Dawn
Branch Online Disclaimer
The following
is addressed to all users of
www.dawnbranchonline.com
This
Website is provided by Dawn Branch Online, and its affiliates and subsidiaries
(collectively, “Dawn Branch Online” and “we”). Your use of this Website is subject
to these Terms and Conditions of Website Use (the “User Agreement”).
Please read this User Agreement and the other information referred or
linked to in this User Agreement carefully and be sure you understand
it, since it is a legally binding agreement that contains important information
about our Website and your permitted use of it. From time to time we
may unilaterally modify this User Agreement, so it is important that
you review this User Agreement every time you use this Website.
PLEASE
NOTE: YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
BY AND COMPLY WITH ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS USER AGREEMENT. IF YOU
DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS USER AGREEMENT, THEN YOU MAY
NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.
1. Right to Use this
Website Dawn Branch Online grants you a
limited, non-exclusive, revocable license for you to use this Website
for your personal entertainment, information, education, and communication,
upon all of the terms of this User Agreement. This Website contains materials
and other items relating to Dawn Branch Online and its products and services,
and similar items from our business partners, licensors, and licensees,
and other third parties (collectively, the “Content”). The
Content may be in the form of information, text, data, images, graphics,
button icons, registered and unregistered trademarks, illustrations,
photographs, audio clips, music, sounds, pictures, videos, software,
or other forms and formats now known or later invented. In using this
Website, you must respect the intellectual property rights of Dawn Branch Online
and others, all as outlined below. Your unauthorized use of Content may
violate copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, communications, and
other laws, and any such use may result in your personal liability, including
potential criminal liability.
2. Copyrights All Content is copyrighted,
and it is either owned or used with permission by Dawn Branch Online. Dawn Branch Online
disclaims any representation or warranty that your unauthorized use of
Content will not infringe upon rights of third parties not owned by or
affiliated with Dawn Branch Online. Except as set forth in this
User Agreement or in the text of this Website, you may not reproduce,
distribute, publish, transmit, modify, adapt, translate, display, distribute,
sell, license, publicly perform, prepare derivative works based upon,
or otherwise use or exploit the Content. You may download one copy of
portions of the Content in temporary storage on one personal computer
for your personal, non-commercial, non-political, non-networked viewing
and use only, provided you do not delete or change any copyright, trademark,
or other proprietary notices. The foregoing limited right does not give
you any ownership of any Content. Except as expressly provided above,
nothing contained in this User Agreement may be construed as conferring
to you (by implication, estoppel, or otherwise) any license or right
to any Content under any copyright or any other intellectual property
right. Dawn Branch Online respects the
intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your work
has been infringed by means of an improper posting or distribution of
it via this Website, then please see the paragraph below entitled Procedure
for Alleging Copyright Infringement.
3. Trademarks The trademarks,
logos, and service marks displayed on this Website are owned by Dawn
Branch Online and third parties, and this Website’s trade dress
is owned by Dawn Branch Online (collectively, the “Trademarks”,
which also constitute Content). All Trademarks not owned by Dawn Branch
Online are the property of their respective owners, and are used with
permission. Nothing contained on this Website may be construed as granting,
by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any right or license to use any
Trademark.
4. Your Communications
to Dawn Branch Online; Dawn Branch Online Rights to Your Submissions Dawn
Branch Online
likes to hear from you. However, in your communications with Dawn Branch
Online, please keep in mind that, unless it specifically requests them,
Dawn Branch Online does not accept or consider any ideas or suggestions
relating to products, services, marketing plans, or any other matters.
Therefore, please do not send to Dawn Branch Online any unsolicited
materials, such as ideas for toys, games, or other products, or any
other suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, inventions, techniques,
models, designs, concepts, or other similar information or materials.Any
such submissions and any questions, comments, answers, suggestions,
or the like submitted by you to Dawn Branch Online via this Website
or by fax, mail, or otherwise, or transmitted, posted, or uploaded
by you to this Website (collectively, “Your
Submissions”) will be treated as non-confidential and nonproprietary,
and Dawn Branch Online will not assume any responsibility, obligation,
or liability for them or for Dawn Branch Online’s receipt or non-receipt
of them. Dawn Branch Online’s receipt of Your Submissions is not
an admission by Dawn Branch Online of their novelty, priority, or originality,
and it does not impair Dawn Branch Online’s right to contest existing
or future intellectual property rights relating to Your Submissions.You
grant Dawn Branch Online a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable,
and sublicensable right and license to reproduce, distribute, publish,
transmit, modify, adapt, translate, display, distribute, sell, license,
publicly perform, prepare derivative works based upon, and otherwise
use or exploit Your Submissions throughout the world in any and all media.
You represent and warrant that: (a) you have the right and authorization
to make the foregoing grant without the consent of any third party, and
(b) Your Submissions are accurate and, as permitted to be used by Dawn
Branch Online in this User Agreement, do not and will not infringe any
right of any third party. When you send e-mail to us, you are communicating
with us electronically and you consent to receive communications from
us electronically. Furthermore, you agree that all agreements, notices,
disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically
satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
5. Online Shopping This Website and
other Dawn Branch Online websites may offer online capabilities to purchase products
(such as toys) and services (such as memberships). You must be 18 years
of age or older to make any such purchases. Check our online stores for
more information on delivery, returns, and other sales policies. As to
products and services featured on this Website, please note that we make
every effort to display as accurately as possible the products and services
that appear on this Website. However, the colors, dimensions, and details
that you see on your computer monitor will vary depending on your equipment,
so we cannot guarantee that your equipment will accurately display the
details of our products and services. As to services featured on this
Website, the terms of those service offerings may be specified in a separate
agreement that will be provided to you in connection with the service
purchased and will be supplemented by this User Agreement.A. No Purchases
by Minors By ordering a product or service online from Dawn Branch Online, you
represent that you are 18 years of age or older. If a child under the
age of 18 orders a product or service from Dawn Branch Online without parental
or guardian permission, then the parent or guardian may return the product
or service for a refund according to the posted returns and exchanges
policy that relate to that order.B. Taxes You are responsible for paying
all sales, use, and other similar taxes relating to any of your online
purchases of products or services from Dawn Branch Online. C. Postage and Handling;
InsuranceYou are also responsible
for paying all postage and handling charges relating to your online purchases
(including any product offered with a service), and for insuring your
purchases. D. Returns and WarrantiesPlease review the information
available at our online stores regarding our return policies and warranty
information.
6. Use Restrictions You agree that you will
not: (a) use this Website for any commercial or political purpose (including,
without limitation, for purposes of advertising, soliciting funds, collecting
product prices, or selling products); (b) monitor, gather, or copy Content
on this Website by using any robot, “bot”, spider, crawler,
spyware, engine, device, software, extraction tool, or any other automatic
device, utility, or manual process of any kind; (c) frame or utilize
framing techniques to enclose any Trademark or other proprietary information
(including, without limitation, any images, text, or page layout); (d)
use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing any
Trademarks; (e) engage in any activities through or in connection with
this Website that seek to attempt to harm minors or are unlawful, offensive,
obscene, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that violate any right
of any third party; or (f) engage in any activity that interferes with
a user’s access to this Website or the proper operation of this
Website. You also agree that, in using this Website, you will not impersonate
any person or entity.
7. Community Areas; Code
of Conduct Dawn Branch Online may elect to
offer community features on this Website, such as message or bulletin
boards, forums, and chat rooms. In such events, Dawn Branch Online will not assume
any obligation to monitor, filter, censor, edit, or regulate information
or content provided by you or third parties on this Website, although
Dawn Branch Online reserves the right to do so in its sole discretion. Dawn Branch Online
does not endorse, warrant the accuracy or reliability of, or assume any
liability in connection with any such information or content provided
by users or other third parties.
As to any information or content that you upload or post to this Website,
you represent and warrant to Dawn Branch Online that you have the right and authorization
to do so without the consent of any third party. You also agree not to
upload or post to this Website: (a) infringing, defamatory, obscene, pornographic,
threatening, abusive, violent, illegal, rude, harassing, or otherwise improper
content, (b) viruses or other harmful items, or (c) content with a commercial
purpose (such as offers to sell products or services or attempts to solicit
funds or advertise products or services).
Dawn Branch Online reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to adopt additional
rules in any community area and to condition access to any such community
features by any individual or group in accordance with age, geographic,
or other criteria, to deny or restrict access by any individual or group
who fails to meet that criteria or by anyone who fails to comply with our
criteria or rules at any time, and to change or modify the criteria or
rules at any time. Dawn Branch Online also reserves the right (but does not assume
any obligation), in its sole discretion, to delete any postings on this
Website that violate this User Agreement and to deny access by any user
to this Website.
