Terms and Conditions
Agreement between user and www.coursebuffet.com
Welcome to www.coursebuffet.com. The www.coursebuffet.com
website (the "Site") is comprised of various web pages
operated by CourseBuffet LLC
("CourseBuffet").www.coursebuffet.com is offered to you
conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the
terms, conditions, and
notices contained herein (the "Terms"). Your use of
www.coursebuffet.com constitutes your agreement to all such
Terms.Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of
them for your reference. www.coursebuffet.com is a Social
Networking Education site CourseBuffet enables users to find
and compare their online learning choices. CourseBuffet
helps users create a learning path from their online
learning choices.
Electronic Communications Visiting
www.coursebuffet.com or sending emails to CourseBuffet
constitutes electronic communications. You consent to
receive electronic
communications and you agree that all agreements, notices,
disclosures and other communications that we provide to you
electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy
any legal requirement that such communications be in
writing.
Your account If you use this site, you are
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your
account and password and for restricting access to your
computer, and you
agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur
under your account or password. You may not assign or
otherwise transfer your account to any other person or
entity.
You acknowledge that CourseBuffet is not responsible for
third party access to your account that results from theft
or misappropriation of your account. CourseBuffet and its
associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service,
terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole
discretion. CourseBuffet does not knowingly collect, either
online or offline, personal information from persons under
the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may use
www.coursebuffet.com only with permission of a parent or
guardian.
Links to third party sites/Third party services
www.coursebuffet.com may contain links to other websites
("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the
control of CourseBuffet and CourseBuffet is not responsible
for the contents of any Linked Site, including without
limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any
changes or updates to a Linked Site. CourseBuffet is
providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the
inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by
CourseBuffet of the site or any association with its
operators. Certain services made available via
www.coursebuffet.com are delivered by third party sites and
organizations.
By using any product, service or functionality originating
from the www.coursebuffet.com domain, you hereby acknowledge
and consent that CourseBuffet may share such
information and data with any third party with whom
CourseBuffet has a contractual relationship to provide the
requested product, service or functionality on behalf of
www.coursebuffet.com users and customers.
No unlawful or prohibited use/Intellectual
Property You are granted a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, revocable license to
access and use www.coursebuffet.com strictly in accordance
with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the
Site, you warrant to CourseBuffet that you will not use
the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by
these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which
could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or
interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the
Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials
or information through any means not intentionally made
available or provided for through the Site. All content
included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics,
logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any
software
used on the Site, is the property of CourseBuffet or its
suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that
protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You
agree to
observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary
notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such
content and will not make any changes thereto. You will not
modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in
the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way
exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on
the
Site. CourseBuffet content is not for resale. Your use of
the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use
of any protected content, and in particular you will not
delete
or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in
any content. You will use protected content solely for your
personal use, and will make no other use of the content
without
the express written permission of CourseBuffet and the
copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any
ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant
you
any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual
property of CourseBuffet or our licensors except as
expressly authorized by these Terms.
Use of communication services The Site may
contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups,
forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or
other
message or communication facilities designed to enable you
to communicate with the public at large or with a group
(collectively, "Communication Services"), you agree to
use the Communication Services only to post, send and
receive messages and material that are proper and related to
the particular Communication Service. By way of example,
and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a
Communication Service, you will not: defame, abuse, harass,
stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such
as
rights of privacy and publicity) of others; publish, post,
upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate,
profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or
unlawful topic,
name, material or information; upload files that contain
software or other material protected by intellectual
property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless
you own or
control the rights thereto or have received all necessary
consents; upload files that contain viruses, corrupted
files, or any other similar software or programs that may
damage the
operation of another's computer; advertise or offer to sell
or buy any goods or services for any business purpose,
unless such Communication Service specifically allows such
messages; conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid
schemes or chain letters; download any file posted by
another user of a Communication Service that you know, or
reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in
such manner; falsify or delete any author attributions,
legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or
labels of
the origin or source of software or other material contained
in a file that is uploaded, restrict or inhibit any other
user from using and enjoying the Communication Services;
violate
any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be
applicable for any particular Communication Service; harvest
or otherwise collect information about others, including
e-mail
addresses, without their consent; violate any applicable
laws or regulations. CourseBuffet has no obligation to
monitor the Communication Services. However, CourseBuffet
reserves the right to review materials posted to a
Communication Service and to remove any materials in its
sole discretion. CourseBuffet reserves the right to
terminate your
access to any or all of the Communication Services at any
time without notice for any reason whatsoever. CourseBuffet
reserves the right at all times to disclose any information
as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation,
legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to
post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or
in part,
in CourseBuffet's sole discretion. Always use caution when
giving out any personally identifying information about
yourself or your children in any Communication Service.
CourseBuffet does not control or endorse the content,
messages or information found in any Communication Service
and, therefore, CourseBuffet specifically disclaims any
liability
with regard to the Communication Services and any actions
resulting from your participation in any Communication
Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized CourseBuffet
spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect
those of CourseBuffet. Materials uploaded to a Communication
Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage,
reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for
adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials.
Materials provided to www.coursebuffet.com or
posted on any CourseBuffet web page CourseBuffet
does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to
www.coursebuffet.com (including feedback and suggestions) or
post, upload, input or submit to any CourseBuffet Site or
our associated services (collectively "Submissions").
However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or
submitting your Submission you are granting CourseBuffet,
our affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees
permission
to use your Submission in connection with the operation of
their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the
rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display,
publicly
perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your
Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your
Submission. No compensation will be paid with respect to the
use of your Submission, as provided herein. CourseBuffet is
under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may
provide and may remove any Submission at any time in
CourseBuffet's sole discretion. By posting, uploading,
inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you
warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all
of the
rights to your Submission as described in this section
including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for
you to provide, post, upload, inputor submit the
Submissions.
Third Party Accounts You will be able to
connect your CourseBuffet account to third party accounts.
By connecting your CourseBuffet account to your third party
account, you
acknowledge and agree that you are consenting to the
continuous release of information about you to others (in
accordance with your privacy settings on those third party
sites).
If you do not want information about you to be shared in
this manner, do not use this feature.
International Users The Service is
controlled, operated and administered by CourseBuffet from
our offices within the USA. If you access the Service from a
location outside the USA,
you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You
agree that you will not use the CourseBuffet Content
accessed through www.coursebuffet.com in any country or in
any
manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or
regulations.
Indemnification You agree to indemnify, defend
and hold harmless CourseBuffet, its officers, directors,
employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs,
liabilities and
expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) relating to
or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site
or services, any user postings made by you, your violation
of any
terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a
third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules
or regulations. CourseBuffet reserves the right, at its own
cost,
to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter
otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event
you will fully cooperate with CourseBuffet in asserting any
available defenses.
Liability disclaimer THE INFORMATION,
SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE
THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE
INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE
PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. COURSEBUFFET
LLC AND/OR ITS
SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE
AT ANY TIME. COURSEBUFFET LLC AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO
REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY,
AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION,
SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS,
SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY
PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
ALL
SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED
GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION
OF ANY
KIND. COURSEBUFFET LLC AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM
ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS
INFORMATION,
SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING
ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.TO THE
MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT
SHALL
COURSEBUFFET LLC AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR
ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR
IN ANY WAY
CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE
DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE
PROVISION
OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION,
SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED
THROUGH
THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE,
WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY OR
OTHERWISE, EVEN IF COURSEBUFFET LLC OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME
STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, THE ABOVE
LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED
WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF
USE, YOUR SOLE
AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.
Termination/access restriction
CourseBuffet reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to
terminate your access to the Site and the related services
or any portion there of at any time,
without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this
agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Ohio and
you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue
of
courts in Ohio in all disputes arising out of or relating to
the use of the Site. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any
jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of
these Terms,
including, without limitation, this section. You agree that
no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency
relationship exists between you and CourseBuffet as a result
of this
agreement or use of the Site. CourseBuffet's performance of
this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal
process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in
derogation of
CourseBuffet's right to comply with governmental, court and
law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your
use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by
CourseBuffet with respect to such use. If any part of this
agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable
pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to,
the warranty
disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then
the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed
superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most
closely matches
the intent of the original provision and the remainder of
the agreement shall continue in effect. Unless otherwise
specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire
agreement between
the user and CourseBuffet with respect to the Site and it
supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and
proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the
user and
CourseBuffet with respect to the Site. A printed version of
this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form
shall be admissible in judicial or administrative
proceedings based
upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent an d
subject to the same conditions as other business documents
and records originally generated and maintained in printed
form. It
is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and
all related documents be written in English.
Changes to Terms CourseBuffet reserves the
right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under
which www.coursebuffet.com is offered. The most current
version of the Terms will
supersede all previous versions. CourseBuffet encourages you
to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our
updates.
Contact Us CourseBuffet welcomes your
questions or comments regarding the Terms: CourseBuffet LLC
250 W. Huron Rd, Suite 203 Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Email
Address:
[email protected] Telephone number: (1) 216-482-6092
Effective as of March 01, 2013