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Terms
and Conditions of Website Use
Effective October 12, 2004
This Website
is provided by Terra-M., and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “Terra-M”
and “we”). Your use of this Website is subject to these Terms and
Conditions of Website Use (the “User Agreement”). Please read this
User Agreement and the other information referred or linked to in this User Agreement
carefully and be sure you understand it, since it is a legally binding agreement
that contains important information about our Website and your permitted use of
it. From time to time we may unilaterally modify this User Agreement, so it is
important that you review this User Agreement every time you use this Website.
PLEASE
NOTE: YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY AND COMPLY
WITH ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS USER AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE
TERMS OF THIS USER AGREEMENT, THEN YOU MAY NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.
1. Right
to Use this Website
Terra-M
grants you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable license for you to use this Website
for your personal entertainment, information, education, and communication, upon
all of the terms of this User Agreement. This Website contains materials and other
items relating to Terra-M and its products and services, and similar items from
our business partners, licensors, and licensees, and other third parties (collectively,
the “Content”). The Content may be in the form of information, text,
data, images, graphics, button icons, registered and unregistered trademarks,
illustrations, photographs, audio clips, music, sounds, pictures, videos, software,
or other forms and formats now known or later invented. In using this Website,
you must respect the intellectual property rights of Terra-M and others, all as
outlined below. Your unauthorized use of Content may violate copyright, trademark,
privacy, publicity, communications, and other laws, and any such use may result
in your personal liability, including potential criminal liability.
2. Copyrights
All Content
is copyrighted, and it is either owned or used with permission by Terra-M. Terra-M
disclaims any representation or warranty that your unauthorized use of Content
will not infringe upon rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with
Terra-M.
Except as
set forth in this User Agreement or in the text of this Website, you may not reproduce,
distribute, publish, transmit, modify, adapt, translate, display, distribute,
sell, license, publicly perform, prepare derivative works based upon, or otherwise
use or exploit the Content. You may download one copy of portions of the Content
in temporary storage on one personal computer for your personal, non-commercial,
non-political, non-networked viewing and use only, provided you do not delete
or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. The foregoing
limited right does not give you any ownership of any Content. Except as expressly
provided above, nothing contained in this User Agreement may be construed as conferring
to you (by implication, estoppel, or otherwise) any license or right to any Content
under any copyright or any other intellectual property right.
Terra-M
respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your
work has been infringed by means of an improper posting or distribution of it
via this Website, then please see the paragraph below entitled Procedure for Alleging
Copyright Infringement.
3. Trademarks
The trademarks,
logos, and service marks displayed on this Website are owned by Terra-M and third
parties, and this Website’s trade dress is owned by Terra-M (collectively,
the “Trademarks”, which also constitute Content). All Trademarks not
owned by Terra-M are the property of their respective owners, and are used with
permission. Nothing contained on this Website may be construed as granting, by
implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any right or license to use any Trademark.
4. Your
Communications to Terra-M; Terra-M Rights to Your Submissions
Terra-M
likes to hear from you. However, in your communications with Terra-M, please keep
in mind that, unless it specifically requests them, Terra-M does not accept or
consider any ideas or suggestions relating to products, services, marketing plans,
or any other matters. Therefore, please do not send to Terra-M any unsolicited
materials, such as ideas for toys, games, or other products, or any other suggestions,
ideas, notes, drawings, inventions, techniques, models, designs, concepts, or
other similar information or materials.
Any such
submissions and any questions, comments, answers, suggestions, or the like submitted
by you to Terra-M via this Website or by fax, mail, or otherwise, or transmitted,
posted, or uploaded by you to this Website (collectively, “Your Submissions”)
will be treated as non-confidential and nonproprietary, and Terra-M will not assume
any responsibility, obligation, or liability for them or for Terra-M’s receipt
or non-receipt of them. Terra-M’s receipt of Your Submissions is not an
admission by Terra-M of their novelty, priority, or originality, and it does not
impair Terra-M’s right to contest existing or future intellectual property
rights relating to Your Submissions.
