Terms Of Use.

Version

Version 1.11, last updated November 2, 2009.

Application

This notice and disclaimer applies to Authoratory.com ("website"). By providing information, or by using or viewing this website, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

General

The website provides information generated by means of software algorithms and permits the public to view it. Given the fuzzy nature of the software algorithms and the underlying data, some content found on this website is likely to be inaccurate. We do not represent, warrant, verify, or endorse the accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of any of the information, content, views, opinions, recommendations, advertisements, images, sounds, and text (collectively, the "Materials") contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded or accessed from the website, nor the quality of any products, services, information or other Materials displayed, purchased, or obtained by you as a result of an advertisement or any other information or offer in or in connection with the website (the "Products"). You hereby acknowledge that any reliance upon any Materials and any purchase of any Products shall be at your sole risk. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without any obligation, to make improvements to, or correct any error or omissions in any portion of the Service or the Products.

Limited License

By using this website or downloading Materials from this website, you agree to abide by the terms and conditions, set forth in this agreement. If you do not agree to abide by these terms and conditions, do not use this website or purchase Services or Products from this website.

Free educational or government organizations, non-commercial, non-profit users and individual commercial subscribers. Subject to your continued compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access, use, and display the Materials. We authorize you to view and download the Materials at this website only for your personal, non-commercial use. This authorization is not a transfer of title in all or any part of the Materials and is subject to the following restrictions:

1. you may not distribute, give away or resell in whole or in part the Materials obtained from this website;
2. you must retain, on all copies of the Materials downloaded, all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the Materials;
3. you may not modify the Materials in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, distribute, or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose;
4. you must not transfer the Materials to any other person unless you give them notice of, and they agree to accept, the obligations arising under these terms and conditions of use.
5. you may cite the Materials by freely publishing Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of specific website pages

Commercial, corporate, private site and affiliate subscribers. Subject to your continued compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access, use, and display the Materials. We authorize you to view and download the Materials at this website only for the internal use at the subscribing organization. This authorization is not a transfer of title in all or any part of the Materials and is subject to the following restrictions:

1. you must use the authorized personal account that is provided to you by the subscribing organization and be a member of that organization;
2. you are granted additional rights to search, print, download, save and email to others the Materials obtained from this website, but only for the internal use at the subscribing organization;
3. you may not distribute, give away or resell in whole or in part the Materials obtained from this website outside of subscribing organization;
4. you must retain, on all copies of the Materials downloaded, all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the Materials;
5. you may not modify the Materials in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, distribute, or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose outside of subscribing organization;
6. you must not transfer the Materials to any other person unless you give them notice of, and they agree to accept, the obligations arising under these terms and conditions of use.
7. you may cite the Materials by freely publishing Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of specific website pages

This website, including all Materials, is protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions, whether or not a copyright notice is present on the Materials. You agree to comply with all copyright laws worldwide in your use of this website and to prevent any unauthorized copying of the Materials. Except as expressly provided herein, we do not grant any express or implied right to you under any patents, trademarks, or copyrights.

Use Discretion

We encourage you to exercise discretion while browsing the Internet or linking to third party sites or information from our website. We make no representations concerning any endeavor to review the content of which is connected to or linked from our website or any of the Materials, and as such we are not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, or legality of material contained in third party information including, without limitation, websites, advertisements, or in the Materials.

User Conduct

You understand and agree not to use the website to:

• Post content or initiate communications which are unlawful, libelous, abusive, obscene, discriminatory, or otherwise objectionable.
• Use the website for any illegal purpose, including but not limited to conspiring to violate laws.
• Falsely state, impersonate, or otherwise misrepresent your identity, including but not limited to the use of a pseudonym, or misrepresenting your current or previous positions and qualifications, or your affiliations with a person or entity, past or present.
• Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content or initiate communications which include information that you do not have the right to disclose or make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as insider information, or proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).
• Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content or initiate communication that infringes upon patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights or other proprietary rights.
• Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes", or any other form of solicitation. This prohibition includes but is not limited to a) Using website to send messages to people who don't know you or who are unlikely to recognize you as a known contact; b) Using website to connect to people who don't know you and then sending unsolicited promotional messages to those direct connections without their permission; and c) Sending messages to distribution lists, newsgroup aliases, or group aliases.
• Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
• Stalk or harass anyone.
• Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any communication transmitted through the website.
• Post content in fields that aren't intended for that content. Example: Putting an address in a name or title field.
• Interfere with or disrupt the website or servers or networks connected to the website, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the website.

Intellectual Property Rights

You recognize and agree that you have no rights in or to the whole or any part of the trade names, trademarks, and brandmarks of ours or of our licensors. You will not, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement while it is in effect, disclose, make use of or otherwise infringe upon the intellectual property or any derivatives thereof, it being specifically understood that the intellectual property is owned solely and exclusively by us or our licensors. You have no right, title, or interest whatsoever in the Materials (including intellectual property rights) except as expressly set out in this Agreement. You agree that upon any violation of these covenants, we shall suffer irreparable harm and shall be entitled to injunctive relief against any further violation, and our reasonable legal costs in addition to any other damages to which we may be entitled. This covenant is independent of any other covenant, term or condition of this Agreement and shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement, it being understood that but for the giving of this covenant, we would not have entered into this Agreement.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THE SERVICE AND THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED BY US AND OTHER INFORMATION PROVIDERS ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND WE AND OTHER INFORMATION PROVIDERS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, STATUTORY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE AND OTHER INFORMATION PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE, THE MATERIALS AND THE PRODUCTS.

