| TERMS OF USE |
This Terms of Use Agreement (the "Agreement") defines the terms and conditions associated with My Lightyear, the Materials, and the membership requirements for gaining access to both. 1. Definition of Paid Subscription In order to utilize the My Lightyear system, You must first become a My Lightyear member ("Member"). This Agreement is made by and between My Lightyear and You ("You" or "Member") as a Member in My Lightyear. You wish to participate in My Lightyear and to use the Materials. Once subscribed You are granted the rights and privileges described herein. In order to become and remain a Member of My Lightyear, You must agree to abide by all of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement. You must carefully read this Agreement and agree to all the terms and conditions herein before registering for My Lightyear. 2. My Lightyear Membership and Materials: Permitted Uses and Privileges In consideration of Your compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, My Lightyear agrees to extend You membership in My Lightyear. Membership in My Lightyear and use of the Materials constitutes Your implicit agreement with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Membership in My Lightyear and use of the Materials provided by My Lightyear may be used for lawful purposes only, and only for those general purposes for which My Lightyear was designed, as described in the Overview herein. You are granted the right to download Materials from My Lightyear website for your personal, individual use to promote your business opportunity as described previously herein. While Your membership is in full force, you may visit My Lightyear website and use the Materials as many times as you wish. You may save and continue to use any such downloaded and non-modified Materials for your personal, individual use to promote your business opportunity. You are NOT granted the right in fact You are EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED from transferring at no cost or selling at any price any downloaded and non-modified, modified or derivative Materials to a third party, nor may you use any downloaded and non-modified, modified or derivative Materials for any purpose other than your own personal, individual use to promote your business opportunity. You shall not use My Lightyear or the Materials to distribute, publish or otherwise promote any opportunity which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or which otherwise violates any law. As My Lightyear does not and cannot review every possible use for which you have downloaded My Lightyear Materials, You shall remain solely responsible and fully legally liable for the use of My Lightyear Materials and the content of Your messages. Transmission or storage of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, illegal use of copyrighted Material, use of Material to promote activities legally judged to be threatening or obscene, or violation of any trade secret statute, or any other usage that constitutes violation of any other statute. You shall not rent, sell, lease or otherwise transfer your My Lightyear membership or any of the Materials to a third party for Your benefit or theirs, and You certify that will not utilize either your My Lightyear membership or the Materials in a manner that violates the applicable laws of Your jurisdiction. You understand that participation in My Lightyear may involve establishing contractual arrangements with third parties. You understand that membership in My Lightyear and use of the Materials is not appropriate for certain individuals employed or otherwise retained by governmental agencies to promote those entities. As such, You certify that You do not work for, and/or do not constitute, a governmental agency or body or any other entity that would cause You to have a conflict of interests with regards to your membership in My Lightyear or your use of the Materials. If so, You agree not to seek membership in My Lightyear. If You become a Member and subsequently learn that such a conflict of interests exists, then You agree to notify My Lightyear and to immediately terminate Your membership. My Lightyear reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of My Lightyear rules of membership at any time. My Lightyear reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of the Materials at any time. Notification of the changes in My Lightyear or the Materials will be posted on My Lightyear website, or sent via Email, or both. My Lightyear may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of My Lightyear or the Materials at any time, including the availability of any Materials, database or content. My Lightyear may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict Your access to parts or all of My Lightyear or the Materials without notice. Your continued membership in My Lightyear usage and the Materials now, or following the posting of any notice of changes in these operating rules, constitutes Your binding acceptance of such rules, changes or modifications. Your right to continued membership in My Lightyear and to use of the Materials is subject to any limits My Lightyear may in its sole discretion establish. 