You grant
Terra-M a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and sublicensable
right and license to reproduce, distribute, publish, transmit, modify, adapt,
translate, display, distribute, sell, license, publicly perform, prepare derivative
works based upon, and otherwise use or exploit Your Submissions throughout the
world in any and all media. You represent and warrant that: (a) you have the right
and authorization to make the foregoing grant without the consent of any third
party, and (b) Your Submissions are accurate and, as permitted to be used by Terra-M
in this User Agreement, do not and will not infringe any right of any third party.
When you
send e-mail to us, you are communicating with us electronically and you consent
to receive communications from us electronically. Furthermore, you agree that
all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide
to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be
in writing.
5. Online
Shopping
This Website
and other Terra-M websites may offer online capabilities to purchase products
(such as toys) and services (such as memberships). You must be 18 years of age
or older to make any such purchases. Check our online stores for more information
on delivery, returns, and other sales policies. As to products and services featured
on this Website, please note that we make every effort to display as accurately
as possible the products and services that appear on this Website. However, the
colors, dimensions, and details that you see on your computer monitor will vary
depending on your equipment, so we cannot guarantee that your equipment will accurately
display the details of our products and services. As to services featured on this
Website, the terms of those service offerings may be specified in a separate agreement
that will be provided to you in connection with the service purchased and will
be supplemented by this User Agreement.
A. No Purchases
by Minors
By ordering
a product or service online from Terra-M, you represent that you are 18 years
of age or older. If a child under the age of 18 orders a product or service from
Terra-M without parental or guardian permission, then the parent or guardian may
return the product or service for a refund according to the posted returns and
exchanges policy that relate to that order.
B. Taxes
You are
responsible for paying all sales, use, and other similar taxes relating to any
of your online purchases of products or services from Terra-M.
C. Postage
and Handling; Insurance
You are
also responsible for paying all postage and handling charges relating to your
online purchases (including any product offered with a service), and for insuring
your purchases.
D. Returns
and Warranties
Please review
the information available at our online stores regarding our return policies and
warranty information.
6. Use
Restrictions
You agree
that you will not: (a) use this Website for any commercial or political purpose
(including, without limitation, for purposes of advertising, soliciting funds,
collecting product prices, or selling products); (b) monitor, gather, or copy
Content on this Website by using any robot, “bot”, spider, crawler,
spyware, engine, device, software, extraction tool, or any other automatic device,
utility, or manual process of any kind; (c) frame or utilize framing techniques
to enclose any Trademark or other proprietary information (including, without
limitation, any images, text, or page layout); (d) use any meta tags or any other
“hidden text” utilizing any Trademarks; (e) engage in any activities
through or in connection with this Website that seek to attempt to harm minors
or are unlawful, offensive, obscene, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that
violate any right of any third party; or (f) engage in any activity that interferes
with a user’s access to this Website or the proper operation of this Website.
You also agree that, in using this Website, you will not impersonate any person
or entity.
7. Community
Areas; Code of Conduct
Terra-M
may elect to offer community features on this Website, such as message or bulletin
boards, forums, and chat rooms. In such events, Terra-M will not assume any obligation
to monitor, filter, censor, edit, or regulate information or content provided
by you or third parties on this Website, although Terra-M reserves the right to
do so in its sole discretion. Terra-M does not endorse, warrant the accuracy or
reliability of, or assume any liability in connection with any such information
or content provided by users or other third parties.
As to any information or content that you upload or post to this Website, you
represent and warrant to Terra-M that you have the right and authorization to
do so without the consent of any third party. You also agree not to upload or
post to this Website: (a) infringing, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, threatening,
abusive, violent, illegal, rude, harassing, or otherwise improper content, (b)
viruses or other harmful items, or (c) content with a commercial purpose (such
as offers to sell products or services or attempts to solicit funds or advertise
products or services).
Terra-M reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to adopt additional rules
in any community area and to condition access to any such community features by
any individual or group in accordance with age, geographic, or other criteria,
to deny or restrict access by any individual or group who fails to meet that criteria
or by anyone who fails to comply with our criteria or rules at any time, and to
change or modify the criteria or rules at any time. Terra-M also reserves the
right (but does not assume any obligation), in its sole discretion, to delete
any postings on this Website that violate this User Agreement and to deny access
by any user to this Website.
