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Terms and
Conditions of Use
These Terms and Conditions
of Use ("Terms and Conditions") apply to
your use of and registration with
moddition.com (the "Site").
Please Read these
Terms and Conditions Before Accessing,
Browsing, or Otherwise Using the Site
Your access to, and
browsing, review and use of the Site is
subject to these Terms and Conditions and
all applicable laws. By accessing and using
the Site, you accept these Terms and
Conditions, without limitation or
qualification. If you do not agree to the
Terms and Conditions, do not use the Site.
If, at any time, any part of the Terms and
Conditions is no longer acceptable to you,
immediately terminate your use of the Site.
Right to Change,
Modify or Delete the Terms and Conditions
Moddition, Inc.
("Moddition") reserves the
right to change, modify, add or delete
portions of the Terms and Conditions at any
time, without prior notice. Please re-review
the Terms and Conditions periodically for
changes. Your continued use of the Site will
mean that you accept such changes or
deletions.
Privacy
Please refer to Moddition's
Privacy Policy for information
regarding the Company's collection, use, and
storage of users' information.
Copyright and Use of
Site Content
This Site and all the
information it contains, or may in the
future contain, including, but not limited
to, articles, memoranda, bulletins, reports,
press releases, opinions, text, directories,
guides, photographs, illustrations,
trademarks, trade names, service marks and
logos (collectively, the "Content"), is the
property of Moddition, and is
protected from unauthorized copying and
dissemination by U.S. Copyright law,
trademark law, international conventions,
and other intellectual property laws.
Certain of the trademarks and logos
displayed on the site are owned by third
parties. Except as we have described in
these Terms of Use, nothing contained on
this Site should be construed as granting,
by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any
license or right to use this Site or any
Content displayed on this Site, through the
use of framing or otherwise, without the
prior written permission of Moddition
or such third party that may own the
trademark or copyright of material displayed
on this Site.
Moddition encourages
and permits links to Content on the Site.
However, Moddition is an organization
committed to the highest professional
standards. Therefore, Moddition does
not grant any license or other permission
for links or other use of the Site or its
Content if such use or link: (a) suggests
that Moddition promotes or endorses any
third party's causes, ideas, political
campaigns, web sites, products or services,
(b) copies, displays, disseminates or
otherwise uses the Content without Moddition's
express written consent, or (c) uses the
Content for commercial purposes.
Furthermore, Moddition does not grant
its consent for links to the Site where the
linking party engages in any Prohibited
Conduct (as described in these Terms of
Use). We reserve the right to withdraw
permission for any link at any time.
Subject to your full
compliance with these terms, Moddition
authorizes you to view the Content, make a
single copy of it, and print that copy, but
only for your own lawful, personal,
noncommercial use, provided that you
maintain all copyright, trademark and other
intellectual property notices contained in
such Content, and provided that the Content,
or any part thereof, is not modified.
Responses To Online
Requests
From time to time,
Moddition may offer to provide
information or materials via e-mail or
otherwise to interested persons. Moddition reserves the right, in its absolute
discretion, to reject any requests for such
information or materials, or to discontinue
the provision of such information or
materials to any person, for any reason
whatsoever.
Prohibited Conduct
You may use the Site for
lawful purposes only. You may not upload to,
or distribute or otherwise publish through
the Site, any Content that is any of the
following:
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is libelous, defamatory,
obscene, pornographic, abusive,
harassing or threatening, or otherwise
objectionable to Moddition in the
Company's sole discretion;
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contains computer
viruses, worms, moles or other
contaminating or destructive elements;
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violates the rights of
others, such as Content that infringes
any copyright, trademark, patent, trade
secret or violates any right of privacy
or publicity;
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contains any false or
misleading statement;
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contains advertising; or
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otherwise violates any
applicable criminal or civil law. You
may not use the Site for any commercial
purpose and may not distribute over the
Site any solicitation of funds, goods
and services. In addition, you may not
use the Site to solicit subscribers to
join other online information services
that are competitive with the Site.
Content Management and
Removal
Moddition does not and
cannot review generally the content posted
by users of the Site ("Users' Content") and
is not responsible for such Users' Content.
