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NationalEDC Terms of Use Agreement

October 26, 2007

NationalEDC.org is a website that allows Members to create unique personal profiles online in order to find and communicate with old and new family members and friends, and to organize events, classes, and fundraising. The services offered by NationalEDC ("NationalEDC" or "we") include the NationalEDC website (the "NationalEDC Website"), and any other features, content, or applications offered from time to time by NationalEDC in connection with the NationalEDC Website (collectively, the "NationalEDC Services"). The NationalEDC Services are hosted in the U.S.

This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the NationalEDC Services. By using the NationalEDC Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the NationalEDC Website) or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with NationalEDC). The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the NationalEDC Services (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave the NationalEDC Website and discontinue use of the NationalEDC Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member, communicate with other Members and make use of the NationalEDC Services, you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the Registration process.

NationalEDC may modify this Agreement from time to time and you agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the NationalEDC Services after any such modification is posted.

Please choose carefully the information you post on NationalEDC and that you provide to other Users. Your NationalEDC profile may not include the following items: telephone numbers, street addresses, and any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter. Despite this prohibition, information provided by other NationalEDC Members (for instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit material, products or services, and NationalEDC assumes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of the NationalEDC Services by any person, please contact NationalEDC.

NationalEDC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the NationalEDC Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability. NationalEDC expressly reserves the right to remove your profile and/or restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to any part of NationalEDC Services if NationalEDC determines, in its sole discretion, that you pose a threat to NationalEDC and/or its Users.

  1. Eligibility. Use of and Membership in the NationalEDC Services is void where prohibited. By using the NationalEDC Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c) you are 14 years of age or older; and (d) your use of the NationalEDC Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 14 years of age.
  2. Term. This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the NationalEDC Services or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Member's Account Settings page. NationalEDC may terminate your Membership at any time, without warning. Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including sections 5-17.
  3. Fees. You acknowledge that NationalEDC reserves the right to charge for the NationalEDC Services and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion. If NationalEDC terminates your Membership because you have breached the Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription fees.
  4. Password. When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify NationalEDC immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
  5. Non-commercial Use by Members. The NationalEDC Services are for the personal use of Members only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by NationalEDC. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the NationalEDC Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of or linking to the NationalEDC Website is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from Member profiles without notice and may result in termination of Membership privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken for any illegal or unauthorized use of the NationalEDC Services.
  6. Proprietary Rights in Content on NationalEDC.
    1. NationalEDC does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post to the NationalEDC Services. After posting your Content to the NationalEDC Services, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the NationalEDC Services, you hereby grant to NationalEDC a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the NationalEDC Services. Without this license, NationalEDC would be unable to provide the NationalEDC Services. For example, without the right to modify Member Content, NationalEDC would not be able to digitally compress music files that Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy technical requirements, and without the right to publicly perform Member Content, NationalEDC could not allow Users to listen to music posted by Members. The license you grant to NationalEDC is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to NationalEDC), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that NationalEDC is not required to pay you for the use on the NationalEDC Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that NationalEDC is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors such as Internet content delivery networks to provide the NationalEDC Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the NationalEDC Services are global in reach). This license will terminate at the time you remove your Content from the NationalEDC Services. The license does not grant NationalEDC the right to sell your Content, nor does the license grant NationalEDC the right to distribute your Content outside of the NationalEDC Services.
    2. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the NationalEDC Services or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the NationalEDC Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or through the NationalEDC Services.
    3. The NationalEDC Services contain Content of Users. Except for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the NationalEDC Services.
  7. Content Posted.
    1. NationalEDC may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of NationalEDC violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person. NationalEDC assumes no responsibility for monitoring the NationalEDC Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time NationalEDC chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the NationalEDC Services, NationalEDC nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content.
    2. You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of the NationalEDC Services, and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions with other Users. NationalEDC does not endorse and has no control over the Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by NationalEDC prior to posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of NationalEDC. NationalEDC makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the Content or to the accuracy and reliability of the Content or any material or information that you transmit to other Members.
  8. Content/Activity Prohibited. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the NationalEDC Services. NationalEDC reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in NationalEDC's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the NationalEDC Services and terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to Content that, in the sole discretion of NationalEDC:
    1. is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
    2. harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
    3. exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
    4. contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
    5. solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
    6. provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses;
    7. promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
    8. promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
    9. involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
    10. contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
    11. furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
    12. solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
    13. involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
    14. includes a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person's consent; or
    15. for band and filmmaker profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair, misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the profile.

    The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the NationalEDC Website and through your use of the NationalEDC Services. NationalEDC reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in NationalEDC's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:

    1. criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
    2. advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the NationalEDC Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the NationalEDC Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, NationalEDC reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which NationalEDC deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the NationalEDC Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to NationalEDC, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay NationalEDC $50 for each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you send through the NationalEDC Services;
    3. covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any NationalEDC page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
    4. any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;
    5. interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the NationalEDC Services or the networks or services connected to the NationalEDC Services;
    6. attempting to impersonate another Member or person;
    7. using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;
    8. selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
    9. using any information obtained from the NationalEDC Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person;
    10. displaying an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or through the NationalEDC Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on your profile, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose; or
    11. using the NationalEDC Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
  9. Copyright Policy. You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of NationalEDC to terminate Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt of proper notification to NationalEDC by the copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the NationalEDC Services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the NationalEDC Services; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. NationalEDC's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows: Copyright Agent, NationalEDC, 330 E Roosevelt Rd. Suite 2D-1, Lombard, IL 60148.
  10. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other NationalEDC Members. NationalEDC reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
  11. Privacy. Use of the NationalEDC Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
  12. Disclaimers. NationalEDC is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the NationalEDC Website or in connection with the NationalEDC Services, whether caused by Users of the NationalEDC Services or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the NationalEDC Services. Profiles created and posted by Members on the NationalEDC Website may contain links to other websites. NationalEDC is not responsible for the Content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are in no way investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by NationalEDC. Inclusion of any linked website on the NationalEDC Services does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by NationalEDC. When you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. NationalEDC takes no responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on this NationalEDC Website or through the NationalEDC Services, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers. NationalEDC is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of the NationalEDC Services. NationalEDC assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any User or Member communication. NationalEDC is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or on any of the NationalEDC Services or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to Users or to any person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the NationalEDC Services. Under no circumstances shall NationalEDC be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the NationalEDC Services, attendance at a NationalEDC event, from any Content posted on or through the NationalEDC Services, or from the conduct of any Users of the NationalEDC Services, whether online or offline. The NationalEDC Services are provided "AS-IS" and as available and NationalEDC expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. NationalEDC cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the NationalEDC Services.
  13. Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL NationalEDC BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF NationalEDC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, NationalEDC'S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO NationalEDC FOR THE NationalEDC SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
  14. Disputes. If there is any dispute about or involving the NationalEDC Services, you agree that the dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, USA, without regard to conflict of law provisions and you agree to exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts of the United States located in the State of Illinois, City of Chicago. Either NationalEDC or you may demand that any dispute between NationalEDC and you about or involving the NationalEDC Services must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in Chicago, Illinois, USA, provided that the foregoing shall not prevent NationalEDC from seeking injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.
  15. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold NationalEDC, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the NationalEDC Services in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above and/or if any Content that you post on the NationalEDC Website or through the NationalEDC Services causes NationalEDC to be liable to another.
  16. Other. This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the NationalEDC Website or any of the NationalEDC Services and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and NationalEDC regarding the use of the NationalEDC Services. The failure of NationalEDC to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. NationalEDC is a trademark of NationalEDC, Inc. This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Please contact us with any questions regarding this Agreement.

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