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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE BEFORE USING THE <HIPSNACKS.COM>
WEB SITE (“SITE”). By continuing to access or use the
SITE, or any service on the SITE, you signify your
acceptance of the TERMS. From time to time, HIP4KIDS,
Inc. (“HIP4KIDS”) may modify the TERMS. Accordingly,
please continue to review the TERMS whenever accessing
or using the SITE. Your use of the SITE, or any service
on the SITE, after the posting of modifications to the
TERMS, will constitute your acceptance of the TERMS, as
modified. If at any time you do not wish to accept the
TERMS, you may not use the SITE. Any terms or conditions
proposed by you that are in addition to or which
conflict with the TERMS are expressly rejected by
HIP4KIDS and shall be of no force or effect.
1. User Assent to Terms and
Conditions of Service. You represent that you have read
and agree to be bound by the TERMS. Your use ofthe
information and services provided by HIP4KIDS and its
suppliers subjects you to the terms and conditions as
follows:
2. Rules for the SITE. You are
entirely responsible and liable for all activities
conducted through your use of the SITE. The SITE may be
used by you for your personal use only.
2.1 You further agree not to use the
SITE to send or post on any place on the SITE, any
message or material that transmits any information,
data, text, files, links, software, chat, communication
or other materials that HIP4KIDS considers to be
unlawful, harassing, libelous, infringing, defamatory,
abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, profane,
sexually oriented, threatening, racially or ethnically
offensive, intentionally misleading, or otherwise
objectionable, or that encourages conduct that could
constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil
liability or otherwise violate any applicable local,
state, national or international law or regulation, or
encourage the use of controlled substances. HIP4KIDS
will cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials
and/or agencies in the investigation of any person who
violates this Section of the TERMS.
2.2 You agree not to impersonate any
other person or entity, whether actual or fictitious,
including impersonating an employee or consultant of
HIP4KIDS or any of its affiliated companies.
2.3 You agree not to post on or use
the SITE to distribute or send illegal material of any
kind, including but not limited to in the form of text,
graphics, video, programs or audio. Posting content or
participating in any form of discussion with the
intention to commit any illegal activity is strictly
prohibited.
2.4 You agree not to use the SITE to
distribute in any manner any virus, worm, “Trojan horse"
or corrupted data.
3. Additional User Representations.
By using the SITE, you represent, warrant and covenant
that you: (i) have the power and authority to enter into
this Agreement; (ii) shall not use any rights granted
hereunder for any unlawful purpose; and (iii) shall use
the SITE only as set forth in these TERMS.
4. Content Monitoring. As a matter of
policy, HIP4KIDS does not prescreen or monitor all
information or dialogue. However, HIP4KIDS has the
right, but not the responsibility, to remove any
information or dialogue deemed in HIP4KIDS's sole
discretion to be harmful, offensive or otherwise in
violation of any rules HIP4KIDS has in place at the
time.
5. Content. The information
(including but not limited to advice and
recommendations) and services on the SITE are intended
solely for general educational purposes. None of the
information on the SITE is meant as a substitute for
professional healthcare or medical advice or services
from a certified clinician, physician, nutritionist or
healthcare provider who may have knowledge of any health
related problems unique to the user. None of this
material is meant to supplant medical treatment from a
certified or licensed healthcare professional. All
information herein is provided with the understanding
that neither HIP4KIDS nor any of its suppliers or users
are engaged in medical counseling. Your use of the SITE
is subject to all other disclaimers that may appear
throughout the SITE. HIP4KIDS and its affiliated agents
assume no responsibility for any consequences relating
directly or indirectly to any actions or inactions taken
by the user of these materials. HIP4KIDS endeavors to
keep all material on the SITE accurate, complete and
current. However, HIP4KIDS and its affiliates cannot
guarantee or be responsible for any damages or losses
related to the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of
the materials posted on the SITE.
6. Privacy Policy. Your privacy is
important to HIP4KIDS. HIP4KIDS’s privacy policy is set
forth on the separate document on this site entitled
"Privacy Policy."
7. MINOR USERS. IF YOU ARE A MINOR
THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, HIP4KIDS URGES YOU
TO CHECK WITH YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN BEFORE GIVING OUT
ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION OR LINKING TO ANY WEB SITE, AND
TO OBTAIN PERMISSION FROM A PARENT OR GUARDIAN BEFORE
BUYING ANYTHING ONLINE OR ENTERING ANY CONTEST THAT
REQUIRES INFORMATION ABOUT YOU OR OFFERS A PRIZE.
8. USERS UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE. IF
YOU ARE UNDER THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OF AGE, YOUR PARENT OR
GUARDIAN MUST GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO PARTICIPATE IN
ONLINE ACTIVITIES THAT REQUIRE REGISTRATION, AS SET
FORTH ON THE SEPARATE DOCUMENT ON THIS SITE ENTITLED
“PRIVACY POLICY.”
9. Contests. The SITE may contain
contests that offer prizes or require you to send in
material or information about yourself. Each contest has
its own rules, which you must read and agree to before
you may enter.
10. Links. The SITE may contain links
to other Internet sites on the World Wide Web. HIP4KIDS
provides such links for your convenience only, and is
not responsible for the content of any Web site linked
to or from this SITE. Links from this SITE to any other
Web site do not mean that HIP4KIDS approves of, endorses
or recommends that Web site. You hereby agree that your
access and use of any additional site material,
including information, material, products or services
contained therein, is solely at your own risk.
11. Submissions. All present and
future rights in and to trade secrets, patents,
copyrights, trade names, trademarks, service marks,
databases, know-how and other proprietary rights of any
type under the laws of any governmental authority,
domestic or foreign, including rights in and to all
applications and registrations relating to the SITE (the
"IP Rights") shall, as between you and HIP4KIDS, at all
times be and remain the sole and exclusive property of
HIP4KIDS. By submitting any content, including your
name, to any "public area" of the SITE, including
message boards, forums, contests and chat rooms, you
grant HIP4KIDS and its affiliates a royalty-free,
perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including
any moral rights) and license to use, reproduce, modify,
adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from,
distribute, communicate to the public, publicly perform
and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide
and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form,
media, or technology now known or later developed, for
the full term of any IP Rights that may exist in such
content. You also warrant that the holder of any IP
Rights, including moral rights in such content, has
completely and effectively waived all such IP Rights and
validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to
grant the license stated above. You also permit any user
to access, display, view, store and reproduce such
content for personal use. Subject to the foregoing, the
owner of such content placed on the SITE retains any and
all rights that may exist in such content. HIP4KIDS
welcomes your comments, feedback and input regarding
HIP4KIDS products and those of its affiliated companies
through this SITE. However, HIP4KIDS does not accept or
consider any material for use in any of its products or
services (including, but not limited to, demos,
sketches, drawings, notes, stories, and game or
character ideas), that has not been specifically
requested by HIP4KIDS. Accordingly, HIP4KIDS asks you
not to send us any such materials. If you ignore this
request, any such materials, comments, suggestions or
other information submitted by you to HIP4KIDS will
become the property of HIP4KIDS, with HIP4KIDS
exclusively owning all known and hereafter existing
rights to such materials, and you acknowledge and agree
not to contest HIP4KIDS's rights to use and disclose
such materials in any manner and for any purpose,
commercial or otherwise, without compensation to you.
ANYTHING CONTAINED HEREIN TO THE CONTRARY
NOTWITHSTANDING, BY SUBMITTING CONTENT TO ANY CONTESTS
OR OTHER AREAS ON <HIPSNACKS.COM>, YOU HEREBY EXPRESSLY
PERMIT HIP4KIDS TO IDENTIFY YOU AS THE CONTRIBUTOR OF
SUCH CONTENT IN ANY PUBLICATION IN ANY FORM, MEDIA OR
TECHNOLOGY NOW KNOWN OR LATER DEVELOPED UNLESS YOU
OTHERWISE NOTIFY HIP4KIDS IN WRITING AT THE TIME YOU
SUBMIT THE CONTENT THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE SO
IDENTIFIED.
12. Intellectual Property. The SITE,
including but not limited to any games and other
products, text, content, photographs, video, audio and
graphics contained therein from time to time, is
protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks,
international treaties and/or other proprietary rights
and laws of the U.S. and other countries. The SITE is
also protected as a collective work or compilation under
U.S. copyright and other laws and treaties. All text and
other content, including any individual games, articles,
columns, graphics and other elements of the SITE are
also copyrighted works. You agree to abide by all
applicable copyright and other laws, as well as any
additional copyright notices or restrictions contained
in the SITE, in accessing or using any such materials.
13. Restrictions on Use. You agree
not to use, transfer, distribute or dispose of any
information contained on the SITE for any commercial
purpose. You acknowledge that the SITE has been
developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected and
arranged by HIP4KIDS and others through the expenditure
of substantial time, effort and money and constitutes
valuable intellectual property and trade secrets of
HIP4KIDS and others.
14. License. You acquire no rights or
licenses in or to the SITE and materials contained
therein other than the limited right to utilize the SITE
in accordance with the TERMS.
15. Linking And Framing. (i) By
linking to the SITE, you represent that you have read
and agree to be bound by the TERMS. (ii) Upon linking to
the SITE pursuant to the TERMS, you will be granted a
non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license
terminable in the discretion of HIP4KIDS to use the
HIP4KIDS mark solely for providing an underlined,
textual link from your Web site to the SITE, and for no
other use. (iii) You may include a link on your Web site
only to the SITE home page, currently located at
http://www.hipsnacks.com ("Home Page"), provided that
you first send to HIP4KIDS via email to
allthat@hip4kids.org:
(a) your name or the name of the technical contact
responsible for the link(s); (b) the name of your
company; (c) the email address and telephone number for
you or the technical contact responsible for the
link(s); and (d) the Web site address(es) where the
link(s) to the Home Page will appear. (iv) Without
specific, written consent by HIP4KIDS, you are
prohibited from linking to an internal or subsidiary
page of the SITE that is located one or several levels
down from the Home Page ("deep link").
16. Disclaimer and Limitation of
Liability. You agree that your use of the SITE is at
your sole risk and acknowledge that the SITE and
anything contained therein, including, but not limited
to, content, services, goods or advertisements (the
"Items”) are provided "AS IS" and that HIP4KIDS MAKES NO
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE
ITEMS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MERCHANTABILITY,
NONINFRINGEMENT, TITLE, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE OR USE. You agree that HIP4KIDS, its suppliers
and its third-party agents shall have no responsibility
or liability for: (i) any injury or damages, whether
caused by the negligence of HIP4KIDS, its employees,
subcontractors, agents, suppliers or otherwise arising
in connection with the SITE; (ii) any fault, inaccuracy,
omission, delay or any other failure in the SITE; or
(iii) any reliance upon the content of the SITE. The
content of other Web sites, services, goods or
advertisements that may be linked to the SITE is not
maintained or controlled by HIP4KIDS. HIP4KIDS is
therefore not responsible for the availability, content
or accuracy of other Web sites, services or goods that
may be linked to, or advertised on, the SITE. HIP4KIDS
does not: (a) make any warranty, express or implied,
with respect to the use of the links provided on, or to,
the SITE; b) guarantee the accuracy, completeness,
usefulness or adequacy of any other Web sites, services,
goods or advertisements that may be linked to the SITE
or (c) make any endorsement, express or implied, of any
other Web sites, services, goods or advertisements that
may be linked to the SITE. You understand that HIP4KIDS
and/or any suppliers may choose at any time to inhibit
or prohibit their content from being accessed under the
TERMS.
17. Limitation of Liability. UNDER NO
CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HIP4KIDS’S
NEGLIGENCE, SHALL HIP4KIDS, ITS SUPPLIERS OR ITS
THIRD-PARTY AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY
FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL,
SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES EVEN IF AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF HIP4KIDS HAS BEEN ADVISED
SPECIFICALLY OF THE SITE OR ANY LINKS OR ITEMS ON THE
SERVICE OR ANY PROVISION OF THE TERMS, TO THE EXTENT
PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO ANY RELEVANT LAWS.
18. Governing Law. These TERMS shall
be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of
the United States of America and the State of New York,
without giving effect to conflicts-of-law principles
thereof. You agree to submit to the personal
jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in
the State and County of New York with respect to any
legal proceedings arising out of this Agreement and
waive any objection to the propriety or convenience of
venue in such courts.
19. Miscellaneous. You acknowledge
that HIP4KIDS has the right to change the content or
technical specifications of any aspect of the SITE at
any time at HIP4KIDS's sole discretion.
20. Official Correspondence. Official
Correspondence must be sent via postal mail to:
HIP4KIDS, Inc., 230 Park Avenue, Suite #462, New York,
NY 10169, Attn.: Christopher Daly, Chairman.
21. Copyright Contact
Information. The designated agent to receive
notification of claimed infringement under Title II of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is: Christopher
Daly, Chairman, HIP4KIDS, Inc., 230 Park Avenue, Suite
#462, New York, NY 10169, telephone: (212) 772-6215;
facsimile: (212) 772-0472; email:
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