Terms Of Service
BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITE, PLEASE OBSERVE THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF SERVICE (TOS). Bullish Bankers, LLC. (”Bullish Bankers,” “Company,” “our,” “us” or “we”) operates as a financial and stock market community blog located at http://www.bullishbankers.com. The content we provide is intended to be used for the individual (”you”) and is always subject to full compliance with the terms of service and all conditions set forth in the following document.
Jim Regan, Santosh Sankar and the collective business Bullish Bankers, LLC. do not function as an investment advisory service, nor a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer. We do not intent to suggest or recommend which securities our site’s participants should buy/sell for themselves. All of the employees, owners or affiliates of Bullish Bankers may in fact hold positions in the securities mentioned in the public publications made available through our company. All holdings are revealed in the “disclosure” at the bottom of every post on Bullish Bankers and on the bottom of every news letter on Bullish Bankers. We strive to update our holdings within one week of publication if things were to change. However, we are not responsible for maintaining the disclosure status at any time after the initial publication. The Company, authors, publishers, owners and all affiliates of Bullish Bankers assume zero responsibility or liability for your trading results. All statements made on our website, or in its publications, are made as of the date stated in the top of the article and are subject to change without notification.
From using our website, it should not be assumed that any of the methods, techniques or indicators presented in our publications (blog posts, newsletters or any other document published through Bullish Bankers, LLC.) will be profitable or not result in losses. Please note that historical results of any individual writer (”analyst,” “contributor,” “author” or “editor”) or those results of Bullish Bankers itself should not and are not indicative of future returns to be realized by you.
The strategies, thesis, rationale and recommendations (collectively, the “Information”) presented on or through Bullish Bankers are strictly for informational and educational purposes, and should not be understood as investment advice. Any example presented on our website is for education and does not constitute a recommendation. Accordingly, you should not rely on the Information presented at Bullish Bankers for making any investment, long or short. Instead, please use the Information strictly as a starting point for doing any independent research which may lead you to your own opinion regarding the stock of a publicly traded company. Again, the suitability of any investment should be determined by your licensed financial adviser and/or tax adviser, we are not responsible for any information or foresight that you may have developed through reading our material.
1. Initial Agreement
You, the user, by using this website, agree to be bound by our Terms of Service. Reading the content inside Bullish Bankers is indicative of agreeing to the terms laid out in this document and other conditional writings made publicly available on the homepage of our site. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions outlined, we do not consent to provide you with access to the research material and fundamental analysis contained on Bullish Bankers, and advise that you cease to use it.
2. Our Policy on Updates and Changes
As the operators of Bullish Bankers, we reserve the right to, at any time, change the terms and conditions of the TOS, change the website in any manner and impose a fee or discipline for your particular use or misuse of the website with reasonable notice. As we have the full rights to modify the content found on Bullish Bankers, by virtue of your continued use of the website you agree to consent to any changes that may arise.
3. Disclaimer of Securities
By virtue of viewing and/or using the material found through Bullish Bankers, you understand that content published on the Site never constitutes a recommendation in any particular security, industry, portfolio of securities, strategy, theory or transaction. We do not provide any sort of individual-specific advice. None of the writers are advising you personally with concerns to the nature, potential, value or suitability of any investment strategy, security, industry, portfolio of securities, theory, transaction or any other manner. By using our Site, you agree that any present, past and future investment decisions are made solely by the individual and cannot and should not be in any way steered by the publications seen through Bullish Bankers. Some of the stocks that we mention here have low market capitalization and/or a low stock float and may be subject to extreme volatility and extreme losses. Therefore, you, the user, agree to absorb the risk evident in such recommendations.
All of the Information present on Bullish Bankers or any of our products or derivatives constitute facts or opinions that are believed to be true by the author. We assume no responsibility for information that is misstated. We require all employees to disclose every stock in which they, their immediate family, their employer or any entity under their control, have a personal interest. All performance data that is supplied through Bullish Bankers is believed to be reliable, that the calculations herein are made using such data, and such calculations are not guaranteed by these sources, the information providers, or any other persons or entities, and may not be complete. Again, most of the information used on or through Bullish Bankers is made through a reliable financial source such as, but not limited to, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, CNN and Forbes. As such, we cannot guarantee that information is correct, though it will always be assumed that the author believes firmly that the information presented is correct.
4. On the Use of External Information
From time to time, external references may be made on our Site to prior articles and opinions that were formulated and/or published on Bullish Bankers. In addition, authors may include references to other financial websites from which that may or may not have gained insight or ideas used in the articles. The references may be selective, only for a portion of external pages, and are likely not to be current by virtue of citing. You understand that markets change on a daily basis continuously, and any information and data must be considered to be extinct by the time that you read the material. None of our material suggests any sort of recommendation or pick, and you are fully responsible for verifying the material as up to date if you decide to use our research and analysis.
5. If You are Considering Trading, Please Observe The Following
The international securities markets are extremely competitive and operate as efficient markets. Success in trading typically requires a certain degree of skill and discipline as well as knowledge of the markets. There is absolutely no guarantee that you will be successful in investing or trading, and many investors have lost money by trading even with sufficient background in the field. Moreover, changes in the market structure and competitive landscape of securities may affect your continued success in a positive or negative light. Only risk capital should be used for trading and we never recommend trading on margin in order to try to secure higher gains because this method constitutes higher risk that could financially harm the user.
Each trade generates a commission and the total commissions on trading can sometimes be in excess of earnings. Therefore, people who are new to trading are advised to limit the volume or trades in order to reduce the risk of large dollar losses during the initial learning process. You are solely responsible for your losses as none of the information contained on Bullish Bankers should be used to influence your investing or trading decisions. You should consult your broker concerning the nature of the protections available to safeguard funds or property deposited in your account.
