Implications Wheel - Terms of Service

THE INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC EXPLORATION

The Implications Wheel® Platform

Version Date: 16 August 2010

This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") constitutes a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("user" or "you") and Infinity Limited, Inc. dba Institute for Strategic Exploration and its affiliated companies (collectively, "Company" or "we" or "us" or "our"), concerning your use of the Implications Wheel® Platform (the "Platform") accessible through the www.i-wheel.com website as well as any other media form or media channel related or connected thereto (collectively, the "Website"). The Platform provides an environment which facilitates group contributions of implications of proposed changes to be used in analysis, planning and decision making (the "Platform Services"). The Platform Services are hosted in the United States.

All users who are minors in the jurisdiction in which they reside (generally under the age of 18) must have the permission of, and be directly supervised by, their parent or guardian to use the Platform Services. If you are a minor, you must have your parent or guardian read and agree to this Agreement prior to you using the Platform Services. Persons under the age of 13 are not permitted to register for the Platform Services or use the Platform Services.

YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT BY ACKNOWLEDGING SUCH ACCEPTANCE DURING THE REGISTRATION PROCESS (IF APPLICABLE) AND ALSO BY CONTINUING TO USE THE PLATFORM SERVICES. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ABIDE BY THIS AGREEMENT, OR TO MODIFICATIONS THAT COMPANY MAY MAKE TO THIS AGREEMENT IN THE FUTURE, DO NOT USE OR ACCESS OR CONTINUE TO USE OR ACCESS THE PLATFORM SERVICES.

PARTICIPATION STRUCTURE

Users of the Platform Services may be "Organizations" or "Facilitators" or "Participants". Organizations and/or Facilitators have entered into agreements with Company pursuant to which Facilitators and Participants are permitted to access and use the Platform Services. Facilitators guide and assist Participants in their use of the Platform Services during project sessions ("Sessions") scheduled by the Organizations and/or Facilitators.

When a Participant initially creates an account, that account is associated with an Organization. The sign-up form includes the name of the Organization and either a link to the Organization’s privacy policy or else notification that the Participant should consult that Organization's privacy policy. When a Participant initiates the process of associating the Participant’s account with an additional Organization, the same message is displayed before such association is confirmed, giving the Participant the opportunity to decline to associate. If a Participant wants to review the Organizations with which his account is associated, the Participant can visit "My profile". If a Participant is associated with only a single Organization, then that Organization name may or may not be displayed in conjunction with a Session title. If a Participant is associated with more than a single Organization, then the index of available Session titles displays the name of the Organization to which a Session belongs. Participant access to a particular Session may not automatically terminate when that Session concludes, but a Participant may be removed by a Facilitator at any time, and Participant access will terminate when the corresponding Organization terminates or disables that Participant’s account, or when that Organization fails to renew its account.

USER REPRESENTATIONS

Regarding Your Registration

By using the Platform Services, you represent and warrant that:

all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate;
you will maintain the accuracy of such information;
you will keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your password and account;
you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or if a minor, you have received parental permission to use this Website; and
your use of the Platform Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation.

You also agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Website’s registration form and (b) maintain and promptly update registration data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Company has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Company has the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Platform Services.

User Names

Participants are advised to select user names that do not resemble their actual names if they desire that their postings made through the Platform Services remain anonymous, because a Participant’s user name will be included with all such postings. YOU AGREE THAT COMPANY SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM ANY OUTCOME OR CONSEQUENCE ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO ANYONE, INCLUDING AN ORGANIZATION, BEING ABLE TO LINK YOUR IDENTITY TO ANY OR YOUR POSTINGS OR COMMUNICATIONS OCCURRING DURING A SESSION, EITHER THROUGH CONTEXT OR OTHERWISE.

We reserve the right to remove or reclaim a user name you select if we determine appropriate in our discretion, such as when the user name is obscene or otherwise objectionable or when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name.

