Terms Of Use

Last updated September 22, 2022

AGREEMENT TO TERMS

This page states the Terms of Use under which you may use the PARTS & SELF website (PartsandSelf.org), consisting of information and content provided by us and other third parties.

The Foundation for Self Leadership (“the Foundation”) owns and operates the PARTS & SELF website as well as any other media form, media channel, mobile website or mobile application related, linked, or otherwise connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”).

These Terms of Use form a binding agreement between you and the Foundation for Self Leadership. Your access to, or use of, the Site indicates your acceptance of these Terms of Use. The Foundation reserves the right to modify these disclaimers, terms, and conditions of access, without advance notice.

You understand that by using the Site, you may be exposed to content that may challenge your beliefs.

The information provided on the Site is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country.

USER REPRESENTATIONS

By using the Site, you represent and warrant that:

• all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete;
• you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary;
• you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Terms of Use;
• you are not under the age of 18; or you have received parental permission to use the Site;
• you will not use the Site for any illegal or unauthorized purpose;
• your use of the Site will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Site (or any portion thereof).

PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Site for any purpose other than that for which we make the Site available. The Site may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.

As a user of the Site, you agree not to:

• systematically retrieve data or other content from the Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
• make any unauthorized use of the Site, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
• use the Site to advertise or offer to sell goods and services.
• circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Site, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Site and/or the Content contained therein.
• engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site.
• trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords;
• solicit money or personal information from any person;
• make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
• engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
• interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Site or the networks or services connected to the Site.
• attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user.
• sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
• use any information obtained from the Site in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
• use the Site as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Site and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.
• decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Site.
• attempt to bypass any measures of the Site designed to prevent or restrict access to the Site, or any portion of the Site.
• harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Site to you.
• upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available (or attempt to upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available) any Material that:
  • is not your original work, or which in any way violates or infringes (or could reasonably be expected to violate or infringe) the intellectual property or other rights of another person; contains, promotes, or provides information about unlawful activities or conduct; is, or could reasonably be expected to be, defamatory, obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, pornographic, vulgar, profane, indecent or otherwise unlawful, including Material that racially or religiously vilifies, incites violence or hatred, or is likely to offend, insult or humiliate others based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or any physical or mental disability;
  • exploits another person in any manner;
  • contains nudity, excessive violence, or sexual acts or references; includes an image or personal information of another person or persons unless you have their consent;
  • poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person; you know or suspect (or ought reasonably to have known or suspected) to be false, misleading or deceptive;
  • contains large amounts of untargeted, unwanted or repetitive content;
  • contains restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden content; contains viruses, or other computer codes, files or programs designed to interrupt, limit or destroy the functionality of other computer software or hardware;
  • advertises, promotes or solicits any goods or services or commercial activities (except where expressly permitted or authorized by us);
  • or contains financial, legal, medical or other professional advice;
• interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Site;
• use any robot or other device or process to retrieve, or in any way reproduce, modify or circumvent the navigational structure, security or presentation of the Site;
• use the Site with the assistance of any automated scripting tool or software;
• frame or mirror any part of the Site without our prior written authorization;
• use code or other devices containing any reference to the Site to direct other persons to any other web page;
• except to the extent permitted by law, modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse-engineer, decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of the Site or cause any other person to do so; or
• delete any attributions or legal or proprietary notices on the Site.
• disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site.
• use the Site in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Unless otherwise indicated, the Site is our proprietary property and all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics on the Site (collectively, the “Content”) and the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the “Marks”) are owned or controlled by us or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and trademark laws and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws of the United States, foreign jurisdictions, and international conventions.

The Content and the Marks are provided free of charge on the Site “AS IS” for your information and personal use only. Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the Site and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission. To request permission to reproduce or distribute materials from the Site, contact Editor@FoundationIFS.org.

Provided that you are eligible to use the Site, you are granted a limited license to access and use the Site and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Site, the Content and the Marks.

