This website is operated by DISCUS Software Company (“DSC”). Your use of the site constitutes your acknowledgment of having read and understood the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use (“Legal Notices”), and constitutes your agreement to all terms and conditions contained herein. The Legal Notices are effective as of August 29, 2006. DSC reserves the right, at its discretion, to update or revise the Legal Notices; you are encouraged to review them from time to time to keep abreast of any material changes. Your continued use of the site following any posted revisions constitutes your consent to such changes.

PRIVACY

This is how we handle information we collect about you when you visit our website. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site. If you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account); the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site. We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. You may also decide to send us personally-identifying information, for example, in creating an account for your business or in sending us an email message. We will use personally-identifying information you provide to us (such as your name, address, email, and telephone and facsimile numbers) primarily to respond to your inquiries, to facilitate your purchases, and for other internal business purposes; we will not share that information with third parties except as follows: with PayPal, which will process all financial transactions on our site; with our website’s hosting company, which will have access to the data for the purposes of addressing technical issues related to the site’s operation; and with third parties helping us to comply with our legal obligations and helping to ensure the security of our site. If you would like to modify your user account information, please log in to the website, then click on the “My Account” link. You will be asked to enter your password when you log in; you will never be asked to reveal additional information in order to access and modify existing account information. “Cookies” are files or pieces of information sent to your browser when you visit a website, and you will find them at most sites. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent so that you can flush them from your browser if you object to their presence. There are two types of cookies: persistent and nonpersistent. Persistent cookies are stored on the hard drive of your computer, and remain there until they expire or you delete them. We use persistent cookies to enable our users to log in once for both the main website and our site’s forums. Non-persistent cookies are used during a particular session, but are not stored on your computer’s hard drive when the session is over. The information is stored only temporarily and is used primarily for technical reasons such as ease of navigation. We use non-persistent cookies to enhance your visit to our website; these cookies disappear automatically as soon as you end your session. You may choose to send personally-identifying information to other sites you have linked to through our site. We do not control the collection or use of this information, and we make no representations about the privacy policies or practices of other sites.

SECURITY

The security of your information is very important to us. We use the 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security of your online order information. SSL technology encrypts your order information to protect it from being decoded by anyone other than DISCUS Software Company. Once you enter the checkout page your computer will begin communicating with our server in secure mode. You can tell that you are in secure mode by the following:

  • The “http” in the web address will be replaced by “https”;
  • Depending on the browser, you may see either a padlock (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome) or a solid key (Firefox) in the lower section for the browser window.

Only browsers that use the 128-bit Secure Socket Layer technology are able to order through the DISCUS Software Company site. If your browser does not support SSL, you can get an upgrade at Microsoft’s or Firefox’shome page.

THIRD PARTY SITES

This site may link you to other sites on the Internet (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under DSC’s control, and DSC is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Sites, including without limitation the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of the Linked Sites or any links contained therein. These links are provided for your convenience, and do not imply endorsement of the Linked Sites by DSC or any association with its operators.

HOW YOU MAY USE OUR MATERIALS

The content of this site is protected by copyright under both United States and foreign laws. You may download, use, and copy the materials found on DSC’s site for your internal business purposes only and not for republication, provided that all copies that you make of the material must bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice located on the site which pertain to the material being copied. Software applications may be downloaded and used pursuant to the terms of the licenses that accompany them. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the material or the products, services, processes or technology described therein. All such rights are retained by DSC and/or any third party owner of such rights. You may not create framed links or deep links to the site without express written permission from DSC. DSC, DISCUS SOFTWARE COMPANY, our logos, and all related design marks and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of DSC or its subsidiaries or affiliates. You are not authorized to use any DSC name or mark in any commercial manner without the prior written consent of DSC.

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

You agree not to use the website or services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by the Legal Notices. You may not use the website or services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair this site or interfere with any other party’s use of the site or services. You may not seek to obtain any materials or information through the site by any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the site. DSC may from time to time place bulletin boards and/or other forums on the site, which are solely to enable communication between site visitors. We may also from time to time place email links on the site, which are solely to enable site visitors to communicate by email with DSC. DSC accepts no responsibility for the opinions and information posted via these services by others. If you use a public area, you are solely responsible for your own communications, the consequences of posting those communications, and your reliance on any communications found in the interactive areas. Although DSC may from time to time monitor or review DISCUSsions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like on the site, DSC does not do so actively or regularly, and is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the contents of any such communications nor for any error, defamation, libel, obscenity, profanity, or inaccuracy contained in any such communications. In consideration of being allowed to use the site’s interactive areas, you agree not to post any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, federal, or foreign law. You agree not to post any material that constitutes or encourages any form of direct or indirect personal attack or harassment. If you believe that any portion of the material contained on this site infringes your copyright, notify us of your claim in accordance with the procedure set forth here and DSC will take appropriate action as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3).

HOW WE MAY USE MATERIALS YOU PROVIDE TO US

Do not send us any confidential or proprietary information. Any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, or the like which you send to us will be treated as non-confidential and nonproprietary and you agree that any such information you choose to provide may be reproduced, used, and distributed by us for any purpose without restriction.

ENDORSEMENTS

All product and service marks contained herein that are not DSC marks are the trademarks of their respective owners. References that we make to any names, marks, products or services of third parties or hypertext links to third party sites or information do not necessarily constitute or imply our endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of the third party, information, product, or service.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

ALL MATERIALS, INFORMATION, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” DSC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. DSC MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, OR ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES CONTAINED IN OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES; THESE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT SHALL DSC BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, USE, OR DATA WHETHER BROUGHT IN CONTRACT OR TORT, ARISING OUT of OR CONNECTED WITH THE SITE OR THE USE, RELIANCE UPON, OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY MATERIAL CONTAINED IN OR ACCESSED FROM ANY COMPANY WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE OR THE ASSOCIATED SERVICES, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO CEASE USING THEM. The site is operated from a location in the State of Ohio, United States of America. We make no representation that materials found at our sites are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access our site from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with local laws. If you have questions about our Legal Notices, please contact our legal department.