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Terms of Use

This Agreement sets forth the terms and conditions which apply to the use by you of the Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) Website (as defined below) and any other subscription product or service offered for sale by CDM and/or its affiliates (collectively, “CDM “). The right to use any product or service offered by CDM is personal to you and is not transferable to any other person or entity.

1. Definitions.

The “CDM Site” shall mean all areas and any subscription or other paid products and services offered or available on the interactive online service operated by CDM on the World Wide Web including but not limited to www.cyberdefensemagazine.com, Cyber Defense Test Labs (CDTL) and any related domains or subdomains. The CDM Site consist of information services and content provided by CDM, affiliates of CDM and third parties.

2. General.

CDM shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the CDM Site including, but not limited to site content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means including but not limited to, posting on the site, a revised version of this Agreement or notification via e-mail or other means that have been mutually agreed to by you, our subscribers.

3. Use of the CDM Site

A. The CDM Site and the content we provide shall be used for lawful purposes only. No material shall be posted on or transmitted through CDM which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, gives rise to civil liability or otherwise violates any law. Advertising or commercial solicitation may be posted on or transmitted through the CDM Site but only with CDM ‘s express prior approval and only if the advertising or commercial solicitation complies with all conditions imposed by CDM.

B. The CDM Site contain copyrighted material; trademarks and other proprietary information including text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound, and the entire contents of the CDM Site are copyrighted as a collective work under the US copyright laws. CDM is the owner of the copyright in the entire CDM Site. CDM owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original to it. Each third party content provider owns the copyright in content original to it. You may not modify, publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit the content of the CDM Site or any portion of it. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, you may not copy, redistribute, publish, display or commercially exploit any material from the CDM Site without the express permission of CDM and the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of material from the CDM Site, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you agree that any text, photo, graphic, audio, and/or video on the CDM Site shall not be broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any media.

C. The CDM Site contain links to other web sites, resources and advertisers. CDM is not responsible for the availability of these external sites nor does it endorse or is it responsible for the contents, advertising, products or other materials made available on or through such external sites. Under no circumstances shall CDM be held responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage caused or alleged to have been caused to a user in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on such external site. You should direct any concerns to such external site’s administrator or Webmaster.

D. You shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telephone, computer hardware and other equipment needed for access to and use of the CDM Site and all of your costs related thereto.

E. The foregoing provisions of this Section 3 are for the benefit of CDM, its affiliates, third party content providers and licensors, and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly on its own behalf.

F. CDM has carefully designed the CDM Site with the purpose of delivering certain content to users in a particular format and with a particular appearance. No third party shall have the right to utilize the content of the CDM Site in any way that interferes with that purpose. In particular, CDM prohibits any party from displaying the content on the CDM Site in any format where third party advertising or other materials that CDM did not authorize is viewed or viewable together with CDM ‘s proprietary content.

5. Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability

A. You expressly agree that use of the CDM Site is at your sole risk. Neither CDM, its affiliates or any of their respective employees, agents, third party content providers or licensors warrant that the CDM Site will be uninterrupted or error free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of the CDM Site or as to the accuracy, reliability or content of any information, service or products provided through the website or e-mail.

B. The CDM Site is provided on an “As Is”, “As Available” basis without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title or implied warranties if merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction or modification under the laws applicable to this agreement.

C. The Disclaimers of liability contained in this section 5 apply to any damages or injury caused by any failure or performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortious behaviour, negligence, or under any other cause of action. You specifically acknowledge that CDM is not liable for the defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other users or third parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you.

D. CDM does not endorse, warrant or guarantee any products or services offered through the CDM Site and will not be a party to or in any way monitor any transaction between users and third party providers of products or services. As with the purchase of a product or service through any medium or in any environment, you should use you best judgement and exercise caution where appropriate. CDM makes products or service available on the CDM Site without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction or modification under the laws applicable to this agreement.

E. In no event will CDM or any person or entity involved in creating, producing or distributing the CDM Site be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of the use of or inability to use the CDM Site or out of the breach of any warranty. You hereby acknowledge that the provisions of this section 5 shall apply to all content on the CDM Site and/or any electronically delivered content provided by CDM to you. CDM’s liability to users, if any, shall in no event exceed the total amount paid to CDM.