Regarding Content You Provide

You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, your postings to the interactive portions of the Platform Services ("Contribution"). When you create or make available a Contribution, you thereby represent and warrant that:

the creation, distribution, transmission, public display and performance, accessing, downloading and copying of your Contribution does not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or moral rights of any third party;
you are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases and permissions to use and to authorize Company and the Platform users to use your Contributions as necessary to exercise the licenses granted by you under this Agreement;
your Contribution does not contain any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, malicious code or other harmful or destructive content;
your Contribution is not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable (as determined by Company), libelous or slanderous, does not advocate the violent overthrow of the government of the United States, does not incite, encourage or threaten immediate physical harm against another, does not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
your Contribution does not contain material that solicits personal information from anyone under 18 or exploit people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, and does not violate any federal or state law concerning child pornography or otherwise intended to protect the health or wellbeing of minors;
if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to make available the Contribution, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to your Contribution;
your Contribution does not violate any state or federal law designed to regulate electronic advertising;
your Contribution does not amount to trolling, or the making of controversial statements for the sole purpose of generating responses by others;
your Contribution does not constitute, contain, install or attempt to install or promote spyware, malware or other computer code, whether on Company’s or others’ computers or equipment, designed to enable you or others to gather information about or monitor the online or other activities of another party;
your Contribution does not inundate the Platform with communications or other traffic suggesting no serious intent to use the Platform for its stated purpose;
your Contribution does not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of this Agreement or any applicable law or regulation; and
your Contribution does not contain pictures, data, audio or visual files, or any other content that is excessive in size, as determined by Company in its sole discretion.

CONTRIBUTION OWNERSHIP

By posting Contributions during participation in the Platform Services, you automatically hereby assign, and you represent and warranty that you have the right to assign, to the applicable Organization that has arranged the applicable Session, all right, title and interest in your Contributions, including all intellectual property rights therein. You acknowledge that the user name you select will be associated with and may appear with your Contribution in any use of the Contribution as determined by the Organization or Company, as applicable. Promptly upon request by Company, you shall give the applicable Organization or Company all assistance reasonably required to evidence more fully and otherwise give full and proper effect to the aforementioned assignment of rights. To effectuate the terms of this paragraph, you hereby name and irrevocably constitute and appoint Company, with the full power of substitution therein, as your true and lawful attorney-in-fact to execute all documents and perform all acts necessary to effect such assignment. By uploading your Contributions, you hereby warrant that your Contributions are free of any digital rights management, including any software designed to limit the number of times the Contributions may be copied or played.

If for any reason the foregoing assignment is not effective, you hereby grant to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide license to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such Contributions for any purpose, commercial, or otherwise, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. The use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels. Such use and distribution license will apply to any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed.

Company has the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to (i) edit, redact or otherwise change any Contributions, (ii) re-categorize any Contributions to place them in more appropriate locations or (iii) pre-screen or delete any Contributions that are determined to be inappropriate or otherwise in violation of this Agreement.

SUBMISSIONS

You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information about the Website or the Platform Services ("Submissions") provided by you to Company are non-confidential and Company (as well as any designee of Company) shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these Submissions for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.

PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Platform Services for any other purpose other than that for which Company makes it available. The Platform Services are for the personal use of users only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by Company. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:

criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
advertising to, or solicitation of, any user to buy or sell any products or services, unless authorized by Company;
systematic retrieval of data or other content from the Platform to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without written permission from Company;
making any unauthorized use of the Platform Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email;
disguising the origin of any information or inquiry transmitted through the Platform;
engaging in unlawful multi-level marketing (such as a pyramid scheme);
offering any contest, giveaway or sweepstakes without Company’s prior written consent;
posting anyone’s identification documents or sensitive financial information;
engaging in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website;
transmitting chain letters or junk email to other users;
using any information obtained from the Platform in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any user without their prior explicit consent;
engaging in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots or similar data gathering and extraction tools;
interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Platform or the networks or services connected to the Platform;
attempting to impersonate another user or person;
using the username of another user;
selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
using any information obtained from the Platform in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person;
using the Platform Services as part of any effort to compete with Company or to provide services as a service bureau;
deciphering, decompiling, disassembling or reverse engineering any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Platform;
attempting to bypass any measures of the Platform designed to prevent or restrict access to the Platform, or any portion of the Platform;
harassing, annoying, intimidating or threatening any Company employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Platform Services to you;
displaying an advertisement, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or through the Platform on behalf of that person, such as posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose;
deleting the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Contribution or Company content; and
using the Platform in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

Non-commercial Use by Users

The Website is for the personal use of individual users only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors, unless expressly authorized by Company. Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Platform, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email and unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website may be investigated, and appropriate legal action may be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress, in Company’s discretion.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

The content on the Platform ("Company Content") and the trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein ("Marks") are owned by or licensed to Company, and are subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights under United States and foreign laws and international conventions. Company Content, includes, without limitation, all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs and graphics. All Company graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts and service names are registered trademarks, common law trademarks or trade dress of Company in the U.S. and/or other countries. Company's trademarks and trade dress may not be used, including as part of trademarks and/or as part of domain names, in connection with any product or service in any manner that is likely to cause confusion and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of the Company.

Company Content on the Platform and Website is provided to you "AS IS" for your information and personal use only and may not be used, copied, reproduced, aggregated, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. Systematic retrieval of data or other content from the Platform or Website to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without written permission from Company is prohibited. Provided that you are eligible to use the Platform, you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, personal, non-transferable license to use the Company Content solely in connection with the Platform Services and in accordance with these Terms of Use. Company reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Platform, Website and Company Content and Marks. If you download or print a copy of the Company Content for personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein. You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security related features of the Platform or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any Company Content or enforce limitations on use of the Platform or the Company Content therein. The use and access rights granted herein do not include any right to use of data mining, robots, spiders or similar data gathering and extraction tools without our prior written permission.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

The Website contains (or you may be sent through the Website or the Platform Service) links to other websites ("Third Party Websites"). Such Third Party Websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any Third Party Websites accessed through the Website, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices or other policies of or contained in the Third Party Websites. Inclusion of, linking to or permitting the use or installation of any Third Party Website does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave the Website and access the Third Party Websites, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any website to which you navigate from the Website or relating to any applications you use or install from the Website. Any purchases you make through Third Party Websites will be through other websites and from other companies, and Company takes no responsibility whatsoever in relation to such purchases which are exclusively between you and the applicable third party.

SITE MANAGEMENT

Company reserves the right but does not have the obligation to:

monitor the Platform Services for violations of this Agreement;
take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Company’s sole discretion, violates this Agreement, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities;
in Company’s sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to or availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any user’s Contribution or any portion thereof that may violate this Agreement or any Company policy;
in Company’s sole discretion and without limitation, notice or liability to remove from the Platform or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to Company’s systems;
terminate the accounts of repeat infringers; and
otherwise manage the Platform Services in a manner designed to protect the rights and property of Company and others and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Platform Services.

PRIVACY

We care about the privacy of our users. Please review the Company Privacy Policy. By using the Website or the Platform Services, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States. By using the Website or the Platform Services, you are consenting to the terms of Privacy Policy.

DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (DMCA) NOTICE AND POLICY

Notifications

If you believe that content available on or through the Platform or Website infringes one or more of your copyrights, please immediately notify our Copyright Agent by mail or email notice ("Notification") providing the information described below, which Notification is pursuant to DMCA 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). A copy of your Notification will be sent to the person who posted or stored the material addressed in the Notification. Please be advised that pursuant to federal law you may be held liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a Notification. Thus, if you are not sure that content located on or linked to by the Website infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney. Company has a policy of terminating repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

All Notifications should include the following:

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online website are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that website.
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit Company to locate the material.
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the Company to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Notifications should be sent to our Copyright Agent as follows:

Copyright Agent
Infinity Limited, Inc. (dba The Institute for Strategic Exploration)
354 Cherokee Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55107.
Email: copyright@StrategicExploration.com
Phone: 651-228-0103

We also will advise the alleged infringer of the DMCA statutory Counter Notification procedure described below by which the alleged infringer may respond to your claim and request that we restore this material.

Counter Notification

If you believe your own copyrighted material has been removed from the Website and/or Platform Service as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter notification ("Counter Notification") to our Designated Copyright Agent pursuant to DMCA 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(2) and (3). To be an effective Counter Notification under the DMCA, your Counter Notification must include substantially the following:

Identification of the material that has been removed or disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled.
A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court in which your address is located, or if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which the Company is located.
A statement that you will accept service of process from the party that filed the Notification or the party's agent.
Your name, address and telephone number.
A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material in question was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
Your physical or electronic signature.

You may submit your Counter Notification to our Copyright Agent by mail or email as set forth above.

If you send us a valid, written Counter Notification meeting the requirements described above, we will restore your removed or disabled material after 10 business days but no later than 14 business days from the date we receive your Counter Notification, unless our Copyright Agent first receives notice from the party filing the original Notification informing us that such party has filed a court action to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity related to the material in question. Please note that if you materially misrepresent that the disabled or removed content was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may be liable for damages, including costs and attorney's fees. Filing a false Counter Notification constitutes perjury.

TERM AND TERMINATION

This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Platform Services or are otherwise a user of the Platform Services.

WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT, COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO, IN COMPANY’S SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEBSITE AND THE PLATFORM SERVICES, TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON AT ALL, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION, AND COMPANY MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE WEBSITE AND THE PLATFORM SERVICES, DELETE YOUR PROFILE AND ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE POSTED AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, IN COMPANY’S SOLE DISCRETION.

In order to protect the integrity of the Website and Platform Services, Company reserves the right at any time in its sole discretion to block certain IP addresses from accessing the Website Platform Services.

Any provisions of this Agreement that, in order to fulfill the purposes of such provisions, need to survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement, shall be deemed to survive for as long as necessary to fulfill such purposes.

YOU UNDERSTAND THAT CERTAIN STATES ALLOW YOU TO CANCEL THIS AGREEMENT, WITHOUT ANY PENALTY OR OBLIGATION, AT ANY TIME PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT OF COMPANY’S THIRD BUSINESS DAY FOLLOWING THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT, EXCLUDING SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS. TO CANCEL, CALL A COMPANY CUSTOMER CARE REPRESENTATIVE DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS USING THE CONTACT INFORMATION LISTING BELOW IN THIS AGREEMENT OR BY ACCESSING YOUR ACCOUNT SETTINGS. THIS SECTION APPLIES ONLY TO INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN STATES WITH SUCH LAWS.

MODIFICATIONS

To Agreement

Company may modify this Agreement from time to time. Any and all changes to this Agreement will be posted on the Website and revisions will be indicated by date. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the Platform Services after any such modification becomes effective. Company may also, in its discretion, choose to alert all users with whom it maintains email information of such modifications by means of an email to their most recently provided email address. It is therefore important that you regularly review this Agreement and keep your contact information current in your account settings to ensure you are informed of changes. Modifications to this Agreement shall be effective after posting. Additionally, modifications made to this Agreement applicable to dispute resolution shall not apply to disputes arising prior to the effective date of the modification.

To Services

Company reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Platform Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Company shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Platform Services.

DISPUTES

Between Users

If there is a dispute between users of the Platform Services, or between users and any third party, you understand and agree that Company is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release Company, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and/or the Platform Services.

