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TERMS OF USE
THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW (THE "TERMS") GOVERN YOUR USE OF THE ROUNDONE, LLC ("ROUNDONE") WEBSITE, AND ARE LEGALLY BINDING ON YOU. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS, DO NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THIS SITE OR ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THE SITE. YOUR USE OF THE SITE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE YOUR AGREEMENT TO ABIDE BY EACH OF THE TERMS SET FORTH BELOW.
General Use Restrictions
All information, documents, products and services, trademarks, logos, graphics and images (the "Materials") provided on this site are the copyrighted work of RoundOne and its licensors. RoundOne grants you the limited right to display the Materials only on your personal computer, and to copy and download the Materials on its site solely for your personal use, provided that all copyright notices located on the Materials appear in the Materials so displayed, copied or downloaded. You agree not to use the Materials for any other purpose without the prior written consent of RoundOne. Without limitation, you agree not to reproduce, re-distribute, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any information contained in the Materials to anyone, including others in the same company or organization. You may not post any content from this site to news groups, mail lists or electronic bulletin boards. You acknowledge and agree that, except as set forth herein, you have no right to modify, edit, alter or enhance any of the Materials in any manner. This limited license terminates automatically, without notice to you, if you breach any of these Terms. Upon termination of this limited license, you agree to immediately destroy any downloaded or printed Materials. You may, however, include insubstantial portions of information from the RoundOne site on an occasional and irregular basis in memoranda, reports and presentations, provided that such memoranda, reports and presentations are distributed or otherwise made available only in non-electronic form, for a noncommercial purpose, to fewer than ten individuals. You must also include a description of the information used, attributions of the original sources of the information, and the phrase "Reprinted with permission of RoundOne, LLC. Copyright 2005, RoundOne, LLC, Providence, Rhode Island." Except as stated herein, you acknowledge that you have no right, title or interest in or to the Materials on any legal basis, without the advance written authorization of RoundOne. No Framing You agree not to "frame" or "mirror" any Materials or third party content contained on or accessible from this site on any other server or Internet-based device without the advance written authorization of RoundOne or its licensors, respectively. Third Party Interaction In your use of this site, you may enter into correspondence with, purchase goods and/or services, or participate in information sessions with contributors, advertisers or sponsors providing information or offering advice or products on our site. Unless otherwise stated, any such correspondence, advice, purchase or promotion, including the delivery of and the payment for goods and/or services, and any other term, condition, warranty or representation associated with such correspondence, advice purchase or promotion, is solely between you and the applicable third party. You agree that RoundOne has no liability, obligation or responsibility for any such correspondence, advice, purchase or promotion between you and any such third party.
Links to Third Party Sites
This site may be linked to other sites on the Web which are not under the control of or maintained by RoundOne. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by RoundOne of those sites. You acknowledge that RoundOne is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that RoundOne is not responsible for the content of such sites.
Professional Advice
The Materials on the site include articles and columns regarding financial, legal, business, tax and other matters. In all cases, the information provided in the Materials is of a general nature and for informational purposes only and may not be applicable to your specific situation. In no case is RoundOne, or any of its contributing authors, purporting to give you advice upon which you should rely without first seeking your own independent professional advice. Moreover, RoundOne takes no responsibility for the advice given by its independent contributing authors and you should not assume that RoundOne has verified the accuracy or completeness of any submission on this site. If you rely on any advice given on this site, you do so at your own risk. We do advise you in all circumstances to get independent, competent legal, tax and accounting advice.
Password Restricted Areas of the Site
Certain areas of this site are password restricted to authorized users ("Restricted Areas"). If you are an authorized user of the Restricted Areas, you agree that you are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account information, if any, and agree to notify RoundOne if the password is lost, stolen, disclosed to an unauthorized third party, or otherwise may have been compromised. You agree that you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account, including any fees which may be incurred under your password-protected account, whether or not you are the individual who undertakes such activities. You agree to immediately notify RoundOne of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security in relation to this site known to you.
Submissions
You acknowledge that you are responsible for the information and material that you submit, including chats or blogs, (each a "Submission") and that such Submissions should not violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, certain communications statutes and other applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are wholly responsible for your actions or the actions of any person using your screen name and/or password. You, and not RoundOne, will have full responsibility for each such Submission, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright. As such, you agree to hold RoundOne entirely harmless from and against any and all costs, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including attorney's fees) incurred by RoundOne in relation to, arising from or for the purpose of avoiding any claim or demand from a third party that your use of this site or the use of the site by any person using your screen name and/or password (including without limitation your participation in blogs or your other Submissions) violates any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party. Unless otherwise explicitly stated herein, you agree that any Submission provided by you in connection with this site is provided on a non-proprietary and non-confidential basis. You agree that RoundOne shall be free to use or disseminate a Submission which is posted on this site for any purpose. By submitting any Submission to the site, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such Submission has expressly granted, RoundOne the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Submission (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
Forums
Certain areas of this site may enable you to access online forums where you can post messages and read messages posted by other users ("Forums"). Some of the Forums topics are selected by RoundOne and others are created by users. RoundOne does not endorse, and specifically disclaims any responsibility or liability for, any content posted on the Forums, whether the topic is first selected by RoundOne or a user. The Forums are a free service provided to users of RoundOne. By posting a message in the Forums, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions. If you do not want to be bound by these terms, then do not use the Forums.
You agree to be fully responsible for your own postings and agree to access and use the Forums at your own risk on an as-is basis. While RoundOne has no obligation to monitor the Forums, it may, from time to time, monitor the Forums to determine whether postings comply with these Terms of Use, to guide the discussion on the Forums, or for other reasons. RoundOne cannot and does not guarantee that it will post or continue to post every message or other content you or other users submit to the Forum. Also, RoundOne reserves the right to edit or abridge postings for any reason and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in RoundOne's sole discretion.
You must abide by the following rules in connection with your use of the Forums:
- You agree to post only messages that relate to the subject matter of the Forum.
- You agree not to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others.
- You agree not to impersonate any person or entity, including, for example, a RoundOne employee or officer, a forum leader, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
- You agree not to post messages that contain material that is inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, or indecent. This includes any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. You agree to give attribution to others when you quote or paraphrase materials owned by others.
- You agree not to upload files, or cause users to upload files, that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may adversely affect the operation of another's computer.
- You agree not to advertise or promote any goods or services in the Forums. This includes, among other things, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", and "pyramid schemes."
- You agree not to conduct contests or distribute chain letters through the Forums.
- You agree not to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law in connection with your use of the Forums.
- You agree to indemnify and hold RoundOne and its affiliates and their respective, officers, directors and employees harmless from any claims, damages, losses or costs (including reasonable attorney's fees) that arise out of any of your postings and any material contained therein.
What to do if you believe a posting violates these Terms of Use: If you believe that a posting in a Forum violates these Terms of Use, we encourage you to contact RoundOne by sending an email.