System Integrity

You may not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our website or with any activities being conducted on the website. You may not take any action, which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on its infrastructure. You may not disclose or share your personal account with any third parties or use your password for any unauthorized purpose. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the website in any way.

Charges and Billing

Authoratory reserves the right to charge fees for the Service or any portion thereof. Any applicable fees will be posted on the website or provided to you at the signup time. If you are required to pay a fee for all or any part of the Service for which you have chosen to register, you hereby authorize website to charge your credit card in advance for all applicable fees incurred by you in connection with your chosen Service and your Account. All fees shall be paid in U.S. dollars. All charges for your website will show on your credit card statement as AUTHORATORY. You must notify website of any billing problems or discrepancies within sixty (60) days after they first appear on your credit card account statement. If you do not notify website within sixty (60) days, you waive any right to dispute such problems or discrepancies.

All subscription fees must be paid in full before the subscription service is provided. Each service has a specific subscription period associated with it. This subscription period starts on a day after subscription fee is paid in full. You may cancel your Account at any time, but Authoratory will not refund any remaining portion of your pre-paid fees when you cancel your Account. Authoratory reserves the right to change any fees (which includes, but is not limited to, charging a fee for packages, options, upgrades and/or a Service for which website does not currently charge a fee) or billing methods at any time, provided, however, that such modifications shall not take effect earlier than thirty (30) days after Authoratory posts such modification on the website or informs you personally by email. Existing subscribers will not be affected by changes in the fee structure until the end of their subscription period.

Advertising Policy and Promotional Materials

Authoratory displays text and image advertisement based on monetary incentives provided by advertisers. We do not control the ads content and our editorial content is free of any commercial influence.

In order to maintain a distinct separation between advertising content and editorial and decision-making content all such advertisements, promotional and commercial material including links, banners and logos are clearly marked with the words "Context-specific ads", "Advertisement" or "Ads by" in the immediate proximity. No advertisement material is accepted without such marking.

Authoratory does not monitor compliance of the advertisement materials with applicable laws and regulations. It is the responsibility of the advertiser to comply with such domestic and foreign laws, including applicable laws and regulations of regulatory bodies. Authoratory continuously reviews ads and reserves the right to reject, cancel, or remove at any time any advertisement that presents poor taste, fraudulent, deceptive, or offensive materials, promotes illegal or objectionable products, or offers sexually explicit content.

Your Information

Your information includes any information you provide to us or other users during the purchase of products and/or services, by responding to surveys, or in any public message area or through any email feature (collectively "Your Information"). With respect to Your Information you agree that Your Information provided to us is true, accurate, correct and complete and that you will notify us immediately of any changes to it. You agree not to impersonate any other person or entity or to use a false name or a name that you are not authorized to use or to provide incorrect information as to your location or relevant to your right to use the website. You hereby agree that Your Information is a subject to our privacy policy and to transfer and assign to us and waive all intellectual property rights in Your Information.

Indemnity

You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless for all liability, claims, damages and costs, including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in connection with a breach of your obligations, representations and warranties provided in this Agreement. You also agree to hold us harmless for all liability, claims, damages and costs, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in connection with any errors, malfunctions or defects in connection with any Products purchased by you.

Termination

You agree that Authoratory may, with or without cause, immediately terminate your account and access to the website without prior notice. Without limiting the foregoing, the following will lead to a termination of a user's use of the website: (a) breaches or violations of the Terms Of Use or other incorporated agreements or guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions), (d) unexpected technical issues or problems, and (e) extended periods of inactivity. Termination of your website account may include include removal of access to all offerings within the website and may also bar you from further use of the website. Furthermore, you agree that all terminations shall be made in website's sole discretion and that website shall not be liable to you nor any third-party for any termination of your account or access to the website.

The termination of any account with the active paid subscription service will result in the refund of the subscription payments prorated from the moment of the termination till the end of the subscription period rounded to the nearest month. No refund will be provided if such termination was caused by the violations of the Terms Of Use or other incorporated agreements or usage guidelines. You may cancel your Account at any time, but Authoratory will not refund any remaining portion of your pre-paid fees when you cancel your Account.

Assignment

You may not assign, in whole or in part, any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement, without our written consent. We may assign this Agreement at any time without notice to you.

Legal Fees

If any action at law or in equity is necessary to enforce or interpret our rights under this Agreement the terms of this Agreement, or any of the provisions hereof, we shall be entitled to recover from you, in addition to any other relief to which we may be entitled, reasonable legal fees, costs and necessary disbursements.

Governing Law

This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario. Any disputes under this Agreement will be settled by the parties through binding arbitration by an independent arbitrator chosen by the parties or if they cannot agree, then by a court.

International Use

Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all applicable local rules including but not limited to rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.

Severability

If one or more provisions of this Agreement are held to be invalid, generally or specifically in a given jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions hereof, and to this extent, the provisions of this Agreement are intended to be, and shall be, severable to the limited extent necessary and to retain the mutual intent of the parties.

Entire Agreement

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and us and supersedes all other agreements. No other representations or warranties are made, save for those contained within this Agreement. Any conflicts between the terms or conditions of this Agreement and the terms or conditions of any other agreement between you and us shall be decided by reference to this Agreement.

Notices

Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by email to , if to us, or to the email address you provided during the registration process if to you, or such other address as each party may specify. Notice shall be deemed to be given 24 hours after the email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid.

Questions or Comments

Please direct any questions or comments regarding these terms and conditions to