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Diet Designs may, at any time, and without prior notice, or
liability to you or any third party, discontinue and terminate your
access to, and your right to use this web site. Users of this web site
in any jurisdiction in the world, in which the common, statutory,
regulatory or codified law would void this agreement in whole or in any
essential part (the essential parts being at least, but not only, the
exclusive venue and exclusive remedy provisions and warranty
disclaimers), or which makes accessing this Diet Designs' web site
illegal, are unauthorized to access or use this web site and any service
provided through it, and do so entirely at their own risk.
1. GENERAL.
As used in this Agreement, "Diet Designs, Inc.", "Diet Designs",
"we", "us" and "our", each mean Diet Designs, Inc.
2. DISCLAIMER.
The information contained on this web site is not intended nor
implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice and is not
intended to be a substitute, or instructional for medical diagnosis or
treatment. Diet Designs suggests that you always seek the advice of
your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any
weight loss or maintenance program or with any questions you may have
regarding a medical condition which might be affected by a weight loss
program. Never disregard medical advice or delay in seeking medical
treatment because of anything you have read on this web site. Keep in
mind that any weight loss program may be accompanied by undesirable side
effects.
3. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.
The materials provided on Diet Designs' web site are provided
"as is". Diet Designs disclaims and does not make any express or
implied warranties, representations or endorsements whatsoever
(including, without limitation, warranties of title or non-infringement,
and the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose) with respect to any of the information, service, or
merchandise provided through or on this web site.
Diet Designs does not warrant that its web site will be
uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the
web site or server that makes them available are free of viruses or
other harmful components. Diet Designs does not guarantee or warrant
that files available for downloading through this web site will be free
of infection or viruses, worms, or other code that could contaminate,
corrupt or destroy any aspect of your hardware of software. By
accessing the Diet Designs web site, you agree that you are responsible
for implementing sufficient procedures and check points to satisfy your
particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output and for
maintaining a means external to the Diet Designs web site for virus
detection and the reconstruction of any lost data. Diet Designs does
not assume any responsibility or risk for your use of this web site.
Diet Designs does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, effectiveness,
suitability, reliability, correctness, timeliness or usefulness of any
opinions, advice, services, material, content, merchandise or other
information provided through or in, or by link from this web site. Any
material downloaded or obtained by you from or through this web site is
done at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage
to your computer system and any peripherals connected to it, and for any
loss of data that results from the use of, or download of materials from
this web site. You agree that Diet Designs will not be liable to you or
anyone else for any decision made, or action taken by you or anyone else
in reliance upon the information provided by this web site.
You irrevocably agree that Diet Designs, Inc., its officers,
employees, agents and those acting on its behalf shall have no liability
to you for damages or losses under any theory of liability or indemnity,
whether in contract, tort or otherwise, in connection with your use of
this web site, whether direct or indirect, special, incidental,
consequential, exemplary or punitive, arising from any access or use of
this web site, even if you have informed Diet Designs, its officers,
directors, employees, agents or those acting on its behalf, of the
possibility or nature of such damages.
You hereby release and forever waive any and all claims you may
have against Diet Designs, its officers, directors, employees, agents
and those acting with its authorization, for injury, losses or damages
sustained by you as a result of or relating to your use of this web
site. Without limitation to the preceding terms, you expressly agree
that Diet Designs' total maximum liability to you for any and all
damages, losses and causes of action (whether in contract, tort
(including but not limited to negligence), or otherwise) will not exceed
the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this web site. You
expressly agree that your sole and exclusive remedy for dissatisfaction
with any aspect of this web site or its content, is to stop accessing or
using the web site.
4. ON-LINE COMMUNICATIONS.
To the extent available, your participation in on-line
communications occurs in real time. Diet Designs does not censor,
control or edit the posting of such material, nor does it screen the
content provided by you to the web site. You agree that Diet Designs is
acting as a passive conduit for distribution of any postings or
transmissions by third parties with respect to this web site. You
understand that the Internet contains unedited materials which may, from
time to time, be placed upon this web site. You specifically and
irrevocably agree that Diet Designs is not liable for any defamatory,
offensive, or illegal conduct of any user of this web site. You agree
that Diet Designs has no control over and accepts no responsibility
whatsoever for material placed on its web site by any third party, that
all materials contained on this web site which are posted or transmitted
by third-parties, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom
such transmission or posting originated and agree that Diet Designs
will have no obligation or liability to you relating to any
transmissions or postings on its web site. Diet Designs does not
guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any material posted or
transmitted to this web site by a third party. You irrevocably agree
that Diet Designs will not be liable in any manner for any transmission
or posting by a third party to this web site, will not be liable for any
errors or omissions in such material posted or transmitted to this web
site, or for any loss or damage of any kind as a result thereof.
You agree and acknowledge that you are responsible for all
postings, transmissions, e-mails or other electronically transmitted
information which you transmit or post to the Diet Designs web site, and
hereby indemnify and hold Diet Designs harmless for it.
Diet Designs reserves the right to monitor content on its web
site and to remove, without notice, any content which it, in its sole
discretion, determines to be harmful, offensive or in violation of this
agreement or any applicable law, or otherwise unacceptable to Diet
Designs. Diet Designs shall not have any obligation to delete any
postings or transmissions on the web site that you might find
objectionable or offensive. If you provide any information that we
believe is untrue or inaccurate or incomplete, or we have reasonable
grounds to suspect that such is the case, Diet Designs reserves the
right to suspend or terminate your user account, cancel any orders or
requests for information and refuse to provide or permit you to have any
future access or use of the Diet Designs's web site.
5. PROTECTION AND USE OF MATERIALS ON THIS WEB SITE.
You agree and acknowledge that Diet Designs' web site contains
materials which are protected by copyright under U.S. law and
international copyright treaties, and may be protected by proprietary
rights, with respect to the information and expression of information
and materials contained in it. You acknowledge that these rights are
valid and enforceable in all media, formats, and technologies, whether
now in existence or developed in the future. You further acknowledge
that Diet Designs is the owner of the trade name Diet Designs, Inc. and
the trademark and service mark Diet Designs, which name and marks are
valid and enforceable. You agree not to copy, republish, transmit,
distribute, perform or create derivative works of any of the content on
the Diet Designs' web site, with the following exception: You may
download, on a one time basis only, a single copy of the materials on
this web site onto any single computer for your personal, non-commercial
use. You agree that if you do so, you do not obtain any ownership
interest in the copyrightable materials contained in or displayed on the
web site, nor the right to create any derivative work or to publish,
perform, transmit, copy, distribute, or modify such materials for any
purpose whatsoever.
You agree not to do any of the following with respect to the
Diet Designs' web site:
(a) abtransmit to, post or up-load
any materials which you do not have the right to transmit to, post or
up-load under any agreement or law;
(b) transmit to, post or up-load any materials which
you are prohibited from revealing, communicating, transmitting,
up-loading or posting, under any contractual or fiduciary relationship;
(c) create or utilize unattended, continuous or
simultaneous connections to the Diet Designs' web site;
(d) transmit to, post or up-load any materials that
are defamatory, obscene, vulgar, threatening, harassing, indecent,
obscene or pornographic, hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable;
(e) transmit or post any material which violates the
property rights of others, including the use of trademarks or service
marks in an infringing, diluting or disparaging manner, infringement of
the copyright of others, violation or misappropriation of confidential
information or the trade secrets of others;
(f) use the Diet Designs' web site to violate the
legal rights of others, including the rights of publicity and privacy,
or to threaten or harass others;
(g) falsely identify or impersonate any person or to
misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
(h) delete or alter any files or material
transmitted or posted to the web site by others, or up-load any file
that contains a virus, worm, or any debilitating or software or data
destroying, erasing or damaging software or code;
(i) transmit to, post or up-load any unsolicited or
unauthorized advertising, commercial solicitation, spam, "chain letters"
or "junk mail";
(j) delete or alter any copyright, trademark or
service mark designations, or any author attributions or legal notices
or proprietary designations from any materials which you up-load,
transmit or post to this web site;
(k) take any action which interrupts, prevents, or
adversely affects the availability of the resources of this web site to
others or otherwise causes repeated disruptive incidents; and/or
(l) collect or store personal data, including but
not limited to e-mail addresses, about other users of this web site.
