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TERMS OF USE Privacy Policy | Disclaimers | Terms of Use If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, discontinue using the site immediately! By using this website, you signify your Assent and Agreement to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, do not use this website. Please read the following very carefully. Definitions The
terms "we", "our", and "us" throughout
this Agreement refer to the both the website
The materials and content which are accessible from this website are collectively referred to hereinafter as “content”.
Overview We
are committed to establishing a solid relationship with our members
built through quality of service, availability of customer service
assistance, and trust. In an effort to illustrate the high standards
we hold, we are providing the following detailed description of the
terms of use of this website. YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR YOU TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. THIS SITE IS NOT INTENDED FOR MINORS AND IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA) AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO. To
access this website or some of the resources it has to offer, you may
be asked to provide certain registration details or other
information. It is a condition of your use of this website that
all the information you provide on this website will be correct,
current, and complete. If our company
believes
the information you provide is not correct, current, or complete, we
reserve the right to refuse you access to this website or any of its
resources, and to terminate or suspend your access at any time,
without notice.
This
website and any of our company's publications and content which may
be accessed from it and any other website owned, operated, licensed,
or controlled by our company is the proprietary information of our
company or the party that provided the content to our company and are
protected under all applicable copyright laws. Nothing on this
website may be downloaded, reproduced, republished, posted, modified,
distributed, used to create derivative works, or transmitted in any
form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
recording, scanning, or otherwise, except (i) in the United States,
as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States
Copyright Act, or internationally, as permitted by other applicable
national copyright laws, or (ii) as expressly authorized on this
website, or (iii) with the prior written permission of our company.
Requests to the Publisher for permission should be sent through the
Contact Us form. You may download or print out one hard copy of a reasonable amount of material from this website for your own non-commercial research or study only, and order forms may be copied for the purpose of ordering products from us.
Content
on this website is copyrighted and all rights are reserved. Text,
graphics, databases, HTML code, and other intellectual property are
protected by US and International Copyright Laws, and may not be
copied, reprinted, published, reengineered, translated, hosted, or
otherwise distributed by any means without explicit permission. All
of the trademarks on this site are trademarks of our company or of
other owners used with their permission. Our company warrants, and you accept, that our company is the owner of the copyright of the databases of links to articles and resources available from time to time through our company. Our company and its contributors reserve all rights and no intellectual property rights are conferred by this agreement. Our company grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use database(s) accessible to you subject to these Terms and Conditions. The database(s) may be used only for viewing information or for extracting information to the extent described below. You agree to use information obtained from our company's databases only for your own private use or the internal purposes of your home or business, provided that is not the selling or brokering of information, and in no event cause or permit to be published, printed, downloaded, transmitted, distributed, reengineered, or reproduced in any form any part of the databases (whether directly or in condensed, selective or tabulated form) whether for resale, republishing, redistribution, viewing, or otherwise. Nevertheless,
you may on an occasional limited basis download or print out
individual pages of information that have been individually selected,
to meet a specific, identifiable need for information which is for
your personal use only, or is for use in your business only
internally, on a confidential basis. You may make such limited number
of duplicates of any output, both in machine-readable or hard copy
form, as may be reasonable for these purposes only. Nothing herein
shall authorize you to create any database, directory or hard copy
publication of or from the databases, whether for internal or
external distribution or use. Facts
and information at this website are believed to be accurate at the
time they were placed on the website. Changes may be made at any time
without prior notice. All data provided on this website is to be used
for information purposes only. The information contained on this
website and pages within, is not intended to provide specific legal,
financial, medical, or tax advice, or any other advice, whatsoever,
for any individual or company and should not be relied upon in that
regard. The services described on this website are only offered in
jurisdictions where they may be legally offered. Information provided
in our website is not all-inclusive, and is limited to information
that is made available to our company and such information should not
be relied upon as all-inclusive or accurate. Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall our company, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, officers, directors, agents, contractors, or content providers be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, actual, consequential (including loss of data, revenue, profits, use or other economic advantage), punitive, exemplary, special or other damages, losses, and causes of action that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this website, even if our company or an authorized representative of our company has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall our company’s total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort, including but not limited to, negligence or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this website or our products.
Our company’s entire liability, and the purchaser's exclusive remedy, shall be a refund of the price paid or replacement of our product, at our option. We limit replacement to thirty days. All remedies are limited to the United States. Some states do not allow the limitation or exclusion or liability, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
Upon a request by us, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless our company, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, officers, directors, agents, contractors, or content providers from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorney's fees, that arise from your use or misuse of this website or our product. Visitor agrees that in the event he/she causes damage, which our company is required to pay for, the Visitor, as a condition of viewing, promises to reimburse our company for all damages and losses.
Visitor
agrees as a condition of viewing, that any communication between
Visitor and our company is deemed a submission. All
submissions, including portions thereof, or any of the content of the
submission including remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other
information communicated to our company through this website shall
become the exclusive property of our company and may be used, without
further permission, for commercial use without additional
consideration of any kind. Visitor agrees to only communicate
that information to our company, which s/he wishes to forever allow
our company to use in any manner as it sees fit. Visitor hereby
grants to our company the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable,
worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify,
adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute,
perform, and display of all submissions. Our company will treat any
personal information that you submit through this website in
accordance with the Privacy Policy as set forth on this
website.
Certain
names, graphics, logos, icons, designs, words, titles or phrases at
this website may constitute trade names, trademarks or service marks
of our company or of other entities. The display of trademarks on
this website does not imply that a license of any kind has been
granted. Any unauthorized downloading, re-transmission, or other
copying of modification of trademarks and/or the contents herein may
be a violation of federal common law trademark and/or copyright laws
and could subject the copier to legal action. Confidentiality of Codes, Passwords and Information You
agree to treat as strictly private and confidential any Subscriber
Code, username, user ID, or password which you may have received from
our company, and all information to which you have access through
password-protected areas of our company's website and will not cause
or permit any such information to be communicated, copied, or
otherwise divulged to any other person whatsoever. This website may make chat rooms, forums, message/discussion boards, and/or news groups, referred to hereinafter as “Forums”, available to its users. In order to use the forums on this website, users are required to provide a username, password, e-mail address, date of birth and any other information contained within the registration that we deem mandatory. Neither the administrators of these forums, or the moderators participating, are responsible for the privacy practices of any user. Remember that all information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to share any of your personal information. These forums give users two options for changing and modifying information that they provide in their profile: 1. Users can login with their username and password to change any information in their profile. 2. In case of lost password, users can utilize the lost password function included in the forum, or you may contact the website owners through the Contact Us form. Cookies must be turned on in your browser to participate as a user in these forums. Cookies are used here to hold your username and password and viewing options, allowing you to login. All actions while in the forums are monitored for security reasons. Your IP address is recorded upon entrance to the forums and is how we track users while using our services. Please note that this is not a technical support website. The moderators, authors, or website administrators are not responsible for answering technical support questions or addressing issues involving any our company’s support. Please visit the Contact Us page to find out where to address your support issues.
You agree to abide by the following Rules of User Conduct: By posting information in or otherwise using any forum, or other interactive service, that may be available to you on or through this website, you agree that you will not upload, post, or otherwise distribute or facilitate distribution of any content that: 1. is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, discriminatory, sexually oriented or tortuous; 2. infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary right of any party; 3. constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk e-mail, or any form of lottery or gambling; 4. constitutes the selling or trading of any merchandise; 5. constitutes the soliciting for advertisers/sponsors; conducting contests/raffles; displaying advertising/sponsorship art; promoting, soliciting or participating in chain letters or marketing/pyramid schemes; 6. contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs that are designed or intended to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorized access to any data or other information of any third party; 7. contains links to websites that violate these Terms of Use, such as pornographic websites, defamatory websites, and so on; or 8. Impersonates any person or entity. You also agree that you will not harvest or collect information about the users or members of this website or use such information for the purpose of transmitting or facilitating transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic e-mail or communications. We generally do not pre-screen, monitor, or edit the content posted by users of the forums or other interactive services that may be available on or through this website. However, we have the right at our sole discretion to remove any content that, in our judgment, does not comply with the foregoing or is otherwise harmful, objectionable, or inaccurate. We are not responsible for any failure or delay in removing such content. We also reserve the right to limit a user’s access at any time for any reason. Violation of any of the Terms of Use can and in some cases will result in a user being banned from the website for a period of time to be determined by website management and could be indefinite.
This website may be linked to other websites that are not under the control of or maintained by us. You acknowledge that we are providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that we are not responsible for the content or links displayed on such websites.
We are a distributor (and not a publisher) of Third Party Content. Accordingly, we have no more editorial control over such content than does a library or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available as part of such Third Party Content are those of the respective provider(s) and not of our company. We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any Third Party Content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.
Any third party websites which may be accessed through this website are the sole responsibility of the third party who is responsible for the posting of the website. We make no warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy of any information on third party websites and accept no liability whatsoever for any errors and/or omissions or for any damage, injury, and/or losses to persons or property arising out of the use or operation of any content, instructions, methods or ideas contained on such websites.
If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may notify Customer Support by providing the following information: 1. the signature of the owner of the copyright or the person authorized to act on the owner's behalf, 2. a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed and a description of the infringing activity, 3. identification of the specific location on this website where the material that you claim is infringing is located, 4. your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, 5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law, and 6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
We
control and operate this website from its headquarters in the United
States of America and make no representation that the content is
appropriate or will be available for use in other locations. If
you use this website from outside the United States of America, you
are entirely responsible for compliance with applicable local laws,
including but not limited to the export and import regulations of
other countries in relation to the content and the Third Party
Content.
These Terms of Use will apply to every access to our company and product. Our company reserves the right to issue revisions to these Terms of Use by publishing a revised version of this document on this website: that version will then apply to all use by you following the date of publication. Each access of information from our company will be a separate, discrete transaction based on the then prevailing terms. This Terms of Use and the license granted may not be assigned or sublet by you without our company's written consent in advance. These
Terms of Use shall be governed by, construed and enforced in
accordance with the laws of the To the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our company and/or its affiliates' intellectual property rights, our company and/or its affiliates may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the State of Arizona, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Any other disputes will be resolved as follows: If a dispute arises under this agreement, we agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each of us. If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration at the following location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so. If any provision of this agreement is void or unenforceable in whole or in part, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby. Opting-Out Website
members are opted-in to receive our newsletters, special offers,
bonuses, and partner offers at the time of enrollment. Members may
opt-out of receiving these communications at any time by: Cancellation Members may cancel their account at anytime by notifying us at our Contact Us form. If you decide to cancel your membership and later wish to re-enroll, you will be assigned a new account.
This Terms of Use agreement is effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate this agreement at any time by destroying all materials obtained from any and all our company website(s) and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise. This agreement will terminate immediately without notice at our company's sole discretion, should you fail to comply with any term or provision of this agreement. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from this website and any and all other our company website(s) and all copies thereof, whether made under the terms of this agreement or otherwise.
Our company reserves the right to change this agreement, our Privacy Policy, and our other policies and agreements at any time without prior notification. Changes to this Terms of Use agreement shall be noticed by posting a revised Terms of Use agreement and its effective date on our website. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.
If
you have any questions about this agreement, the practices of this
website, or your dealings with our company or this website, feel free
to contact us at the following address:
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