3. Registration for My Lightyear Membership, Site Name, Password and Security To become a My Lightyear member so You can gain access to the Materials, You must first register. When prompted by the Signup Form on the My Lightyear website You agree to provide My Lightyear with current, complete, and accurate information about Yourself. You shall not knowingly provide inaccurate information with the intent to create a false identity. You also agree not to provide any false or misleading information anywhere else during the registration process or anywhere else on My Lightyear 's website or associated websites. This includes, but is not limited to, providing a false e-mail address in the FROM: field on outgoing Emails. You agree that My Lightyear may rely on any data, notice, instruction or request furnished to My Lightyear by You which is reasonably believed by My Lightyear to be genuine and to have been sent or presented by You or by a person reasonably believed by My Lightyear to be authorized to act on Your behalf. As part of the membership registration process You will be directed to choose a Site Name and Password that is unique to You. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your Site Name and Password. Furthermore, You are entirely responsible for usage of and any and all activities that occur under or in association with Your My Lightyear account, including use of Your account by a third party authorized by You to use Your account. You agree to notify My Lightyear immediately of any unauthorized use of Your account or any other breach of security that comes to your attention. You shall immediately notify My Lightyear by clicking here to email the Corporate Office of any known or suspected unauthorized uses of Your My Lightyear account, or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure of Your password. Any fraudulent, abusive or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for termination by My Lightyear and referral to the appropriate law enforcement agencies. You acknowledge and agree that You will promptly notify My Lightyear if You are or become aware of any other My Lightyear Member who, in Your good faith opinion, has, is or is intending to take unfair advantage of My Lightyear or the Materials provided by My Lightyear . 4. Member Conduct My Lightyear retains the right, in its sole discretion, to determine whether or not a Member's conduct is consistent with the letter and spirit of this Agreement and may terminate My Lightyear membership if a Member's conduct is found to be inconsistent with the Agreement. Any unauthorized use of Your My Lightyear membership, or the resale of the Materials, is expressly prohibited. You agree to abide by all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations and You are solely responsible for all acts or omissions that occur under Your account or password, including the content of Your transmissions through My Lightyear. By way of example, and not as a limitation, You agree not to use Your membership in My Lightyear or the Materials to:
My Lightyear does not advocate and will not abide any My Lightyear Member that uses Materials for the promotion ANY opportunity which advocates, encourages, endorses, or makes possible any form of, pornography, hate crimes, gambling, pyramid schemes or any type of business opportunity that is unethical, illegal or outside the realm of legitimate business opportunity. Members are prohibited using My Lightyear or its Materials to transmit any material or promote any opportunity that is in My Lightyear's sole discretion, unlawful, obscene, threatening, abusive, libelous, or hateful, or that encourages conduct which would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law. My Lightyear reserves the right in its sole judgment to ban ANY Member that uses My Lightyear or its Materials to promote such a business opportunity. Should My Lightyear discover that You are using My Lightyear or its Materials to promote programs of this type in any form, this will constitute grounds for immediate suspension or termination of Your membership. 6. Email and Other Communication with Members By virtue of your membership in My Lightyear you voluntarily, specifically and categorically "opt-in" to a list of Members maintained by My Lightyear to whom My Lightyear may contact via Email, fax, phone, or conventional mail as described herein. My Lightyear reserves the authority and you grant My Lightyear the expressed right to send You at reasonably timed intervals and in reasonable quantities via Email and/or other communications methods information for the purposes of informing You of changes or additions to My Lightyear, the Materials, or any other products, services and offers that are generally related and applicable to My Lightyear concept as defined in the Overview section herein. You agree to receive all such Email messages from My Lightyear as a condition of My Lightyear membership. These transmissions include, but are not limited to, My Lightyear Newsletter, My Lightyear updates, and new product information. 7. Fee Structure, Payments and Billing A monthly enrollment fee is assessed for use of the My Lightyear internet marketing system. Payment is by credit card and billing occurs automatically each month. 8. Membership Structure My Lightyear reserves the right to change the membership structure, including but not limited to the imposition of additional membership fees in exchange for joining My Lightyear and/or access to the Materials, at any time without advance notification. In the event that My Lightyear so elects, each Member shall be notified by Email and a membership structure change notice shall be posted at an appropriate location on My Lightyear website. Should such notice be given, Members shall have the opportunity to voluntarily terminate membership if they are unwilling and/or unable to comply with the new membership structure. 