C. Intellectual Property Rights
This Website and its entire contents, features, and functionality, including, but not limited to, text, content, art, images, photographs, video, audio, graphics, services, and material of any nature, is owned by us, our licensors, or other providers of such material and protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, international treaties, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights and laws of the U.S. and other countries. The Website is also protected as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other laws and treaties. You acknowledge that the Website has been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected, and arranged by the Company and others through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort, and money and constitutes valuable intellectual property and trade secrets of the Company and such others. All present and future rights in and to trade secrets, patents, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, know-how, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights of any type under the laws of any governmental authority, domestic or foreign, including rights in and to all applications and registrations relating to the Website (the "Intellectual Property Rights") shall, as between you and the Company, at all times be and remain the sole and exclusive property of the Company. All present and future rights in and title to the Website (including the right to exploit the Website and any portions of the Website over any present or future technology) are reserved to the Company for its exclusive use. Except as specifically permitted herein, you shall not use the Company’s Intellectual Property Rights or the Website, or the names of any individual participant in, or contributor to, the Website or any variations or derivatives thereof, for any purpose, without the Company’s prior written approval.
You may use the Website only for your personal, non-commercial use, and you may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, upload, post, transmit, distribute, modify, reuse, repost, or make any other use of the Website, or any portion thereof. You may not sell, prepare derivative works based on or modify the Website (including, without limitation, preparation of summaries of the content or "thumbnails" of any images therein), or any portion thereof, or reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Website in any way for any public or commercial purpose or any other purpose except as expressly permitted herein. The use of any information contained on the Website on any other web site, or in any publication, database, catalog or compilation, or in a networked computer environment for any purpose other than personal browsing of the Website without the express prior written permission of the Company is strictly prohibited. Notwithstanding the above, you may view and download a single copy of Website press releases or images solely for your personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, publication, distribution, or any other use except as expressly permitted herein. With respect to any copy you make of the Website content within the scope of the limited personal license granted herein, you must retain therein, unmodified and unobscured, any and all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original content. Some of the content may contain digital "watermarks" to indicate their source and ownership. You agree not to attempt to remove, deactivate, reverse engineer, modify, tamper with or obscure any such watermarks. You shall not use the Website in any defamatory, disparaging, or otherwise objectionable manner or in any manner that would give rise to civil or criminal liability. You agree: (1) not to use the Website for illegal purposes or in any manner inconsistent with the TOS; (2) not to interfere or disrupt networks connected to the Website; (3) to protect the proprietary rights of the Company and all others having rights in the Website during and after the term of this TOS; (4) to comply with all reasonable written requests made by the Company or its providers of content, equipment, or otherwise ("Providers") to protect their and others' contractual, statutory, and common law rights in the Website; and (5) not to use, transfer, distribute, or dispose of any information contained on the Website in any manner that could compete with the business of the Company. You further agree to immediately notify the Company in writing (A) upon becoming aware of any unauthorized access or use of the Website by any party or of any claim that the Website infringes upon any copyright, trademark, or other contractual, statutory, or common law rights; or (B) upon becoming aware of any other discrepancy with the Website. You agree that the Company shall not be deemed to have received any transaction request electronically submitted by you until the Company acknowledges to you that the Company has received the request. You will not use the Website or the information contained therein in unsolicited mailings or spam material. You agree to comply with any other applicable terms and conditions of service set forth on the Website. If you print, copy, modify, download, or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part of the Website in breach of this TOS, your right to use the Website will stop immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. Any use of the Website not expressly permitted by this TOU is a breach of this TOU and may violate, copyright, trademark, and other laws.
You acquire absolutely no rights or licenses in or to the Website, or any portion thereof, other than the limited right to utilize the Web Site in accordance with the TOS. If you submit material to this site or to the Company or its representative, unless the Company indicates otherwise, you grant the Company, its affiliates, and representatives a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, copy, and display such content throughout the world in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed. You also permit any other user to access, store, or reproduce such material for that user’s personal use. You grant the Company and its affiliates, representatives, and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the material that you submit; that the material you submit is truthful and accurate; that use of the material you supply does not violate this TOS and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify the Company and its affiliates for all claims resulting from material you supply. The Company takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any material submitted by you or any third party.