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Terms of Use
Your use of our Internet sites or any
of the products or services offered on those sites
(collectively, the "Services") is subject to these Terms of Use
(these "Terms"). We may modify these Terms at any time without
notice to you by posting revised Terms on our sites. Your use of
our sites constitutes your binding acceptance of these Terms,
including any modifications that we make.
Some of the Services may be subject to additional posted
conditions. Your use of those Services is subject to those
conditions, which are incorporated into these Terms by
reference. In the event of an inconsistency between these Terms
and any additional posted conditions, the provisions of the
additional conditions shall control.
We have the right, but not the obligation, to take any of the
following actions in our sole discretion at any time and for any
reason without giving you any prior notice:
Restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part
of our Services;
Change, suspend, or discontinue all or any part of our Services;
Refuse, move, or remove any material that you submit to our
sites for any reason;
Refuse, move, or remove any content that is available on our
sites;
Deactivate or delete your accounts and all related information
and files in your account;
Establish general practices and limits concerning use of our
sites.
You agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party
for taking any of these actions.
You understand and agree that our Services may include
communications such as service announcements and administrative
messages from us or from our partners and that these
communications are considered part of the Services. You will not
be able to opt out of receiving these messages. You also
understand that our Services may include advertisements.
Content on our sites
Our sites include a combination of content that we create, that
our partners create, and that our users create. All materials
published on our sites, including, but not limited to, written
content, photographs, graphics, images, illustrations, marks,
logos, sound or video clips, and Flash animation, are protected
by our copyrights or trademarks or those of our partners. You
may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer
or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute,
publicly perform, publicly display, or in any way exploit any of
the materials or content on our sites in whole or in part. If
you would like to request permission to use any of the content
on our sites, please review our copyright notice and visit our
Permissions and Reprints page.
You are solely responsible for all materials, whether publicly
posted or privately transmitted, that you upload, post, e-mail,
transmit, or otherwise make available on our sites ("Your
Content"). You certify that you own all intellectual property
rights in Your Content. You hereby grant us, our affiliates, and
our partners a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free,
nonexclusive, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, create
derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly
display, transfer, transmit, distribute, and publish Your
Content and subsequent versions of Your Content for the purposes
of (i) displaying Your Content on our sites, (ii) distributing
Your Content, either electronically or via other media, to users
seeking to download or otherwise acquire it, and/or (iii)
storing Your Content in a remote database accessible by end
users, for a charge. This license shall apply to the
distribution and the storage of Your Content in any form,
medium, or technology now known or later developed.
Our site contains content that we create as well as content
provided by third parties. This content includes, among other
things, product reviews, white papers, and stock quotes. It also
includes information about products and services offered by
parties other than H&E Designs, such as product descriptions,
specifications, pricing, availability, and performance. We do
not guarantee the accuracy, the integrity, or the quality of the
content on our sites, and you may not rely on any of this
content. Without limitation, we are not responsible for postings
by users in the user opinion, message board, or feedback
sections of our sites.
You may be exposed to content that you find offensive, indecent,
or objectionable or that is inaccurate, and you bear all risks
associated with using that content. We have the right, but not
the obligation, to remove any content that may, in our sole
discretion, violate these Terms or that is otherwise
objectionable.
Third-party sites, products, and Services
Our sites contain links to other Internet sites owned by third
parties. Your use of each of those sites is subject to the
conditions, if any, that each of those sites has posted. We have
no control over sites that are not ours, and we are not
responsible for any changes to or content on them. Our inclusion
on our sites of any third-party content or a link to a
third-party site is not an endorsement of that content or
third-party site.
We do not sell, resell, or license any of the products or the
services that we review, list, or advertise on our sites, and we
disclaim any responsibility for or liability related to them.
Your correspondence or related activities with third parties,
including payment transactions and goods-delivery transactions,
are solely between you and that third party. You agree that we
will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any
sort incurred as the result of any of your transactions with
third parties. Any questions, complaints, or claims related to
any product or service should be directed to the appropriate
vendor.
Your conduct on our sites
If we request registration information from you, you will
provide us with true, accurate, current, and complete
information. You will promptly update your registration to keep
it accurate, current, and complete. If we issue you a password,
you may not reveal it to anyone else. You may not use anyone
else's password. You are responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of your accounts and passwords. You agree to
immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your passwords
or accounts or any other breach of security. You also agree to
exit from your accounts at the end of each session. We will not
be responsible for any loss or damage that may result if you
fail to comply with these requirements.
The technology and the software underlying our sites and the
Services is the property of H & E Designs, our
affiliates, and our partners. You agree not to copy, modify,
rent, lease, loan, sell, assign, distribute, reverse engineer,
grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any right to
the technology or software underlying our sites or the Services.
You agree not to modify the software underlying our sites in any
manner or form or to use modified versions of such software,
including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining
unauthorized access to our sites.
Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that you will not use
our sites to take any of the following actions:
Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate the
legal right of others;
Publish, post, upload, e-mail, distribute, or disseminate
(collectively, "Transmit") any inappropriate, profane,
defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, or unlawful content;
Transmit files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any
other similar software or programs that may damage or adversely
affect the operation of another person's computer, our sites,
any software or hardware, or telecommunications equipment;
Advertise or offer to sell any goods or services for any
commercial purpose unless you have our written consent to do so;
Transmit surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, spam, unsolicited
advertising or promotional materials, or chain letters;
Download any file that you know or reasonably should know cannot
be legally obtained in such manner;
Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper
notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or
the source of software or other material;
Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying any
public area within our sites;
Collect or store personal information about other end users;
Interfere with or disrupt our sites, servers, or networks;
Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to,
a H & E Designs representative, or falsely state or
otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
Forge headers or manipulate identifiers or other data in order
to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through our
sites or to manipulate your presence on our sites;
Take any action that imposes an unreasonably or
disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
Engage in any illegal activities.
You agree to use our bulletin board services, chat areas, news
groups, forums, communities and/or message or communication
facilities (collectively, the "Forums") only to send and receive
messages and material that are proper and related to that
particular Forum.
If you choose a username that, in our sole discretion, is
obscene, indecent, abusive or that might otherwise subject us to
public disparagement or scorn, we reserve the right, without
prior notice to you, to automatically change your username,
delete your posts from our sites, deny you access to our sites,
or any combination of these options.
Unauthorized access to our sites is a breach of these Terms and
a violation of the law. You agree not to access our sites by any
means other than through the interface that is provided by H & E
Designs for use in accessing our sites. You agree not
to use any automated means, including, without limitation,
agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access, monitor, or copy
any part of our sites, except those automated means that we have
approved in advance and in writing.
Use of our sites is subject to existing laws and legal process.
Nothing contained in these Terms shall limit our right to comply
with governmental, court, and law-enforcement requests or
requirements relating to your use of our sites.
Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold H & E Designs and all of our officers, directors, owners, employees,
agents, information providers, affiliates, partners, and
licensors (collectively, the "H & E Designs Parties") harmless
from and against any and all liability, losses, costs, and
expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by any H & E
Designs Party in connection with any claim, including, but not
limited to, claims for defamation, violation of rights of
publicity and/or privacy, copyright infringement, or trademark
infringement arising out of:
Your use of our sites;
Any use or alleged use of your accounts or your passwords by any
person, whether or not authorized by you;
The content, the quality, or the performance of content that you
submit to our sites;
Your connection to our sites;
Your violation of these Terms; or
Your violation of the rights of any other person or entity.
We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the
exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are
required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our
defense of these claims.
Disclaimers
We disclaim any responsibility for the deletion, the failure to
store, the misdelivery, or the untimely delivery of any
information or material. We disclaim any responsibility for any
harm resulting from downloading or accessing any information or
material on the Internet using search results from our sites. We
disclaim any responsibility for, and if you subscribe to one of
our fee-based services you will not be entitled to a refund as a
result of, any service outages that are caused by our
maintenance on the servers or the technology that underlies our
sites, failures of our service providers (including
telecommunications, hosting, and power providers), computer
viruses, natural disasters or other destruction or damage of our
facilities, acts of nature, war, civil disturbance, or any other
cause beyond our reasonable control.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT OUR SITES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR
FREE. IN ADDITION, WE DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE CONTENT
ON OUR SITES. OUR SITES AND THEIR CONTENT ARE DISTRIBUTED ON AN
"AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. ANY MATERIAL THAT YOU DOWNLOAD OR
OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH OUR SITES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN
DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
POTENTIAL DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT
RESULTS FROM YOUR DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. NEITHER WE NOR
ANY OF OUR PARTNERS MAKES ANY WARRANTY THAT (i) OUR SITES WILL
MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) OUR SITES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED,
TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE
OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF OUR SITES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE,
(iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR
OTHER MATERIAL THAT YOU PURCHASE OR OBTAIN THROUGH OUR SITES
WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (v) ANY ERRORS WILL BE
CORRECTED. NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF OUR PARTNERS MAKES ANY
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH
RESPECT TO OUR SITES, ANY CONTENT, OR ANY OF OUR SERVICES,
TOOLS, PRODUCTS, OR PROPERTIES. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOU
WILL ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND THE
PERFORMANCE OF OUR SITES AND THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ITS
CONTENT.
NEITHER WE NOR OUR PARTNERS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE OUR SITES, EVEN IF WE HAVE
BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN
SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY AND THAT OF OUR THIRD-PARTY CONTENT
PROVIDERS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE
GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Arbitration
H & E Designs may elect to resolve any controversy or
claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or our sites by
binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial
arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any
such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual
basis and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any
claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall
be conducted in San Francisco, Tennessee, and judgment on the
arbitration award may be entered in any court having
jurisdiction thereof. Either you or we may seek any interim or
preliminary relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in San
Francisco, Tennessee, necessary to protect the rights or the
property of you or H & E Designs, Inc. (or its agents,
suppliers, and subcontractors), pending the completion of
arbitration.
Miscellaneous
We may be required by state or federal law to notify you of
certain events. You hereby acknowledge and consent that such
notices will be effective upon our posting them on our sites or
delivering them to you through e-mail. You may update your
e-mail address by visiting the Services where you have provided
contact information. If you do not provide us with accurate
information, we cannot be held liable if we fail to notify you.
You have the right to request that we provide such notices to
you in paper format, and may do so by contacting the General
Counsel, H & E Designs, Inc., 235 Second Street, San
Francisco, Tennessee 94105.
Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of
these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or
provision.
You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary,
any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of
our sites or these Terms must be filed within one (1) year after
such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
These Terms, including all terms, conditions, and policies that
are incorporated into these terms by reference, constitute the
entire agreement between you and H & E Designs and
govern your use of our sites, superceding any prior agreements
that you may have with us.
These Terms shall be construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of Tennessee, and the parties irrevocably consent to
bring any action to enforce these Terms before an arbitration
panel or before a court of competent jurisdiction in San
Francisco, Tennessee if seeking interim or preliminary relief
or enforcement of an arbitration award.
If any part of these Terms is determined to be invalid or
unenforceable pursuant to applicable law, then the invalid or
unenforceable provision will be deemed superceded by a valid,
enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of
the original provision, and the remainder of the Terms shall
continue in effect.