Terms And Conditions Of Use

X-About.com may update the TCU from time to time. You are responsible for checking this page periodically for changes and updates to the TCU. Your use of the Site following any posted change(s) to the TCU will be deemed an acceptance of such change(s).

In addition, when using the Site, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules, which may be posted from time to time. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into the TCU.

This Site is not intended for use by persons under the age of thirteen. Individuals who are under thirteen are expressly prohibited from posting any personally identifiable information about themselves.

Data and information relating to securities or otherwise is provided for informational purposes only, and is not intended for trading purposes.

1. X-About.com's Proprietary Rights and Permitted Use

The Site, including without limitation any content, software and services offered thereon, are the property of X-About.com and/or its suppliers. It is protected by the copyright and/or other intellectual property laws of the United States and internationally. You are hereby authorized solely to view and to retain a copy of pages of this Site for your own personal use. Do not duplicate, publish, modify, or otherwise distribute the material on this Site unless specifically authorized in writing by X-About.com to do so. Legal notices and various other acknowledgements and credits are posted on pages of the Site. Do not remove these legal notices or other acknowledgements or credits, or any related information, contained on pages of the Site.

You hereby acknowledge and agree that, as between X-About.com and you, all right, title, and interest in and to the Site and the provision thereof, including without limitation any patent rights, patents, business methods, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, inventions, know-how, and all other intellectual property rights pertaining thereto, shall be owned exclusively by X-About.com. Except as expressly authorized by X-About.com herein, you agree not to make, copy, display, modify, rent, lease, license, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works of the Site, in whole or in part. You agree not to access the Site by any means other than through the interface that is provided by X-About.com for use in accessing the Site. In connection with your use of the Site, X-About.com may make software available to you for download from the Site; your download and use of such software shall be pursuant to a separate license agreement that shall be agreed to upon your download or installation of such software.

2. User Contributions to the Site

X-About.com provides users with the opportunity to contribute to the Site. You understand that all information, data, text, links, articles, software, photographs, graphics, video, music, sound, messages, or other materials posted by you on the Site (collectively, the "User Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of you or other users posting or transmitting such User Content. This means that you, and not X-About.com, are entirely responsible for all User Content that you upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit via the Site. It is your obligation to ensure that no copyright, trademark, trade secret, publicity or privacy rights, or other intellectual property rights are being violated by your posting or transmission of any User Content via the Site.

X-About.com does not control or pre-screen the User Content posted via the Site or sent to another user and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, appropriateness, or quality of such User Content. The User Content posted by users or other third parties does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Business.com and under no circumstances will Business.com be liable in any way for any User Content, including, but not limited to, any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any User Content posted, emailed, or otherwise transmitted via the Site.

Users can be held liable for any illegal or prohibited User Content they provide to the Site or to other users, including, for example, infringing, defamatory, or offensive materials. So that the Site is available for all users to enjoy, you may not, and hereby represent and warrant that you will not, post, transmit, email or otherwise make accessible on or through the Site User Content that:

• Is unlawful, harmful, threatening, tortious, defamatory, libelous, abusive, disparaging, pedophilic, pornographic, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or malicious;
• Contains hate propaganda or promotes discrimination or violence against any people on account of their race, national origin, religion, age, gender, disability, or sexual orientation;
• Is or could be harmful to minors;
• Harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
• Involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing (or "spamming");
• Promotes information that you know is false, misleading, or promotes illegal activities or conduct;
• Is or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, or providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices;
• Infringes any patent, copyright, trademark, service mark, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any other party;
• Contains restricted password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
• Provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
• Provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, or providing or creating computer viruses;
• Contains a software virus or any other code files or programs that are designed to or have the ability to interrupt, destroy, compromise, or otherwise limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment whether owned by X-About.com or any other party;
• Solicits passwords, or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; or
• Otherwise violates any local, state, national or other applicable law or regulation.

In addition, you may not, in connection with your use of the Site:

• Impersonate any person or entity, including a X-About.com officer or employee, or falsely misrepresent your affiliation with any other person or entity;
• Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers for the purpose of disguising the origin of any User Content posted or transmitted through or on the Site;
• Engage in commercial activities and/or sales without X-About.com's prior written consent including, without limitation, contests, sweepstakes, barter, or advertising;
• Post or transmit any Content that you do not have the right to post or transmit;
• Post or submit unsolicited commercial e-mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or seek or encourage others to engage in these activities;
• Disrupt the ordinary flow and operation of any portion of the Site, including causing a screen to scroll faster than another User may be able to type in a chat room or bulletin board environment;
• Interfere with or disrupt the Site or any server or network involved with the operation of the Site;
• Stalk or harass any other person; or
• Collect or "harvest" from the Site the names of other users for the purpose of transmitting to those other users unsolicited commercial messages.