9. Term of Service There is no term of service. Membership is continuous from the time a Member joins until or if the Member notifies My Lightyear in writing of cancellation of membership (see Cancellation below), or in the event the Member's Independent Representative Contract with My Lightyear is terminated for any reason. My Lightyear reserves the right to impose a term of service at any time without advance notification. In the event that My Lightyear so elects, each Member shall be notified by Email and a term of service change notice shall be posted at an appropriate location on My Lightyear website. Should such notice be given, Members shall have the opportunity to voluntarily terminate membership if they are unwilling and/or unable to comply with the new term of service structure. 10. Cancellation Your Site Name and Password must be included in the cancellation request. Cancellation will take effect only when the receipt of the cancellation request is confirmed by My Lightyear . Membership cancellation by verbal notification will not be accepted under any circumstances. Once written notification in one of the approved forms is received and accepted by My Lightyear You will receive notification via Email of account cancellation. Following confirmed cancellation, Your access to My Lightyear Materials will immediately cease with notification of cancellation. Until that time You continue to be responsible for all actions up to the time that Your My Lightyear account is deactivated, and you continue to be fully bound by the terms and conditions in this Agreement. Once Member de-activation has occurred You agree that My Lightyear has the right to delete all data, files or other information that may stored in Your Member account. You should export any data files owned by you and stored in My Lightyear prior to requesting termination, and the responsibility for doing so lies solely with YOU. My Lightyear cannot and will not be responsible for Members that fail to preserve data, files or other information that may stored in Your Member account as provided for herein. 11. Termination My Lightyear may, in its sole discretion, terminate or suspend Your access to all or part of My Lightyear or to the Materials for any reason, including without limitation, breach of this Agreement, breach of your Independent Representative Agreement, or unauthorized assignment of this Agreement by You. Upon termination, You shall no longer be entitled to use of My Lightyear website or the Materials, and the license granted to You hereunder shall terminate and You shall immediately return or destroy all Proprietary Information, if any, but the terms of this Agreement will otherwise remain in effect. 12. Submission of Ideas and Other Information My Lightyear welcomes specific comments regarding My Lightyear and the Materials. My Lightyear will consider adding to the library of My Lightyear Materials any ideas, tools, materials or technology You voluntarily choose to give My Lightyear . You must be legally able to transfer such ideas and materials and be prepared to certify the same if requested by My Lightyear . If You send us creative suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts or other information (collectively "Ideas"), then by submitting any Ideas to My Lightyear you automatically grant to My Lightyear a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, sell, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Ideas (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such Ideas. Whether My Lightyear ever uses the Ideas or not in My Lightyear, the Ideas shall be deemed, and shall thereafter remain, the property of My Lightyear . None of the Information shall be subject to any obligation of confidentiality on the part of My Lightyear as defined herein. My Lightyear shall not be liable or owe You any compensation for any voluntary disclosure of Ideas or their subsequent use by My Lightyear . 13. Proprietary Information You acknowledge that, in the course of using My Lightyear You are obtaining information relating to My Lightyear , to My Lightyear and/or to the Materials (collectively "Proprietary Information"). Such Proprietary Information is the exclusive property of and shall belong solely to My Lightyear and includes, but is not limited to, the features and modes of operation of My Lightyear, the Materials themselves, and the underlying concept of providing marketing tools, technology and knowledge to individuals in established businesses both in the traditional/offline and internet/online arenas in a variety of industries and applications including traditional marketing and sales, direct marketing, network marketing, and multi-level marketing for the purpose of building their opportunities (collectively "My Lightyear Concept"). In regard to all Proprietary Information You agree not to use the Proprietary Information for your own benefit or the benefit of a third-party, or to otherwise disclose to anyone any of the Proprietary Information without the prior written consent of My Lightyear , except for those uses that are expressly authorized by this Agreement and that are expressly described in Permitted Uses above, or unless such Proprietary Information becomes part of the public domain without breach of this Agreement by You. 14. Use of Proprietary Materials Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, My Lightyear grants You an individual, personal, non-sub-licensable, non-exclusive and non-transferable license ("License") to use its proprietary My Lightyear Materials, in end-user form only, generally but not limited to Adobe Acrobat .PDF files, and then only in accordance with the specific instructions and approved uses as describer herein, and only in conjunction with this Agreement. Other than for the uses expressly permitted by this Agreement You agree and certify that You will not, directly or indirectly, attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of the Materials; modify, translate, or create derivative works based on the Materials; or copy (except for archival purposes), rent, lease, distribute, assign, or otherwise transfer rights to the Materials; use the Materials for timesharing or service bureau purposes or otherwise for the benefit of a third party; or remove any proprietary notices or labels that may come with the Materials. You acknowledge that My Lightyear and its licensors, if any, retain ownership of all concepts and Materials associated with My Lightyear Concept, and any portions or copies thereof, and all rights therein. 