Understanding your rights and responsibilities as a Sushi Chef Agency user.
Protect your personal information by never providing social security, credit card or bank account numbers to prospective employers.
These are the Terms of Use (“Terms”) under which all job seekers, employers or “Restaurants” or other users (“You”) may use the Sushi Chef Agency Sites and the Services (each as defined below). These Terms include the Sushi Chef Agency Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.
These Terms constitute a binding agreement between You and Sushi Chef Agency. or the Sushi Chef Agency company operating the Web site for the country in which You live or in which business is headquartered (“Japan Pacific Investments DBA Sushi Chef Institute”), and are deemed accepted by You each time that You use or access any Sushi Chef Agency Site or Sushi Chef Agency Services. If You do not accept the Terms stated here, do not use the Sushi Chef Agency Sites and the Sushi Chef Agency Services.
These Terms and Conditions may refer to “Restaurants” as Employers and “Chefs” as Candidates from time to time. The Sushi Chef Agency website is owned and managed by the Sushi Chef Institute. It is a service offered by the Sushi Chef Institute located at 1123 Van Ness Ave, Torrance, CA, 90501.
The Sushi Chef Agency Sites are defined as any Web sites under Sushi Chef Agency’s control, whether partial or otherwise (including, without limitation, SushiChef.Agency, and the Web site from which these terms of use were accessed from) and include the Sushi Chef Agency Services. The Sushi Chef Agency Services are defined as the applications and services offered by Sushi Chef Agency, including an on-line service to post and search employment opportunities and any mobile application or other interface that allows You to access such application (collectively, “Sushi Chef Agency Services”). The Sushi Chef Agency Sites also allow users (“Users”) to
create individual profiles, which may include personal information (“Profiles”), and to make these Profiles, or aspects thereof, public. In addition, Sushi Chef Agency may collect information about You from publicly-available websites and may use this information to create a Profile or append it to an existing Profile.
Sushi Chef Agency may revise these Terms at any time by posting an updated version to this URL. You should visit this URL periodically to review the most current Terms because they are binding on You.
Users who violate these Terms may have their access and use of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites suspended or terminated, at Sushi Chef Agency’s discretion.
You must be 18 years of age or older to visit or use any Sushi Chef Agency Site in any manner, and, if under the age of 18 or the age of majority as that is defined in Your jurisdiction, must use any Sushi Chef Agency Site under the supervision of a parent, legal guardian, or other responsible adult.
You may not use the Sushi Chef Agency Content (as defined below) or Profiles to determine a consumer’s eligibility for: (a) credit or insurance for personal, family, or household purposes; (b) employment; or (c) a government license or benefit.
Sushi Chef Agency authorizes You, subject to these Terms, to access and use the Sushi Chef Agency Sites and the Sushi Chef Agency Content and to download and print a single copy of the content available on or from the Sushi Chef Agency Sites solely for Your personal, non-commercial use. The contents of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites, such as designs, text, graphics, images, video, information, logos, button icons, software, audio files and other Sushi Chef Agency content (collectively, “Sushi Chef Agency Content”), are protected under copyright, trademark and other laws. All Sushi Chef Agency Content is the property of Sushi Chef Agency or its licensors. The compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement and assembly) of all content on the Sushi Chef Agency Sites is the exclusive property of Sushi Chef Agency and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Unauthorized use of the Sushi Chef Agency Content may violate these laws and/or applicable communications regulations and statutes, and is strictly prohibited. You must preserve all copyright, trademark, service mark and other proprietary notices contained in the original Sushi Chef Agency Content on any authorized copy You make of the Sushi Chef Agency Content.
Any code that Sushi Chef Agency creates to generate or display any Sushi Chef Agency Content or the pages making up any Sushi Chef Agency Site is also protected by Sushi Chef Agency’s copyright and You may not copy or adapt such code.
You agree not to sell or modify the Sushi Chef Agency Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Sushi Chef Agency Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose, in connection with products or services that are not those of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites, in any other manner that is likely to cause confusion among consumers, that disparages or discredits Sushi Chef Agency or its licensors, that dilutes the strength of Sushi Chef Agency’s or its licensor’s property, or that otherwise infringes Sushi Chef Agency’s or its licensor’s intellectual property rights. You further agree to in no other way misuse Sushi Chef Agency Content. The use of the Sushi Chef Agency Content on any other application, web site or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. Any code that Sushi Chef Agency creates to generate or display any Sushi Chef Agency Content or the pages making up any Application or Service is also protected by Sushi Chef Agency’s copyright and you may not copy or adapt such code.
The job ad, resume database, including but not limited (a) to the Sushi Chef Agency diversity and veteran databases if applicable, and (b) any information obtained from the resume database (“Resume Database”) and other features of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites may be used only by individuals seeking employment and/or career information and by employers seeking employees. In addition, Sushi Chef Agency Networking and Profiles may be used by individuals for permitted professional and personal networking purposes. The term “post” as used herein shall mean information that You submit, publish or display on a Sushi Chef Agency Site.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your account, Profile and passwords, as applicable. You may not share Your password or other account access information with any other party, temporarily or permanently, and You shall be responsible for all uses of Your Sushi Chef Agency Site registrations and passwords, whether or not authorized by You. You agree to immediately notify Sushi Chef Agency of any unauthorized use of Your account, Profile, or passwords.
All Sushi Chef Agency Users agree to not:
(a) transmit, post, distribute, store or destroy material, including without limitation Sushi Chef Agency Content, in violation of any applicable law or regulation, including but not limited to laws or regulations governing the collection, processing, or transfer of personal information, or in breach of Sushi Chef Agency’s privacy policy;
(b) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on any Sushi Chef Agency Site’s infrastructure;
(c) use any device to navigate or search any Sushi Chef Agency Site other than the tools available on the Site, generally available third party web browsers, or other tools approved by Sushi Chef Agency;
(d) use any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods;
(e) violate or attempt to violate the security of any Sushi Chef Agency Site including attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;
(f) forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting;
(g) reverse engineer or decompile any parts of any Sushi Chef Agency Site;
(h) aggregate, copy or duplicate in any manner any of the Sushi Chef Agency Content or information available from any Sushi Chef Agency Site, including expired job ads, other than as permitted by these Terms;
(i) frame or link to any Sushi Chef Agency Content or information available from any Sushi Chef Agency Site, unless permitted by these Terms;
(j) post any content or material that promotes or endorses false or misleading information or illegal activities, or endorses or provides instructional information about illegal activities or other activities prohibited by these Terms, such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, providing or creating computer viruses or pirating media;
(k) post any resume or Profile or apply for any job on behalf of another party;
(l) defer any contact from an employer to any agent, agency, or other third party;
(m) set more than one copy of the same resume to public at any one time;
(n) share with a third party any login credentials to any Sushi Chef Agency Site;
(o) access data not intended for You or logging into a server or account which You are not authorized to access;
(p) post or submit to any Sushi Chef Agency Site any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or information which is not Your own;
(q) post content that contains restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images;
(r) solicit passwords or personally identifiable information from other Users;
(s) delete or alter any material posted by any other person or entity;
(t) harass, incite harassment or advocate harassment of any group, company, or individual;
(u) send unsolicited mail or email, make unsolicited phone calls or send unsolicited texts, tweets or faxes promoting and/or advertising products or services to any User, or contact any users that have specifically requested not to be contacted by You;
(v) attempt to interfere with service to any User, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to any Sushi Chef Agency Site, overloading, “flooding”, “spamming”, “mailbombing” or “crashing”;
(w) promote or endorse an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such by as providing or making available pirated computer programs or links to them, providing or making available information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing or making available pirated music or other media or links to pirated music or other media files; or
(x) use the Sushi Chef Agency Services for any unlawful purpose or any illegal activity, or post or submit any content, resume, or job ad that is defamatory, libelous, implicitly or explicitly offensive, vulgar, obscene, threatening, abusive, hateful, racist, discriminatory, of a menacing character or likely to cause annoyance, inconvenience, embarrassment, anxiety or could cause harassment to any person or include any links to pornographic, indecent or sexually explicit material of any kind, as determined by Sushi Chef Agency’s discretion.
Violations of system or network security may result in civil and/or criminal liability. Sushi Chef Agency will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Users who are involved in such violations.
Employers or “Restaurants” are solely responsible for their postings on Sushi Chef Agency Sites. Sushi Chef Agency is not to be considered to be an employer with respect to Your use of any Sushi Chef Agency Site and Sushi Chef Agency shall not be responsible for any employment decisions, for whatever reason, made by any entity posting jobs on any Sushi Chef Agency Site.
You understand and acknowledge that if You cancel Your employer account or Your employer account is terminated, all Your account information from Sushi Chef Agency, including saved resumes, network contacts, and email mailing lists, will be marked as deleted in and may be deleted from Sushi Chef Agency’s databases. Information may continue to be available for some period of time because of delays in propagating such deletion through Sushi Chef Agency’s web servers. In some cases the deletion is immediate and all information related to your account will be deleted permanently. Sushi Chef Agency might not be able to recover any information after the deletion process has been started by either the user or the Sushi Chef Agency.
In order to protect our Sushi Chef Agency Users from commercial advertising or solicitation, Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to restrict the number of e-mails which an employer may send to Users to a number which Sushi Chef Agency deems appropriate in its sole discretion. You shall use the Sushi Chef Agency Networking and Profiles in accordance with all applicable privacy and data protection laws.
