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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE. BY THIS
USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO
THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS SITE.
Permission is not granted to reproduce any part of these resources without
permission from PRED Incorporated. It is likewise not permitted to present
links to these resources in a manner that could cause confusion as to the
ownership of the resources, or that would cause the resources to be viewed
alongside commercial advertising (e.g., do not present any part of PRED Inc.
/ PRED.COM in the context of an HTML frameset). No Linking without prior
permission of PRED Incorporated / PRED.COM is permitted.
Spam Policy
- The email addresses found within this site are only to be used to
obtain further information with respect to the products or services
contained within PRED.COM. Any other use is classified as SPAM and is
prohibited.
- PRED Inc. / PRED.COM neither sells nor markets email addresses found
within this site.
- Permission is not granted to sell or market email addresses contained
within this site.
- Violations of our SPAM policy will be invoiced $100 per month in each
month of a violation. This cost covers our expenses incurred to process
SPAM. All invoices are due on receipt.
- Invoices in which payment is not received within 30 days of issuance
will incur interest at a rate of 1 1/2% per month and will subject the violator to a formal report to the
credit agencies and the invoice's will be turned over to a collection
agency.
General
- This site is owned and operated by PRED Incorporated.
(referred to as "PRED.COM"). PRED.COM has the right at any time to change or
discontinue any aspect or feature of the site, including, without
limitation, the content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for
access or use of the site.
- Equipment. You shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining all
telephone, computer hardware and other equipment needed for access to and
use of the site and all charges related thereto.
- Restrictions on Use.
- You shall use the site for lawful purposes only. You shall not post or
transmit through the site any material which violates or infringes in any
way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive,
defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene,
profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would
constitute a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability or otherwise
violate any law. Without PRED.COM express prior approval, you shall not post
or transmit through the site any material which contains advertising or any
solicitation with respect to products or services. You shall not use the
site to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, without
limitation, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other on-line
information services competitive with the site. Any conduct by you that in
PRED.COM discretion restricts or inhibits any other user from using or
enjoying the site will not be permitted.
- The site contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other
proprietary information, including, without limitation, text, software,
photos, video, graphics, music and sound, and the contents of the site are
copyrighted under the United States copyright laws. You may not modify,
publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer or sale, create
derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in
part. You may download one copy of any copyrighted material for your
personal, non-commercial home use only. Except as otherwise expressly
permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission,
publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be
permitted without the express written permission of PRED,COM and the
copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or
publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author
attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You
acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading
copyrighted material.
- You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on the site any
material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right
without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or
other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is
not protected by copyright rests with you. You shall be solely liable for
any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary
rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting
material to any public area of the site, you automatically grant, or warrant
that the owner of such material has expressly granted PRED.COM the
royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and
license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, display, translate and
distribute such material (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in
other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter
developed. You also permit any other user of the site to access, view, store
or reproduce the material for that user's personal use. You grant PRED.COM
the right to edit, copy, display, publish and distribute any material made
available on the site by you.
- The foregoing provisions of Section 3 are for the benefit of PRED.COM,
its subsidiaries, affiliates and its third party content providers and
licensors and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such
provisions directly or on its own behalf.
- Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability.
- YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. NEITHER
PRED.COM, ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS,
THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS
THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SITE, OR FROM THE INFORMATION CONTAINED
THEREIN, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION, SERVICE OR
MERCHANDISE PROVIDED THROUGH THE SITE.
- THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY
KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES
OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OTHER THAN THOSE WARRANTIES WHICH ARE IMPLIED BY AND
INCAPABLE OF EXCLUSION, RESTRICTION OR MODIFICATION UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE
USE OF THE SITE.
- THIS DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY APPLIES TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED
BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INACCURACY, INTERRUPTION,
DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS,
COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO,
ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF THIS SITE, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS
BEHAVIOR (INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY), NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE
OF ACTION, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW. THIS DOES NOT AFFECT
ANY STATUTORY RIGHTS WHICH MAY NOT BE DISCLAIMED. YOU SPECIFICALLY
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PRED.COM IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR
ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD-PARTIES OVER WHICH IT HAS NO
CONTROL.
- TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL PRED.COM
TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION WHETHER
IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING ITS OWN NEGLIGENCE) OR UNDER ANY OTHER LEGAL
THEORY (INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY) EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY,
FOR ACCESSING THIS SITE. THIS DOES NOT AFFECT ANY STATUTORY RIGHTS WHICH MAY
NOT BE DISCLAIMED.
- Monitoring. PRED.COM shall have the right in its sole discretion to
refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the site.
Without limiting the foregoing, PRED.COM shall have the right to remove any
material that PRED.COM, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of
the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable.
- Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless
PRED.COM and its affiliates and their respective directors, officers,
employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, demands,
damages, costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including reasonable
attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the site.
- Trademarks. PRED.COM is a trademark of PRED INCORPORATED. All rights
reserved. All other trademarks appearing on the site are the property of
their respective owners.
- Third Party Content. PRED, INC. or PRED.COM is not a publisher of
content supplied by third parties and users of the site. Accordingly,
PRED.COM has no more editorial control over such content than does a public
library, bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements,
services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made
available by third parties, including information providers and users, are
those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of PRED.COM. In
many instances, the content available through the site represents the
opinions and judgments of the respective information provider or user.
PRED.COM neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability
of any opinion, advice or statement made on the site by anyone other than
authorized PRED, INC. / PRED.COM employee spokespersons while acting in
their official capacities.
- Viruses. PRED.COM also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be
liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer
equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or
browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text,
images, video, or audio from the Site.
- Export Control. Software and other materials from this Site may also
be subject to United States Export Control. The United States Export Control
laws prohibit the export of certain technical data and software to certain
territories. No software from this Site may be downloaded or exported (1)
into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran,
Syria, or any other country to which the Unites States has embargoed goods;
or (2) anyone on the Unites States Treasury Department's list of Specially
Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders.
PRED.COM does not authorize the downloading or exportation of any software
or technical data from this Site to any jurisdiction prohibited by the
United States Export Laws.
- Business Associates. The business associates of PRED.COM identified
on this Site are independent contractors of PRED.COM. The business
associates are not joint ventures or partners of PRED.COM. No employee or
representative of the business associates is under the control of PRED.COM.
- Changed Terms. PRED.COM has the right at any time to change or modify
the terms and conditions applicable to use of the site, or any part thereof,
or to impose new conditions, including, without limitation, adding fees and
charges for use. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall
be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by any
means including, without limitation, posting on the site, or by electronic
or conventional mail, or by any other means. Any use of the site by you
after such notice shall be deemed to constitute acceptance of such changes,
modifications, additions or deletions.
- Miscellaneous. These terms of use constitute the entire agreement of
the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all
previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such
subject matter except for advertisers who have executed a written agreement
for advertising with PRED.COM. In this case, the terms of the signed
advertising agreement shall prevail. These terms of use shall be construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its
conflict of laws rules. You hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction of
the State of Texas, acknowledge that venue is proper in any state or Federal
court in the State of Texas, agree that any action related to these terms of
use must be brought in a state or Federal court in the State of Texas, and
waive any objection that may exist, now or in the future, with respect to
any of the foregoing. No waiver by either party of any breach or default
hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent
breach or default. The section headings used herein are for convenience only
and shall not be given any legal import.
- Links. PRED.COM website incorporates links to other websites. PRED.COM does
not in any way endorse, nor is it responsible for, the content on those
other websites.
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