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IMPORTANT! THESE TERMS OF
USE GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS
SITE, WHICH IS PROVIDED BY
OUR COMPANY. BY ACCESSING
THIS SITE, YOU ARE
INDICATING YOUR
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND
ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS OF
USE. THESE TERMS OF USE ARE
SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY OUR
COMPANY AT ANY TIME IN ITS
DISCRETION. YOUR USE OF THIS
SITE AFTER SUCH CHANGES ARE
IMPLEMENTED CONSTITUTES YOUR
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND
ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGES.
PLEASE CONSULT THESE TERMS
OF USE REGULARLY.
Access To This Site
You agree to use this site
only for the lawful purposes
described in more detail in
the "Restrictions on Use"
section below. You agree not
to take any action that
might compromise the
security of the site, render
the site inaccessible to
others or otherwise cause
damage to the site or the
Content. You agree not to
add to, subtract from, or
otherwise modify the
Content, or to attempt to
access any Content that is
not intended for you. You
agree not to use the Site in
any manner that might
interfere with the rights of
third parties. To access
this site 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 site that all the
information you provide on
this site will be correct,
current, and complete. If
our Company
believes the information you
provide is not correct,
current, or complete, we
have the right to refuse you
access to this site or any
of its resources, and to
terminate or suspend your
access at any time, without
notice.
Restrictions On Use
This site is provided solely
for non-commercial, personal
use, and/or so that you may
learn about our Company
and the services we provide.
You may not use this site
for any other purpose,
including any commercial
purpose, without our
Company's express prior
written consent. For
example, you may not (and
may not authorize any other
party to) (i) co-brand this
site, or (ii) frame this
site, or (iii) hyper-link to
this site, without the
express prior written
permission of an authorized
representative of our
Company. For purposes of these Terms of Use, "co-branding"
means to display a name,
logo, trademark, or other
means of attribution or
identification of any party
in such a manner as is
reasonably likely to give a
user the impression that
such other party has the
right to display, publish,
or distribute this site or
Content accessible within
this site. You agree to
cooperate with our
Company in causing any
unauthorized co-branding,
framing or hyper-linking
immediately to cease.
Proprietary Information
The material and Content
accessible from this site,
and any other World Wide Web
site 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 our Company or
the party that provided the
Content to our Company
retains all right, title,
and interest in the
Content. Accordingly, the
Content may not be copied,
distributed, republished,
uploaded, posted, or
transmitted in any way
without the prior written
consent of our Company,
or unless authorized in
writing elsewhere on our
site, except that you may
print out a copy of the
Content solely for your
personal use. You are
prohibited from using any of
the marks or logos appearing
throughout the site without
the express written
permission of our Company.
This site and its Content
are protected by U.S. and/or
foreign copyright laws, and
belong to the Company
or its partners, affiliates,
contributors or third
parties. The copyrights for
the Content are owned by the
Company or other
copyright owners who have
authorized their use on this
site. You may download and
reprint Content for
non-commercial, non-public,
personal use only (If you
are browsing this site as an
employee or member of any
business or organization,
you may download and reprint
Content only for educational
or other non-commercial
purposes within your
business or organization,
except as otherwise
permitted by the Company,
for example in certain
password-restricted areas of
the site). You may not
manipulate or alter in any
way images or other Content
on the site.
Hyper-Links
This site may be
hyper-linked to other sites
which are not maintained by,
or related to, our
Company. The inclusion
of any hyper-link to a
third-party site does not
imply endorsement,
sponsorship or
recommendation by our
Company of that site.
Hyper-links to such sites
are provided as a service to
users and are not sponsored
by or affiliated with this
site or our Company.
Our Company has not
reviewed any or all of such
sites and is not responsible
for the content of those
sites. Our Company
also makes no
representations about the
availability of hyper-linked
sites. Hyper-links are to
be accessed at the user's
own risk, and our
Company makes no
representations or
warranties about the
content, completeness or
accuracy of these
hyper-links or the sites
hyper-linked to this site.
If you hyper-link to a site,
please be aware that you
will leave our Company’s web
site and will become subject
to the rules and conditions
of the linked site(s). We
recommend that you make
yourself aware of the Terms
of Use of any sites you link
to from our Company’s site.
Submissions
You hereby grant 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 all
content, remarks,
suggestions, ideas,
graphics, or other
information communicated to
our
Company through this site (together, hereinafter known as the
"Submission"), and to
incorporate any Submission
in other works in any form,
media, or technology now
known or later developed.