Job ads
A Job ad may not contain:
(a) any hyperlinks, other than those specifically authorized by Sushi Chef Agency;
(b) misleading, unreadable, or “hidden” keywords, repeated keywords or keywords that are irrelevant to the job opportunity being presented, as determined in Sushi Chef Agency’s reasonable discretion;
(c) the names, logos or trademarks of unaffiliated companies other than those of your customer save where expressly agreed by Sushi Chef Agency;
(d) the names of colleges, cities, states, towns or countries that are unrelated to the posting;
(e) more than one job or job description;
(f) more than one location, or more than one job category, unless the product so allows;
(g) inaccurate, false, or misleading information; and
(h) material or links to material that exploits people in a sexual, violent or other manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18.
You may not use Your Sushi Chef Agency job ad or Profiles to:
(a) post jobs in a manner that does not comply with applicable local, national and international laws, including but not limited to laws relating to labor and employment, equal employment opportunity and employment eligibility requirements, data privacy, data access and use, and intellectual property;
(b) post jobs that require citizenship of any particular country or lawful permanent residence in a country as a condition of employment, unless otherwise required in order to comply with law, regulations, executive order, or federal, state or local government contract;
(c) post jobs that include any screening requirement or criterion in connection with a job ad where such requirement or criterion is not an actual and legal requirement of the posted job;
(d) with respect to Profiles, determine a consumer’s eligibility for: (i) credit or insurance for person, family, or household purposes; (ii) employment; or (iii) a government license of benefit.
(e) promote or advertise career fairs, job fairs, hiring events, conferences, seminars or open houses or any other event or meeting;
(f) post jobs or other advertisements for competitors of Sushi Chef Agency or post jobs or other content that contains links to any site competitive with Sushi Chef Agency;
(g) sell, promote or advertise products or services;
(h) post any franchise, pyramid scheme, “club membership”, distributorship, multi-level marketing opportunity, or sales representative agency arrangement;
(i) post any business opportunity that requires an up front or periodic payment or requires recruitment of other members, sub-distributors or sub-agents;
(j) post any business opportunity that pays commission only unless the posting clearly states that the available job pays commission only and clearly describes the product or service that the job seeker would be selling;
(k) promote any opportunity that does not represent bona fide employment which is generally indicated by the employer’s use of IRS forms W-2 or 1099;
(l) post jobs on any Sushi Chef Agency Site for modeling, acting, talent or entertainment agencies or talent scouting positions;
(m) advertise sexual services or seek employees for jobs of a sexual nature;
(n) request the use of human body parts or the donation of human parts, including, without limitation, reproductive services such as egg donation and surrogacy;
(o) endorse a political party, political agenda, political position or issue;
(p) promote a religion;
(q) post jobs located in countries subject to economic sanctions of the United States Government; and
(r) except where allowed by applicable law, post jobs which require the applicant to provide information relating to his/her (i) racial or ethnic origin, (ii) political beliefs, (iii) philosophical or religious beliefs, (iv) membership of a trade union, (v) physical or mental health (including pregnancy status), (vi) sexual life, (vii) the commission of criminal offences or proceedings, or (vii) age.
Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to remove any job ad or content from any Sushi Chef Agency Site, which in the reasonable exercise of Sushi Chef Agency’s discretion, does not comply with the above Terms, or if any content is posted that Sushi Chef Agency believes is not in the best interest of Sushi Chef Agency.
If at any time during Your use of the Sushi Chef Agency Services, You made a misrepresentation of fact to Sushi Chef Agency or otherwise misled Sushi Chef Agency in regards to the nature of Your business activities, Sushi Chef Agency will have grounds to terminate Your use of the Sushi Chef Agency Services.
Resume Database
Use of the Resume Database by Employers
You shall use the Resume Database as provided in these Terms and in any contract You have with Sushi Chef Agency. You shall use the Resume Database in accordance with all applicable privacy and data protection laws, and You agree You shall not further disclose any of the data from Resume Database to any third party, unless You are an authorized recruitment agency, staffing agency, advertising or other agency or using the resume explicitly for employment purposes.
You may not use the Resume Database in any way which, in Sushi Chef Agency’s sole discretion, adversely affects Sushi Chef Agency’s business, business prospects, the performance or function of any Site or the Resume Database, or interferes with the ability of other subscribers to access the Resume Database.
You shall take appropriate physical, technical, and administrative measures to protect the data You have obtained from Resume Database from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. You shall not share Resume Database seat-based license login credentials with any other party, nor share Resume Database pay-per-view license login credentials with any party.
The Resume Database and information obtained from the Resume Database shall not be used:
(a) for any purpose other than as an employer seeking employees, including but not limited to advertising promotions, products, or services to any resume holders;
(b) to send emails or text messages or make phone calls to resume holders that, in Sushi Chef Agency’s sole discretion, are excessive in frequency or related to job ads that are irrelevant to the work history or location of, or unlikely to be of interest to, the resume holder contacted;
(c) to make unsolicited phone calls or faxes or send unsolicited mail, email, or newsletters to resume holders or to contact any individual unless they have agreed to be contacted (where consent is required or, if express consent is not required, who has not informed you that they do not want to be contacted); or
(d) to source candidates or to contact job seekers or resume holders in regards to career fairs and business opportunities prohibited by these Terms; or
(e) take any other action that is, in Sushi Chef Agency’s sole discretion, inconsistent with these Terms of Use, misleading or incomplete, or in violation of any Federal, State, Local law, statute, code, rule, or regulation.
In order to ensure a safe and effective experience for all of our customers, Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to limit the amount of data (including resume views) that may be accessed by You or the number of contacts, emails or messages You may make or send within any Sushi Chef Agency system in any given time period. These limits may be amended in Sushi Chef Agency’s sole discretion from time to time.
When You register with any Sushi Chef Agency Site, You will be asked to login with Facebook, Google or another service or create an account and provide Sushi Chef Agency with certain information including, without limitation, name, zip code, career and education level and a valid email address (“Information”).
Any Profile You submit must be accurate and describe You, an individual person. The Profile requires standard fields to be completed and you may not include in these fields any telephone numbers, street addresses, or other means of contacting You, other than Your name.
You acknowledge and agree that You are solely responsible for the form, content and accuracy of any resume or material contained therein placed by You on the Sushi Chef Agency Sites.
Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to offer third party services and products to You based on the preferences that You identify in Your registration and at any time thereafter or you have agreed to receive, such offers may be made by Sushi Chef Agency or by third parties. Please see Sushi Chef Agency’s Privacy Policy, for further details regarding Your Information.
You understand and acknowledge that You have no ownership rights in Your account and that if You cancel Your Sushi Chef Agency account or Your Sushi Chef Agency account is terminated, all Your account information from Sushi Chef Agency, including resumes, Profiles, cover letters, saved jobs, questionnaires will be marked as deleted in and may be deleted from Sushi Chef Agency’s databases and will be removed from any public area of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites. Information may continue to be available for some period of time because of delays in propagating such deletion through Sushi Chef Agency’s web servers. In addition, third parties may retain saved copies of Your Information.
Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to delete Your account and all of Your Information after a significant duration of inactivity.
You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, advertisements, messages or other materials submitted, posted or displayed by You on or through a Sushi Chef Agency Site (“User Content”) is the sole responsibility of the person from which such User Content originated. Sushi Chef Agency claims no ownership or control over any User Content. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any User Content you submit, post or display on or through Sushi Chef Agency and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By submitting, posting or displaying User Content on or through Sushi Chef Agency, you grant Sushi Chef Agency a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, distribute and publish such User Content through Sushi Chef Agency. In addition, by submitting, posting or displaying User Content which is intended to be available to the general public, you grant Sushi Chef Agency a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, distribute and publish such User Content for the purpose of promoting Sushi Chef Agency and its services. Sushi Chef Agency will discontinue this licensed use within a commercially reasonable period after such User Content is removed from Sushi Chef Agency. Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any User Content in its sole discretion.
You also represent and warrant that You have the right to grant, or that the holder of any rights, including moral rights in such content has completely and effectively waived all such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to You the right to grant, the license stated above. If You post User Content in any public area of any Sushi Chef Agency Site, You also permit any User to access, display, view, store and reproduce such User Content for personal use. Subject to the foregoing, the owner of such User Content placed on any Sushi Chef Agency Site retains any and all rights that may exist in such User Content. Sushi Chef Agency may review and remove any User Content that, in its sole judgment, violates these Terms, violates applicable laws, rules or regulations, is abusive, disruptive, offensive or illegal, or violates the rights of, or harms or threatens the safety of, Users of any Sushi Chef Agency Site. Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to expel Users and prevent their further access to the Sushi Chef Agency Sites and/or use of Sushi Chef Agency Services for violating the Terms or applicable laws, rules or regulations. Sushi Chef Agency may take any action with respect to User Content that it deems necessary or appropriate in its sole discretion if it believes that such User Content could create liability for Sushi Chef Agency, damage Sushi Chef Agency’s brand or public image, or cause Sushi Chef Agency to lose Users or (in whole or in part) the services of its ISPs or other suppliers.
Sushi Chef Agency does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of User Content, derivative works from User Content, or any other communications posted by Users nor does Sushi Chef Agency endorse any opinions expressed by Users. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted by other Users will be at Your own risk.
The following is a partial list of User Content that is prohibited on the Application. The list below is for illustration only and is not a complete list of all prohibited User Content.
Content that:
- is implicitly or explicitly offensive, such as User Content that engages in, endorses or promotes racism, bigotry, discrimination, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- harasses, incites harassment or advocates harassment of any group or individual;
- involves the transmission of “junk mail”, “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing, “spamming” or “phishing”;
- promotes or endorses false or misleading information or illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- promotes or endorses an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing or making available pirated computer programs or links to them, providing or making available information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing or making available pirated music or other media or links to pirated music or other media files;
- contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images;
- displays or links to pornographic, indecent or sexually explicit material of any kind;
- provides or links to material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual, violent or other manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18; or
- provides instructional information about illegal activities or other activities prohibited by these Terms, including without limitation, making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, providing or creating computer viruses or pirating any media; and
- solicits passwords or personal identifying information from other Users.
Any Profile You submit must describe You, an individual person. Examples of inappropriate and prohibited Profiles include, but are not limited to, Profiles that purport to represent an animal, place, inanimate object, fictional character, or real individual that is not You.
You may not include, in any User Content submitted to Sushi Chef Agency Networking, information that may be interpreted as a direct solicitation, advertisement or recruitment for an available job position directed to individuals seeking employment on either a full time or part time basis. In order to protect our Sushi Chef Agency Community Users from commercial advertising or solicitation, Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to restrict the number of e-mails or other messages which a User may send to other Users to a number which Sushi Chef Agency deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
Profiles derived from User Content may also be made available through the Sushi Chef Agency Sites. Sushi Chef Agency does not make any representations regarding the accuracy or validity of such derived works or their appropriateness for evaluation by employers. Derived Profiles may differ significantly from User Content.
We appreciate hearing from our Users and welcome Your comments regarding our services and the Sushi Chef Agency Sites. Please be advised, however, that our policy does not permit us to accept or consider creative ideas, suggestions, inventions or materials other than those which we have specifically requested. While we do value Your feedback on our services, please be specific in Your comments regarding our services and do not submit creative ideas, inventions, suggestions, or materials. If, despite our request, You send us creative suggestions, ideas, drawings, concepts, inventions, or other information (collectively the “Submission”), the Submission shall be the property of Sushi Chef Agency. None of the Submission shall be subject to any obligation of confidentiality on our part and we shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submission. Sushi Chef Agency shall own exclusively all now known or later discovered rights to the Submission and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of the Submission for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to You or any other person.
If You believe that Your copyrighted work or trademark has been uploaded, posted or copied to any Sushi Chef Agency Site and is accessible on such Sushi Chef Agency Site in a way that constitutes copyright or trademark infringement, please contact Sushi Chef Agency by email at contact@SushiChef.Agency or by regular mail at:
Sushi Chef Institute
1123 Van Ness Ave
Torrance, California
90501
USA
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Sushi Chef Agency respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our Users and content partners to do the same. The unauthorized posting, reproduction, copying, distribution, modification, public display or public performance of copyrighted works constitutes infringement of the copyright owners rights. As a condition to Your use of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites, You agree not to use any Sushi Chef Agency Site to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way. Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to terminate the accounts of any Users, and block access to the Sushi Chef Agency Sites of any Users who are repeat infringers of the copyrights, or other intellectual property rights, of others. Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to take these actions to limit access to the Site and/or terminate the accounts of any time, in our sole discretion Users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement, with or without notice, and without any liability to the User who is terminated or to the User whose access is blocked. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that You believe in good faith that a notice of copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against You, please contact Sushi Chef Agency as set forth in Section 6 above.
The Sushi Chef Agency Sites act as, among other things, venues for (i) employers (also referred as “Restaurants”) to post job opportunities and search for and evaluate job candidates (also referred as “Chefs”) and (ii) candidates to post resumes and Profiles and search for and evaluate job opportunities. Sushi Chef Agency does not screen or censor the listings, including Profiles offered. Sushi Chef Agency is not involved in, and does not control, the actual transaction between employers and candidates. As a result, Sushi Chef Agency is not responsible for User Content, the quality, safety or legality of the jobs or resumes posted, the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of employers to offer job opportunities to candidates or the ability of candidates to fill job openings and Sushi Chef Agency makes no representations about any jobs, resumes or User Content on the Sushi Chef Agency Sites. While Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove User Content, job ads, resumes or other material from the Sushi Chef Agency Sites from time to time, Sushi Chef Agency does not assume any obligation to do so and to the extent permitted by law, disclaims any liability for failing to take any such action.
