INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the BDC bdctradeportal.com, owned and produced by Business Development Company Limited. (the bdctradeportal.com web site is referred to as "BDCTradePortal"). The BDCTradePortal makes available a variety of products and services through bdctradeportal.com (collectively, the "Products and Services") subject to these General Terms and Conditions ("Terms and Conditions").

Because the Terms and Conditions contain legal obligations, please read them carefully.

1. ACCEPTANCE
By using the Products and Services, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by, and to comply with, these Terms and Conditions and any other posted guidelines or rules applicable to any individual BDCTradePortal web site, Product or Service.

2. CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE
Use of the Products and Services is subject to compliance with these Terms and Conditions. You acknowledge and agree that BDCTradePortal may terminate your access to BDCTradePortal or to any of the Products and Services should you fail to comply with the Terms and Conditions. Any such termination shall be in BDCTradePortal's sole discretion and may occur without prior notice, or any notice. BDCTradePortal further reserves the right to terminate any user's access to BDCTradePortal or to any of the Products and Services for any conduct that BDCTradePortal, in its sole discretion, believes is or may be directly or indirectly harmful to other users, to BDCTradePortal or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or business contractors, or to other third parties, or for any conduct that violates any local, or foreign laws or regulations.

3. REGISTRATION AND PRIVACY
Certain Products and Services will require the user to register and provide certain data. In consideration of use of such Products and Services, in registering and providing such data, you represent and warrant that: (a) the information about yourself is true, accurate, current, and complete (apart from optional items) as required by BDCTradePortal registration forms ("Registration Data") and (b) you will maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or BDCTradePortal has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, BDCTradePortal has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Products and Services.

All BDCTradePortal registrations become the exclusive property of BDCTradePortal, its subsidiaries. BDCTradePortal reserves the right to use and reuse all registration and other personally identifiable user information. Users may edit, update, alter or obscure their personally identifiable information at any time by following the instructions located in BDCTradePortal sites.

4. MEMBER AND USER CONDUCT
Upon registering, you will receive a password and BDCTradePortal ID. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and ID, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or ID. You agree to (a) immediately notify BDCTradePortal of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. BDCTradePortal cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this requirement.

You acknowledge and agree that all information, code, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, pictures, graphics, video, chat, messages, files, or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not BDCTradePortal, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Services. BDCTradePortal does not control the user or third party Content posted via the Products and Services, and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such user or third party Content. You acknowledge and Agree that by using the Products and Services, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will BDCTradePortal be liable in any way for any user or third party Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any such Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any such Content posted, emailed or otherwise transmitted via the Products and Services. As a general matter, BDCTradePortal does not pre-screen user or third party Content posted on BDCTradePortal, except for certain areas where BDCTradePortal employs certain automated screening software, although BDCTradePortal reserves the right to do so. BDCTradePortal does not guarantee that any screening will be done to your satisfaction or that any screening will be done at all. BDCTradePortal reserves the right to monitor some, all, or no areas of the Products and Services for adherence to these Terms and Conditions or any other rules or guidelines posted by BDCTradePortal.

Prohibited Conduct

You agree that you will not use BDCTradePortal Products and Services to:
- Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content, or select any member or user name or email address, that is unlawful, harmful, pornographic or otherwise objectionable. - Collect or store personally identifying information about other users for unlawful purposes.

You acknowledge and agree that BDCTradePortal and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation), in their sole discretion, to refuse to publish, remove, or block access to any Content that is available via the Products and Services at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all, with or without notice. BDCTradePortal may also terminate access to, or membership in BDCTradePortal, or any portion thereof, for violating these Terms and Conditions. You acknowledge and agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by or obtained through the use of BDCTradePortal Products and Services.

You expressly acknowledge and agree that BDCTradePortal may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the Terms and Conditions; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of BDCTradePortal, its users and the public. You acknowledge and agree that the technical processing and transmission of the Products and Services, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.

BDCTradePortal also may suspend or terminate any user account for any Product or Service because of user inactivity. For example, a BDCTradePortal account may be terminated or suspended if a user fails to sign-in to BDCTradePortal Service for an extended period of time; please see BDCTradePortal Rules and Regulation section for more information regarding BDCTradePortal's policies concerning account termination.

5. LICENSE TO MEMBER WEB PAGES AND OTHER USER CONTENT
By submitting a web page to BDCTradePortal, or any other web page hosting service on BDCTradePortal, you grant BDCTradePortal a world-wide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to use, copy, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, create compilations including, and distribute such web page, and any associated Content, for the limited purposes of publishing and promoting the user's web page in connection with the particular service with which the user has chosen to have the web page hosted and for publishing and promoting such web page elsewhere within BDCTradePortal. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. The term of the license will extend only for the duration of the user's membership with the particular BDCTradePortal service. You acknowledge and agree that BDCTradePortal runs advertisements on the web pages of its users and grant BDCTradePortal the right to do so. These advertisements may include, without limitation, "banner" advertisements and "pop-up text" advertisements. The manner, mode, and extent of such advertising is subject to change.
 
6. DISCLAIMER
Information on this web site may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. Information may be changed or updated without notice.

BDCTradePortal makes no representations whatsoever about other web sites which you may access through this one. When you access a non-BDCTradePortal web site, please understand that it is independent from BDCTradePortal, and that BDCTradePortal has no control over the content on that web site.

In addition, a link to a non-BDCTradePortal web site does not mean that BDCTradePortal endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, use, or products and services made available through such web site.

IN NO EVENT WILL BDCTradePortal BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR ANY USE OF THIS WEB SITE, OR ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEB SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE ARE EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

INFORMATION ON THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED "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. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSIONS OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.