Terms Of Service

This page was last updated on July 20, 2009

Legal Notice

ATTENTION! THESE ARE THE TERMS OF SERVICE (TOS) GOVERNING YOUR USE AND ACCESS OF THIS SITE PROVIDED BY OUR COMPANY. BY ACCESSING THIS SITE, YOU ARE INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE. BY YOUR CONTINUED USAGE OF THIS SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, AND THAT YOU FURTHER AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ANY CHANGES IN THESE TERMS MADE BY OUR COMPANY IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION AT ANY TIME IN THE FUTURE. THE LAST DATE OF MODIFICATION IS ALWAYS POSTED AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE, SO PLEASE CONSULT THESE TERMS OF SERVICE REGULARLY FOR ANY CHANGES.

Accessing This Site

No person under the age of eighteen (18) years of age is permitted to access this web site for any reason. Since this site prohibits access due to age restrictions, no information on this web site falls within the scope of the CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA), and is not monitored as such. Accessing resources that this site has to offer may require that you provide certain registration details or other information. Your continued access to this site is conditioned upon the information you provide to be complete, current and correct. If our company believes that the information you may have provided is not complete, current or correct for any reason, our company reserves the right to terminate or suspend your access to this site or any of its resources at any time without notice.

Restrictions On Using This Site

You agree to use this site only for purposes expressly permitted by our company. Any other use of this site is strictly prohibited, for any purpose, without first obtaining express written permission from our company. You may not use this site, or authorize another person to use this site, in such a way that gives other people the impression that they have the right to co-brand, frame, or hyperlink to pages within this site without the express written permission by an authorized representative of our company. "Co-branding" is defined here as displaying a name, logo, trademark or graphic owned by our company in such a way that others may get the impression that you or they have the right to display, publish or distribute the contents of this site without our company’s permission. "Frame" is defined as displaying the content of this site inside of another web site’s page. "Hyperlink" is defined as creating HTML anchor links to pages within this site from pages on another web site’s page. The only page to which another site can hyperlink to this site without requiring permission, is to the primary domain landing page, otherwise known as the home page of this site. If our company finds that you have caused any unauthorized co-brand, frame or hyperlink activity, you agree to cooperate fully with our company to cause any such activity to immediately cease.

Copyright Of Proprietary Content

All of the content of this web site is copyrighted by our company, with all rights reserved. No part of the content of this web site can be copied, distributed or published using any medium of access or publication without the express written consent of our company. Visitors of our web site are granted the right to access our content as provided by in these Terms Of Service (TOS), and to print out the content for their own personal use. In any case may any trademark, servicemark, trade name, logo or copyright be removed from the content in the form that it appears. In no case is any title, ownership or any other rights of usage not provided for in these Terms Of Service (TOS) transferred to the visitor of this site by the act of accessing this site.

Hyperlinks To External Sites

Pages on this site may contain hyperlinks to other web sites that are not owned, maintained or related to our company. Our company is not responsible for the content of such sites, and visitors to our site should be aware that clicking through to such external web sites is done at their own risk. Our company can make no guarantees about the accuracy or completeness of the content of any external web site not owned, maintained or related to our company. In addition, the presence of hyperlinks on pages of this site to external sites does not imply any endorsement by our company of those sites or their content.

Visitor Content Submissions

From time to time, visitors may submit content to our site electronically, or to our company in physical form. Any content submitted to our company in any manner, unless a written exception is obtained from an authorized representative of our company, becomes the property of our company. This grants our company the perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive and world-wide rights to use such content in any way possible that our company deems suitable. No content submission is to be considered as confidential, even if a notice of confidentiality is given by the submitter as part of the content. Submitters of content thereby waive all rights and royalties to usage of such submissions by our company in any past, present or future operations that may seem similar to the submitted content. Submitters of content also take full liability as to the legality of submitting such content, and will hold our company and any party associated with our company completely harmless for any use whatsoever of such submitted content. Submitters of content warrant to our company that they are the legal owners, or have sufficient rights to, the submitted content. Any personally identifying information submitted on our site to our company will be treated in accordance with our Pricacy Policy posted on this site.

Legal Disclaimers

YOU AGREE THAT USAGE OF THIS WEB SITE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. All content on this site is provided AS-IS and comes with no explicit or implicit guarantees or warranties of any kind, including fitness for a particular use, title or non-infringement. Our company cannot guarantee that all content and site functionality is error-free, uninterrupted, technically accurate, timely, or free of harmful software such as viruses. Our company reserves the right to make changes and fix errors and inaccuracies at any time without notice. In the event of any loss or damage arising from the use of this site or its content, you the visitor, assume all liability and responsibility for any such loss or damage, including where such loss or damage infringes upon the rights of other parties. Professionals in industries such as the Legal, Medical and Financial fields should view any content on this site in the same manner as any other educational medium, and should not rely on such content to the exclusion of their own professional judgement. Such content should not be viewed as exhaustive on any subject, and does not cover all facts related to any topics or issues. All content posted on this site by our company whether historical or future oriented, is only relevant as of the date of publication. Our company assumes no obligation to update the content if it is not, or no longer, accurate or complete.

