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1.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS Welcome to brainhead.com, LLC. brainhead.com,
LLC provides its service to you, subject to the following Terms of
Service ("TOS"), which may be updated by us from time to
time without notice to you. You can review the most current version
of the TOS at any time at: http://docs.brainhead.com, LLC.com/info/terms/.
In addition, when using particular brainhead.com, LLC services, you
and brainhead.com, LLC shall be subject to any posted guidelines or
rules applicable to such services which may be posted from time to
time. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by
reference into the TOS. brainhead.com,
LLC also may offer other services from time to time, such as
brainhead.com, LLC Store and brainhead.com, LLC Site that are
governed by different Terms of Services. 2.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE brainhead.com, LLC currently provides users
with access to a rich collection of on-line resources, including,
various communications tools, online forums, shopping services,
personalized content and branded programming through its network of
properties (the "Service"). Unless explicitly stated
otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current
Service, including the release of new brainhead.com, LLC properties,
shall be subject to the TOS. You understand and agree that the
Service is provided "AS-IS" and that brainhead.com, LLC
assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery
or failure to store any user communications or personalization
settings. In order to use the Service, you must obtain access to the
World Wide Web, either directly or through devices that access
web-based content, and pay any service fees associated with such
access. In addition, you must provide all equipment necessary to
make such connection to the World Wide Web, including a computer and
modem or other access device. Please be aware that brainhead.com,
LLC may create, by brainhead.com LLC or by others using te site
subject to the TOS, certain areas on the Service that contain adult
or mature content. You must be at least 18 years of age to access
and view such areas. 3. YOUR
REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS In consideration of your use of the
Service, you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and
complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service's
registration form (such information being the "Registration
Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration
Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide
any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or
incomplete, or brainhead.com, LLC has reasonable grounds to suspect
that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or
incomplete, brainhead.com, LLC has the right to suspend or terminate
your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the
Service (or any portion thereof). brainhead.com,
LLC is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users,
particularly children. For this reason, parents of children under
the age of 13 who wish to allow their children access to the Service
must create a brainhead.com, LLC Family Account. When you create a
brainhead.com, LLC Family Account and add your child to the account,
you certify that you are at least 18 years old and that you are the
legal guardian of the child/children listed on the brainhead.com,
LLC Family Account. By adding a child to your brainhead.com, LLC
Family Account, you also give your child permission to access all of
the Services including, email, message boards, clubs, instant
messages and chat (among others). Please remember that the Service
is designed to appeal to a broad audience. Accordingly, as the legal
guardian, it is your responsibility to determine whether any of the
Services and/or Content (as defined in Section 6 below) are
appropriate for your child. 4.
brainhead.com, LLC PRIVACY POLICY Registration Data and certain
other information about you is subject to our Privacy Policy. For
more information, please see our full privacy policy at http://docs.brainhead.com,
LLC.com/info/privacy/. 5. MEMBER
ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY You will receive a password and
account designation upon completing the Service's registration
process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of
the password and account, and are fully responsible for all
activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to
(a) immediately notify brainhead.com, LLC of any unauthorized use of
your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b)
ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.
brainhead.com, LLC cannot and will not be liable for any loss or
damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section 5. 6. MEMBER
CONDUCT You understand that all information, data, text, software,
music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other
materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or
privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person
from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not
brainhead.com, LLC, are entirely responsible for all Content that
you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Service.
brainhead.com, LLC does not control the Content posted via the
Service and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or
quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Service,
you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or
objectionable. Under no circumstances will brainhead.com, LLC be
liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to,
for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for any loss or
damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content
posted, emailed or otherwise transmitted via the Service. You agree
to not use the Service to:
a.
upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that is
unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious,
defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's
privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable;
b.
harm minors in any way;
c.
impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited
to, a brainhead.com, LLC official, forum leader, guide or host, or
falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a
person or entity;
d.
forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to
disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service;
e.
upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that
you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under
contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information,
proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as
part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
f.
upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that
infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other
proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party;
g.
upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or
unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk
mail," "spam," "chain letters,"
"pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation,
except in those areas (such as shopping rooms) that are designated
for such purpose;
h.
upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any material that
contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or
programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality
of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications
equipment;
i.
disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to
"scroll" faster than other users of the Service are able
to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other
users' ability to engage in real time exchanges;
j.
interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks
connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures,
policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;
k.
intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable
local, state, national or international law, including, but not
limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities
exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock
Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any
regulations having the force of law;
l.
"stalk" or otherwise harass another; or
m.
collect or store personal data about other users. You
acknowledge that brainhead.com, LLC does not pre-screen Content, but
that brainhead.com, LLC and its designees shall have the right (but
not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or move any
Content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the
foregoing, brainhead.com, LLC and its designees shall have the right
to remove any Content that violates the TOS or is otherwise
objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks
associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on
the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this
regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created
by brainhead.com, LLC or submitted to brainhead.com, LLC, including
without limitation information in brainhead.com, LLC Message Boards,
brainhead.com, LLC Clubs, and in all other parts of the Service. You
acknowledge and agree that brainhead.com, LLC may preserve Content
and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the
good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably
necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the TOS;
(c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of
third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal
safety of brainhead.com, LLC, its users and the public. You
understand that the technical processing and transmission of the
Service, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over
various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical
requirements of connecting networks or devices. 7.
SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE Recognizing the global
nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules
regarding online conduct and acceptable Content. Specifically, you
agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission
of technical data exported from the United States or the country in
which you reside. 8. PUBLIC
CONTENT POSTED TO brainhead.com, LLC (a) For purposes of the TOS,
"publicly accessible areas of the Service" are those
accessible by the general public. By way of example, a publicly
accessible area of the Service would include public brainhead.com,
LLC areas like “ and brainhead.com, LLC Message Boards, but would
not include private brainhead.com, LLC storage areas or private
brainhead.com, LLC communication services such as brainhead.com, LLC
mail sevices or brainhead.com, LLC idea poster. (b) With respect to
Content you elect to post for inclusion in publicly accessible areas
of brainhead.com, LLC or
that consists of photos or other graphics you elect to post to any
other publicly accessible area of the Service, you grant
brainhead.com, LLC the world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive
license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish such Content on the
Service solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and
promoting the specific brainhead.com, LLC area to which such Content
was submitted, or, in the case of photos or graphics, solely for the
purpose for which such photo or graphic was submitted to the
Service. This license exists only for as long as you elect to
continue to include such Content on the Service and shall be
terminated at the time you delete such Content from the Service. (c)
With respect to all other Content you elect to post to other
publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant brainhead.com,
LLC 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 Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or
to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology
now known or later developed. 9. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold brainhead.com, LLC, and its
subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other
partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to
or arising out of Content you submit, post to or transmit through
the Service, your use of the Service, your connection to the
Service, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights
of another. 10. NO
RESALE OF SERVICE You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell,
resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the
Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service. 11. GENERAL
PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE You acknowledge that
brainhead.com, LLC may establish general practices and limits
concerning use of the Service, including without limitation the
maximum number of days that email messages, message board postings
or other uploaded Content will be retained by the Service, the
maximum number of email messages that may be sent from or received
by an account on the Service, the maximum size of any email message
that may be sent from or received by an account on the Service, the
maximum disk space that will be allotted on brainhead.com, LLC's
servers on your behalf, and the maximum number of times (and the
maximum duration for which) you may access the Service in a given
period of time. You agree that brainhead.com, LLC has no
responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any
messages and other communications or other Content maintained or
transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that brainhead.com, LLC
reserves the right to log off accounts that are inactive for an
extended period of time. You further acknowledge that brainhead.com,
LLC reserves the right to change these general practices and limits
at any time, in its sole discretion, with or without notice. 12.
MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE brainhead.com, LLC reserves the right at
any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily
or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without
notice. You agree that brainhead.com, LLC shall not be liable to you
or to any third party for any modification, suspension or
discontinuance of the Service. 13.
TERMINATION You agree that brainhead.com, LLC, in its sole
discretion, may terminate your password, account (or any part
thereof) or use of the Service, and remove and discard any Content
within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation,
for lack of use or if brainhead.com, LLC believes that you have
violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the
TOS. brainhead.com, LLC may also in its sole discretion and at any
time discontinue providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or
without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the
Service under any provision of this TOS may be effected without
prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that brainhead.com, LLC may
immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related
information and files in your account and/or bar any further access
to such files or the Service. Further, you agree that brainhead.com,
LLC shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any
termination of your access to the Service. 1 4. DEALINGS
WITH ADVERTISERS Your correspondence or business dealings with, or
participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the
Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or
services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or
representations associated with such dealings, are solely between
you and such advertiser. You agree that brainhead.com, LLC shall not
be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred
as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence
of such advertisers on the Service. 15. LINKS
The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to
other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because brainhead.com, LLC
has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and
agree that brainhead.com, LLC is not responsible for the
availability of such external sites or resources, and does not
endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content,
advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such
sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that
brainhead.com, LLC shall not be responsible or liable, directly or
indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by
or in connection with use of or reliance on any such Content, goods
or services available on or through any such site or resource. 16.
brainhead.com, LLC'S PROPRIETARY RIGHTS You acknowledge and agree
that the Service and any necessary software used in connection with
the Service ("Software") contain proprietary and
confidential information that is protected by applicable
intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and
agree that Content contained in sponsor advertisements or
information presented to you through the Service or advertisers is
protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other
proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by
brainhead.com, LLC or advertisers, you agree not to modify, rent,
lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on
the Service or the Software, in whole or in part. brainhead.com, LLC
grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and
license to use the object code of its Software on a single computer;
provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy,
modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse
assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell,
assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise
transfer any right in the Software. You agree not to modify the
Software in any manner or form, or to use modified versions of the
Software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of
obtaining unauthorized access to the Service. You agree not to
access the Service by any means other than through the interface
that is provided by brainhead.com, LLC for use in accessing the
Service. 17.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
a.
YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS
PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS.
brainhead.com, LLC EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND,
WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
b.
brainhead.com, LLC MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT
(i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,
(ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR
ERROR-FREE,
(iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE
SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE,
(iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR
OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL
MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND
(v) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.
c.
ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE
OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU
WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR
LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
d.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED
BY YOU FROM brainhead.com, LLC OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL
CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS. 18. LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT brainhead.com,
LLC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR
OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF brainhead.com, LLC HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM:
(i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE;
(ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES
RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR
OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH
OR FROM THE SERVICE;
(iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR
TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA;
(iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE;
OR
(v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE. 19. EXCLUSIONS
AND LIMITATIONS SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF
CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE
LIMITATIONS OF SECTIONS 17 AND 18 MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. 20. SPECIAL
ADMONITION FOR SERVICES RELATING TO FINANCIAL MATTERS If you intend
to create or join any service, receive or request any news,
messages, alerts or other information from the Service concerning
companies, stock quotes, investments or securities, please read the
above Sections 17 and 18 again. They go doubly for you. In addition,
for this type of information particularly, the phrase "Let the
investor beware" is apt. The Service is provided for
informational purposes only, and no Content included in the Service
is intended for trading or investing purposes. brainhead.com, LLC
shall not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, usefulness or
availability of any information transmitted via the Service, and
shall not be responsible or liable for any trading or investment
decisions made based on such information. 21. NOTICE
Notices to you may be made via either email or regular mail. The
Service may also provide notices of changes to the TOS or other
matters by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally
on the Service. 22.
TRADEMARK INFORMATION brainhead.com, the brainhead.com logo,
brainheadKIDS, the brainheadKIDS design, brainheadAUCTION, the
brainheadAUCTION logo and design, myBRAINHEAD, myBRAINHEAD logo and
design, brainheadPRESS, brainheadPRESS logo and design, Idea Coach,
the Idea Coach log and design, brainheadU, brainheadUNIVERSITY, the
brainheadUNIVERSITY log and design, harebrain, the harebrain logo
and design, harebrain.com, trademarks
and service marks, and other brainhead.com, LLC logos and product
and service names are trademarks of brainhead.com, LLC Inc. (the
"brainhead.com, LLC Marks"). Without brainhead.com, LLC's
prior permission, you agree not to display or use in any manner, the
brainhead.com, LLC Marks. 23.
COPYRIGHTS and COPYRIGHT AGENTS brainhead.com, LLC respects the
intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the
same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that
constitutes copyright infringement, please provide brainhead.com,
LLC's Copyright Agent the following information:
1.
an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized
to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
2.
a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been
infringed;
3.
a description of where the material that you claim is
infringing is located on the site;
4.
your address, telephone number, and email address;
5.
a 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;
6.
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. brainhead.com,
LLC's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement
on its site is Robert Bachman who can be reached as follows: By
mail: Robert Bachman, Bachman Lapointe, Copyright Agent c/o
brainhead.com, LLC , 900 Chapel St # 1201New Haven, CT 06510(203)
777-6628 By email:
bachlap@aol.com, 24.
GENERAL INFORMATION The TOS constitute the entire agreement between
you and brainhead.com, LLC and govern your use of the Service,
superceding any prior agreements between you and brainhead.com, LLC.
You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may
apply when you use affiliate services, third-party content or
third-party software. The TOS and the relationship between you and
brainhead.com, LLC shall be governed by the laws of the State of
California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and
brainhead.com, LLC agree to submit to the personal and exclusive
jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Fairfield,
Connecticut. The failure of brainhead.com, LLC to exercise or
enforce any right or provision of the TOS shall not constitute a
waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOS is
found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the
parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give
effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and
the other provisions of the TOS remain in full force and effect. 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 the
Service or the TOS must be filed within one (1) year after such
claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section
titles in the TOS are for convenience only and have no legal or
contractual effect. 25.
VIOLATIONS Please report any violations of the TOS to our Customer
Care group allegations@brainhead.com All the
ideas posted in all areas of brainhead.com are subject to
inspection. brainhead.com
LLC does not condone copyright or any form of intellectual property
infringement. If you think that a user of brainhead.com may be infringing
on your previously protected material contact that user directly via
their brainhead.com user name.
If you think that brainhead.com has accidentallyinfringed on
your previously protected Intellectual property, please inform our
infringement department at allegations@brainhead.com.
Brainhead.com LLC is not responsible for content placed on
our site which may be in violation of any federal, state or local
law relating to alleged infringements on previoulsy registered
works, art, or any other applicable type of Intellectual property.
brainhead.com is provided as a forum to exchange and
temporarily store ideas and all related information relating to
those ideas. Any and
all representations made by users of brainhead.com are soley the
responsibility of those users and in no way reflects the opinions or
represenations of fact, both material or implied, of brainhead.com
LLC. Users who accept
the TOS and the users agreement are similarly notified that these
statements are an integral part of both agreements and will not be
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