Sushi Chef Agency Networking provides a venue for individuals to network for professional and personal purposes and Sushi Chef Agency does not screen or censor the Profiles or User Content on the Sushi Chef Agency Sites. Sushi Chef Agency is not involved in the actual communications between Users. As a result, Sushi Chef Agency has no control over the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the Profiles or User Content submitted on the Sushi Chef Agency Sites and makes no representations about any Profile or User Content on the Sushi Chef Agency Sites.
Note that there are risks, including but not limited to the risk of physical harm, of dealing with strangers, underage persons or people acting under false pretenses. You assume all risks associated with dealing with other users with whom You come in contact through the Sushi Chef Agency Sites. By its very nature other people’s information may be offensive, harmful or inaccurate, and in some cases will be mislabeled or deceptively labeled. We expect that You will use caution and common sense when using the Sushi Chef Agency Sites.
Because User authentication on the Internet is difficult, Sushi Chef Agency cannot and does not confirm that each User is who they claim to be. Because we do not and cannot be involved in User-to-User dealings or control the behavior of participants on any Sushi Chef Agency Site, in the event that You have a dispute with one or more Users, You release Sushi Chef Agency (and our agents and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential and direct and indirect) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes to the fullest extent permitted by law.
The Sushi Chef Agency Sites and the Sushi Chef Agency Content may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. Sushi Chef Agency makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of any Sushi Chef Agency Site or the Sushi Chef Agency Content. The use of all Sushi Chef Agency Sites and the Sushi Chef Agency Content is at Your own risk. Changes are periodically made to Sushi Chef Agency Sites and may be made at any time. Sushi Chef Agency cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of any Sushi Chef Agency Site. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by a User from Sushi Chef Agency or through or from any Sushi Chef Agency Site shall create any warranty not expressly stated herein.
If You are a California resident, You waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him or her must have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor.”
Sushi Chef Agency encourages You to keep a back-up copy of any of Your User Content. To the extent permitted by law, in no event shall Sushi Chef Agency be liable for the deletion, loss, or unauthorized modification of any User Content.
Sushi Chef Agency does not provide or make any representation as to the quality or nature of any of the third party products or services purchased through any Sushi Chef Agency Site, or any other representation, warranty or guaranty. Any such undertaking, representation, warranty or guaranty would be furnished solely by the provider of such third party products or services, under the terms agreed to by the provider.
If You believe that something on the Site violates these Terms please contact our designated agent set forth in Section 6 above.
If notified of any content or other materials which allegedly do not conform to these Terms, Sushi Chef Agency may in its sole discretion investigate the allegation and determine whether to remove or request the removal of the content. Sushi Chef Agency has no liability or responsibility to Users for performance or nonperformance of such activities.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE BY LAW, SUSHI CHEF AGENCY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY SUSHI CHEF AGENCY SITE OR ANY SUSHI CHEF AGENCY SERVICES WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT ANY SUSHI CHEF AGENCY SITE AND ITS SERVERS ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL MECHANISMS. IF YOUR USE OF ANY SUSHI CHEF AGENCY SITE OR THE SUSHI CHEF AGENCY CONTENT RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA OR ANY OTHER COSTS, SUSHI CHEF AGENCY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS. THE SUSHI CHEF AGENCY SITES AND SUSHI CHEF AGENCY CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. SUSHI CHEF AGENCY, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. SUSHI CHEF AGENCY MAKES NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE SUSHI CHEF
AGENCY CONTENT, SERVICES, SOFTWARE, TEXT, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL SUSHI CHEF AGENCY, ITS SUPPLIERS, OR ANY THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED ON ANY SUSHI CHEF AGENCY SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA, LOST EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE ANY SUSHI CHEF AGENCY SITE AND THE SUSHI CHEF AGENCY CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT SUSHI CHEF AGENCY IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE BY LAW, SUSHI CHEF AGENCY’S MAXIMUM LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUSHI CHEF AGENCY SITE OR YOUR USE OF THE SUSHI CHEF AGENCY CONTENT, REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR OTHERWISE), WILL NOT EXCEED $100.
The Sushi Chef Agency Sites contain links to third party Web sites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to You and not as an endorsement by Sushi Chef Agency of the contents on such third-party Web sites. Sushi Chef Agency is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third party Web sites. If You decide to access linked third-party Web sites, You do so at Your own risk.
You agree not to resell or assign Your rights or obligations under these Terms. You also agree not to make any unauthorized commercial use of any Sushi Chef Agency Site.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Sushi Chef Agency, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from (i) any User Content or other material You provide to any Sushi Chef Agency Site, (ii) Your use of any Sushi Chef Agency Content, or (iii) Your breach of these Terms. Sushi Chef Agency shall provide notice to You promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding.
Sushi Chef Agency makes no claims or representations that the Sushi Chef Agency Content may be lawfully viewed or accessed outside of the United States. Access to the Sushi Chef Agency Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If You access any Sushi Chef Agency Site You do so at Your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of Your jurisdiction. Any software downloaded from any Sushi Chef Agency Site is further subject to United States export control laws, and may not be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria or any other country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods or (ii) to any individual or entity on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department’s Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using such software, You represent and warrant that You are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country, individual, or entity on any such list.
These Terms are governed by the internal substantive laws of California and the State of California, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. Any legal disputing arising hereunder shall be adjudicated with the American Arbitration Association pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules. The arbitration shall be binding, held in front of one arbitration, and held in Los Angeles California. If any provision of these Terms are found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term. In addition, Sushi Chef Agency’s failure to enforce any term of these Terms shall not be deemed as a waiver of such term or otherwise affect Sushi Chef Agency’s ability to enforce such term at any point in the future. Except as expressly provided in an additional agreement, additional Terms for certain areas of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites, a particular “Legal Notice,” or software license or material on particular pages on the Sushi Chef Agency Sites, these Terms constitute the entire agreement between You and Sushi Chef Agency with respect to the use of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites. No changes to these Terms shall be made except by a revised posting on this page.
Certain areas of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites are subject to additional Terms. By using such areas, or any part thereof, You agree to be bound by the additional Terms applicable to such areas. By using any areas of this website or the other Sushi Chef Agency Sites that contain Google Maps, you agree to be bound by the Google Maps Terms of Use available at http://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html and the legal notices available at http://www.maps.google.com/help/legalnotices_maps.html as they may be updated from time to time.
©GfK GeoMarketing Geographic Information provided by GfK GeoMarketing GfK. GeoMarketing provides the geographic and mapping information of postal codes of Western Europe and Canada to create the location finder of the nearest job and for the visualization of maps. The maps and geographic information is copyright protected and can be used only within the internet application and the functionalities provided by Sushi Chef Agency. Any other use or publication of the geographic information and maps is not allowed.
©Maponics, LLC 2008 Geographic Information provided by Maponics, LLC. Maponics provides the geographic and mapping information of postal codes of the United States. This information is copyright protected and can be used only within the internet application and the functionalities provided by Sushi Chef Agency. Any other use or publication of the geographic information and maps is not allowed.
If You use the Sushi Chef Agency Sites through a mobile device, You agree that information about Your use of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites through Your mobile device and carrier may be communicated to us, including but not limited to Your mobile carrier, Your mobile device, or Your physical location. In addition, use of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites through a mobile device may cause data to be displayed on and through Your mobile device. By accessing the Sushi Chef Agency Sites using a mobile device, You represent that to the extent You import any of Your Sushi Chef Agency data to Your mobile device that You have authority to share the transferred data with Your mobile carrier or other access provider. In the event You change or deactivate Your mobile account, You must promptly update Your Sushi Chef Agency account information to ensure that Your messages are not sent to the person that acquires Your old number and failure to do so is Your responsibility. You acknowledge You are responsible for all charges and necessary permissions related to accessing the Sushi Chef Agency Sites through Your mobile access provider. Therefore, You should check with Your provider to find out if the Sushi Chef Agency Sites are available and the terms for these services for Your specific mobile devices.
By using any downloadable application to enable Your use of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites, You are explicitly confirming Your acceptance of the terms of the End User License Agreement associated with the Application provided at download or installation, or as may be updated from time to time.
These Terms will remain in full force and effect while You are a User of any Sushi Chef Agency Site. Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to pursue all of its legal remedies, including but not limited to removal of Your User Content from the Sushi Chef Agency Sites and immediate termination of Your registration with or ability to access the Sushi Chef Agency Sites and/or any other services provided to You by Sushi Chef Agency, upon any breach by You of these Terms or if Sushi Chef Agency is unable to verify or authenticate any information You submit to a Sushi Chef Agency Site registration. Even after You are no longer a User of the Sushi Chef Agency Sites, certain provisions of these Terms will remain in effect, including Sections 1, 2, 5, 7 through 16, inclusive.
Sushi Chef Agency may terminate your privilege to use or access the Sites and Services immediately and without notice for any reason whatsoever. Upon such termination, you must immediately cease accessing or using the Sites and Services and agree not access or make use of, or attempt to use, the Sites and Services. Furthermore, you acknowledge that Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to take action — technical, legal or otherwise — to block, nullify or deny your ability to access the Sites and Services. You understand that Sushi Chef Agency may exercise this right in its sole discretion, and this right shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any other rights and remedies availableto us.
All provisions of these Terms and Conditions which by their nature should survive termination shall survive the termination of your access to the Sites and Services, including, without limitation, provision regarding ownership, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.
Sushi Chef Agency offers 6 months and yearly services for Employers or “Restaurants” and yearly services for Candidates or “Chefs”, which includes features accessible only on a subscription basis and may becharged as indicated in an insertion order. Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to change or remove these features at any time and update the cost of the services, in Sushi Chef Agency’s sole discretion. Additionally, these features may include analytics or other figures, which Sushi Chef Agency does not guarantee the accuracy of, and you are responsible for determining their suitability for your intended use or purpose. You may cancel your participation in Sushi Chef Agency’s paid subscription services at any time by notifying Sushi Chef Agency or deleting your account. To receive a full refund, you must notify Sushi Chef Agency in writing no later than 3 days after the purchase of a service. If your cancellation request is made 3 days after the purchase of a service, only a partial refund of 50% will be refunded to the original payment method. You are responsible for all taxes and payment processing fees as applicable and appropriate.
Sushi Chef Agency uses a third-party payment processing system supported by PayPal. All your payment information will fall under PayPal’s
Terms and conditions and Privacy Policies and by processing your payment you accept them. Sushi Chef Agency will charge a non-refundable processing fee for every service payment. This fee can be changed and updated at Sushi Chef Agency’s sole discretion.
When you report a user, a restaurant or a job listing, information from your profile and the reported user, restaurant or job listing will be sent automatically to our email contact@sushichef.agency for review. Sushi Chef Agency reserves the right to delete profiles and blocked them for accessing its services in perpetuity when the posted information:
- is implicitly or explicitly offensive, such as User Content that engages in, endorses or promotes racism, bigotry, discrimination, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- harasses, incites harassment or advocates harassment of any group or individual;
- involves the transmission of “junk mail”, “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing, “spamming” or “phishing”;
- promotes or endorses false or misleading information or illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- promotes or endorses an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing or making available pirated computer programs or links to them, providing or making available information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing or making available pirated music or other media or links to pirated music or other media files;
- contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images;
- displays or links to pornographic, indecent or sexually explicit material of any kind;
- provides or links to material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual, violent or other manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18; or
- provides instructional information about illegal activities or other activities prohibited by these Terms, including without limitation, making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, providing or creating computer viruses or pirating any media; and
- solicits passwords or personal identifying information from other Users.
If evidence of the mentioned above is found, a notification email will be sent to the reported account with explanation and captures of the found material. Reported accounts will have a period of 3 days to dispute their case. If no response is received in this period, the account will be deleted and the email account associated with the account will be banned from accessing Sushi Chef Agency in perpetuity.
Sushi Chef Agency may, in our sole discretion, modify these Terms of Use at any time effective upon posting the modified Terms of Use on and in connection with the Sites and Services, with or without additional notice to you. You are responsible for regularly reviewing information posted on the Sites and Services to obtain timely notice of such changes. If you do not agree to the amended terms, you agree to immediately stop using the Sites and Services and to provide us notice to remove you from any distribution lists or other communication list that are available to you through your use of the Sites and Services. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE SITE AND SERVICES AFTER SUCH POSTING (OR OTHER NOTIFICATION, IF ANY) MEANS YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE MODIFIED TERMS OF USE.
Sushi Chef Agency, and other Sites and Services graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are the trademarks or trade dress of Sushi Chef Agency. These trademarks and trade dress may not be used, including as part of trademarks and/or as part of domain names, keyword advertisements, or email addresses, or in connection with any product or service in any manner that is likely to cause confusion.
You should assume all Content and material made available on the Sites and Services is protected by copyright law. Aside from user-submitted Content, all other materials and other information on the Sites and Services, including, but not limited to, all text, graphics, logos, icons, images, audio and video clips, downloads, data compilations and software are the exclusive property of Sushi Chef Agency and/or its licensors and are protected by all United States and international copyright laws.
You agree that Sushi Chef Agency may communicate any notices to You under these Terms and Conditions, through electronic mail, regular mail or posting the notices on the Site. All notices to us will be provided by email.
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, Title 17 of the United States Code, Section 512 (“DMCA”), Sushi Chef Agency will respond promptly to claims of copyright or trademark infringement that are reported to the agent that we have designated to receive notifications of claims infringement (its “Designated Agent”). Our Designated Agent is:
Sushi Chef Institute
1123 Van Ness Ave
Torrance, California
90501
If You are a copyright or trademark owner (or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright or trademark owner) and believe that Your work’s copyright or trademark has been infringed, please report Your notice of infringement to us by providing our Designated Agent with a written notification of claimed infringement that includes substantially the following: a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; identification of the copyrighted work or trademark claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works or trademarks at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site; identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact You, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which You may be contacted; a statement that You have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright or trademark owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that You are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Sushi Chef Agency will investigate notices of copyright and trademark infringement and take appropriate actions under the DMCA. Inquiries that do not follow this procedure may not receive a response.
