TERMS OF USE
These Terms and Conditions of Use ("Terms and Conditions") apply
to your use of and registration with rroots.net (the "Site").
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE ACCESSING, BROWSING, OR OTHERWISE
USING THE SITE
Your access to, and browsing, review and use of the Site is subject to these
Terms and Conditions and all applicable laws. By accessing and using the Site,
you accept these Terms and Conditions, without limitation or qualification.
If you do not agree to the Terms and Conditions, do not use the Site. If,
at any time, any part of the Terms and Conditions is no longer acceptable
to you, immediately terminate your use of the Site.
RIGHT TO CHANGE, MODIFY OR DELETE THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
RRG reserves the right to change, modify, add or delete portions of the Terms
and Conditions at any time, without prior notice. Please re-review the Terms
and Conditions periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site will
mean that you accept such changes or deletions.
PRIVACY
Please refer to RRG's Privacy
Policy for information regarding the Company's collection, use, and storage
of users' information.
USE OF SITE CONTENT
This Site and all the information it contains, or may in the future contain,
including, but not limited to, articles, memoranda, bulletins, reports, press
releases, opinions, text, directories, guides, photographs, illustrations,
trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos (collectively, the "Content"),
is the property of RRG, and is protected from unauthorized copying and dissemination
by U.S. Copyright law, trademark law, international conventions, and other
intellectual property laws. Certain of the trademarks and logos displayed
on the site are owned by third parties. Nothing contained on this Site should
be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license
or right to use this Site or any Content displayed on this Site, through the
use of framing or otherwise, without the prior written permission of RRG or
such third party that may own the trademark or copyright of material displayed
on this Site.
Subject to your full compliance with these terms, RRG authorizes you to view
the Content, make a single copy of it, and print that copy, but only for your
own lawful, personal, noncommercial use, provided that you maintain all copyright,
trademark and other intellectual property notices contained in such Content,
and provided that the Content, or any part thereof, is not modified.
RESPONSES TO ONLINE REQUESTS
From time to time, RRG may offer to provide information or materials via e-mail
or otherwise to interested persons. RRG reserves the right, in its absolute
discretion, to reject any requests for such information or materials, or to
discontinue the provision of such information or materials to any person,
for any reason whatsoever.
PROHIBITED CONDUCT
You may use the Site for lawful purposes only. You may not upload to, or distribute
or otherwise publish through the Site, any Content that is any of the following:
- is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, harassing or threatening,
or otherwise objectionable to RRG in the Company's sole discretion;
- contains computer viruses, worms, moles or other contaminating or destructive
elements;
- violates the rights of others, such as Content that infringes any copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret or violates any right of privacy or publicity;
- contains any false or misleading statement;
- contains advertising; or
- otherwise violates any applicable criminal or civil law. You may not use
the Site for any commercial purpose and may not distribute over the Site any
solicitation of funds, goods and services. In addition, you may not use the
Site to solicit subscribers to join other online information services that
are competitive with the Site.
CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND REMOVAL
RRG does not and cannot review generally the content posted by users of the
Site ("Users' Content") and is not responsible for such Users' Content.
However, RRG reserves the right to cancel your access to these areas and/or
delete, move, or edit any Users' Content (including messages posted in any
forum) that it may determine, in its sole discretion, violates the Terms of
Use. You shall remain solely responsible for all Users' Content posted by
you or by any other person using your account. RRG shall have the right, but
not the obligation, to correct any errors or omissions in any Users' Content,
as it may determine in its sole discretion.
RRG prohibits the posting of any information that infringes or violates the
copyright rights and/or other intellectual property rights (including rights
of privacy and publicity) of any person or entity. If you believe that your
intellectual property right (or such a right that you are responsible for
enforcing) is infringed by any content on the Site, please write to RRG at
the below address, giving a written statement that contains the following
information: (a) an identification of the copyrighted work and/or intellectual
property right claimed to have been infringed; (b) an identification of the
allegedly infringing material on the Site that is requested to be removed;
(c) your name, address, and daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address
if available; (d) a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use
of the copyrighted work and/or exercise of the intellectual property right
is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law; (e) a statement that
the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury,
that the signatory is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right
that is allegedly infringed; and (f) the signature of the intellectual property
right owner or someone authorized on the owner's behalf to assert infringement
of the right. RRG will remove any posted submission that infringes the copyright
or other intellectual property right of any person under U.S. law upon receipt
of such a statement (or any statement in conformance with 17 U.S.C. §
512(c)(3)). U.S. law provides significant penalties for submitting such a
statement falsely. Under appropriate circumstances, persons who repeatedly
submit infringing or unlawful material will be prohibited from posting further
submissions. RRG's contact for submission of notices under this section is:
General Counsel, Royal Roots Global Inc., 980 North Michigan Avenue, Suite
1400, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
NON-ENDORSEMENT
RRG does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any Users'
Content displayed, uploaded, posted on any message board, or otherwise distributed
through the Site by any subscriber, information provider or any other third
party. RRG expressly disclaims any liability related to Users' Content, and
you acknowledge that any reliance upon such Subscriber Content shall be at
your sole risk.
