CLN Terms of Use Agreement 

This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") describes the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our service as a CLN member.

China Legal & Accounting Network ("CLN") is committed to establishing a worldwide network of lawyers, accountants, consultants and other professionals ("Member/Members") to form a cooperation and information exchange mechanism, to develop new business opportunities for Members.

As a CLN Member, you are entitled to:

• Upload your profile on CLN website and newsletter/publications;
• Exchange business resource with other CLN Members, write your articles on CLN website and newsletter/publications, withhold all copyrights, to market yourself among CLN Members, web visitors and database;
• Refer business to and accept business referral from other Members, co-operate and backup each other on business operation.

CLN ensures our Member to be benefited, by providing resource exchange facilities and coordinating the co-operation of Members.

To be a CLN Member, you must be qualified in your practice area and fully accept this Agreement. CLN encourages, but not compulsively, you provide us your discounted compensation rate for CLN members when they use your service or refer you a client, and the Members to use uniformed business logos to develop closer co-operation opportunities.

1. Discount Charge

When a CLN member provides service to another, or one member becomes another's client, the service provider could charge on its discounted compensation, pertaining to its Discount Rate shown on its profile of CLN website.

2. Referral Fee

When a CLN member refers client or business to another, the referee could charge the client on its standard compensation rate and return CLN an Coordination Fee equal to the balance of its standard charge and discounted charge, pertaining to its Discount Rate shown on its profile of CLN website.

CLN will pay the referrer a Referral Fee equal to 75% of the Coordination Fee it received from the referee, immediately upon its receipt of the Coordination Fee.

CLN will coordinate the referral between members, ensure the referrer to get the Referral Fee and the referee to provide same quality service to the client. For provide such service, CLN would keep the 25% of the Coordination Fee as its service compensation.

With a written notification before the assignment, the referrer can abandon its rights for Referral Fee or leave the discount to the client. In this case, CLN will not charge either Coordination Fee or service compensation.

3. CLN Liability

The Discount Charge and Referral Fee happens only when a member requests service of CLN, by contacting CLN (by email, letter, phone, fax, live messenger or any other ways) instead of directly contacting the intended referee, to assign the business to the referee.

In the business referral, CLN will supervise/coordinate the cooperation between the referrer and referee, ensure both members to be benefited from the business cooperation of this particular case-generally speaking, to ensure the referrer get Discount Charge or Referral Fee and the referee provide same quality service to the client.

On the other hand, when a member takes a business assignment from CLN, it should duly report CLN service status and proceedings of the referred casee.

4. Exception of CLN Liability

A CLN member can directly contact another for business cooperation or client referral without acknowledgment/coordination of CLN. In this situation, CLN Terms of Use Agreement is not effective; the referrer and referee can negotiate with each other on how to cooperate and how to share the profits. In this case CLN will take NO Coordination Fee and hold NO liability for coordination of this referral or business cooperation.

5. Business cooperation:

One CLN Member can be united with another on a business operation to provide the service together. In this situation, the business sourced Member could be still entitled for relevant Referral Fee.

6. Good Faith:

• Whenever a CLN Member receives another Member's business information from CLN web service, it should keep those information confidentially, and never use it for any propose other than the information owner's expectation. CLN/CLN Member should neither unfairly compete with each other.
• When a Member gets a business referral from CLN, it should duly report CLN and the referrer the service status of the business referred.
• When CLN Member is paid by the client, he/she should pay relevant Referral Fees or Coordination Fees within 20 days after receipt of the payment.
• When a CLM Member breaches this Agreement or has other bad faith activity, CLN should notify the Member to correct its behavior within a reasonable duration. If the breach or bad faith continues, CLN is entitled to terminate this agreement immediately and notify all other Members and CLN clients statues of this its breach or bad faith, warning all CLN Members to be careful doing business with this member.

7. Miscellaneous: