Regulatory Applications (a) Western and PNB and their respective Subsidiaries shall cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to prepare all documentation, to effect all filings and to obtain all permits, consents, approvals and authorizations of all third parties and Governmental Authorities necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Western and PNB shall use their reasonable best efforts to make all required bank regulatory filings, including the appropriate filing with the Regulatory Authorities. Each of Western and PNB shall have the right to review in advance, and to the extent practicable each will consult with the other, in each case subject to applicable laws relating to the exchange of information, with respect to all material written information submitted to any third party or any Governmental Authority in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. In exercising the foregoing right, each of the parties hereto agrees to act reasonably and as promptly as practicable. Each party hereto agrees that it will consult with the other party hereto with respect to the obtaining of all material permits, consents, approvals and authorizations of all third parties and Governmental Authorities necessary or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each party will keep the other party appraised of the status of material matters relating to completion of the transactions contemplated hereby.
(b) Each party agrees, upon request, to furnish the other party with all information concerning itself, its Subsidiaries, directors, officers and shareholders and such other matters as may be reasonably necessary or advisable in connection with any filing, notice or application made by or on behalf of such other party or any of its Subsidiaries to any third party or Governmental Authority.
User Content 13.1 The Site permits the submission and posting of questions and answers in connection with Evaluation Processes and may also permit the submission and posting of other text and/or other content submitted by you and other users (all of the foregoing, collectively, “User Submissions”), and the hosting, sharing, and/or publishing of such User Submissions. You understand that whether or not such User Submissions are published, the Company does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User Submissions. You acknowledge that you shall not be due any remuneration in connection with your User Submissions from the Company or from any other User.
13.2 You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with your User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (i) your submission of User Submissions and the publication and use thereof by the Company does not violate the copyrights, trade secrets rights or other intellectual property rights of any third party, nor shall it constitute or result in a breach of any duty or obligation of confidentiality owed by you to any third party, and (ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the User Submission to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Company and this Agreement.
13.3 By submitting User Submissions to the Site, you hereby grant to the Company a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute and exploit such User Submission in any manner and in any form of media, whether currently or hereafter existing. You represent and warrant that you have all necessary right, title and interest in and to each such User Submission to validly grant such license to the Company.
13.4 In connection with User Submissions and any other transmission of messages or material facilitated by the Site, you further agree that you will not: (i) submit or transmit material that is not authorized by the copyright owner, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and grant the rights granted to the Company in Section 13.3 above; (ii) publish or transmit falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage the Company or any third party; (iii) submit or transmit material that is unlawful, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law or is otherwise inappropriate; (iv) post or transmit advertisements or solicitations of business; or (v) impersonate another person. If notified by a user or a content owner of a User Submission that allegedly does not conform to this Agreement, the Company may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and in its sole discretion whether to remove the User Submission, which it reserves the right to do at any time. Additionally, the Company may, at any time, remove any User Submission that in the sole judgment of the Company violates this Agreement.
13.5 User Submissions may be provided by (without limitation) Users who are members of a Start-Up management team, contacts referred by Start-Ups (including without limitation customers, scientific advisors, background references, suppliers and distributors), external experts referred by the Company. The insights, recommendations, views and other content reflected in a User Submission should be taken as opinion rather than statements of facts. Investors should conduct their own diligence before making an investment. Nothing contained in a User Submission constitutes tax, legal, insurance or investment advice, or the recommendation of or an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or invest in, any investment product, vehicle, service or instrument. Such an offer or solicitation may only be made by delivery to a prospective investor of formal offering materials, including subscription or account documents or form, which should be reviewed carefully by any such investor before making the decision to invest in any particular company issuer listed, reviewed or discussed on the Propel(x) platform. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, you hereby release Propel(x) (and our officers, directors, agents, investors, subsidiaries, and employees) and each other User from any and all claims, demands, liabilities, losses or damages (whether direct, indirect, consequential, incidental or otherwise) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected or unsuspected, arising out of or in any way related to User Submissions (including your reliance thereon). You acknowledge that, in connection with the foregoing release, you hereby irrevocably waive all rights granted to you under Section 1542 of the California Civil Code or any analogous applicable state or federal law or regulation. Said Section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California reads as follows:
