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For your convenience, changes to the terms and conditions generally will be noted in the "Changes" section for one month after a change becomes effective. Any change will be effective immediately, and need not be noted in the "Changes" section to be binding upon all subsequent visitors to the site.

Changes

There have been no changes to the terms and conditions governing your use of this site during the past month. Disclaimers and Limitations of Warranties

This site is provided as a research and reference tool. Although we make every reasonable effort to ensure that the products, information, analytical tools and data provided at this site are useful, accurate, and current, we cannot guarantee that the information, tools and data provided here will be error-free or that will be fit for a user's particular use. By using this site, you assume all responsibility for and risk arising from your use of and reliance upon the contents of this site.

Neither Thompson Publishing Group® nor any third party from whom Thompson Publishing Group® has received content for this site provides any legal advice. This site is a general service that provides legal forms and information over the Internet. Thompson Publishing Group® is not a law firm and cannot provide you with legal advice. The information available on this site does not, and is not intended to constitute legal advice to be applied to any specific factual situation. With respect to the legal forms provided on the site, as aspects of the law vary between jurisdictions, you should consult a lawyer in your jurisdiction to help you determine whether the information provided on this site is applicable or correct.

Your use of this site does not create or constitute an attorney-client relationship between a user of this site and Thompson Publishing Group®, any employee or other person associated with Thompson Publishing Group®, or any third party that has provided content for this site.

No Endorsement

References and links to products and services belonging to third parties are provided for your convenience and do not represent our express or implied endorsement of such products or services, unless otherwise noted. Materials accessible from or added to this site by third parties, such as comments posted in chat groups, on bulletin boards or similar fora, are strictly the responsibility of the third party who added such materials or made them accessible and we neither endorse nor undertake to control, monitor, edit or assume responsibility for any such third-party material. Any hypertext links are to be accessed at the user's own risk, and Thompson Publishing Group® makes no representations or warranties about the content of these links.

User Submissions

You may NOT submit or upload statements, data, or materials to Thompson.com that (i) are harassing, threatening, obscene, defamatory, racially or sexually offensive, invasive of others' privacy, or otherwise unlawful, (ii) contain viruses or other harmful computer code or data, or (iii) in our judgment have the effect of disrupting others' use of Thompson.com. "Unlawful" as used here means, without limitation, violation of any civil or criminal laws and the unauthorized use of proprietary materials owned by others, such as text and audio-visual material protected by copyright, trademarks and logos, and commercial uses of the name or likeness of persons living or dead.

You may NOT use Thompson.com to advertise any product or service without our prior written consent. You agree that Thompson.com has the right, but not the obligation, to delete statements, data, or materials that you submit or upload to the site that violate these guidelines or any of the terms of this Agreement. Thompson.com does not have the ability or the intention to pre-screen or edit statements, data, and materials submitted or posted to the site by you or third parties. Accordingly, you agree that Thompson.com shall have no liability to you or any third party for statements, data, or materials posted to the site or for the removal of such materials if it is brought to our attention and deemed by us to be in violation of this Agreement.

Information Provided by User

As a customer of Thompson Publishing Group®, you may be asked to provide credit card or other payment information in order to be able to purchase the products and services provided on this site. By providing such information, you represent and warrant to Thompson Publishing Group® that the information provided is accurate and complete, and you also agree that you will be liable for any damages, costs or expenses incurred by Thompson Publishing Group® as a result of any misrepresentation made by you with respect to any information provided by you to Thompson Publishing Group®.

Disclaimers

This site and its contents are provided "as is." We disclaim all warranties, express and implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability and of fitness for a particular purpose with respect to any information contained on, accessible through or derived by you from this site and with respect to any products or services purchased by you through this site. We likewise disclaim any and all liability to you arising out of interruption or damage to your computer system or software as the result of accessing or otherwise using this site.

We neither warrant nor represent that the services or information available through this site will enable you to achieve any particular result or outcome, legal economic, education, or otherwise.

Neither Thompson Publishing Group® nor any third parties from whom Thompson Publishing Group® has received content for this site shall be liable for any incidental, indirect, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary damages of any kind, including lost revenues, lost profits, or loss of data arising out of your use of this site. In the event that any of the foregoing limitations and disclaimers is ineffective, you agree that the maximum liability of Thompson Publishing Group® or any third parties from whom Thompson Publishing Group® has received content for this site shall be the total of the fees you have paid to Thompson Publishing Group® in connection with your access to this site and/or for products or services you have purchased from us through this site.

We expect that this site will be available to authorized users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but we cannot guarantee such availability. We will not be liable for any delay or temporary disruption in access, no matter for how long, due either to technical problems or to circumstances beyond our control. If you need access to our products during such a disruption in access to this site, please contact us to make alternative delivery arrangements.

If you purchase a legal form from Thompson.com, please note that all forms are guaranteed to be sent by email immediately after the order is placed, in addition to the form immediately being made available for download. However, give the Internet's vulnerability to network congestion and other performance and technical issues beyond our control, it is possible that the form may not be received by email. Customers are advised to monitor their SPAM folders for delivery. Forms purchased are warranted to be compatible with _______________________. All sales are final.

Intellectual Property

This site and all of its content including, but not limited to, legal forms, articles, text, photographs, illustrations, graphics, product names, designs and logo (collectively, the "Intellectual Property") are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States, as well as by international conventions and the laws of the other countries.

The Intellectual Property is owned and controlled by Thompson Publishing Group® or the third party credited as the provider of the Intellectual Property. The compilation (meaning the selection, coordination and arrangement) of all content on the site is the exclusive property of Thompson Publishing Group® and is protected by applicable United States and international copyright laws.

You agree to honor the Intellectual Property in this site and in the works available on or through this site. The fact that we have permitted you access to this site does not constitute authorization to reproduce such trademarks for any other purpose.

By submitting any material to us, such as by posting a comment to a chat group or a bulletin board, or by sending us an e-mail or other form of message, you are thereby granting us a non-exclusive license to reproduce, display, distribute, modify and create derivative works from such material and to use such material and the fact of your authorship of it for marketing purposes. We reserve the right to remove from the site material submitted by third parties.

Limited License

Thompson Publishing Group® grants the user a limited license to view, print, download and use any content made available on this site for which a fee is not charged, for non-commercial, personal, or educational purposes only, provided that you do not modify any such content, and that you include with and display on each copy of such content all applicable notices, including a copyright notice, the URL of the document and this limited license. No other use is permitted.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing you may not make any commercial use of such content, either alone or in or with any product which you distribute, or copy or host such content on your or any other person's website or FTP server. Nothing contained in this limited license shall be deemed as conferring any right in any copyright of Thompson Publishing Group® or any this party who owns the copyright in the content provided on this site.

Termination of Site and Site Access

We reserve the right to change the contents of this site or to discontinue it at any time, as well as the right to deny access to the site to any person whom we have reasonable grounds to believe may be using the site for an unlawful or unauthorized purpose or in a manner that may harm us.

Miscellaneous

This agreement will be governed by the laws of the United States of America and of the District of Columbia, without regard to choice of law principles.

By continuing to use this site you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions