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Flexicose.com Terms of Use
Welcome to "Flexicose.com" (the "Site").
It is important to us that you, and our other visitors, have the
best possible time while using our Site, and that when you use this
Site you are fully aware of our respective legal rights and obligations.
For that reason, we have created these Terms of Use as the legally
binding terms to govern your use of this Site. Please read these
Terms of Use carefully before using the Site, because they affect
your legal rights and obligations.
Your Acceptance of Terms
If you do not agree with any of these Terms of Use, please do not
use this Site because by using this Site you will be deemed to have
irrevocably agreed to these terms.
Areas of this Site within the proprietary online
service offered by DTC Health, Inc. (as defined below) may be subject
to additional terms and conditions, which you should read carefully
before making any use of those areas. Any such terms will not vary
or replace these Terms of Use regarding any use of this Site, unless
otherwise expressly stated.
Please note that these Terms of Use may be revised
and reissued without notice at any time by updating this posting.
You should visit this page regularly to review the current Terms
of Use, since your continued use of the Site will be deemed as irrevocable
acceptance of any revisions. These Terms of Use were last updated
on August 22nd 2003.
How To Contact Us
This Site is controlled and operated by DTC Health,
Inc. Please forward any complaints, questions or general correspondence
to info@flexicose.com
Your Registration
We will assume (and by using this Site you warrant
that) that either you have legal capacity to enter into the agreement
set out in these Terms of Use (i.e., that you are of sufficient
age and mental capacity and are otherwise entitled to be legally
bound in contract), or your parents have consented to your use of
this Site and accept these Terms of Use on your behalf.
Online Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect
your privacy, we provide a privacy policy explaining our online
information practices and the choices you can make about the way
your information is collected and used at this site. Click here
to access our privacy policy.
Trademarks and Copyrights
This Site and all materials incorporated by DTC Health, Inc. on
this Site ("Material") are protected by copyrights, patents, trade
secrets or other proprietary rights ("Copyrights"). DTC Health,
Inc. respects the intellectual property rights of others and asks
users of this Site to do the same.
Your Use of Material
Your right to make use of this Site and any Material
or other content appearing on it is subject to your compliance with
these Terms of Use. Modification or use of the Material or any other
content on this Site for any purpose not permitted by these Terms
of Use may be a violation of the Copyrights and/or Trademarks and
is prohibited.
You may access and display Material and all other
content displayed on this Site for non-commercial, personal, entertainment
use on a single computer only. The Material and all other content
on this Site may not otherwise be copied, reproduced, republished,
uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed or used in any way unless
specifically authorized by DTC Health, Inc. Any authorization to
copy Material granted by DTC Health, Inc. in any part of this Site
for any reason is restricted to making a single copy for non-commercial,
personal, entertainment use on a single computer only, and is subject
to your keeping intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.
Using any Material on any other web site or networked computer environment
is prohibited. Also, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling,
or otherwise reducing the code used in any software on this Site
into a readable form in order to examine the construction of such
software and/or to copy or create other products based (in whole
or in part) on such software, is prohibited.