8. Investigations;
Cooperation with Law Enforcement; Termination
Terra-M
reserves the right, without any limitation whatsoever, to: (a) investigate any
suspected breaches of its Website security or its information technology or other
systems or networks, (b) investigate any suspected breaches of this User Agreement,
(c) involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating any
such matters, (d) prosecute violators of this User Agreement to the full extent
of the law, and (e) discontinue this Website or terminate your access to it at
any time, without notice, for any reason and without any obligation to you whatsoever.
9. Privacy
and Security Measures
Terra-M
must collect certain information in order to operate this Website and to fulfill
your requests or enable participation in certain online activities. But Terra-M
respects the privacy of its visitors, and is especially mindful of protecting
the privacy of young children visiting our sites. Please click here to review
our Privacy Policy..
We have
adopted reasonable security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and
alteration of the personal information under our control. We use Secure Sockets
Layer technology to protect credit card data during transmission, and adopt careful
internal procedures to safeguard this information in our system. Vendors, service
providers, and others who help us make this Website and our products and services
available must sign confidentiality agreements; they are not permitted to use
personal information except in connection with their services to Terra-M. Nevertheless,
we cannot guarantee complete security of personal information.
10. Disclaimers
and Limitations of Liability
This Website
may include technical inaccuracies or other errors, and your use and browsing
of this Website is at your risk. THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS”
AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Terra-M DOES NOT WARRANT
THAT THIS WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR ACHIEVE A PARTICULAR RESULT,
OR THAT YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT
THIS WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER
HARMFUL COMPONENTS. IF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR THE MATERIAL CONTAINED ON THIS
WEBSITE RESULTS IN YOUR NEED TO SERVICE OR REPLACE ANY PROPERTY, MATERIAL, EQUIPMENT,
DATA, OR OTHER ITEM, THEN Terra-M WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THOSE COSTS. WITHOUT
LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING SENTENCES, Terra-M WILL NOT BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE. THE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS CONTAINED IN
THIS PARAGRAPH ARE A MATERIAL PART OF OUR AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE THIS WEBSITE TO
YOU. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied
warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.
Residents
of Oklahoma are entitled to the following specific consumer rights information:
you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services
of the Department of Consumer Affairs by mail at 400 R St., Suite 1080, Sacramento,
Oklahoma, 95814, or by telephone at 916.445.1254. Oklahoma residents expressly
agree to waive Oklahoma Civil Code Sec. 1542, which states: “A general
release does not extend the 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 must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.”
11. Links
by You to this Website
You are
granted a limited, non-exclusive, revocable right to create hyperlinks to
this Website, so long as: (a) the links are only to the home page of this Website,
(b) the links only incorporate text, and do not use any Trademark graphics, (c)
the links and related content on your site do not suggest any affiliation with
Terra-M or cause confusion among consumers, (d) the links and related content
on your site do not portray Terra-M or its products or services in a false, misleading,
derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter, and (e) the links and related content
on your site are not operated for any commercial purposes.
12. Links
on this Website to and from Other Sites
This Website
may contain links to or from third-party sites (“Linked Sites”), including,
without limitation, sites operated by advertisers, licensors, licensees, and promotional
and business partners of Terra-M. Terra-M has no control over the content of Linked
Sites, and Terra-M does not assume any obligation to review any Linked Sites.
Terra-M does not endorse, approve, or sponsor any Linked Sites, or any content,
advertising, information, materials, products, services, or other items on or
available on or from them, and Terra-M disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Any activities you engage in connection with a Linked Site is subject to the privacy
policy, conditions of use, and other terms imposed by the operator of the Linked
Site and Terra-M disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
13. Banners, Advertisements, and Promotions
We reserve
the right to post banners, advertisements, promotions, and similar content throughout
this Website. Any interactions, correspondence, and business dealings that you
have with any advertisers and other third parties found on or through this Website
(including via Linked Sites) are solely between you and the third party (including,
without limitation, issues related to the content of third party advertisements,
payments, delivery of goods, warranties, and the like). Terra-M disclaims all
liability in connection with therewith.
