| Terms Of Use & Service
IMPORTANT! THESE TERMS OF SERVICE (TOS) 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 PRIOR TO EVERY USE FOR ANY CHANGES.
Access To This Site
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU
ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS
WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEB
SITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEB SITE, FALLS WITHIN THE CHILD
ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA) AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.
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
You may use this site for purposes expressly permitted by this site. 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 (hereinafter referred to as the "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. In doing
so, you may not remove or alter, or cause to be removed or altered, any
copyright, trademark, trade name, service mark, or any other proprietary
notice or legend appearing on any of the Content. Modification or use
of the Content except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use violates
our Company's intellectual property rights. Neither title nor intellectual
property rights are transferred to you by access to this site.
Hyper-Links
This site may be hyper-linked to other sites which are not maintained
by, or related to, our Company. 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. 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. Further, the inclusion of any
hyper-link to a third-party site does not necessarily imply endorsement
by our Company of that 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.
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.
Disclaimer
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.
The Content is not necessarily complete and up-to-date and should not
be used to replace any written reports, statements, or notices provided
by Company. Investors, borrowers, and other persons should use the Content
in the same manner as any other educational medium and should not rely
on the Content to the exclusion of their own professional judgment. Information
obtained by using this site is not exhaustive and does not cover all issues,
topics, or facts that may be relevant to your goals.
YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED ?AS
IS? AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. OUR
COMPANY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
OUR COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS OR CONTENT CONTAINED IN
THIS SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED,
OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES
OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. OUR COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY
REPRESENTATION REGARDING USE, OR THE RESULT OF USE, OF THE CONTENT IN
TERMS OF ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. THE CONTENT MAY INCLUDE
TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS, AND COMPANY MAY MAKE CHANGES
OR IMPROVEMENTS AT ANY TIME. YOU, AND NOT OUR COMPANY, ASSUME THE ENTIRE
COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION IN THE EVENT OF
ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE OR ITS CONTENT. OUR
COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT YOUR USE OF THE CONTENT WILL NOT INFRINGE
THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS
OR OMISSIONS IN SUCH CONTENT.
All of the information in this site, whether historical in nature or forward-looking,
speaks only as of the date the information is posted on this site, and
Company does not undertake any obligation to update such information after
it is posted or to remove such information from this site if it is not,
or is no longer, accurate or complete.
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.
Trademarks
Trademarks, service marks, and logos appearing in this site are the property
of Company or the party that provided the trademarks, service marks, and
logos to Company. Company and any party that provided trademarks, service
marks, and logos to Company retain all rights with respect to any of their
respective trademarks, service marks, and logos appearing in this site.
Information You Provide
You may not post, send, submit, publish, or transmit in connection with
this site any material that:
• you do not have the right to post, including proprietary material of
any third party;
• advocates illegal activity or discusses an intent to commit an illegal
act;
• is vulgar, obscene, pornographic, or indecent;
• does not pertain directly to this site;
• 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;
• infringes any intellectual property or other right of any entity or
person, including violating anyone?s copyrights or trademarks or their
rights of publicity;
• violates any law or may be considered to violate any law;
• impersonates or misrepresents your connection to any other entity or
person or otherwise manipulates headers or identifiers to disguise the
origin of the content;
• 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;
• solicits funds, advertisers or sponsors;
• 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;
• 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;
• includes MP3 format files;
• amounts to a 'pyramid' or similar scheme;
• disobeys any policy or regulations established from time to time regarding
use of this site or any networks connected to this site; or
• 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 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 [COMPANY] OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
Miscellaneous
These Terms of Use will be governed and interpreted pursuant to the laws
of New Jersey, United States of America, notwithstanding any principles
of conflicts of law. You specifically consent to personal jurisdiction
in New Jersey in 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 federal courts in Holbrook, New Jersey. 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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