15. Responsibility for Content My Lightyear is responsible only for the Materials that are posted on My Lightyear website for download by Members. My Lightyear exercises no control whatsoever over the content, information and data passing through the websites of its Members. For the convenience of its Members, My Lightyear may provide Internet links on the My Lightyear ands/or My Lightyear websites to the websites of third parties. The inclusion, if any, of such links does not imply an endorsement of any kind by My Lightyear for the linked sites, for their content or for the entities that post and maintain them. In addition, My Lightyear accepts no responsibility whatsoever for the content which appears on such linked websites. My Lightyear makes no representations whatsoever about any other website to which You may gain access through your membership in My Lightyear. When You access a non- My Lightyear website, you acknowledge that it is with the full knowledge and understanding that it is totally independent from My Lightyear , and that My Lightyear has no control over the content on, features included, or performance of that website. You further acknowledge that You use any such non- My Lightyear websites at Your own and complete risk. 16. Non-Assignability of Agreement Responsibilities and Membership Privileges Neither the rights nor the obligations arising under this Agreement are assignable or transferable by You. Any such attempted assignment or transfer shall be void and without effect. My Lightyear accounts cannot be transferred or may not be used by anyone other than the Member subscriber, or another user at his same physical location that the Member has authorized to use the account. My Lightyear possesses the ability to track unauthorized usage of Member accounts from third-party locations. Member accounts that have been transferred to other parties, or show other activity in violation of this paragraph, are subject to immediate cancellation. You are expressly not permitted to allow others access to your My Lightyear account or to the Material, nor are you permitted to make Your password visible to others. You may not attempt to determine the password of another My Lightyear Member. 17. Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitation of Liabilities, Indemnification My Lightyear does NOT warrant that the My Lightyear website, the Materials, and any related websites and/or services will be error free or uninterrupted. My Lightyear is not be liable for the consequences, if any, of any such interruptions or errors. The My Lightyear website, the Materials, and all service associated with My Lightyear are distributed on an "AS IS" basis and are subject only to the warranty disclaimers and limitations found in this agreement, if any, without any other warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied. THE CONTENTS OF My Lightyear WEBSITE AND THE MATERIALS ARE PRESENTED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR USE FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, IS MADE IN RELATION TO THE CONTENT ON THESE PAGES. My Lightyear SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE My Lightyear WEBPAGES OR THE MATERIALS. You agree that My Lightyear is the neutral host of My Lightyear website and the neutral provider of the Materials and has no control over and has absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for or liability in relation to the business opportunities that My Lightyear and its Representatives represent as part of their collective use of My Lightyear and/or the Materials. Although My Lightyear provides some encryption and security layers to protect certain personal information which is transmitted by Users, You understand that Your uploads and transmissions may be intercepted and used, and that all the risk associated therewith is solely Yours. If you do not wish to assume this risk then you should not transmit personal information via the My Lightyear and/or My Lightyear websites. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless My Lightyear and its partners, affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents, and other My Lightyear Members (collectively, " My Lightyear Family") from and against any and all liability, claims, losses, damages, injuries or expenses (including attorney's fees) directly or indirectly arising from or relating to Your use of My Lightyear and/or the Materials, and any dispute relating thereto. My Lightyear cannot and will not be responsible for ANY losses, damages or costs that You and/or Your business may suffer when using the My Lightyear website, My Lightyear website, the Materials, and any related websites and/or services. You expressly agree to indemnify and hold harmless the My Lightyear Family from ANY claims resulting from Your use of the My Lightyear website, the Materials, and any related websites and/or services. You expressly agree that use of the My Lightyear website, the Materials, and any related websites and/or services is at Your complete and sole risk and You understand such risks are an inherent part of business. You expressly agree that neither the My Lightyear Family nor its partners, officers, service providers, affiliates, licensors, employees and/or contractors shall have ANY liability for ANY damages, if any, suffered by You, Your business or ANY other 3rd party associated with you or not as a result of the use or misuse of the My Lightyear website, the Materials, and any related websites and/or services. 