14. Procedure
for Alleging Copyright Infringement
Terra-M
will respond appropriately to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply
with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), as set forth
below. If you own copyrights in a work and believe that your intellectual property
rights in that work have been infringed by an improper posting or distribution
of it via this Website, then send us a written notice that includes all of the
following:
(i) a legend
or subject line that says: “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice”;
(ii) a description
of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
(iii) the
URL of the site and a description of where the material that you claim is infringing
is located on that site;
(iv) your
address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
(v) a statement
by you that you have a good faith belief that the alleged infringing material
is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
(vi) a statement
by you, made under penalty of perjury, that all the information in your notice
is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner (or, if you are not the copyright
owner, then your statement must indicate that you are authorized to act on the
behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed); and,
(vii) your
electronic or physical signature.
Terra-M
will only receive DMCA notices by mail, e-mail, or facsimile at the addresses
below:
By Mail:
Terra-M.
MAILING ADDRESS HERE
By E-Mail:
CopyrightInfringementNotice@Terra-M.com
Terra-M
may elect to not respond to DMCA notices that do not comply with all of the foregoing
requirements, and Terra-M may elect to remove allegedly infringing material that
comes to its attention via notices that do not comply with the DMCA. If you have
additional questions you may telephone Terra-M at 310.252.2000.
15. General
Provisions
A. Indemnity
You agree
to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Terra-M (which includes Terra-M’s
affiliates and subsidiaries) and its officers, employees, agents, business partners,
licensors, and licensees from any damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including
reasonable attorneys’ fees) on account of any claim, suit, action, demand,
or proceeding made or brought against any such party, or on account of the investigation,
defense, or settlement thereof, arising in connection with your use of this Website.
B. Revisions
to this Website and this User Agreement
Terra-M
may, in its sole discretion, make changes to any aspect of this Website, including,
without limitation, any Content, any activities available on this Website, and
any products or services offered through this Website. Terra-M may also, in its
sole discretion, revise this User Agreement by updating or revising this document,
with the revised terms taking effect as of the date of its posting. Continued
use of this Website following the effective date of any such changes constitutes
your acceptance of those changes.
C. Operation
of Website; Availability of Products and Services
Terra-M
controls and operates this Website from its headquarters in El Segundo, Oklahoma
in the United States of America, and Terra-M makes no representation that this
Website is appropriate or available for use beyond the United States of America.
If you use this Website from other locations, you are responsible for compliance
with applicable local laws. Although Terra-M products and services are available
in many parts of the world, this Website may describe products and services that
are available only in the United States of America (or only parts of it) and are
not available worldwide.
D. Jurisdiction,
Venue, and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Any controversy
or claim relating to this Website, the Content, or this User Agreement not otherwise
resolved between you and Terra-M will be settled solely by binding arbitration
in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration
Association (“AAA”), administered in accordance with the AAA’s
Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes. Any such controversy or
claim will be arbitrated on an individual basis, and will not be consolidated
in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration
will be conducted in Los Angeles, Oklahoma, and judgment on the arbitration
award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction of it. Any claim or cause
of action that you may have with respect to this Website, the Content, or this
User Agreement must be commenced within one year after the claim or cause of action
arises or it will be forever barred. Any action or proceeding by Terra-M relating
to your access to, or use of, this Website or any Content in accordance with this
paragraph will be instituted in state or federal court in Duncan,
Oklahoma. Accordingly, you consent to the personal jurisdiction of the courts
in Duncan, Oklahoma with respect to all matters relating to your
access to or use of this Website and the Content and waive your rights to removal
or consent to removal. This User Agreement will be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Oklahoma, without regard to its conflicts
of law provisions. The foregoing provisions of this paragraph will not apply to
any legal action taken by Terra-M to recover damages for, or seek an injunction
in connection with, any loss, cost, or damage (or any potential loss, cost, or
damage) relating to this Website, any Content, Terra-M’s operations, and/or
Terra-M’s products or services caused by your act or failure to act.
E. Severability
If any provision
of this User Agreement is deemed unlawful, void, or unenforceable for any reason,
then that provision will be deemed severable from the remainder of this User Agreement
and will not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this User
Agreement.
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