Please note that Bullish Bankers may operate various additional forms of communication and interaction such as but not limited to user forums, message boards, chat rooms, discussion walls and user accounts. As such, we are in no way liable or influential in any of the outside opinion that is posted on said communication mediums. We advise that you consult a professional or licensed individual before acting or considering truthful any statements or opinions made public through our community.
6. User Conduct
You may not republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute content from Bullish Bankers or any portion controlled by the Company to online bulletin boards, forums, chat rooms or any other mediums of communication. Any modification of our content is not advised and is done solely at the individual’s risk. Please note that such modification other than for non-commercial use is a violation of our proprietary rights and can leave you subject to your own legal liability.
In addition, you, the user, agree not to:
- Restrict any other visitor from using Bullish Bankers, including and without limitation by means of “hacking” or defacing any portion of the Site;
- Use the Site for any unlawful purpose;
- Express or imply that any statements made by you are endorsed by us without writing for proper consent to the original author;
- Copy, frame or mirror any part of Bullish Bankers without proper consent by the Company
- Modify, sell or adapt any portion of the website;
- Use any robot, spider or retrieval application to reproduce the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or its contents without proper authorization;
In addition to the following user boundaries, you must agree to comply with all of the set laws, rules and regulations in connection with your use of the Site and the content made available to you.
7. Commenting and Content-Posting Policy
Bullish Bankers, at our discretion, reserve the right to remove or modify any comments that violate our standards of use. These standards include such uses like but not limited to: stock touting, profanity, spamming, personal attacks, solicitations or misleading behavior.
This comment policy on deleting or modifying material that is submitted independently by users of the Site may be also applied to any portion of the website including content posted by Bullish Bankers and the collective authors, message board items and chat room content.
By setting such standards, we intend on raising the credibility of the discussion and create an environment for constructive learning and honest exchanges. We do not intend on deleting or modifying any material that may simply make the author appear foolish, as such items may need to be brought to the table for public knowledge. However, we do reserve the right to erase or modify anything that is submitted that may contain overstatements, false material or exaggerations. Public registration of a user account will make the user publicly identifiable only by the alias he or she chose during the registration process. Our records and our databases may or may not contain the actual identity of the author of any comment or any added material contributed or posted to the Site.
8. Deletion and Modification
As previously made aware, Bullish Bankers and the collective Company reserve the right to modify, erase, or delete any material that appears on or is contributed to the Site. Any user comment or discussion contribution is intended to be kept and built off of; however, we reserve the right to modify all material as we see fit without notice or notification of change.
Bullish Bankers maintains the ability to remove temporarily or permanently any user or collection of users that are found to be misusing the Site or Company in any way.
9. Rules of Conduct
When posting to the Site, you hereby agree to:
- Post comments in tone and content that contribute in a positive and quality manner to the exchange of information
- If you chose an alias, be responsible for all statements made in response to that time, and must not choose an alias that is threatening, offensive or defamatory in any way
- Automatically grant Bullish Bankers a royalty-free and fully transferable sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, distribute and modify your material
- Waive any and all rights against Bullish Bankers and hold the Company harmless in any connection with any claims relating to any action taken by us as part of its investigation of a suspected violation of these Terms of Service
- Maintain and update your registration data to keep things true, accurate and complete
When posting to the Site, you hereby agree NOT to:
- Post anything that is known by you or should be known by you to be false or misleading in any manner
- Post anything that is unlawful, harmful or vulgar to others
- Post anything that invades the privacy or infringes on any rights of others
- Impersonate any person or entity
- Post any advertising or promotional purposed material
- Violate any local, state, national or international law or regulation that may or may not be brought up in our Terms of Service
Each individual is solely responsible for his or her actions made on or through the Site, and hereby removes all liability from Bullish Bankers. We do our best to maintain the Site in a responsible manner, but cannot catch everything all the time and hereby release liability to the individual.
10. Indemnification
By using the Site, you hereby agree to completely indemnify, defend and hold us, our editors, owners, authors and affiliates harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs or other expenses that may arise directly or indirectly out of or from your violation of the Terms of Service, your use of the Site, your relationship with the Company and/or your violation of the rights of any third party of Bullish Bankers.
11. Disclaimer of Warranties
BULLISH BANKERS, AND ANY PRODUCT, SERVICE OR DERIVATIVE OBTAINED OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE SITE OR COMPANY, IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, BULLISH BANKERS AND ITS OWNERS, EDITORS, AUTHORS AND AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY INCLUDING THOSE RELATED TO THE ADEQUACY, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION ON OUR SITE.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR SECURE, OR THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER ON WHICH IT OPERATES ARE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THE SIDE AND YOUR RELIANCE THEREON. NO OPINION, STATEMENT OR ADVICE OFFERED ON OR THROUGH BULLISH BANKERS, MADE ON THE SITE OR ANY PROPERTY OR CONNECTION TO THE COMPANY, SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY.
12. Miscellaneous
This, the Terms of Service, together with any policy referred to herein on Bullish Bankers, constitutes an entire agreement between you and Bullish Bankers relating your use of the Site and supersedes any and all prior written or oral agreements on that subject between us. The Limited Liability Corporation from which we are protected from a certain degree of liability that may or may not arise is registered in the State of Maryland.
If any provision of the Terms of Service is found to be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable form the Terms of Service and shall not affect the overall validity of any remaining provisions or conditions set by the Company. We reserve the right to require you to sign a non-electronic version of the Terms of Service. Any heading, caption or section title contained in the Terms of Service is inserted only as a matter of convenience and to ease reading and understanding, nothing that serves as a title serves as a definition or explanation of any section or provision hereof.
The Terms of Service was last updated: September 07, 2008
