. Both parties are responsible for notifying LancerGlobal if the payment amount increases (above the bid amount) after the project is closed. Receiving a larger amount than the original project bid, without notifying us, will be considered an attempt to avoid the commissions. When a programmer requests a withdrawal, we always review all payments received for each project to verify that they match the bid. If at the time of a withdrawal request the programmer has failed to notify LancerGlobal staff of a payment received above the amount of his bid (a total payment above US$100), LancerGlobal reserves the right to deduct double the fee for the amount that should have been reported. We believe our commissions are very fair and justified for the service we provide, therefore we will absolutely not tolerate any of this activity on LancerGlobal . BIDDING Programmers can only place bids that equal the total amount of money they are requesting for the project. You cannot post an hourly bid or any other abnormal type of bid. This applies to buyers too. Buyers cannot create projects that directly or indirectly require programmers to place hourly or other abnormal bids. The only exception, for both buyers and programmers, is when the project is featured. See featured project information at LancerGlobal . POSTING PROJECTS New users are limited to the posting of only 3 projects before being asked to make a deposit. This is meant to protect other users and prevent fraudulent activity. A user is required to deposit any amount of funds before they gain the right to post unlimited projects. A user may request higher posting limits, under special circumstances, by simply contacting LancerGlobal support. ADVERTISING You are prohibited from advertising your website on LancerGlobal . Any URL posted in a bid, project description, or the message board, must relate to a project on LancerGlobal . An example of a permissible URL: your portfolio or resumé page. ACCOUNTS An individual may not possess more than one Buyer account and one Programmer account, unless they have contacted and received authorization from LancerGlobal staff. Users found with unauthorized multiple accounts, or found to be using multiple accounts to avoid bad reviews, fees, suspensions or other limitations, will face suspension of all their accounts. It is prohibited under all circumstances to transfer ownership of an account, without authorization from LancerGlobal staff. Accounts that are inactive (have no login activity) for more than 12 months may be deactivated and have their remaining funds deducted by ScriptLance. THE ROLE OF LancerGlobal LancerGlobal functions as a venue to connect buyers and programmers in a virtual marketplace. As a neutral facilitator, LancerGlobal is not directly involved in the actual transactions between users of the Site. As a result, LancerGlobal has no control over the truth, accuracy, quality, legality, or safety of postings made by users. Because verifying the identity of a user on the Internet is difficult, LancerGlobal cannot and does not confirm the identity of users. LancerGlobal also does not confirm nor verify the qualifications, background, or abilities of users. Therefore, We recommend that You be careful and exercise common sense and good judgment when dealing with any member on the Site.  If you are unsatisifed with another member, the most LancerGlobal can do is refund the project commission you have been charged by us. We cannot refund the money you have sent to someone, we are not responsible for your transactions. ScriptLance is not responsible for fraudulent payments made by users and cannot be held liable for financial loss incurred from fraudulent transactions. It is the receiver's responsibility to verify the identity and background of the sender. AND FINALLY... We thank you for LancerGlobal choosing the .com service and we look forward to a mutually successful business relationship. Contacting the Web Site If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site,please contact us.