F. CDM neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement on the CDM Site. Under no circumstances will CDM be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information obtained through either the content on the CDM Site.  It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through the CDM Site. Please seek the advice of a legal and/or information security professional, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice or other content, including but not limited to financial, health, or lifestyle information, opinion, advice or other content.

G. Prior to the execution of a purchase or sale of any security or investment, you are advised to consult with your broker or other financial advisor to verify pricing and other information. Neither CDM nor its third party content providers shall have any liability for investment decisions based upon, or the results obtained from, the content provided herein. Neither CDM nor its third party content providers guarantee or warrant the timeliness, sequence, accuracy, or completeness or any such information. Nothing contained in the CDM Site shall be construed as investment advice. CDM is not a registered broker-dealer or investment advisor and does not give investment advice.

6. Indemnification.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CDM, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of the use by you of the CDM Site.

7. Termination.

CDM shall have the right to immediately terminate this Agreement with respect to any user which CDM, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by you of this Agreement. The provisions of Sections 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 shall survive termination of this Agreement.

8. Trademarks.

All trademarks appearing on the CDM Site are the property of their respective owners, including, in some instances, CDM.

9. Subscription Services; Products.

(a) Subscription Services. CDM makes available to users certain online subscription services, and other paid services and products. The following terms and conditions shall apply in the event that you subscribe to any subscription service or services offered by CDM on the CDM Site and/or via electronic transmission including but not limited to e-mail (the “Subscription”):

A. Subscription Terms. We currently offer a number of subscription terms: monthly e-mail delivery of our Cyber Warnings newsletter and quarterly delivery of our Cyber Defense Magazine.  We also offer continuous subscription terms, in the instance that you are offered and accept a continuous subscription service, your Subscription will continue until CDM receives notification of termination from you as described in subsection C below. In this process you authorize CDM to charge the credit card or bank account, you provided during the registration process, the current fees and charges for each subsequent term according to the subscription plan chosen by you.  If you subscribed for a term of one (1) year or more of our PRINT edition, you will be notified by CDM before the account designated by you lapses, after your first term.

You are responsible for any charges associated to connecting to the CDM Site, including but not limited to, any telephone line charges or any Internet access provider charges. You shall provide CDM with accurate, complete and updated information as to your name and e-mail address and credit card account information provided by you at registration. Failure to do so shall constitute a breach of this Agreement.

B. Changed Terms. CDM shall have the right at any time to impose, change or modify its fees and billing methods, or other terms and conditions applicable to your use of the Subscription or to impose new terms and conditions. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means including, but not limited to, posting on the CDM Site a revised version of this Agreement or notification by electronic or conventional mail. If any such change is unacceptable to you, you may terminate your Subscription as provided in subsection C below. Any use of the Subscription by you after such notice shall conclusively be deemed to constitute acceptance by you of such changes, modifications, additions or deletions. You agree to review the terms and conditions periodically to be aware of such revisions. You may also be subject to additional terms and conditions imposed by third party content providers in connection with third party content, software or services.

C. Termination. Either you or CDM may terminate this Agreement at any time. Your only right with respect to any dissatisfaction with (i) any terms and conditions of this Agreement, or policy or practice of CDM in operating the CDM Site; (ii) content available through the Subscription or change therein, or (iii) amount or type of fees or billing methods, or change therein, is to terminate this Agreement by sending notice to CDM via e-mail to [email protected] or to our address listed at the bottom of every Web page on our Web site.  Notice of termination will be effective upon receipt by CDM. Without limiting the foregoing, CDM shall have the right to immediately terminate this Agreement with respect to any user which CDM, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by you of this Agreement. In the event that your account is terminated or cancelled, no refund of any fees, including monthly membership fee, will be granted. The provisions of Sections 5, 6, 7, 8 and this Section 10 shall survive termination of this Agreement. Fees paid for any Subscription are paid in advance and are not refundable in whole or in part, provided, however, that in the event of termination by CDM for any reason other than breach of this Agreement by you or termination by you in accordance with this subsection C of this Agreement in which you identify the termination as resulting from changed terms, CDM shall make a pro rata refund to you.

(b) Products and Other Services. With respect to products and services offered for sale by CDM and third parties or through the CDM Site: you shall be informed of all terms of the offer, including but not limited to pricing, methods of payment, shipping and handling, credit card information, sales tax, return and refund policies and applicable privacy policies on the screen where you make the purchase.

10. Miscellaneous.

This Agreement and any operating rules for the CDM Site established by CDM constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Nevada, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not be given any legal import.

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