TERMS OF USE AND SERVICE FOR ALL WEB DOMAINS
Last Updated: Monday, August 14, 2006 - 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS.
By visiting any of the above sites, you accept the following...
PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.
We reserve the right to collect personal information regarding your use of the
above services and web domains.
NOTICE SPECIFIC TO DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
Permission to use Documents (such as datasheets, figures, coupons, customer tracking information, etc)
from the Services is granted, provided that (1) use of such Documents from the Services is
for company use only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or
broadcast in any media, and (2) no modifications of any Documents are made.
Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe
civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent
possible.
THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THE SERVICES COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL
INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION
HEREIN. WE MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE DOCUMENT(S) DESCRIBED HEREIN AT ANY TIME.
MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY.
If any of the Services requires you to have an account, you must complete the registration
process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as requested by
the respective company. You also will choose a password and are entirely responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely
responsible for any and all activities
that occur under your account. You agree to notify the Information Systems
department immediately of any
unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. We will
not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using
your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could
be held liable for losses incurred by us or another party due to someone
else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any
time, without the permission of the Information Systems staff.
NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE.
As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for any
purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices.
You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden,
or impair any server, or the network(s) connected to any server,
or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Services. You may not
attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services, other accounts, computer systems
or networks connected to any server or to any of the Services, through
hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain
any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available
through the Services.
USE OF SERVICES
The Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services, chat areas, news
groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, photo albums, file cabinets
and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate
with others (each a "Communication Service" and collectively "Communication Services").
You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages
and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication
Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the
Communication Services, you will not:
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Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes,
chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial
or otherwise).
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Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such
as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
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Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory,
obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
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Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software
or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including, by way of
example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy
or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all
necessary consent to do the same.
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Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made
available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark,
patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.
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Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots,
corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation
of another's computer or property of another.
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Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any unrelated business purpose.
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Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know,
or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed, performed, and/or
distributed in such manner.
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Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author attributions,
legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin
or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
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Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
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Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any
particular Communication Service.
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Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.
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Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
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Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
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Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person
or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage information
or any portion thereof.
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We have no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, we
reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication Services and
to remove any materials in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to
terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without
notice, for any reason whatsoever.
We reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as we
deem necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental
request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in
whole or in part, at our sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about
yourself or your children in any Communication Services. We do not control
or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Services
and, therefore, we specifically disclaim any liability with regard to the
Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any
Communication Services.
Materials uploaded to the Communication Services may be subject to posted limitations
on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination; you are responsible for adhering to
such limitations if you download the materials.
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO THE WEB SITE.
We do not claim ownership of the materials you provide to us (including
feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its
associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public
or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions"). However,
by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting ("Posting") your Submission
you are granting us, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees
permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their
businesses (including, without limitation, all our Services), including, without
limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display,
publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish
your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights
to any supplier of the Services.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided
herein. We are under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide
and we may remove any Submission at any time in its sole discretion.
By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control
all of the rights to your Submission as described in these Terms of Use including,
without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input
or submit the Submissions.
In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by Posting a Submission
that contain images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise graphical in whole
or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright
owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you
permission to use such Images or any content and/or images contained in such Images
consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by
these Terms of Use and the Services, (b) you have the rights necessary to grant
the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms of Use, and (c) that each
person depicted in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images
as set forth in these Terms of Use, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation,
the distribution, public display and reproduction of such Images. By Posting Images,
you are granting (a) to all members of your private community (for each such Images
available to members of such private community), and/or (b) to the general public
(for each such Images available anywhere on the Services, other than a private community),
permission to use your Images in connection with the use, as permitted by these
Terms of Use, of any of the Services, (including, by way of example, and not as
a limitation, making prints and gift items which include such Images), and including,
without limitation, a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free license to: copy,
distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate
and reformat your Images without having your name attached to such Images, and the
right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services. The licenses granted
in the preceding sentences for a Images will terminate at the time you completely
remove such Images from the Services, provided that, such termination shall not
affect any licenses granted in connection with such Images prior to the time you
completely remove such Images. No compensation will be paid with respect to the
use of your Images.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES.
THE LINKS IN THIS AREA WILL LET YOU LEAVE OUR SITE. THE LINKED SITES ARE
NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF US AND WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS
OF ANY LINKED SITE OR ANY LINK CONTAINED IN A LINKED SITE, OR ANY CHANGES OR UPDATES
TO SUCH SITES. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF
TRANSMISSION RECEIVED FROM ANY LINKED SITE. WE ARE PROVIDING THESE LINKS TO
YOU ONLY AS A CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT
BY US OF THE SITE.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE.
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Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.