However, Moddition reserves the right
to cancel your access to these areas and/or
delete, move, or edit any Users' Content
(including messages posted in any forum)
that it may determine, in its sole
discretion, violates the Terms of Use. You
shall remain solely responsible for all
Users' Content posted by you or by any other
person using your account. Moddition
shall have the right, but not the
obligation, to correct any errors or
omissions in any Users' Content, as it may
determine in its sole discretion.
Moddition prohibits
the posting of any information that
infringes or violates the copyright rights
and/or other intellectual property rights
(including rights of privacy and publicity)
of any person or entity. If you believe that
your intellectual property right (or such a
right that you are responsible for
enforcing) is infringed by any content on
the Site, please write to Moddition at
the below address, giving a written
statement that contains the following
information: (a) an identification of the
copyrighted work and/or intellectual
property right claimed to have been
infringed; (b) an identification of the
allegedly infringing material on the Site
that is requested to be removed; (c) your
name, address, and daytime telephone number,
and an e-mail address if available; (d) a
statement that you have a good faith belief
that the use of the copyrighted work and/or
exercise of the intellectual property right
is not authorized by the owner, its agent,
or the law; (e) a statement that the
information in the notification is accurate,
and, under penalty of perjury, that the
signatory is authorized to act on behalf of
the owner of the right that is allegedly
infringed; and (f) the signature of the
intellectual property right owner or someone
authorized on the owner's behalf to assert
infringement of the right. Moddition
will remove any posted submission that
infringes the copyright or other
intellectual property right of any person
under U.S. law upon receipt of such a
statement (or any statement in conformance
with 17 U.S.C.
Section 512(c)(3)). U.S. law provides
significant penalties for submitting such a
statement falsely. Under appropriate
circumstances, persons who repeatedly submit
infringing or unlawful material will be
prohibited from posting further submissions.
Moddition's contact for submission of
notices under this section is: General
Counsel, Moddition, Inc., 2205 Hamrick Drive,
Raleigh, NC 27615-2512.
Non-Endorsement
Moddition does not
represent or endorse the accuracy or
reliability of any Users' Content displayed,
uploaded, posted on any message board, or
otherwise distributed through the Site by
any subscriber, information provider or any
other third party. Moddition expressly
disclaims any liability related to Users'
Content, and you acknowledge that any
reliance upon such Subscriber Content shall
be at your sole risk.
The Site may contain links
to sites on the Internet that are owned and
operated by third parties (the "External
Sites"). You acknowledge that Moddition is not responsible for the availability
of, or the content or software applications
located on or through any External Site. You
should contact the site administrator or
Webmaster for those External Sites if you
have any concerns regarding such links or
External Sites.
Subscriber
Qualifications
When registering with or
applying to Moddition you must provide
accurate, complete, and current registration
information and you agree to provide
Moddition with any updates to that
information promptly after such changes
occur.
Individual subscriptions to
the Site are available only to persons who
are at least 18 years of age. Minors may
receive access keys or user id/passwords
only as part of an authorized group
subscription. Your right to use the Site is
personal to you and cannot be transferred to
any other person.
You shall be responsible for
obtaining communication services, computer
equipment and other products or services
necessary to access and use the Site. You
shall be responsible for all charges
associated with accessing and maintaining a
connection to the Site including, but not
limited to, charges imposed by an Internet
or mobile service provider, or your local telephone
company.
Registrant
Information
Unless you elect otherwise
by making the appropriate selection on the
Moddition personal information page,
Moddition shall have the right to
disclose certain limited registrant
information including, but not limited to,
the registrant's name, e-mail and mailing
address, to affiliates, partners and third
party vendors for the purpose of providing
registrants with information about products
and services. Moddition shall also
have the right to disclose aggregate
information about registrant usage and
demographics in a manner that does not
reveal the personal identity of any
individual registrant. Moddition shall
have the right to send you electronic mail
to inform you of changes or additions to the
Site, or of any products and services of
Moddition For additional information,
see the Company's Privacy Policy.