With Company

All questions of law, rights, and remedies regarding any act, event or occurrence undertaken pursuant or relating to this Website or the Platform Services shall be governed and construed by the law of the State of Minnesota, excluding such state’s conflicts of law rules. Any legal action of whatever nature by or against Company arising out of or related in any respect to this Website and the Platform Services shall be brought solely in either the applicable federal or state courts located in or with jurisdiction over Ramsey County, Minnesota; subject, however, to the right of Company, at the Company's sole discretion, to bring an action to seek injunctive relief to enforce this Agreement or to stop or prevent an infringement of proprietary or other third party rights (or any similar cause of action) in any applicable court in any jurisdiction where jurisdiction exists with regard to a user. You hereby consent to (and waive any challenge or objection to) personal jurisdiction and venue in the above-referenced courts. Application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is excluded from this Agreement. Additionally, application of the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA) is excluded from this Agreement. In no event shall any claim, action or proceeding by you related in any way to the Website and/or the Platform Service (including your visit to or use of the Website and/or the Platform Service) be instituted more than two (2) years after the cause of action arose.

CORRECTIONS

Occasionally there may be information on the Website that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies or omissions that may relate to service descriptions, pricing, availability, and various other information. Company reserves the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions and to change or update the information at any time, without prior notice.

DISCLAIMERS

Company cannot control the nature of all of the content available through the Platform Services. By operating the Platform Services, Company does not represent or imply that Company endorses any Contributions or other content available on or linked to by the Platform Services or Website, including without limitation content hosted on third party websites or provided by third party applications, or that Company believes Contributions, or other content to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. We do not control and are not responsible for unlawful or otherwise objectionable content you may encounter on the Platform or Website or in connection with any Contributions. The Company is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or Platform Services.

YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND PLATFORM SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, COMPANY, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE AND THE PLATFORM SERVICES AND YOUR USE THEREOF, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE WEBSITE’S CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (A) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT AND MATERIALS, (B) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR WEBSITE, (C) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (D) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE PLATFORM OR WEBSITE, (E) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE PLATFORM OR WEBSITE BY ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR (F) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT AND MATERIALS OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE WEBSITE OR PLATFORM SERVICES, INCLUDING USE BY AN ORGANIZATION THAT MAY IMPACT A PARTICIPANT’S EMPLOYMENT. AS WITH THE PURCHASE OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE THROUGH ANY MEDIUM OR IN ANY ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD USE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT AND EXERCISE CAUTION WHERE APPROPRIATE.

The Company reserves the right to change any and all content, software and other items used or contained in the Website and any Platform Services offered through the Website at any time without notice.

LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY OR ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR PLATFORM SERVICES, EVEN IF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, COMPANY’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO COMPANY FOR THE PLATFORM SERVICES DURING THE PERIOD OF 3 MONTHS PRIOR TO ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING AND $50.

CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH SAYS: "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 MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR."

INDEMNITY

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Company, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from and against, any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of your Contributions, use of the Platform Services, and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Company reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify Company, and you agree to cooperate, at your expense, with Company’s defense of such claims. Company will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action, or proceeding which is subject to this indemnification upon becoming aware of it.

NOTICES

Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices given to Company shall be given by email to info@StrategicExploration.com. Any notices given to you shall be given to the email address you provided during the registration process, or such other address as each party may specify. Notice shall be deemed to be given 24 hours after the email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid. We may also choose to send notices by regular mail or discussion forum postings.

U.S. EXPORT CONTROLS

Software from this Website is further subject to United States export controls. No software may be downloaded from the Website or otherwise exported or re-exported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other Country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list.

MISCELLANEOUS

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Company regarding the use of the Platform Services. The failure of Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. This Agreement and your account may not be assigned by you without our express written consent. Company may assign any or all of its rights and obligations to others at any time. Company shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay or failure to act caused by any cause beyond Company's reasonable control. If any provision or part of a provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Platform Services or to receive further information regarding use of the Platform Services, please contact Company as set forth below or, if any complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, and you are a California resident, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 400 "R" Street, Sacramento, California 95814 or by telephone at 1-916-445-1254.

Infinity Limited, Inc. (dba The Institute for Strategic Exploration)
354 Cherokee Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55107.
Email: info@StrategicExploration.com
Phone: 651-228-0103