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- These Terms of Use (“Terms”) constitute a legal agreement that applies to all users and uses of this Website (“Site”) and any online content available from S&H Publishing, Inc. (“S&H”). S&H reserves the right to modify these Terms at its sole discretion. Use or access of the Site or online content constitutes your agreement to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms you may not use or access the Site.
- All of the content featured, displayed or offered on the Site, including text, graphics, images, music, audio, artwork, software and other content (collectively, the “Content”), is owned by S&H and/or its affiliates, partners, vendors or licensors. The Content comprises intellectual property that is protected by copyright, moral rights, trademark and other laws. It is your sole responsibility to comply with any applicable laws, statutes, and regulations regarding your use of the Site.
- The Site and Content are provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY or representation of suitability for commercial use. Some Content may be objectionable or even offensive to certain persons, and the Content may include subject matter that is dramatized, fictional, factual or partially factual, including Content of artistic nature. Some Content may not be suitable for all persons of all age groups. If you consider the Content objectionable or offensive, you should cease use of the Site and delete any Content you found objectionable or offensive from your computer or other personal property. But you may not delete, alter, edit, or otherwise impair the Content or the Site, regardless of your opinion of the Site or Content, as such opinions are necessarily subjective. Facts, names, characters, or incidents portrayed in the Site or Content are generally fictitious. Therefore, no identification with actual persons, places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred unless otherwise stated. You are solely responsible for the use of any Content or other products or services available through the Site. You agree that S&H and its affiliates, partners, vendors or licensors are not liable or responsible for misuse of or improper use of such Content, products or services.
- No rights are conveyed hereby and no license of any kind is offered or implied by using the Site other than as explicitly provided herein.
- All trademarks, logos, identifying designs, service marks and trade names used on the Site are the exclusive property of S&H or its affiliates, partners, vendors or licensors. You may not modify any of the Content and you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any information or work obtained from or found on the Site. You are not permitted to embed content or links from this or to this Site without written permission from S&H, including use of S&H’s name, trademarks or Content in a way that implies or states that you have a legal or business affiliation with S&H or in a way that implies a partnership with or endorsement by S&H.
- The Site may contain links to other websites belonging to or controlled by third parties. Such links are provided as a convenience only and do not imply endorsement by S&H or approval of any content on such third party sites. S&H is not responsible for the contents or use of any linked site. You may report to S&H any improper activity or third party content you believe S&H should be aware of in any sites linked to by the Site. The Site may include software that allows you to sign in or register using information from an account with a third party service (e.g., social media or similar accounts). These third party services are unrelated to the Site, which third party services may obligate you to separate terms and conditions unrelated to these Terms.
- If you use any Content or any copyrighted or trademarked references related to the Site or Content in your work, publications or web sites, you agree to first obtain S&H’s written permission for such use. S&H will further reserve the right to later deny or revoke its permission for such use, for any reason, at S&H’s sole discretion.
- S&H and/or its affiliates, partners, vendors or licensors may offer products or services on the Site for which you may be charged or billed as agreed. This includes instances where you procure such products or services from the Site in exchange for payment to S&H and/or its affiliates, partners, vendors or licensors. If you provide credit card, debit card or other payment information for such products or services, you represent to us that you are the authorized user of the credit card that is used to pay for the products or services. In the event legal action is necessary to collect on balances due, you agree to reimburse S&H and its affiliates, partners, vendors or licensors, as appropriate, for all expenses incurred to recover sums due, including attorney’s fees and other legal expenses incurred to collect amounts owed from you.
- For all uses of the Site, including purchases of Content, products or services from the Site, your transactions and interactions with the Site are governed by S&H’s Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference as part of these Terms and to which you represent your understanding and consent.
- Any user submitted content (“User Submission”) remains the intellectual property of the individual who lawfully owns the User Submission so long as the User Submission was not in violation of with these Terms. No promise or agreement to keep, process, secure or otherwise handle User Submissions is made hereunder. S&H may refuse or remove User Submissions for any reason and at its sole discretion. Anyone providing a User Submission understands and agrees that such submission is not afforded any terms of confidentiality beyond that stated in the S&H Privacy Policy. Anyone providing a User Submission further understands that no agency or representation or other legal or business relationship arises from a User Submission to S&H or the Site.
