KnowledgeBase Consulting Group, LLC (KnowledgeBase)
Our Online Bookstore may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services, chat areas, newsgroups, forums, wikis, blogs, communities, personal Web pages, calendars, photo albums, file cabinets, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a "Communication Service" and collectively "Communication Services"). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send, and receive messages and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Communication Services, you will not:
- ** Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming, or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise).
- ** Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
- ** Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent, or unlawful topic, name, material, or information.
- ** Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software, or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including, by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright, or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consent to do the same.
- ** Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.
- ** Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another.
- ** Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Services specifically allows such messages.
- ** Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed, performed, and/or distributed in such manner.
- ** Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
- ** Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
- ** Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.
- ** Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.
- ** Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
- ** Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
- ** Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof.
KnowledgeBase has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, KnowledgeBase reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication Services and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. KnowledgeBase reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.
KnowledgeBase reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as KnowledgeBase deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post, or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in KnowledgeBase's sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about yourself or your family in any Communication Services. KnowledgeBase neither controls nor endorses the content, messages, or information found in any Communication Services and, therefore, KnowledgeBase specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Services. Managers and hosts are not authorized KnowledgeBase spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of KnowledgeBase.
Materials uploaded to the Communication Services may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction, and/or dissemination; you are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
Materials provided to or posted on the Web Properties
KnowledgeBase does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to the Web Properties (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input, or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing, or submitting ("Posting") your Submission, you are granting KnowledgeBase, its affiliated companies, and necessary sublicensee's permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all Web Properties), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. KnowledgeBase is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and KnowledgeBase may remove any Submission at any time in its sole discretion.
By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in these TERMS OF USE including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input, or submit the Submissions.
In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by posting a Submission that contains images, photographs, pictures, or that are otherwise graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any content and/or images contained in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by these TERMS OF USE and the Services, (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these TERMS OF USE, and (c) that each person depicted in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these TERMS OF USE, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, the distribution, public display and reproduction of such Images. By posting Images, you are granting (a) to all Web Property members (for each such Images available to Web Property members), and/or (b) to the general public (for each such Images available anywhere on the Services, other than a private community), permission to use your Images in connection with the use, as permitted by these TERMS OF USE, of any of the Services, (including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, making prints and gift items which include such Images), and including, without limitation, a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free license to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Images without having your name attached to such Images, and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services. The licenses granted in the preceding sentences for Images will terminate at the time you completely remove such Images from the Services, but such termination shall not affect any licenses granted in connection with such Images prior to complete removal. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Images.
Links to third-party Web sites
The links in this area will let you leave the web properties. The linked sites are not under the control of KnowledgeBase and KnowledgeBase is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such site. KnowledgeBase is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any linked site. KnowledgeBase is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any linnk does not imply endorsement by KnowledgeBase of the linked site.
Third-party content disclaimer
KnowledgeBase has not independently authenticated Materials provided by third-party providers in whole or in part. KnowledgeBase does not provide, sell, license, or lease any of the Materials other than those specifically identified as being provided by KnowledgeBase. KnowledgeBase makes no warranty or representation with respect to any third-party Materials.
Miscellaneous
The TERMS OF USE and your use of the Web Properties, Materials, and Services provided shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
Failure by either party to exercise any of its rights under or to enforce any provision of this Agreement will not be deemed a waiver or forfeiture of such rights or ability to enforce such provision. The provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to be separable and the invalidity of any provision hereof shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Agreement.