18. Modification My Lightyear reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Agreement at any time. Notification of the changes in My Lightyear or this Agreement will be posted on the Web, or sent via e-mail, or postal mail. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the scope of the program, term of service fees, payment procedures, and My Lightyear rules. If any modification is unacceptable to You, or If You are dissatisfied with My Lightyear or with any of its terms, conditions, rules, policies, guidelines, or the practices of My Lightyear in operating My Lightyear, Your only recourse is to terminate this agreement by canceling Your membership. Your continued participation in the program following the posting of any change notice(s) or a new agreement on My Lightyear website will constitute your implicit agreement with and binding acceptance of the change(s). 19. Force Majeure My Lightyear shall not be liable hereunder by reason of any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder on account of strikes, shortages, riots, insurrection, fires, flood, storm, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental action labor conditions, earthquakes or any other cause which is beyond the reasonable control of My Lightyear . 20. Arbitration Dispute relating in any way to this Agreement (including any actual or alleged breach hereof), any transactions or activities under this Agreement or Your relationship with My Lightyear or any My Lightyear Members shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Louisville, KY and/or Rhinelander, WI except that, to the extent You have in any manner violated or threatened to violate My Lightyear's intellectual property rights as defined herein, in which case My Lightyear may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the State of Kentucky and/or Wisconsin (and You consent to non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts) or any other local court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Kentucky, County of Jefferson and/or State of Wisconsin, County of Oneida. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise. 21. Miscellaneous This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of Kentucky, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. RTM Seminar 's failure to enforce Your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of My Lightyear's right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement. 22. Copyrights and Trademarks Unless otherwise indicated any and all content on the My Lightyear sites including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, picture images, audio files, video files, multi-media, music, sound, intellectual property and software is the property of Oneida Marketing Enterprises and/or My Lightyear and is protected by U.S. and international copyright and trademark laws. No part of the My Lightyear web site or related web sites may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the expressed written permission of My Lightyear . My Lightyear's copyright notice (Copyright © 2006-08 by My Lightyear) appears to remind You that everything on the My Lightyear websites is licensed by My Lightyear and protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation (or both) with the exception of works identified by someone else's copyright notice. My Lightyear, www.mylightyear.net and all other extensions, are all trademarks of Oneida Marketing Enterprises and/or My Lightyear and are protected under United States trademark law. Products and company names mentioned herein that are not owned by the Company may be trademarks or trade names of their respective owners. Your access to the My Lightyear website does not grant any license or right to use any marks appearing on the site without the prior written consent of the Company or the third party owner of that mark, product or trade name. Oneida Marketing Enterprises and My Lightyear trademarks may not be used in any manner that suggests they are not associated with Oneida Marketing Enterprises or My Lightyear. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. 23. Entire Agreement This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between My Lightyear and You pertaining to the subject matter hereof, and any and all written or oral agreements heretofore existing between the parties hereto are expressly cancelled. Any modifications of this Agreement must be in writing and acknowledged by both parties hereto. Should any provision of this agreement be held to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable by a court law, the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this agreement shall remain unaffected thereby unless otherwise stated. These Terms and Conditions supersede all previous representations, understandings or agreements and shall prevail notwithstanding any variance with terms and conditions of any order submitted. Your use of My Lightyear constitutes your explicit acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. 24. Independent Investigation You acknowledge that You have read this agreement
and agree to all its terms and conditions. You
have independently evaluated the desirability
of participating in the program and are not relying
on any representation, guarantee, or statement
other than as set forth in this Agreement. By
becoming a member of My Lightyear and using the
Materials You indicate Your acceptance of this
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