Third Parties
Moddition may provide
you with links to third party Web sites, and
some of the Content appearing to originate
from the Site may be supplied by third party
Content providers. Moddition has no
responsibility for these third-party Web
sites, which are governed by the terms of
use and privacy policies, if any, of the
applicable third-party Content providers.
Access to and
Availability of the Site
The Site may become
unavailable to you as a result of
maintenance, malfunction of computer
hardware or software, or for other reasons,
and may result in damages to your systems or
operations. You shall be solely responsible
for ensuring that any information or content
obtained from the Site does not contain any
virus, worm, mole or other computer software
code or subroutine designed to disable,
erase, impair or otherwise damage your
systems, software, or data.
Restriction,
Suspension or Termination
Moddition reserves the
right, in its sole discretion, to restrict,
suspend or terminate your access to all or
any part of the Site at any time for any
reason without prior notice or liability and
without any obligation to refund any portion
of fees paid for any product or service.
Moddition may change,
suspend or discontinue all or any aspect of
the Site at any time, including the
availability of any Site feature, database,
or content, without prior notice or
liability.
Disclaimer of
Warrantees
THE SITE AND THE CONTENT ARE
DISTRIBUTED ON AN "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE"
BASIS. NEITHER MODDITION, INC., THIRD PARTY
CONTENT PROVIDERS NOR THEIR RESPECTIVE
AGENTS MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH
RESPECT TO THE SITE, ANY CONTENT OR ANY
PRODUCTS OR SERVICES SOLD OR DISTRIBUTED
THROUGH THE SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT
THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE AND THE ACCURACY OR
COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENT IS ASSUMED
SOLELY BY YOU. NEITHER MODDITION,INC. NOR
ANY PROVIDER OF THIRD PARTY CONTENT OR THEIR
RESPECTIVE AGENTS WARRANTS THAT THE SITE
WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE; NOR
DOES MODDITION, INC., ANY THIRD PARTY
CONTENT PROVIDER, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS
MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS TO BE
OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SITE OR THE
CONTENT.
IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA
RESIDENT, YOU HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL
CODE SECTION 1542 THAT PROVIDES: "A GENERAL
RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE
CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST
IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE
RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MIGHT HAVE
MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE
DEBTOR."
Limitation of
Liability.
UNDER NO
CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL MODDITION, INC. NOR ANY
THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDER NOR THEIR
RESPECTIVE PREDECESSORS, SUCCESSORS,
PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, PAST OR
PRESENT OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS,
INVESTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS,
REPRESENTATIVES ATTORNEYS, LICENSORS OR
INFORMATION PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE
OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, EVEN IF
SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO
NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE
LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO
YOU. IN SUCH STATES, THE LIABILITY OF
MODDITION, INC., THIRD PARTY CONTENT
PROVIDERS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS SHALL
BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW.
Indemnification
You hereby agree to
indemnify, defend and hold Moddition,
and all of its predecessors, successors,
parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and past
and present officers, directors,
shareholders, investors, employees, agents,
information providers, attorneys,
representatives licensors and information
providers (collectively, the "Moddition Representatives") harmless from and
against any and all liability, losses, costs
and expenses (including attorneys' fees)
incurred by Moddition or any
Moddition Representative in connection
with any claim arising out of any use or
alleged use by you of this site or arising
out of or in relation to any breach by you
of the Terms and conditions, or the
representations, warranties and covenants
you made by agreeing to these Terms and
Conditions. Moddition reserves the
right, at its own expense, to assume the
exclusive defense and control of any matter
otherwise subject to indemnification by you,
and in such case, you agree to cooperate
reasonably with Moddition's defense of
such claim.
Choice of Law
The Terms and Conditions
shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of North Carolina, without
regard to conflict of laws principles.
Entire Agreement
The Terms and Conditions
constitute the entire agreement between the
parties with respect to the subject matter
hereof, and supersede all previous written
or oral agreements between the parties with
respect to such subject matter.
No Amendment or
Waiver
The Terms and Conditions may
not be amended except in writing signed by
both parties and no waiver by either party
shall be deemed a waiver of any preceding or
subsequent breach or default, unless such a
waiver is in writing and signed by an
authorized representative of Moddition.

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