Disclaimer of Warranties YOUR USE OF THIS SITE
IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. FLEXICOSE.COM AND ALL THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION,
SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES AND OTHER CONTENT IN FLEXICOSE.COM
ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY
KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE
PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, DTC HEALTH, INC.DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
DTC HEALTH, INC.DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN
THIS SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS
WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT DTC HEALTH, INC.'S WEB SITES OR THE SERVERS
THAT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
DTC HEALTH, INC.DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING
THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL, INFORMATION,
SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT IN FLEXICOSE.COM
OR ANY SITES LINKED TO FLEXICOSE.COM IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS,
ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. DTC HEALTH, INC.MAKES NO WARRANTIES
THAT YOUR USE OF THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES,
SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT IN FLEXICOSE.COM WILL NOT INFINGE THE RIGHTS
OF OTHERS AND DTC HEALTH, INC. ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY
FOR ERRORS OR OMMISSIONS IN SUCH MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE,
FACILITIES, SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT OF HARRYPOTTER.COM. IF APPLICABLE
LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES TO APPLY TO YOU, THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS WILL APPLY TO YOU
ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Limitation of Liability
DTC HEALTH, INC. DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITY
FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE (DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNATIVE, ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR OTHERWISE) RESULTING FROM ANY
USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, FLEXICOSE.COM OR THE MATERIAL, INFORMATION,
SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT ON HARRYPOTTER.COM,
REGARDLESS OF THE BASIS UPON WHICH LIABILITY IS CLAIMED AND EVEN
IF DTC HEALTH, INC.HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS
OR DAMAGE. WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOU (AND NOT DTC HEALTH, INC.) ASSUME
THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION
IN THE EVENT OF ANY SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING. IF APPLICABLE LAW
DOES NOT ALLOW ALL OR ANY PART OF THE ABOVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
TO APPLY TO YOU, THE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Forums
THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION AND OPINIONS INCLUDED
AND/OR EXPRESSED IN OR ON BULLETIN BOARDS, CHAT ROOMS, COMMUNITY
PAGES OR OTHER FORUMS ON THIS SITE ("FORUMS") ARE NOT NECESSARILY
THOSE OF DTC HEALTH, INC. OR IT'S AFFILIATED OR RELATED ENTITIES
OR CONTENT PROVIDERS. DTC HEALTH, INC. DOES NOT UNDERTAKE TO MONITOR
OR REVIEW FORUMS, AND THE CONTENT OF FORUMS IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY
OF DTC HEALTH, INC. DTC HEALTH, INC. MAY REMOVE OR MODIFY ANY CONTENT
WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY AT ANY TIME IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION.
ANY USE OF THE FORUMS WILL BE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND WILL BE SUBJECT
TO THE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY SET OUT ABOVE.
Submissions, Postings and E-mails
DTC Health, Inc. is interested in hearing from
you. It is, however, our policy that we will not accept or consider
unsolicited submissions of concepts, articles, or other potential
content. Therefore, please do not send DTC Health, Inc. any unsolicited
submissions.
Any material you send to us will not be treated
as confidential.
Please act responsibly when using this Site. You
may only use this Site and its contents for lawful purposes and
in accordance with applicable law and you are prohibited from storing,
distributing or transmitting any unlawful material through this
Site. You may not collect or store personal information regarding
other users. You recognize that storing, distributing or transmitting
unlawful material could expose you to criminal and/or civil liability.
You agree that if a third party claims that material you have contributed
to the Site is unlawful, you will bear the burden of establishing
that it is lawful. You understand and agree that all materials publicly
posted (other than by DTC Health, Inc.) or privately transmitted
on or through this Site are the sole responsibility of the sender,
not DTC Health, Inc., and that you are responsible for all material
you upload, post or otherwise transmit to or through this Site.
We at DTC Health, Inc. require that you do not
post e-mails or submit to or publish through Forums or otherwise
make available on this Site any content, or act in a way, which
in our opinion:
(a) libels, defames, invades privacy, stalks, is
obscene, pornographic, racist, abusive, harassing, threatening or
offensive; (b) seeks to exploit or harm children by exposing them
to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details
or otherwise; (c) infringes any intellectual property or other right
of any entity or person, including violating anyone's copyrights
or trademarks or their rights of publicity; (d) violates any law
or may be considered to violate any law; (e) you do not have the
right to transmit under any contractual or other relationship (e.g.,
insider information, proprietary or confidential information received
in the context of an employment or a non-disclosure agreement);
(f) advocates or promotes illegal activity; (g) impersonates or
misrepresents your connection to any other entity or person or otherwise
manipulates headers or identifiers to disguise the origin of the
content; (h) advertises any commercial endeavor (e.g., offering
for sale products or services) or otherwise engages in any commercial
activity (e.g., conducting raffles or contests, displaying sponsorship
banners, and/or soliciting goods or services) except as specifically
authorized on this Site; (i) solicits funds, advertisers or sponsors;
(j) includes programs which contain viruses, worms and/or 'Trojan
horses' or any other computer code, files or programs designed to
interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software
or hardware or telecommunications; (k) disrupts the normal flow
of dialogue, causes a screen to scroll faster than other users are
able to type, or otherwise act in a way which affects the ability
of other people to engage in real time activities via this Site;
(l) copies any other pages or images on this Site except with appropriate
authority; (m) includes MP3 format files; (n) amounts to a 'pyramid'
or similar scheme; (o) amounts to 'data warehousing' (i.e., using
any web space made available to you as storage for large files which
are only linked from other sites). You must provide a reasonable
amount of content to accompany such material in order that at least
some of the traffic to your site comes directly via this Site; (p)
disobeys any policy or regulations established from time to time
regarding use of this Site or any networks connected to this Site;
or (q) contains links to other sites that contain the kind of content,
which falls within the descriptions set out at (a) to (p) above.