8. Investigations; Cooperation
with Law Enforcement; Termination Dawn Branch Online reserves the
right, without any limitation whatsoever, to: (a) investigate any suspected
breaches of its Website security or its information technology or other
systems or networks, (b) investigate any suspected breaches of this User
Agreement, (c) involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities
in investigating any such matters, (d) prosecute violators of this User
Agreement to the full extent of the law, and (e) discontinue this Website
or terminate your access to it at any time, without notice, for any reason
and without any obligation to you whatsoever.
9. Privacy and Security
Measures Dawn Branch Online must collect
certain information in order to operate this Website and to fulfill your
requests or enable participation in certain online activities. But Dawn
Branch Online respects the privacy of its visitors, and is especially
mindful of protecting the privacy of young children visiting our sites.
Please click here to review our Privacy Policy.. We have adopted reasonable
security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration
of the personal information under our control. We use Secure Sockets
Layer technology to protect credit card data during transmission, and
adopt careful internal procedures to safeguard this information in our
system. Vendors, service providers, and others who help us make this
Website and our products and services available must sign confidentiality
agreements; they are not permitted to use personal information except
in connection with their services to Dawn Branch Online. Nevertheless,
we cannot guarantee complete security of personal information.
10. Disclaimers and Limitations
of Liability This Website may include
technical inaccuracies or other errors, and your use and browsing of
this Website is at your risk. THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU “AS
IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. Dawn Branch Online DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE
WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR ACHIEVE A PARTICULAR RESULT, OR THAT YOUR
USE OF THIS WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT THIS
WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR
OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. IF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR THE MATERIAL
CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE RESULTS IN YOUR NEED TO SERVICE OR REPLACE
ANY PROPERTY, MATERIAL, EQUIPMENT, DATA, OR OTHER ITEM, THEN Dawn Branch
Online WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THOSE COSTS. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY
OF THE FOREGOING SENTENCES, Dawn Branch Online WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR
ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES
ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE. THE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS
CONTAINED IN THIS PARAGRAPH ARE A MATERIAL PART OF OUR AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE
THIS WEBSITE TO YOU. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow
the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions
may not apply to you. The statements and information presented in seminars,
workshops and throughout this website have not been reviewed by the FDA
or any authorized medical professional. The information is not
intended to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent any disease or illness. Please
consult your medical professional for such advice on these areas, as
well as prescription drugs, and before starting any exercise program
or
diet regimen.
11. Links by You to this
Website You are granted a limited,
non-exclusive, revocable right to create hyperlinks to
this Website, so long as: (a) the links are only to the home page of this
Website, (b) the links only incorporate text, and do not use any Trademark
graphics, (c) the links and related content on your site do not suggest
any affiliation with Dawn Branch Online or cause confusion among consumers, (d)
the links and related content on your site do not portray Dawn Branch Online or
its products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise
offensive matter, and (e) the links and related content on your site are
not operated for any commercial purposes.
12. Links on this Website
to and from Other SitesThis Website may contain
links to or from third-party sites (“Linked Sites”), including,
without limitation, sites operated by advertisers, licensors, licensees,
and promotional and business partners of Dawn Branch Online. Dawn Branch Online has no
control over the content of Linked Sites, and Dawn Branch Online does not assume
any obligation to review any Linked Sites. Dawn Branch Online does not endorse,
approve, or sponsor any Linked Sites, or any content, advertising, information,
materials, products, services, or other items on or available on or from
them, and Dawn Branch Online disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Any activities you engage in connection with a Linked Site is subject
to the privacy policy, conditions of use, and other terms imposed by
the operator of the Linked Site and Dawn Branch Online disclaims all liability
in connection therewith.
13. Banners, Advertisements, and PromotionsWe reserve the right to
post banners, advertisements, promotions, and similar content throughout
this Website. Any interactions, correspondence, and business dealings
that you have with any advertisers and other third parties found on or
through this Website (including via Linked Sites) are solely between
you and the third party (including, without limitation, issues related
to the content of third party advertisements, payments, delivery of goods,
warranties, and the like). Dawn Branch Online disclaims all liability in connection
with therewith.