Our Company will
not be required to treat any
Submission as confidential,
and may use any Submission
in its business (including
without limitation, for
products or advertising)
without incurring any
liability for royalties or
any other consideration of
any kind, and will not incur
any liability as a result of
any similarities that may
appear in future Company
operations. By making a
Submission, you are
guaranteeing to us that you
have the legal right to post
the content in the
Submission and that it will
not violate any law or the
rights of any person or
entity.
Our Company will
treat any personal
information that you submit
through this site in
accordance with its Privacy
Policy as set forth on this
site.
Child Safety
Protecting the online
privacy of children is
especially important to us,
and those under the age of
13 are protected by federal
law. For that reason, our
Company does not
knowingly permit children
under the age of 13 to
become registered members of
our sites, or to buy goods
and services on our sites,
without verifiable parental
consent. Our Company
does not knowingly collect
or solicit personal
information about children
under 13, except with their
parent's express consent.
If we ever include children
under the age of 13 as part
of our intended site
audience, those specific web
pages will, in accordance
with the provisions of the
Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act (COPPA), be
clearly identified and
provide an explicit privacy
notice; and we will provide
processes to obtain parental
approval, provide access to
information and allow
parents to request removal
of their children's personal
information.
Downloading Material
You understand that our
Company cannot and does
not guarantee or warrant
that files available for
downloading from the
Internet will be free of
viruses, worms, Trojan
horses or other code that
may manifest contaminating
or destructive properties.
You are responsible for
implementing sufficient
procedures and checkpoints
to satisfy your particular
requirements for accuracy of
data input and output, and
for maintaining a means
external to this site for
the reconstruction of any
lost data. Our Company
does not assume any
responsibility or risk for
your use of the Internet.
Disclaimer
THE COMPANY MAKES NO EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
REPRESENTATIONS OR
ENDORSEMENTS WHATSOEVER WITH
RESPECT TO THE SITE, THE
SERVICE OR THE CONTENT. THE
COMPANY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS
ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY
OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE
AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, WITH
REGARD TO THE SITE, THE
SERVICE, THE CONTENT, AND
ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE
FURNISHED OR TO BE FURNISHED
VIA THE SITE. THE COMPANY
DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE
FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY THE
SITE OR THE SERVICE WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY,
SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, OR
THAT DEFECTS IN THE SITE OR
THE SERVICE WILL BE
CORRECTED. THE COMPANY DOES
NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR
COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENT,
OR THAT ANY ERRORS IN THE
CONTENT WILL BE CORRECTED.
THE SITE, THE SERVICE AND
THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON
AN "AS IS" AND "AS
AVAILABLE" BASIS.
Limitation On Liability
COMPANY, ITS SUBSIDIARIES,
AFFILIATES, LICENSORS,
SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONTENT
PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES,
AGENTS, OFFICERS, AND
DIRECTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE
FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, DIRECT,
INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, ACTUAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL,
EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES,
INCLUDING LOSS OF REVENUE OR
INCOME, PAIN AND SUFFERING,
EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, OR
SIMILAR DAMAGES, EVEN IF
COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL
THE COLLECTIVE LIABILITY OF
COMPANY AND ITS
SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES,
LICENSORS, SERVICE
PROVIDERS, CONTENT
PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES,
AGENTS, OFFICERS, AND
DIRECTORS, TO ANY PARTY
(REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF
ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
TORT, OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED
THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE
AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID TO
COMPANY FOR THE APPLICABLE
CONTENT, PRODUCT OR SERVICE
OUT OF WHICH LIABILITY
AROSE.
Indemnity
You will indemnify and hold
Company, its
subsidiaries, affiliates,
licensors, content
providers, service
providers, employees,
agents, officers, directors,
and contractors (hereinafter
known as the "Indemnified
Parties") harmless from any
breach of these Terms of Use
by you, including any use of
Content other than as
expressly authorized in
these Terms of Use. You
agree that the Indemnified
Parties will have no
liability in connection with
any such breach or
unauthorized use, and you
agree to indemnify any and
all resulting loss, damages,
judgments, awards, costs,
expenses, and attorney's
fees of the Indemnified
Parties in connection
therewith. You will also
indemnify and hold the
Indemnified Parties harmless
from and against any claims
brought by third parties
arising out of your use of
the information accessed
from this site.
Information You Provide
You may not post, send,
submit, publish, or transmit
in connection with this site
any material that:
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You
do not have the right to
post, including
proprietary material of
any third party;
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Advocates
illegal activity or
discusses an intent to
commit an illegal act;
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Is
vulgar, obscene,
pornographic, or
indecent;
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Does
not pertain directly to
this site;
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Threatens
or abuses others,
libels, defames, invades
privacy, stalks, is
obscene, pornographic,
racist, abusive,
harassing, threatening
or offensive;
-
Seeks
to exploit or harm
children by exposing
them to inappropriate
content, asking for
personally identifiable
details or otherwise;
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Infringes
any intellectual
property or other right
of any entity or person,
including violating
anyone’s copyrights or
trademarks or their
rights of publicity;
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Violates
any law or may be
considered to violate
any law;
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Impersonates
or misrepresents your
connection to any other
entity or person or
otherwise manipulates
headers or identifiers
to disguise the origin
of the content;
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Advertises
any commercial endeavor
(e.g., offering for sale
products or services) or
otherwise engages in any
commercial activity
(e.g., conducting
raffles or contests,
displaying sponsorship
banners, and/or
soliciting goods or
services) except as may
be specifically
authorized on this site;
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Solicits
funds, advertisers or
sponsors;
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Includes
programs which contain
viruses, worms and/or
Trojan horses or any
other computer code,
files or programs
designed to interrupt,
destroy or limit the
functionality of any
computer software or
hardware or
telecommunications;
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Disrupts
the normal flow of
dialogue, causes a
screen to scroll faster
than other users are
able to type, or
otherwise act in a way
which affects the
ability of other people
to engage in real time
activities via this
site;
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Includes
MP3 format files;
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Amounts
to a 'pyramid' or
similar scheme;
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Disobeys
any policy or
regulations established
from time to time
regarding use of this
site or any networks
connected to this site;
or
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Contains
hyper-links to other
sites that contain
content that falls
within the descriptions
set forth above.
Although under no obligation
to do so, our Company
reserves the right to
monitor use of this site to
determine compliance with
these Terms of Use, as well
as the right to remove or
refuse any information for
any reason. Notwithstanding
these rights, you remain
solely responsible for the
content of your Submissions.
You acknowledge and agree
that neither Company
nor any third party that
provides Content to
Company will assume or
have any liability for any
action or inaction by
Company or such third party with respect to any Submission.
Security
Any passwords used for this
site are for individual use
only. You will be
responsible for the security
of your password (if any).
Company will be
entitled to monitor your
password and, at its
discretion, require you to
change it. If you use a
password that Company
considers insecure,
Company will be
entitled to require the
password to be changed
and/or terminate your
account.
You are prohibited from
using any services or
facilities provided in
connection with this site to
compromise security or
tamper with system resources
and/or accounts. The use or
distribution of tools
designed for compromising
security (e.g., password
guessing programs, cracking
tools or network probing
tools) is strictly
prohibited. If you become
involved in any violation of
system security, Company
reserves the right to
release your details to
system administrators at
other sites in order to
assist them in resolving
security incidents.
Company reserves the
right to investigate
suspected violations of
these Terms of Use.
Company
reserves the right to fully
cooperate with any law
enforcement authorities or
court order requesting or
directing Company
to disclose the identity of
anyone posting any e-mail
messages, or publishing or
otherwise making available
any materials that are
believed to violate these
Terms of Use.
BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT
YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS
COMPANY FROM ANY CLAIMS
RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION
TAKEN BY COMPANY DURING OR
AS A RESULT OF ITS
INVESTIGATIONS AND/OR FROM
ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A
CONSEQUENCE OF
INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER THE
COMPANY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT
AUTHORITIES.
Claims of Copyright
Infringement
Pursuant to Title 17, United
States Code, Section
512(c)(2), notifications of
claimed copyright
infringement should be sent
to Service Provider's
Designated Agent.
Miscellaneous
These Terms of Use will be
governed and interpreted
pursuant to the laws of
Georgia, United States of
America, notwithstanding any
principles of conflicts of
law. You specifically
consent to personal
jurisdiction in Georgian
connection with any dispute
between you and Company
arising out of these Terms
of Use or pertaining to the
subject matter hereof. The
parties to these Terms of
Use each agree that the
exclusive venue for any
dispute between the parties
arising out of these Terms
of Use or pertaining to the
subject matter of these
Terms of Use will be in the
state and/or federal courts
in Bibb County, Georgia. If
any part of these Terms of
Use is unlawful, void or
unenforceable, that part
will be deemed severable and
will not affect the validity
and enforceability of any
remaining provisions. These
Terms of Use constitute the
entire agreement among the
parties relating to this
subject matter.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any additional
terms and conditions on this
site will govern the items
to which they pertain.
Company may revise
these Terms of Use at any
time by updating this
posting.
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