Content and Non-Endorsement

The Foundation for Self Leadership provides links to certain outside websites that it believes contain information and material that may be helpful to you and others. The provision of links does not indicate any endorsement of the linked content or purposes by the Foundation. The Foundation is not responsible or liable in any way for the representations, warranties, materials, research, products, services, actions, activities, negligence or malfeasance of any listed organization. Further, the Foundation is not liable for any action you or others may take based in any way on any information contained in any linked website, nor for providing the link. Once you use a link to access a linked organization’s website, you are subject solely to the privacy and use policies of that organization.

GUIDELINES FOR COMMENTS

We may provide you areas on the Site to leave responses. When posting a comment, you must comply with the following criteria:

• you should have firsthand experience with the person/entity/idea in question;
• your comment should not contain offensive profanity, or abusive, racist, offensive, or hate language;
• your comment should not contain discriminatory references based on religion, race, gender, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, or disability;
• your comment should not contain references to illegal activity;
• you should not be affiliated with competitors if posting negative replies;
• you should not make any conclusions as to the legality of conduct;
• you may not post any false or misleading statements;
• you may not organize a campaign encouraging others to post replies, whether positive or negative.

We may accept, reject, or remove reviews in our sole discretion. We have absolutely no obligation to screen reviews or to delete reviews, even if anyone considers reviews objectionable or inaccurate. Reviews are not endorsed by us, and do not necessarily represent our opinions or the views of any of our affiliates or partners. We do not assume liability for any replies or for any claims, liabilities, or losses resulting from any comment.

SUBMISSIONS

You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or other information regarding the Site (“Submissions”) provided by you to us are non-confidential and shall become our sole property. We shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights, and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these Submissions for any lawful purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.

You hereby waive the right to be identified as the author and warrant that any such Submissions are original with you or that you have the right to submit such Submissions. You agree there shall be no recourse against us for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary right in your Submissions.

SITE MANAGEMENT

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to:

• monitor the Site for violations of these Terms of Use;
• terminate access to the Site for any reason, and to take any other actions that the Foundation, in its sole discretion, believes to be in the interest of the organization and some or all of its users.
• take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Terms of Use, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities;
• in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any portion thereof;
• in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from the Site or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems;
• otherwise manage the Site in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Site.
• change, modify, or remove the contents of the Site at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our Site. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue all or part of the Site without notice at any time.
• change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify the Site at any time or for any reason without notice to you. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Site during any downtime or discontinuance of the Site.

We cannot guarantee the Site will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance related to the Site, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors.

Nothing in these Terms of Use will be construed to obligate us to maintain and support the Site or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.

TERM AND TERMINATION

These Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Site. Without limiting any other provision of these terms of use, we reserve the right to, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability, deny access to and use of the site (including blocking certain IP addresses), to any person for any reason or for no reason, including without limitation for breach of any representation, warranty, or covenant contained in these terms of use or of any applicable law or regulation. We may terminate your use or participation in the site or delete any content or information that you posted at any time, without warning, in our sole discretion. If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you may be acting on behalf of the third party.

In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

DISCLAIMER

The site is provided on an as-is and as-available basis. You agree that your use of the site and our services will be at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, in connection with the site and your use thereof, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We make no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of the site’s content or the content of any websites linked to the site and we will assume no liability or responsibility for any (1) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content and materials, (2) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of the site, (3) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein, (4) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the site, (5) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like which may be transmitted to or through the site by any third party, and/or (6) 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 site. We do not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by a third party through the site, any hyperlinked website, or any website or mobile application featured in any banner or other advertising, and we will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and any third-party providers of products or services.

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.

Limitations of liability

Material on the Sites is provided as general information only and is not intended as advice and must not be relied upon as such. It is not an alternative to specific advice tailored to your specific circumstances.

In no event will we or our directors, employees, or agents be liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages, including lost profit, lost revenue, loss of data, or other damages arising from your use of the site, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and employees, 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: (1) your Submissions; (2) use of the Site; (3) breach of these Terms of Use; (4) any breach of your representations and warranties set forth in these Terms of Use; (5) your violation of the rights of a third party, including but not limited to intellectual property rights; or (6) any overt harmful act toward any other user of the Site with whom you connected via the Site.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate, at your expense, with our defense of such claims. We 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.

CONTACT US

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Site or to receive further information regarding use of the Site, please contact us at: Outreach@FoundationIFS.org