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under which you are permitted to use the afritopic.com service. Use
of afritopic.com implies acceptance of these conditions. Afritopic may revise these Terms of Use at any time without notice, and you
hereby agree to be bound by such changes. It is your responsibility to
check these terms periodically.
Copyright
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or its suppliers and are protected by U.S. and
international copyright laws. Afritopic grants you permission to
view, download, and print publicly accessible contents of afritopic.com for personal (non-commercial) use as long as copyright and trademark
notices are kept intact.
You agree not to modify, rent, lease,
sell, distribute, mirror, imitate the design elements of, or create
derivative works based on afritopic.com, in whole or in part,
without explicit written permission from Afritopic.
Trademarks and Service Marks
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Similarity is a trademark of Afritopic. You may make
fair use of these marks in referring to our products and services as
long as you provide standard attribution. You also have permission to
use these marks as described below in "Linking to afritopic.com".
Any other use is prohibited. The magazine names and column names
appearing on this site are the property of their respective publishers.
Linking to afritopic.com
We grant you a non-assignable, non-transferable, and non-exclusive
license to link to any part of the afritopic.com site using the afritopic.comSM
name or logos as described in Help / Link to Us for the purpose of
providing users with access to the afritopic.com service. The afritopic.com
name and logos may not be used for any other purpose, including, but not
limited to, suggesting affiliation, endorsement, or sponsorship by afritopic.com
or Afritopic. We reserve the right to terminate or alter this
license at any time without cause or notice.
Control of the Website
Afritopic reserves the right to change or remove services, modify
or remove article citations, magazines, or other content, and correct
errors or omissions on any part of afritopic.com without cause or
notice.
Access Restrictions
Afritopic reserves the right to terminate or restrict your access
to afritopic.com and to remove any user-created content, at any
time, without cause or notice.
Use of the Website
You agree not to use afritopic.com in a way which is detrimental to
others or their use of afritopic.com, including, but not limited to:
- Placing an unreasonable burden on
the site's processing capacity.
- Using automated software that does
not obey the robot exclusion standard to fetch data from the site.
- Using automated software to fetch
pages from the site at a rate greater than two pages per minute.
- Attempting to gain access to
restricted data.
- Using an account belonging to
someone else (unless you are their legal guardian).
- Transmitting or posting:
- Information when you do not
legally have the authority to do so (for example materials
protected by intellectual property laws or nondisclosure
agreements, inside information, etc.).
- Material that is abusive,
obscene, hateful, threatening, libelous, discriminatory,
deceitful or unlawful.
- Material that contains computer
viruses or other intentionally destructive elements.
- Material that violates or
encourages the violation of the law or the rights of another.
Login and Password
You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your login name and
password. Any transactions performed with your login are your
responsibility regardless of whether or not you gave consent for them.
If your password is compromised you must report it to afritopic.com immediately.
Privacy
Please view Help / Privacy Policy for details on the information we
collect and how it is used. Note that we may disclose information if we
believe in good faith that it is necessary to satisfy any law or
regulation.
Feedback Information
Any feedback information provided to Afritopic shall be provided on
a non-confidential basis. Afritopic shall be free to use such
information on an unrestricted basis. You waive all intellectual
property rights to such feedback.
Use of Posted Information
You agree that if you post material to a public part of afritopic.com,
you automatically grant a license for Afritopic to use, reproduce,
modify, retransmit, or create derivative works from that material. This
license is royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully
sublicensable. You agree to waive your intellectual property rights to
such materials.
Links and Third Parties
afritopic.com provides links to numerous third party websites. Such
sites may contain material that is offensive to certain users. We do not
control the content of those sites and do not vouch for the quality,
legality or suitability of any information, services, or products they
provide. Afritopic does not guarantee the quality or suitability of
products advertised on afritopic.com or any services provided on the afritopic.com
site by a third party.
Disclaimer of Warranties
afritopic.com is a free service provided by Afritopic. Afritopic explicitly disclaims responsibility for the accuracy of the
article citations it provides, or the suitability, validity, or
availability of the articles themselves. We do not guarantee the
completeness of the afritopic.com results or article
listings. We do not make any guarantee against the loss or removal of
any data which you post to afritopic.com.
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS
IS" ON AN "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITH NO WARRANTIES
WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, Afritopic EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY
RIGHTS. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH afritopic.com OR ANY OF Afritopic'S TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO
DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.
Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL Afritopic OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES BE
HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM USE, INABILITY TO
USE, OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF MAGPORTAL. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
SHALL APPLY TO PREVENT RECOVERY OF DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL AND EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF Afritopic HAS
BEEN PREVIOUSLY ALERTED TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) ARISING FROM
USE OF OR TRANSACTIONS THROUGH THE MAGPORTAL SERVICE, USE OF ANY THIRD
PARTY SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH MAGPORTAL, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO YOUR
INFORMATION TRANSMISSIONS. These limitations shall apply notwithstanding
any failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy. Because some
jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations on implied warranties,
some of the above limitations may not apply to you.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Afritopic, its affiliates, its
officers, and its employees harmless from any claim, including
attorneys' fees, made by any third party arising from your use of afritopic.com,
your violation of the Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of
another. You agree to cooperate fully in the defense of any claim. Afritopic
reserves the right to assume the exclusive defense and
control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you and
you shall not in any event settle any matter without the written consent
of the Company.
Applicable Law
You agree that all legal issues related to your use of afritopic.com will be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
without regard to conflicts of law provisions. If any provision of these
Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall have
no effect on any other provision of these Terms of Use.
Removal of Sites
In general, Afritopic believes that persons who make information
available on the Web do so with the expectation that such information
will be publicly and widely available and will be indexed by information
location services such as afritopic.com. If you do not wish to have
your site indexed on afritopic.com, see Help / For Publishers / Get
Removed from afritopic.com. Afritopic reserves the right, in
its sole discretion, to remove any link at any time, without prior
notice, for any reason or no reason at all.
Violations of Terms of Use
If you violate these Terms of Use or any other rights of Afritopic,
we reserve the right to purse any and all legal remedy against you,
including, but not limited to, terminating your access to afritopic.com.
The failure of Afritopic to exercise or enforce any right or
provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of that
right or provision.
Miscellaneous
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement of the parties and
supersede any prior agreements on this matter. The user cannot assign
this agreement. Any cause of action you may have with respect to the use
of afritopic.com must be commenced within one (1) year after the
claim or cause of action arises.
Contact Us
If you have questions about these Terms of Use, or wish to inform us
that you believe there is an infringement of your copyright on afritopic.com,
please send correspondence to the address in Help / Contact Us marked
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