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(1) General Corticon Technologies, Inc. ("Corticon") welcomes you. Corticon RulesWorld is a website hosted by Corticon. RulesWorld is comprised of discussion forums, and document and information sharing about Corticon products and services, business rules software and technology. The purpose of RulesWorld is to enable members to prove the value of business rules technology in general and Corticon solutions in particular. This enablement can be realized by accessing learning materials, samples, and/or by participating in interactive forums. RulesWorld members are encouraged to share their insights and knowledge for the good of fellow RulesWorld members and the community at large.

(2) User’s Acceptance of Terms of Use These Terms of Use shall govern your access, visits and participation in RulesWorld. By registering for a RulesWorld account, by using or visiting RulesWorld, you are subject to the Terms of Use. If you do not agree to all of the Terms of Use, you should not access, visit or participate in RulesWorld. Corticon reserves the right to modify, suspend or terminate RulesWorld and/or these Terms of Use from time to time at its sole discretion and without notice. RulesWorld is provided on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis. Corticon will not be liable to you or any third-party for any claims or actions arising or resulting from your use, visit, or participation in RulesWorld and for any modification, suspension, or termination of RulesWorld, or termination of your access to RulesWorld.

(3) Registration You must be at least eighteen (18) years old to use and participate in RulesWorld. Corticon may also apply other criteria in granting or denying membership, including but not limited to employment with a corporate entity. If you wish to have a RulesWorld account, you must provide current, accurate, and complete information about yourself during the account registration process. By joining RulesWorld, you expressly agree to be bound by the Terms of Use as entered into by and between Corticon and you. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your RulesWorld password and account, and assume all liabilities and responsibilities for any and all activities that occur under your account. You must maintain and promptly update any account information provided to Corticon in order to keep such information up to date, accurate and complete. Corticon reserves the right to refuse access to RulesWorld to anyone, at any time, without notice, and for any reason.

(4) Conduct You must abide by the following rules of conduct:

a) Do not engage in any unlawful conduct in the Corticon Communities. In particular, do not post, publish, or distribute any defamatory, obscene, infringing or other unlawful material or information in RulesWorld.

b) Treat others in Corticon RulesWorld as you would expect them to treat you. Do not engage in personal attacks or any type of "flaming" of other users. Do not "troll", i.e. post topics or opinions that are designed to provoke a negative response from one or more specific users.

c) Do not use offensive language. If you have any doubts about whether a particular statement might be considered offensive by other users, do not post it.

d) Do not engage in disruptive activity in Corticon RulesWorld, such as persistent off-topic contributions or comments, or statements that might incite other users to violate these guidelines or participate in illegal activities.

e) Do not contribute content that contains photos, software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, rights of privacy or publicity, or any other applicable law unless you own or have rights to these materials.

f) Do not post any instructions, software or other materials that would allow participants or third parties to harm other users' computers or to inappropriately access software or websites.

g) Do not post any computer programs that contain destructive features, such as viruses, worms or Trojan horses. Do not employ any type of bots for the use of scrolling, showing multiple screens, or other activities that might disrupt online communication.

h) Do not falsely impersonate any other person in the forum, including Corticon employees or agents.

i) Do not use Corticon RulesWorld to spam other users, including sending identical and irrelevant submissions to many different discussion groups, mailing lists or communities.

j) Do not misrepresent the source of anything you contribute.

k) While you may use Corticon RulesWorld to provide supplemental information about your own business that might be of interest to other users (without spamming them), do not rely on Corticon RulesWorld as the primary mechanism for operating or promoting your business. Any use of Corticon RulesWorld for commercial purposes is solely at your own risk, and Corticon assumes no liability for such use.

l) Any space provided to you in Corticon RulesWorld is for your own personal use, and may not be sold, licensed, exchanged or bartered for any purpose, including advertisements.

m) You are responsible and liable for all your activities while participating in Corticon RulesWorld, including anything you contribute.

n) Do not rely on Corticon RulesWorld for the safe and secure storage of any materials, such as photos, documents and software. Corticon RulesWorld is not designed as the primary place to store any of these materials, and Corticon is not responsible for the alteration, deletion or loss of any stored items. Create back-ups for any materials that you contribute to Corticon RulesWorld.

o) Corticon reserves the right to remove at any time, without notice, any contribution that violates these guidelines. Corticon also reserves the right at any time, without notice, to ban a user who has violated these rules of conduct from RulesWorld.

p) Some participants may post Internet website links in RulesWorld. Corticon is not responsible for the content on the websites associated with these links. In addition, we must remind you that some content and links on the Internet contain adult content that is not suitable for children and may be offensive to some users.

q) You are responsible for any actions you may take based on information or advice you receive while online. Use your own good judgment when evaluating information provided through Corticon RulesWorld or any other communication service. The decision to share information or conduct transactions with anyone is your own; therefore conduct your own research prior to making any decisions.