- Anyone making a User Submission agrees to and represents that the making of such User Submission does not violate any law, statute or regulation nor any commercial or personal right of another person or entity. In the event that any content that is the subject of or contained in a User Submission requires permission from any third party, the person making the User Submission agrees to be fully responsible for and represents that he or she has obtained each and every permission necessary for the making of such User Submission. If you make a User Submission you agree that S&H is not responsible for reviewing or obtaining the rights needed to ensure that User Submissions do not infringe the rights of third parties, including intellectual property rights thereof.
- It is S&H’s policy not to accept User Submissions that in its own opinion or the opinion of applicable laws contain material intended to intimidate or to incite violence or contain unreasonably or unlawfully negative comments that are directed to race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or physical handicap, or that are otherwise defamatory, slanderous, indecent, obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit under the law or in the opinion of S&H.
- You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions, your use of your registration and the consequences of posting or publishing or participating in the Site. In connection with User Submissions and your use of the Site, you affirm, represent and warrant the following: (i) you are over the legal age to contract and have the authority to enter into this Agreement, and are fully able and competent to satisfy the terms, conditions and obligations herein; (ii) you have obtained all consents, and possess all copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret and any other proprietary rights, or the necessary licenses thereto, to grant the licenses herein; (iii) if necessary you have the written consent of each and every identifiable natural person in the User Submission to use such persons name or likeness in the manner contemplated by the Sites and these Terms, and each such person has released you from any liability that may arise in relation to such use; (iv) you have read, understood, agree with, and will abide by the terms of this Agreement; (v) the User Submission and S&H’s use thereof as contemplated by these terms and the Sites will not infringe any rights of any third party, including but not limited to any intellectual property rights, privacy rights and rights of publicity; (vi) the User Submissions do and will not contain: (a) material falsehoods or misrepresentations that could harm S&H or any third party; (b) content that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or violate any law; (c) advertisements or solicitations of business; or (d) impersonations of third parties, other than those which are readily apparent and not otherwise in violation of these Terms.
- Your use of the Site may entail signing up, obtaining a registration or account, or otherwise providing personal information used for the operation of the Site and to improve services to you and other users. If you do register on the Site, you may be required to have a user name, password or similar credentials. In that instance you warrant that you will (i) provide true and accurate information as requested by the registration process and maintain such information with reasonable confidence to prevent unauthorized or improper use of the Site by others. If you provide any information that is untrue or inaccurate, or in its determination S&H deems such registration information to be invalid, S&H reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account and deny your access to the Site and Content. You are solely responsible for any improper use of the Site or Content resulting from wrongful access to the same by way of your credentials if such wrongful access results from an act or omission by you and is not the fault of S&H.
- S&H may suspend or terminate the operation of the Site, and may remove or modify the Content at any time. S&H may also suspend or deny your access to the Site or Content if S&H understands that you are in violation of these Terms or that any other legal violation, copyright infringement, or other offense by you advises terminating your access to the Site or Content.
- You agree to indemnify and hold harmless S&H and its affiliates, partners, vendors or licensors for any harm, claim or allegation made by a third party arising from your use of the Site or Content, including any use contrary to these Terms and any unlawful, fraudulent or harmful use by you in connection with the Site or Content.
- The Site and these Terms are to be adjudicated in courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, and according to its laws. S&H’s delay or alleged failure to strictly enforce performance of any provision of these Terms shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision thereof.
- S&H and its affiliates, partners, vendors and licensors respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your copyrighted materials have been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send an email or written notice to our designated agent for notices of infringement and provide the following information: (a) An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (b) A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (c) A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site; (d) Your address, telephone number, and email address; (e) 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 (f) 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 authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
- Our designated agent for notice for claims of copyright infringement can be reached by mail at S&H Publishing Notice - Intrinsic Law Corp. 760 Main St., Waltham, MA 02451 USA. By phone: (617)420-0079. By email: info@sandhpublishing.com
Effective Date of these Terms of Use: 4/22/2016