14. Procedure for Alleging
Copyright InfringementDawn Branch Online will respond
appropriately to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply
with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”),
as set forth below. If you own copyrights in a work and believe that
your intellectual property rights in that work have been infringed by
an improper posting or distribution of it via this Website, then send
us a written notice that includes all of the following: (i) a legend
or subject line that says: “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice”;(ii)
a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
(iii) the URL of the site and a description of where the material that
you claim is infringing is located on that site;(iv) your address, telephone
number, and e-mail address;(v) a statement by you that
you have a good faith belief that the alleged infringing material is
not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;(vi) a statement
by you, made under penalty of perjury, that all the information in your
notice is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner (or, if you
are not the copyright owner, then your statement must indicate that you
are authorized to act on the behalf of the owner of an exclusive right
that is allegedly infringed); and,(vii) your electronic or
physical signature.Dawn Branch Online will only receive
DMCA notices by mail, e-mail, or facsimile at the addresses below: By
E-Mail: CopyrightInfringementNotice@DawnBranchOnline.com Dawn
Branch Online may elect to
not respond to DMCA notices that do not comply with all of the foregoing
requirements, and Dawn Branch Online may elect to remove allegedly infringing
material that comes to its attention via notices that do not comply with
the DMCA. If you have additional questions you may telephone Dawn Branch
Online at 580-467-8519.
15. General ProvisionsA. IndemnityYou agree
to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Dawn Branch Online (which includes
Dawn Branch Online’s
affiliates and subsidiaries) and its officers, employees, agents, business
partners, licensors, and licensees from any damages, liabilities, costs,
and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) on account
of any claim, suit, action, demand, or proceeding made or brought against
any such party, or on account of the investigation, defense, or settlement
thereof, arising in connection with your use of this Website. B. Revisions
to this Website and this User AgreementDawn Branch Online may, in its
sole discretion, make changes to any aspect of this Website, including,
without limitation, any Content, any activities available on this Website,
and any products or services offered through this Website. Dawn Branch
Online may also, in its sole discretion, revise this User Agreement by
updating or revising this document, with the revised terms taking effect
as of the date of its posting. Continued use of this Website following
the effective date of any such changes constitutes your acceptance of
those changes.C. Operation of Website;
Availability of Products and ServicesDawn Branch Online controls and
operates this Website from its headquarters in El Segundo, Oklahoma in
the United States of America, and Dawn Branch Online makes no representation
that this Website is appropriate or available for use beyond the United
States of America. If you use this Website from other locations, you
are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. Although Dawn
Branch Online products and services are available in many parts of the
world, this Website may describe products and services that are available
only in the United States of America (or only parts of it) and are not
available worldwide. D. Jurisdiction, Venue,
and Alternative Dispute ResolutionAny controversy or claim
relating to this Website, the Content, or this User Agreement not otherwise
resolved between you and Dawn Branch Online will be settled solely by
binding arbitration in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules
of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), administered
in accordance with the AAA’s Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related
Disputes. Any such controversy or claim will be arbitrated on an individual
basis, and will not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim
or controversy of any other party. The arbitration will be conducted
in Los Angeles, Oklahoma, and judgment on the arbitration award may be
entered into any court having jurisdiction of it. Any claim or cause
of action that you may have with respect to this Website, the Content,
or this User Agreement must be commenced within one year after the claim
or cause of action arises or it will be forever barred. Any action or
proceeding by Dawn Branch Online relating to your access to, or use of,
this Website or any Content in accordance with this paragraph will be
instituted in state or federal court in Duncan, Oklahoma. Accordingly,
you consent to the personal jurisdiction of the courts in Duncan, Oklahoma
with respect to all matters relating to your access to or use of this
Website and the Content and waive your rights to removal or consent to
removal. This User Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Oklahoma, without regard to its conflicts
of law provisions. The foregoing provisions of this paragraph will not
apply to any legal action taken by Dawn Branch Online to recover damages
for, or seek an injunction in connection with, any loss, cost, or damage
(or any potential loss, cost, or damage) relating to this Website, any
Content, Dawn Branch Online’s
operations, and/or Dawn Branch Online’s products or services caused
by your act or failure to act.E. Severability
If any provision of this
User Agreement is deemed unlawful, void, or unenforceable for any reason,
then that provision will be deemed severable from the remainder of this
User Agreement and will not affect the validity or enforceability of
the remainder of this User Agreement.
Use of this site signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Service.
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