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Disclaimers & Terms of Use
Thank you for visiting our site. Please carefully review these Disclaimers and Terms of Use.
Liability
We
do not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the
accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any article or information on
our site.
No Warranty
We are not
responsible for the content or availability of any 3rd party sites
linked to from any article or advertisement on our site. We do not
necessarily warrant, endorse, or guarantee products, services, or
information found on external or third party websites.
No Implied Endorsement
We
do not necessarily endorse or recommend any product, service, advice,
or other content published on our site. We do not necessarily endorse
or condone the views expressed by the authors who have submitted
articles on our site. The views expressed by the authors are theirs
alone, and do not necessarily reflect our views, the views of this
website's management team, support team, or owners. We do not
necessarily recommend or endorse any product or service advertised on
this site.
Articles
appearing on this website do not offer medical, legal, or professional
advice, nor do they prescribe any treatment or strategy. Any medical,
legal, or professional views appearing in articles on this website
should not be used without the advice of a medical, legal, or other
relevant professional. All information in articles appearing on this
website are for educational or entertainment purposes only. You are
solely responsible for the consequences of any action you may take as a
result of content found on this website.
Terms of Use
The
terms and conditions set forth below (the "Terms") govern your use of
this website on the World Wide Web. These terms are a legal contract
between you and this website ("we" or "us") and govern your access to,
and use of the website located here ("our site") and the products
and/or services provided on this site.
If
you do not agree with any of these Terms, do not access or otherwise
use our site and/or services or any information contained on our site.
Your use of our site and/or services shall be deemed to be your
agreement to abide by each of the terms set forth below. We may make
changes to the products and/or services offered on our site, at any
time without notice, and we can change these Terms at any time without
notice by posting updated terms of use on our site. Your continued use
of our site after such changes have been posted means that you agree to
the new terms, even if you have not reviewed the changes. Therefore,
you should check the Terms of Use posted on our site periodically for
updates and changes.
General Use Restrictions
We
provide content and other services through our site. All information,
documents, products and services provided on and through our site,
including content, trademarks, logos, graphics and images are our
copyrighted work and/or our licensors, advertisers, or contributors.
You
agree that you will only use our site and/or services for lawful uses.
You acknowledge and agree that you have no right to modify, edit, copy,
reproduce, create derivative works of, alter, enhance or in any way
exploit any portion of the content, code, or other intelletual property
of our site in any manner. You acknowledge that you have no right,
title or interest in or to our site.
You
are prohibited from taking any action to circumvent or attempt to
circumvent the security and access control provisions of our site
and/or services. Such prohibited conduct includes, without limitation,
any efforts to (a) log into any portion of the site with a password not
assigned to you, (b) access personally identifiable information not
intended for you, (c) test the security measures on our site and/or
attempt to identify system vulnerabilities, (d) impersonate any other
user of our site and/or services or forge any of the header information
in any posting or tamper with the TCP/IP packet header, (d) modify,
reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or otherwise attempt or allow
others to attempt to discover the underlying computer code for our
and/or services, or (f) overwhelm or disable our site and/or services
or interfere with the access and use of our site and/or services by any
other user.
If
we becomes aware of any of the foregoing activities, we may investigate
and may respond, and when appropriate, we may work with law enforcement
authorities in such investigations and for the purpose of prosecuting
offenders.
Your
continued use of our site and/or services is expressly conditioned on
your compliance with the preceding prohibitions and with the
obligations and restrictions. Without limiting the generality of
foregoing, you acknowledge that we expressly prohibit and you agree not
to:
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Use our site or services to violate any applicable law or regulation,
including, without limitation, the infringement of any copyright,
trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right of others,
or violate the privacy or publicity rights of any other person.
* Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large burden on our site's infrastructure.
*
Frame or link to our site or any of the content or information
available on our site unless we expressly consent to such linking
and/or framing.
*
Intentionally expose our site and/or service to any computer virus or
any other program or code intended to disrupt or disable to operations
of our site and/or service.
* Use any robot, spider or other program or device to retrieve or index any portion of our website;
*
Harvest or otherwise collect information about other users for any
purpose other than use of our site and/or services as expressly
permitted herein.
The
foregoing list of prohibitions is illustrative and is not intended to
be complete or exclusive. We reserve the right to terminate our
relationship with you under these Terms and prohibit your access to our
site and/or services.
Your
access to our website is undertaken at your own risk and we are not
responsible for any offensive or otherwise objectionable materials that
may be posted by any third party.
Password Restricted Areas of the Site
Certain
areas of our site may at some point be password-restricted to
authorized users that become members ("Restricted Areas"). If you are
an authorized member of the Restricted Areas, you are responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account, and agree
to notify us if your password is lost, stolen, or disclosed to an
unauthorized third party, or otherwise may have been compromised. You
are responsible for activities that occur under your Restricted Areas
account. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of
your account or any other breach of security in relation to our site
known to you.
Pricing and Payments
You
will pay for all purchases or fees associated with our website's our
our advertiser's fees, charges, and billing terms as shown on the
payment page. You may be required to provide us or our advertisers with
a valid credit card as a condition of signing up for an account. You
are responsible for paying any taxes that may apply. If you do not pay
on time or if we or our advertisers cannot charge you or your credit
card for any reason, we reserve the right to either suspend or
terminate your access to any associated services and terminate these
Terms.
Privacy Policy
Your use of the Site is governed by our Privacy Policy, which is available here.
Third Party Content
Certain
information and content may be provided by third parties to us ("Third
Party Content"). The Third Party Content is, in each case, the
copyrighted work of the creator/licensor. You agree to only display the
Third Party Content on your personal computer solely for your personal
or internal business use. You acknowledge and agree that you have no
right to download, cache, reproduce, modify, display, edit, alter or
enhance any of the Third Party Content in any manner. WE DISCLAIM ALL
EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO
THIRD PARTY CONTENT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Links to Third Party Sites
This
Site may be linked to other sites that are not our own websites. We are
providing these links to you only as a convenience, and we are not
responsible for the content or links displayed on such sites.
Unauthorized Activities
Unauthorized
use of any materials or third party content contained on this Site may
violate certain laws and regulations. You shall indemnify and hold us
and our officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents, licensors,
and business partners harmless from and against any and all costs,
damages, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys' fees) we or
any other indemnified party suffers in relation to, arising from, or
for the purpose of avoiding, any claim or demand from a third party
that your use of the site violates any applicable law or regulation, or
the rights of any third party.
Trademarks
All trademarks, names and logos on this Site are the property of their respective owners.
Copyright Notice
All
information and screens appearing on this Site including documents,
services, site design, text, graphics, logos, images and icons, as well
as the selection and arrangement thereof, are our sole property under
Copyright © 2008 unless otherwise specified. All rights not expressly
granted herein are reserved. Except as otherwise required by applicable
law, any reproduction, distribution, modification, retransmission, or
publication of any copyrighted material is strictly prohibited without
the express written consent of the copyright owner.
Disclaimer of Warranties
Your
use of this site, and any materials and/or services displayed on this
site, is at your own risk, and you assume all risks of using this site,
the materials and/or services. Neither the products nor the services
nor the third party content have been verified or authenticated in
whole or in part by us, and they may not be current or may include
inaccuracies or typographical errors. We do not warrant the accuracy or
timeliness of the materials or the third party content contained on
this site. We shall have no liability for materials and/or third party
content that is not current or for any errors or omissions in the
materials and/or the third party content, whether provided by us, our
third-party advertisers, or our licensor's. We do not guarantee that you
will achieve any benefit from the use of the site and/or the materials.
We
make no express, implied or statutory representations, warranties, or
guarantees in connection with the site, the services and/or any
materials or third party content, relating to the quality, suitability,
truth, accuracy, currency or completeness of any information or
material contained on the site, including without limitation, the
materials and the third party content. Unless otherwise explicitly
stated, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the site,
the services, the materials, third party content, and any information
or material contained on the site is provided to you on an "as is," "as
available" and "where-is" basis with no warranty of any kind, and we
disclaim and exclude any and all implied warranties, including any
implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
or non-infringement of third party rights.
Limitation of Liability
Our
aggregate liability to you or any third party for any damages resulting
from your displaying, copying, or downloading any material via this
site or reliance on the information and/or material presented on the
site shall not exceed fifty dollars ($50.00). In no event shall we be
liable to you or any third party for any indirect, extraordinary,
exemplary, punitive, special, incidental, or consequential damages
(including loss of data, revenue, profits, use or other economic
advantage) however arising, even if we have been advised of the
possibility of such damage.
Local Laws; Export Control
We
control and operate this site from its headquarters in the United
States of America and any products or services displayed on this site
may not be appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you
use this site outside the United States of America, you are responsible
for compliance with all applicable local laws.
General
If
you violate these Terms, we may terminate or block your access to our
site without notice. We prefer to advise you of your inappropriate
behavior and recommend any necessary corrective action. However,
certain violations of these Terms, as determined by us, will result in
immediate termination of your access to our site. We have the right to
terminate any password-restricted account for any reason.
Maryland
law and controlling U.S. Federal Law, without regard to the choice or
conflicts of law provisions, will govern these Terms. Any disputes
relating to these Terms or the Site will be heard in the courts located
in Maryland. If any of these Terms are found to be inconsistent with
applicable law, then such Terms shall be interpreted to reflect the
intentions of the parties, and no other terms will be modified. Our
failure to enforce any of these Terms is not a waiver of such Terms.
The Terms are the entire agreement between you and us and supersede all
prior or contemporaneous agreements and understandings between you and
us with respect to the subject matter hereof. These Terms may not be
modified except pursuant to a written amendment that is executed by an
officer of our company.
We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice.
This page was last updated: November 27, 2008
This disclaimer and terms of use are effective as of: November 27, 2008
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