In addition, you are prohibited from removing any
sponsorship banners or other material inserted by DTC Health, Inc.
anywhere on this Site (e.g., on any web space made available for
your use).
System Abuse
Without limitation, you agree not to send, create
or reply to so called "mailbombs" (i.e., emailing copies of a single
message to many users, or sending large or multiple files or messages
to a single user with malicious intent) or engage in "spamming"
(i.e., unsolicited emailing for business or other purposes) or undertake
any other activity which may adversely effect the operation or enjoyment
of this Site by any other person.
You may not reproduce, sell, resell or otherwise
exploit any resource, or access to any resource, contained on this
Site.
Security
You are prohibited from using any services or facilities
provided in connection with this Site to compromise security or
tamper with system resources and/or accounts. The use or distribution
of tools designed for compromising security (e.g., password guessing
programs, cracking tools or network probing tools) are strictly
prohibited. If you become involved in any violation of system security,
DTC Health, Inc. reserves the right to release your details to system
administrators at other sites in order to assist them in resolving
security incidents.
Investigations
DTC Health, Inc. reserves the right to investigate
suspected violations of these Terms of Use, including without limitation
any violation arising from any submission, posting or e-mails you
make or send to any Forum. DTC Health, Inc. may seek to gather information
from the user who is suspected of violating these Terms of Use,
and from any other user. DTC Health, Inc. may suspend any users
whose conduct or postings are under investigation and may remove
such material from its servers as it deems appropriate and without
notice. If DTC Health, Inc. believes, in its sole discretion, that
a violation of these Terms of Use has occurred, it may edit or modify
any submission, posting or e-mails, remove the material permanently,
cancel postings, warn users, suspend users and passwords, terminate
accounts or take other corrective action it deems appropriate. DTC
Health, Inc. will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities
or court order requesting or directing DTC Health, Inc. to disclose
the identity of anyone posting any e-mails, or publishing or otherwise
making available any materials that are believed to violate these
Terms of Use. BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS
DTC HEALTH, INC. FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN
BY DTC HEALTH, INC. DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS
AND/OR FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUNCE OF INVESTIGATIONS
BY EITHER DTC HEALTH, INC. OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
Service
In order to use this Site, you must obtain access
to the World Wide Web and pay any service fee associated with that
access. You will need to provide all equipment necessary to connect
to the Site on the World Wide Web (including a computer, modem and/or
other access devices).
DTC Health, Inc., reserves the right to modify
or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, all or any part of this
Site and/or any software, facilities and services on this Site,
with or without notice, and/or to establish general guidelines and
limitations on their use.
Local Regulations
DTC Health, Inc. makes no representation that Materials
or other content in the Site are appropriate or available for use
outside the United States, its territories, possessions and protectorates.
If you choose to access the Site from other locations you do so
on your own initiative and at your own risk. You are responsible
for complying with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are
applicable. You specifically agree to comply with all applicable
laws concerning the transmission of technical data exported from
the United States or the country you reside in.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless DTC Health,
Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, agents, distributors,
partners and affiliates from and against any and all claims, demands,
liabilities, costs or expenses, including reasonable attorney's
fees, resulting from your breach of any of the foregoing provisions,
representations or warranties, and/or from your placement or transmission
of any content onto DTC Health's servers, and/or from any and all
use of your account.
Our Use of Content
DTC Health, Inc. will consider anything you provide
to DTC Health, Inc. and/or contribute to this Site as available
for our use free of any obligations to you.