The Site may contain links to sites on the Internet that are owned and operated
by third parties (the "External Sites"). You acknowledge that RRG
is not responsible for the availability of, or the content or software applications
located on or through any External Site. You should contact the site administrator
or Webmaster for those External Sites if you have any concerns regarding such
links or External Sites.
SUBSCRIBER QUALIFICATIONS
When registering with or applying to RRG you must provide accurate, complete,
and current registration information and you agree to provide RRG with any
updates to that information promptly after such changes occur.
Individual subscriptions to the Site are available only to persons who are
at least 18 years of age. Minors may receive access keys or user id/passwords
only as part of an authorized group subscription. Your right to use the Site
is personal to you and cannot be transferred to any other person.
You shall be responsible for obtaining communication services, computer equipment
and other products or services necessary to access and use the Site. You shall
be responsible for all charges associated with accessing and maintaining a
connection to the Site including, but not limited to, charges imposed by an
Internet service provider, or your local telephone company.
REGISTRANT INFORMATION
Unless you elect otherwise by making the appropriate selection on the RRG
personal information page, RRG shall have the right to disclose certain limited
registrant information including, but not limited to, the registrant's name,
e-mail and mailing address, to affiliates, partners and third party vendors
for the purpose of providing registrants with information about products and
services. RRG shall also have the right to disclose aggregate information
about registrant usage and demographics in a manner that does not reveal the
personal identity of any individual registrant. RRG shall have the right to
send you electronic mail to inform you of changes or additions to the Site,
or of any products and services of RRG. For additional information, see the
Company's Privacy Policy.
THIRD PARTIES
RRG may provide you with links to third party Web sites, and some of the Content
appearing to originate from the Site may be supplied by third party Content
providers. RRG has no responsibility for these third-party Web sites, which
are governed by the terms of use and privacy policies, if any, of the applicable
third-party Content providers.
ACCESS TO AND AVAILABILITY OF THE SITE
The Site may become unavailable to you as a result of maintenance, malfunction
of computer hardware or software, or for other reasons, and may result in
damages to your systems or operations. You shall be solely responsible for
ensuring that any information or content obtained from the Site does not contain
any virus, worm, mole or other computer software code or subroutine designed
to disable, erase, impair or otherwise damage your systems, software, or data.
RESTRICTION, SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION
RRG reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to restrict, suspend or terminate
your access to all or any part of the Site at any time for any reason without
prior notice or liability and without any obligation to refund any portion
of fees paid for any product or service.
RRG may change, suspend or discontinue all or any aspect of the Site at any
time, including the availability of any Site feature, database, or content,
without prior notice or liability.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTEES
THE SITE AND THE CONTENT ARE DISTRIBUTED ON AN "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE"
BASIS.
NEITHER RRG, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS NOR THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS MAKE
ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE, ANY CONTENT OR
ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES SOLD OR DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY
AGREE THAT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE AND
THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENT IS ASSUMED SOLELY BY YOU. NEITHER
RRG NOR ANY PROVIDER OF THIRD PARTY CONTENT OR THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS WARRANTS
THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE; NOR DOES RRG, ANY THIRD
PARTY CONTENT PROVIDER, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO
THE RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SITE OR THE CONTENT.
IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION
1542 THAT PROVIDES: "A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH
THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF
EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MIGHT HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED
HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR." Limitation of Liability.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL RRG NOR ANY THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDER NOR
THEIR RESPECTIVE PREDECESSORS, SUCCESSORS, PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES,
PAST OR PRESENT OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, INVESTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS,
REPRESENTATIVES ATTORNEYS, LICENSORS OR INFORMATION PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, EVEN IF SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION
OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH
STATES, THE LIABILITY OF RRG, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE
AGENTS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
INDEMNIFICATION
You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold RRG, and all of its predecessors,
successors, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and past and present officers,
directors, shareholders, investors, employees, agents, information providers,
attorneys, representatives licensors and information providers (collectively,
the "RRG Representatives") harmless from and against any and all
liability, losses, costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred
by RRG or any RRG Representative in connection with any claim arising out
of any use or alleged use by you of this site or arising out of or in relation
to any breach by you of the Terms and conditions, or the representations,
warranties and covenants you made by agreeing to these Terms and Conditions.
RRG reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense
and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and
in such case, you agree to cooperate reasonably with RRG's defense of such
claim. Choice of Law.
The Terms and Conditions shall be construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of Illinois, without regard to conflict of laws principles.
ENTIRE AGREEMENT
The Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between 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.
NO AMENDMENT OR WAIVER
The Terms and Conditions may not be amended except in writing signed by both
parties and no waiver by either party shall be deemed a waiver of any preceding
or subsequent breach or default, unless such a waiver is in writing and signed
by an authorized representative of RRG.