Legal Limitations On Liability

Our company, and all its subsidaries, affiliates, licensors, service providers, content providers, officers, directors, management and employees will not be liable for any incidental, direct, indirect, punitive, exemplary, or other damages including loss of time, revenue or income, pain and suffering, emotional distress, or any such similar damages even if our company has been advised of such damages, nor will the collective liability of such parties exceed a total of $100 to any party whatsoever, except for refunds on products or content sold to such party, where the total liability will then be the paid price of the sold product or content within the stated refund period. Where no stated refund period exists, our company limits such refunds to 30 days after purchase of the product or service. Our company also limits such refunds to the United States of America. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability, so the above limitations may not apply to you.

Indemnification Of Company

You will indemnify, and hold harmless, our company and any of its subsidaries, affiliates, licensors, service providers, content providers, officers, directors, management, employees and contractors (the Indemnified Parties) from any breach of these Terms Of Service (TOS) by you, including the usage of any content or products not expressly authorized by our company. All Indemnified Parties will have no liability in the case of such breach or any usage that is unauthorized. You agree to indemnify any and all losses, damages, judgements, awards, costs, attorney’s fees and expenses of the Indemnified Parties that may be connected with such breach or unauthorized usage. You will also indemnify and hold harmless the Indemnified Parties from and against any third-party claims arising from the usage of any content or products accessed from this site.

Trademarks And Service Marks

All trademarks, service marks and logos are the property of our company, or the respective parties that provided them to our company. Our company, and any trademark, service mark or logo provider retains all rights with respect to their trademarks, service marks or logos appearing on this site.

Restrictions on Information Provided By Visitors

Visitors to this site are prohibited from supplying any content that: a) visitor does not have legal rights to provide; b) promotes or discusses intent to commit an illegal act; c) is pornographic or indecent; d) threatens, libels, defames, violates privacy, harasses or in any way abuses another person; e) asks for personal identifying information; f) would provide inappropriate content that could exploit or harm children; g) infringes on intellectual property rights of third party; h) violates the copyrights, trademarks, or service marks of any other company or person; i) is illegal or unlawful; j) impersonates any other person; k) manipulates technical content such as headers or content to misidentify the origin of the content; l) advertises or promotes any commercial activity not authorized in these Terms Of Service; m) contains any harmful software or scripts such as viruses, trojans, worms, etc. designed to cause improper operation of this site; n) solicit any kind of illegal pyramid or ponzi scheme; o) is inconsistent with any policies, rules, regulations and prohibitions set forth in this Terms Of Service as regards to this site; p) contains hyperlinks to any external web sites that contains any such content as prohibited in this section. Our company reserves the right to monitor, from time to time at our company’s sole discretion, all usage of this site for compliance with the policies set forth in this Terms Of Service, as well as the right to remove or refuse the posting of any such unauthorized content for any reason at any time. You agree by your continued use of this site that neither our company, nor any third party that provides content for this site, will have any liability for any such submitted content, and that you assume full and sole responsibility for the content of any content submissions that you make.

Security Of This Site

You ackknowledge that you are fully responsible for the security of your own password, and that you will only use it for your own individual use. Our company reserves the right to monitor the usage of your password, and if necessary, require you to change your password, suspend your account or even terminate your account if suspicious usage is detected. Our company is very serious about protecting the privacy and security of the information provided to us by our visitors and members. If any attempt is detected to utilize any services, software or other facilities to try to guess passwords such as cracking or other hacker tools resulting in a violation of our site’s system security, our company reserves the right to provide any and all information necessary to other third parties, such as law enforcement with or without a court order, so that investigation of any threats to this site’s security is completely and thoroughly investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. By continued usage of this site, you agree to completely hold our company harmless from any claims or lawsuits from any actions such as investigations taken by our company or law enforcement to protect this site’s security.

Legal Forum And Official Language

Our company is located in the state of Texas, United States of America. This agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Texas. By electing to participate in the offers made by our company, you agree that you are entering into a contract originating from the state of Texas, United States of America. You further agree that any legal action or litigation arising out of these Terms Of Service shall be litigated and enforced under the laws of Texas, United States of America. In addition, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Texas, and that any legal action pursued by you shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Texas in the State of Texas, United States of America. Whether or not you decide to print these Terms Of Service, you agree that this contract constitutes a writing. This agreement is being written in the English language, which is to be the official language of the contract, text and interpretation. If you do not agree with these Terms Of Service, you have the right not to participate in any of our company’s offers.

Agreement To Hold Harmless

BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO COMPLETELY HOLD OUR COMPANY AND ANY OF ITS SUBSIDARIES, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONTENT PROVIDERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, MANAGEMENT, EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIMS OR LAWSUITS ARISING FROM ANY ACTIONS SUCH AS INVESTIGATIONS TAKEN BY OUR COMPANY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PROTECT THIS SITE’S SECURITY AND TO ENFORCE THE POLICIES, RULES, REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS SET FORTH IN THESE TERMS OF SERVICE.