By posting or uploading any content to this Site
and/or providing any communication or material to DTC Health, Inc.
("User Content"), you automatically and irrevocably: (a) grant and
assign to DTC Health, Inc. any and all rights in the User Content
throughout the world including without limitation all copyright,
together with all consents (if any) necessary to enable its reproduction,
distribution, modification, publishing and/or other exploitation
by DTC Health, Inc. and/or by any person authorized by DTC Health,
Inc., by any means and in all media now known or hereafter devised
without payment or other reference to you or any other person, and
to advertise and promote such exploitation, for the full period
of all such rights (together with any extensions and renewals) and
insofar as possible in perpetuity; (b) waive all moral rights in
the User Content which may be available to you in any part of the
world and confirm that no such rights have been asserted; (c) appoint
DTC Health, Inc. as your agent with full power to enter into any
document and/or do any act DTC Health, Inc. may consider appropriate
to confirm the grant and assignment, consent and waiver set out
above; (d) warrant that you are the owner of the User Content and
entitled to enter into these Terms of Use; (e) confirm that no such
User Content will be subject to any obligation, of confidence or
otherwise, to you or any other person and that DTC Health, Inc.
shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of such User Content.
Third Party Sites
This Site may link you to other sites on the Internet.
These sites may contain information or material that some people
may find inappropriate or offensive. These other sites are not under
the control of DTC Health, Inc., and you acknowledge that (whether
or not such sites are affiliated in any way with DTC Health, Inc.)
DTC Health, Inc. is not responsible for the accuracy, copyright
compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content
of such sites. The inclusion of such a link does not imply endorsement
of any site by DTC Health, Inc. or any association with its operators.
DTC Health, Inc. cannot ensure that you will be
satisfied with any products or services that you purchase from any
third party site that links to or from Flexicose.com since those
other sites are owned and operated by independent third parties.
DTC Health, Inc. does not endorse any of the merchandise, nor has
DTC Health, Inc. taken any steps to confirm the accuracy or reliability
of any of the information contained in such third party sites. DTC
Health, Inc. does not make any representations or warranties as
to the security of any information (including, without limitation,
credit card and other personal information) you might be requested
to give any third party, and you irrevocably waive any claim against
us with respect to such sites. We strongly encourage you to make
whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before
proceeding with any online transaction with any of these third parties.
Proprietary Online Services
Any area of this Site that is accessed through
any proprietary online service is subject to the rules, policies
and guidelines of such proprietary online service.
Jurisdictional Issues
The Materials and all other content in this Site
are presented solely for the purpose of providing entertainment
and information and promoting programs, films, music, and other
products available in the United States, its territories, possessions,
and protectorates. The Site is controlled and operated by DTC Health,
Inc. from its offices within the State of North Carolina, United
States of America.
These Terms of Use shall be governed by, construed
and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware,
as they are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed
entirely within Delaware. Any action you, any third party or DTC
Health, Inc. may bring to enforce these Terms of Use or, in connection
with any matters related to the Site shall be brought only in either
the State or Federal Courts located in Kent County, Delaware, and
you expressly consent to the jurisdiction of said courts.
If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be
unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision
shall be deemed severable for this agreement and shall not affect
the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. This
is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the matters
contained herein.
Claims of Infringement
If you believe that any content appearing on this
Site infringes your copyright rights, we at DTC Health, Inc. want
to hear from you. Please forward the following information in writing
to the Copyright Agent named below:
(a) your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail
address; (b) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim
has been infringed; (c) the exact URL or a description of each place
where alleged infringing material is located; (d) a statement by
you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use has
not been authorized by you, your agent, or the law; and (e) your
electronic or physical signature or the electronic or physical signature
of the person authorized to act on your behalf.
Copyright Agent:
DTC Health, Inc.
Attn: Business & Legal Affairs
200 Trans Air Dr.
Suite 600
Morrisville, NC 27560
Email: complaints@flexicose.com
DTC Health, Inc. seeks to preserve any and all exemptions from liability
that may be available under the copyright law, but does not necessarily
stipulate that it is a service provider as defined in USC section
512(c) or elsewhere. |