6. USER REPRESENTATIONS.
You further agree that Diet Designs may revoke your right to use
this web site if you violate any of the terms and conditions set forth
herein. You represent that you are 18 years of age or older, and have
the legal ability and right to enter into this agreement. You also
agree to:
(a) maintain all hardware and software necessary for
your access and use of this web site;
(b) maintain the security of your
user identification, password, and any other confidential information
relating to your account, and/or purchase of goods or services through
this web site; and
(c) be responsible for all charges resulting from
your use of the Diet Designs web site and your account in connection
with it, including any unauthorized use of your password and account,
prior to notifying Diet Designs of such unauthorized use.
7. LICENSE TO USE YOUR MATERIALS.
You hereby grant Diet Designs an irrevocable, non-exclusive
worldwide, royalty free right and license to use, reproduce, modify,
publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit,
communicate to the public, perform and display any materials submitted,
transmitted to, or posted by you to the Diet Designs web site, by all
means and in any media and in any form now known or developed in the
future. You also waive any and all moral rights in such materials and
warrant that such materials are original with you or that you have the
right and authority to submit them for posting, transmission or
publication on this web site. You agree that Diet Designs is entitled
to make unrestricted use of any material you submit to its web site, for
any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to you.
8. INDEMNIFICATION.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Diet Designs harmless
from any and all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including
reasonable attorneys fees, resulting from your violation of this
agreement, including but not limited to infringement of third-party
rights as a result of your submission, transmission or posting of
material to, or your use of Diet Designs web site.
9. LINKS.
To the extent the Diet Designs' web site provides or identifies
links to other Internet web sites or resources, you agree that Diet
Designs is not responsible for the content, representations,
advertising, products, services or other materials which may be
available on such web sites, or the availability of such web sites. You
also agree that Diet Designs will not be liable or responsible for any
loss or damage directly or indirectly caused to you in connection with
your use of, connection to, or reliance on such other web sites, or any
content thereof, or other resources which may be made available or
referred to on such web sites. If you access any link to a third party
web site, you do so at your own risk. Diet Designs provides such links
simply as a service and no recommendation or endorsement or approval of
any of the services or content of any of the linked sites is implied or
intended.
10. MISCELLANEOUS.
This agreement will be governed, interpreted and construed
under the laws of the State of California without reference to its
conflict of laws provisions. You agree that any action at law or in
equity arising out of, relating to, or seeking interpretation of the
terms of this agreement shall be filed and determined only in the state
or federal courts having jurisdiction thereof, located in Los Angeles
County, California. You hereby irrevocably consent and submit to the
personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of any such
action.
Diet Designs may transfer or assign, in whole or in part, any
rights or obligations contained in this agreement without notice to, or
permission from you. This agreement shall be binding upon the parties
and their respective heirs, successors, assigns and legal
representatives, and upon all others acting with them, under their
direction or in privity with them.
These terms and conditions contain the entire agreement between
you and Diet Designs, Inc. with respect to the access and/or use of the
Diet Designs web site. There are no other covenants, understandings or
agreements between you and Diet Designs with respect to the access or
use of this web site. No course of conduct between you and Diet
Designs, nor any trade practice, shall act to modify any provision of
this agreement.
If any one or more provisions of this agreement is declared to
be illegal or unenforceable under any law, rule or regulation of any
government, or by any court having jurisdiction over the parties and the
subject matter of this Agreement, such illegality or unenforceability
will not affect the validity and/or enforceability of the other
provisions of this agreement.
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