HEROWORKS’ TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE


PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THIS SITE CAREFULLY. By using this site, you are deemed to have agreed to these terms and conditions of use. We reserve the right to modify them at any time. You should check these terms and conditions periodically for changes. By using this site after you agree to accept those changes, whether or not you have reviewed them. If at any time you choose not to accept these terms and conditions of use, please do not use this site.


Restrictions on Use of Materials

The contents of this site are protected by copyright and trademark laws and are the property of The HEROWORKS Company, LLC and or Vivian Ellis Zabriskie. Unless we say otherwise, you may access the materials located within the HEROWORKS site only for your personal use. This means you may download one copy of posted materials on a single computer for personal, noncommercial home use only, so long as you neither change nor delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice. When you down load copyrighted material you do not obtain any ownership rights in that material.

You may not modify, copy, publish, display, transmit, adapt or in any way exploit the content of the HEROWORKS site. Only if you obtain prior written consent from us—and from all other entities with an interest in the relevant intellectual property—may you publish, display or commercially exploit any material from the HEROWORKS site. If permission is granted by us and by all other entities with an interest in the relevant intellectual property, you may not change or delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice.


Links

These terms and conditions apply only to the HEROWORKS site, and not to any other sites to which HEROWORKS may link. We are not responsible for, do not endorse or take responsibility for the contents or advertising, products, services, or materials made available through any other site.

Other sites may link to the HEROWORKS site through a plain text link. Permission must be granted by us for any other type of link to the HEROWORKS site. We reserve the right to rescind any permission granted by us to link through a plain-text link or any other type of link.

Limitation of Liability

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE, WILL HEROWORKS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ON THE HEROWORKS SITE.

Confidentiality and Privacy

We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of the users of our site. We will never intentionally disclose any personal information about you as an individual user without having received your permission. The exception to this policy is: We will release specific information about you or your account to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. We will also release specific information in special circumstances such as an attempted breach of the security of the HEROWORKS site or a physical or property threat to you or others.

Please note that if you give out personal information online—for example, on a public forum or discussion group—that information can be collected and used by third parties. We cannot guarantee the security of information you post in a forum. You disclose such information at your own risk.


Security

Protecting your privacy and your information is important to us. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your information from you computer to our servers. Our secure server software encrypts information, ensuring that all Internet transactions are private (unless sent by an unsecured means, such as e-mail.)


Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using the HEROWORKS site, you signify your acceptance of our conditions of use. If you do not agree to our policies, please do not use our site. Your continued use of our site will mean that you accept our terms of use. (Last modified on March 13, 2002.