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Terms of Use

This document describes the conditions under which you are permitted to use the MagPortal.com service. Use of MagPortal.com implies acceptance of these conditions. Hot Neuron LLC may revise these Terms of Use at any time without notice, and you hereby agree to be bound by such changes. It is your responsibility to check these terms periodically.

Last revised: $Date: 2014/07/09 02:15:27 $

Copyright
The text, images, and software on MagPortal.com are the property of Hot Neuron LLC or its suppliers and are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. Hot Neuron LLC grants you permission to view, download, and print publicly accessible contents of MagPortal.com for personal (non-commercial) use as long as copyright and trademark notices are kept intact.

You agree not to modify, rent, lease, sell, distribute, mirror, imitate the design elements of, or create derivative works (including "meta-search") based on MagPortal.com, in whole or in part, without explicit written permission from Hot Neuron LLC.

Trademarks and Service Marks
MagPortal.com and Hot Neuron are registered service marks of Hot Neuron LLC. Hot Neuron Similarity is a trademark of Hot Neuron LLC. You may make fair use of these marks in referring to our products and services as long as you provide standard attribution. You also have permission to use these marks as described below in "Linking to MagPortal.com". Any other use is prohibited. The magazine names and column names appearing on this site are the property of their respective publishers.

Linking to MagPortal.com
We grant you a non-assignable, non-transferable, and non-exclusive license to link to any part of the MagPortal.com site using the MagPortal.comSM name or logos as described in Help / Link to Us for the purpose of providing users with access to the MagPortal.com service. The MagPortal.com name and logos may not be used for any other purpose, including, but not limited to, suggesting affiliation, endorsement, or sponsorship by MagPortal.com or Hot Neuron LLC. We reserve the right to terminate or alter this license at any time without cause or notice.

Control of the Website
Hot Neuron LLC reserves the right to change or remove services, modify or remove article citations, magazines, or other content, and correct errors or omissions on any part of MagPortal.com without cause or notice.

Access Restrictions
Hot Neuron LLC reserves the right to terminate or restrict your access to MagPortal.com and to remove any user-created content, at any time, without cause or notice.

Use of the Website
You agree not to use MagPortal.com in a way which is detrimental to others or their use of MagPortal.com, including, but not limited to:

  • Placing an unreasonable burden on the site's processing capacity.
  • Using automated software that does not obey the robot exclusion standard to fetch data from the site.
  • Using automated software to fetch pages from the site at a rate greater than six pages per minute.
  • Attempting to gain access to restricted data.
  • Using an account belonging to someone else (unless you are their legal guardian).
  • Transmitting or posting:
    • Information when you do not legally have the authority to do so (for example materials protected by intellectual property laws or nondisclosure agreements, inside information, etc.).
    • Material that is abusive, obscene, hateful, threatening, libelous, discriminatory, deceitful or unlawful.
    • Material that contains computer viruses or other intentionally destructive elements.
    • Material that violates or encourages the violation of the law or the rights of another.

Login and Password
You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your login name and password. Any transactions performed with your login are your responsibility regardless of whether or not you gave consent for them. If your password is compromised you must report it to MagPortal.com immediately.

Privacy
Please view Help / Privacy Policy for details on the information we collect and how it is used. Note that we may disclose information if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to satisfy any law or regulation.

Feedback Information
Any feedback information provided to Hot Neuron LLC shall be provided on a non-confidential basis. Hot Neuron LLC shall be free to use such information on an unrestricted basis. You waive all intellectual property rights to such feedback.

Use of Posted Information
You agree that if you post material to a public part of MagPortal.com, you automatically grant a license for Hot Neuron LLC to use, reproduce, modify, retransmit, or create derivative works from that material. This license is royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable. You agree to waive your intellectual property rights to such materials.

Links and Third Parties
MagPortal.com provides links to numerous third party websites. Such sites may contain material that is offensive to certain users. We do not control the content of those sites and do not vouch for the quality, legality or suitability of any information, services, or products they provide. Hot Neuron LLC does not guarantee the quality or suitability of products advertised on MagPortal.com or any services provided on the MagPortal.com site by a third party.

Disclaimer of Warranties
MagPortal.com is a free service provided by Hot Neuron LLC. Hot Neuron LLC explicitly disclaims responsibility for the accuracy of the article citations it provides, or the suitability, validity, or availability of the articles themselves. We do not guarantee the completeness of the MagPortal.com search results or article listings. We do not make any guarantee against the loss or removal of any data which you post to MagPortal.com.

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" ON AN "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HOT NEURON LLC EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH MAGPORTAL.COM OR ANY OF HOT NEURON LLC'S TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.

Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL HOT NEURON LLC OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF MAGPORTAL. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO PREVENT RECOVERY OF DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL AND EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF HOT NEURON LLC HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY ALERTED TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) ARISING FROM USE OF OR TRANSACTIONS THROUGH THE MAGPORTAL SERVICE, USE OF ANY THIRD PARTY SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH MAGPORTAL, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION TRANSMISSIONS. These limitations shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy. Because some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations on implied warranties, some of the above limitations may not apply to you.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Hot Neuron LLC, its affiliates, its officers, and its employees harmless from any claim, including attorneys' fees, made by any third party arising from your use of MagPortal.com, your violation of the Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of another. You agree to cooperate fully in the defense of any claim. Hot Neuron LLC reserves the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you and you shall not in any event settle any matter without the written consent of the Company.

Applicable Law
You agree that all legal issues related to your use of MagPortal.com will be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to conflicts of law provisions. If any provision of these Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall have no effect on any other provision of these Terms of Use.

Removal of Sites
In general, Hot Neuron LLC believes that persons who make information available on the Web do so with the expectation that such information will be publicly and widely available and will be indexed by information location services such as MagPortal.com. If you do not wish to have your site indexed on MagPortal.com, see Help / For Publishers / Get Removed from MagPortal.com. Hot Neuron LLC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to remove any link at any time, without prior notice, for any reason or no reason at all.

Violations of Terms of Use
If you violate these Terms of Use or any other rights of Hot Neuron LLC, we reserve the right to purse any and all legal remedy against you, including, but not limited to, terminating your access to MagPortal.com. The failure of Hot Neuron LLC to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.

Miscellaneous
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement of the parties and supersede any prior agreements on this matter. The user cannot assign this agreement. Any cause of action you may have with respect to the use of MagPortal.com must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises.

Contact Us
If you have questions about these Terms of Use, or wish to inform us that you believe there is an infringement of your copyright on MagPortal.com, please send correspondence to the address in Help / Contact Us marked "Attn: Legal Department."