(5) Contributions There are opportunities for you as a user of Corticon RulesWorld to actively participate by creating, providing, sharing and uploading information to RulesWorld such as comments, ideas or suggestions for new or improved software products, technologies, marketing/advertising campaigns or product names, data, articles, documents, discussion forum threads, blog entries, computer code, such as software sample code, source code, scripts, patches, bug fixes, binaries or executables, or other information (collectively "Contributions"). Contributions in RulesWorld are subject to the Terms of Use. Corticon assumes no responsibility or liability over the sharing of Contributions among users. Any Contributions provided by you to RulesWorld may be editable and freely used by Corticon and other users. Ways in which your Contributions may be used include, but are not limited to, creating comments, articles, documents, FAQs, or knowledge bases. For example, users may incorporate discussion threads written by other users into new documents. Additionally, users may incorporate documents written by others to create a new list of FAQs. Corticon shall have the right to retain and use Contributions, in edited or unedited form, for any purpose in any way including but not limited to re-posting such Contributions to other areas of RulesWorld, by using Contributions in current or future products or services, or even give or sell your Contributions to others. Therefore, do not upload Contributions to RulesWorld unless you agree to these Terms of Use. Corticon is under no obligation to post or use any Contributions provided by users and Corticon may in fact remove any Contributions at any time at its sole discretion for any reasons.

(6) Contributions Ownership, Rights and Liability Corticon does not claim ownership of any Contributions that you or other users post, upload, submit or otherwise provide to RulesWorld. By providing Contributions to RulesWorld, you grant to Corticon a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute such Contributions and derivative works. Additionally, by providing Contributions to RulesWorld, you grant to Corticon a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, export, and otherwise transfer or sublicense such Contributions. You also grant Corticon and all users of RulesWorld the permission to use your Contributions in other areas of RulesWorld and for other commercial or noncommercial uses. In order to grant Corticon and other users of RulesWorld the rights, permissions and licenses contained herein, you represent and warrant that you either own or have all the necessary intellectual property rights in the Contributions uploaded or shared to RulesWorld and that your Contributions are non-infringing on the patent, copyright or other intellectual property rights of others. Do not post, upload, submit or otherwise provide Contributions to RulesWorld that are protected by the intellectual property rights of others, unless you own or have the necessary rights or licenses to use such Contributions. By uploading Contributions to RulesWorld, you warrant that you are not uploading viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other malicious, illegal, or unlawful code which is designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any software or hardware. All Contributions available for download and/or use are provided on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE basis, without any warranty of any kind and you assume all risks associated with the Contributions that you download. Corticon expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement of intellectual property rights. In no event will Corticon be liable for any direct or indirect damages for any claims arising out of your download and/or use of such Contributions. All Contributions are deemed be provided on a non-confidential basis. Corticon is under no obligation to and does not control the Contributions created, provided or uploaded to RulesWorld. The nature of some Contributions may be offensive, harmful or inaccurate, and in some cases will be mislabeled or deceptively labeled. Corticon reserves the right to take down and remove Contributions that are flagged by users or deemed by Corticon as objectionable. However Corticon is under no duty to take down or remove any Contributions.

(7) Blogs Blog authors and blog users (hereinafter "Bloggers") who post blog entries, comments or other Contributions are expected to adhere to conduct as set forth in Section 4 above. Bloggers may create blogs generally discussing Corticon products and services, or business rules software and technology. Although Corticon respects the freedom of Bloggers and the Contributions they post, blogs that predominantly discuss topics completely unrelated to business rules or that consume excessive resources or bandwidth may be taken down at the sole discretion of Corticon. Generally it is suggested that Bloggers take responsibility not just for their own words, but for the comments allowed on their blogs; label their tolerance level for abusive comments; consider eliminating anonymous comments; ignore the trolls (i.e., those who intentionally post derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages); take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find an intermediary who can do so; if you know someone who is violating the conduct guidelines, tell them so; and don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t say in person. Bloggers understand that they bear the full responsibility of any Contributions they post and that such Contributions may lead to adverse consequences in their personal or professional lives, such as damaged friendships or loss of employment.

(8) Disclaimer CORTICON RULESWORLD AND ALL CONTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER ACCOUNT SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. CORTICON EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. CORTICON MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT CORTICON RULESWORLD WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THE SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE BASIS, THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF CORTICON RULESWORLD OR ANY CONTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER ACCOUNT SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH CORTICON RULESWORLD WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR RELIABLE; OR THE QUALITY OF ANY CONTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER ACCOUNT SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH CORTICON RULESWORLD WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS. ANY CONTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER ACCOUNT SERVICES DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF CORTICON RULESWORLD IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK. CORTICON SHALL HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OR USE OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER ACCOUNT SERVICES. IN NO EVENT SHALL CORTICON OR ANY OF ITS PARTNERS OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE CORTICON RULESWORLD OR CONTRIBUTIONS, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT CORTICON IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. CORTICON’S MAXIMUM LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE CORTICON RULESWORLD OR YOUR USE OF CONTRIBUTIONS, AND OTHER ACCOUNT SERVICES, REGARDLESS OR THE CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, BREACH OR WARRANTY OR OTHERWISE), WILL NOT EXCEED ONE DOLLAR ($1).

(9) Indemnification If Corticon and its subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, agents, and employees should incur any liability to a third party arising out of or in any way related to your use of RulesWorld, you agree to indemnify and hold Corticon free and harmless from any such liability, and from all loss, claims, costs, demands, debts and causes of action in connection therewith, including reasonable attorney’s fees.

(10) Privacy Policy Corticon does not require that you provide personal information, the decision to provide personal information is voluntary. However, in order to register for an account with Corticon RulesWorld, you must provide personal information. By providing your personal information to Corticon, you consent to the collection, processing and storage by Corticon of your personal information in accordance with the terms of Corticon’s Privacy Policy.