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TERMS OF USE
Pondliners.com offers this web site, including all information,
software, products and services available from this web site
or offered as part of or in conjunction with this web site
(the "Web site"), to you, the user, conditioned
upon your acceptance of all of the terms, conditions, policies
and notices stated here. Your continued use of the Web site
constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions and
notices.
Personal and Noncommercial Use
The Web site is for your personal and noncommercial use.
As a condition to your continued use of the Web site, you
warrant to Pondliners.com that you will not use the Web site
for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms
and conditions of use.
No Warranties
USE THE WEB SITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED
TO YOU "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE
OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Neither Pondliners.com nor its employees, agents, third party
information providers, merchants, licensors or the like warrant
that the Web site or its operation will be accurate, reliable,
uninterrupted or error-free. No agent or representative has
the authority to create any warranty regarding the Web site
on behalf of Pondliners.com.
Exclusion of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, SHALL Pondliners.com
OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, STORING OR
DISTRIBUTING THE WEB SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF
OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH USE OF THE WEB SITE, DELAY OR
INABILITY TO USE THE WEB SITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE,
PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEB SITE, WHETHER
SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY
OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Because some states do not permit the exclusion or limitation
of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the
above limitation may not apply to you.
Featured Links and Linking
The Web site may contain hyperlinks to web sites offered
by parties other than Pondliners.com. Such hyperlinks are
provided for your reference and convenience only. Pondliners.com
does not control such other web sites and is not responsible
for their content; nor does Pondliners.com inclusion of hyperlinks
to such web sites imply any endorsement of the material on
such web sites or any association with their operators.
Unless you are subsequently advised otherwise by Pondliners.com,
you are hereby licensed to create hyperlinks to the content
on the Web site, provided that the hyperlink accurately describes
the content as it appears on the Web site. Pondliners.com
reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your
right to use specific links, at any time, and may normally
break any hyperlink after 14 days. Under no circumstances
may you "frame" the Web site or any of its content
or copy portions of the Web site to a server, except as part
of an Internet service providers incidental caching
of pages. Each page within the Web site must be displayed
in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising and
promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border,
margin, design, branding, trademark, advertising or promotional
materials not originally displayed on the page within the
Web site.
Software Available on Web site
Any software that is made available to download from this
Web site is the copyrighted work of Pondliners.com and/or
its suppliers. Your use of the software is governed by the
terms of the End User License Agreement, if any, that accompanies
or is included with the software. You may not install or use
any software without first agreeing to the terms of such End
User License Agreement. For any software not accompanied by
an End User License Agreement, Pondliners.com hereby grants
to you a personal, nontransferable license to use the software
for viewing and other purposes within the scope of use of
such software anticipated by Pondliners.com in accordance
with these terms and conditions, and for no other purpose.
Any such software is provided to you subject to the warranty
and liability exclusions set forth in these terms and conditions.
Copyright
Except for material in the public domain under United States
copyright law, all material contained on the Web site (including
all software, HTML code, Java applets, Active X controls and
other code) is protected by United States and foreign copyright
laws. Except as otherwise expressly provided in these terms
and conditions, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display,
perform, reproduce, publish, license, modify, rewrite, create
derivative works from, transfer, or sell any material contained
on the Web site without the prior consent of the copyright
owner. Violation of this provision may result in severe civil
and criminal penalties.
You may make single copies of materials displayed on the
Web site for your own personal and noncommercial use only,
provided any copies include the copyright and other notices
displayed with the materials on the Web site. You may not
distribute such copies to others, whether or not for a charge
or other consideration, without prior written permission from
Pondliners.com or the copyright owner of the copied material.
Requests to reproduce materials on the Web site for distribution
or other purposes should be e-mailed to us at copy-request@pondliners.com
Trademarks
Pondliners.com are protected by state and federal trademark
laws. Other trademarks appear on the Web site with permission
from their respective owners. Your unauthorized use of trademarks
appearing on the Web site may constitute trademark infringement,
which could subject you to substantial civil penalties.
Public Posting Area
You agree not to use the Web site to send or submit for public
posting any libelous, slanderous, defamatory, abusive, obscene,
profane, sexually explicit, threatening, harmful or illegal
material, material containing blatant expressions of bigotry,
racism or hate, material encouraging conduct that would constitute
a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or violate
any local, state, national or international law, or other
material of any kind that Pondliners.com finds objectionable.
The public posting areas are for discussion and debate only.
You may not use the public posting areas to post or transmit
advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind. You
may not post or transmit any material of any nature, including
text, audio, software, animation or photographs, belonging
to any person or party other than yourself, without the prior
written consent of such owner. Simply because material is
available on the Internet does not mean it is in the public
domain. The vast majority of materials on the Internet are
protected by copyright and trademark laws. Pondliners.com
shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the
posting areas of the Web site to determine compliance with
these Terms and Conditions and any other operating rules that
may be established by Pondliners.com from time to time.
By posting messages or other material in the public posting
areas of the Web site, you are granting to Pondliners.com
and its licensees a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive
and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify,
adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute,
perform and display any posting by you (in whole or in part)
and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media
or technology now known or hereafter developed.
Termination of Privileges
Pondliners.com reserves the right to terminate your privilege
of using all or any portion of the Web site if you breach
any of these terms and conditions of use. If Pondliners.com
receives notice or otherwise discovers that you have posted
material that infringes another partys copyright or
trademark rights or violates another partys rights of
privacy or publicity, Pondliners.com may terminate your access
to the Web site, including all of your privileges or accounts
that you may have established in connection with the Web site.
Copyright Infringement
Pondliners.com will not tolerate copyright infringement of
any kind. Pondliners.com does not, however, monitor user-submitted
materials for copyright infringement. If you believe that
any material on the Web site infringes your copyright, you
may seek to have the material removed by sending Pondliners.com
notice that includes all of the following information:
your full name, address and telephone number your e-mail
address identification of the copyrighted work(s) that you
believe is being infringed identification of the infringing
material and information sufficient for Pondliners.com to
locate the material your statement of good faith belief that
(a) the material infringes your copyrights, (b) the information
provided in the notice is accurate and (c) under penalty of
perjury, you are authorized to act for the copyright owner
your physical or electronic signature
Upon receipt of notice complying with the above requirements,
Pondliners.com will act to remove infringing materials and,
if applicable, send notice to the user that posted such materials
on the Web site.
These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement
and understanding between you and Pondliners.com with respect
to use of the Web site, superseding all prior or contemporaneous
communications and/or proposals. Pondliners.com reserves the
right to make changes to these Terms and Conditions immediately
by posting the changed Terms and Conditions in this location.
By continuing to use the Web site, you are agreeing to all
changes made by Pondliners.com. A printed version of these
Terms and Conditions shall be admissible in judicial or administrative
proceedings based upon or relating to use of the Web site
to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other
business documents and records originally generated and maintained
in printed form.
Changes to the Terms of Use
We will post all Terms of Use changes to the web site in a
prominent place for a period of one month.
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