Terms of Service

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 .6. Free access to the content made available to you on our Service is possible due to the paid advertising that appears on our Service. Without this advertising, we would not be able to provide you with this content for free. In exchange for your free access to this content, you agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to, remove, obstruct, modify or otherwise interfere with the delivery or display of advertisements on our Service.
 .7. You agree that you will only use our Service for lawful purposes, and you will not use our Service for sending or storing any unlawful material or for fraudulent purposes or to engage in any illegal, offensive, indecent or objectionable conduct. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques that involve any trademark, logo, copyrighted material or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of any portion of our Service without our express written consent. You may not alter or modify in any way, our Service including but not limited to using any software to suppress or alter the display of advertising on the pages of our Service. In addition, you agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through our Service, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of our Service in any way that affects the user's experience, and not to use any data mining, robots, cancelbots, Trojan horse, or any data gathering or extraction method in connection with your use of our Service, or otherwise harm our Service in any way whatsoever.
 .8. _Digital Millennium Copyright Act Safe Harbor Policy_. EMI respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or are aware of any infringing material placed by any third party on our Service, please contact our designated copyright agent, in writing, either by email at _ryoung@entrepreneur.com_ or by regular mail at Entrepreneur Media, Inc., Attn: Ronald L. Young,18061 Fitch Avenue, Irvine, CA 92614 USA, and provide the designated copyright agent with the following information consistent with the form required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Section 512(c)(3):
+\. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
+. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
+. Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed;
+. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to locate the material;
+. Information sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, including address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
+. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
+. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
+\. Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed;
+\. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to locate the material;
+\. Information sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, including address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
+\. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
+\. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
 Please note that attachments cannot be accepted at the e-mail address for security reasons. Accordingly, any notification of infringement submitted electronically with an attachment will not be received or processed. EMI will terminate the account of any user that is determined to be a repeat copyright infringer.
 ### 3\. Membership and Registration
 .1. Certain areas of our Service may require registration or may otherwise ask you to provide information to participate in certain features or access certain content. The decision to provide this information is purely optional, however if you elect not to provide such information, you may not be able to access certain content or features or participate in various areas of our Service. When you register or become a member of our Service or provide information to our Service in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information on all registration pages. Using a name other than your own legal name is prohibited. You agree that EMI may use the information you provide to us according to the Privacy Policy posted on our Service.
 .4. If you believe that user generated content uploaded to our Service infringes your intellectual property rights or the rights of others, please reference the terms of Section 2.8 regarding how you can notify us of such content, and how we respond to such notices.
 ### 6\. Posting Rules
 .1. Interactive areas of our Service are intended to encourage public debate. We expect people to differ - judgment and opinion are subjective things - and we encourage freedom of speech and a marketplace of ideas. But by using these areas of our Service, you are participating in a community that is intended for all our users. Therefore, we reserve the right to remove any content posted on our Service at any time for any reason. Decisions as to whether content violates any EMI posting rule will be made by EMI in its discretion after we have actual notice of such posting. Without limiting our right to remove content, we have attempted to provide the following guidelines to those posting content on our Service. When using our Service, please do not post material that:
+• contains vulgar, profane, abusive or hateful language, epithets or slurs, text or illustrations in poor taste, inflammatory attacks of a personal, racial or religious nature, or expressions of bigotry, racism, discrimination or hate.
+- contains vulgar, profane, abusive or hateful language, epithets or slurs, text or illustrations in poor taste, inflammatory attacks of a personal, racial or religious nature, or expressions of bigotry, racism, discrimination or hate.
+- is defamatory, threatening, disparaging, grossly inflammatory, false, misleading, deceptive, fraudulent, inaccurate, unfair, contains gross exaggeration or unsubstantiated claims, violates the privacy rights of any third party, is unreasonably harmful or offensive to any individual or community, contains any actionable statement, or tends to mislead or reflect unfairly on any other person, business or entity.
+- violates any right of EMI or any third party.
+- discriminates on the grounds of race, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability, or refers to such matters in any manner prohibited by law.
+- violates any municipal, state or federal law, rule, regulation or ordinance, or attempts to encourage such an evasion or violation.
+- unfairly interferes with any third party's uninterrupted use and enjoyment of our Service.
+- advertises, promotes or offers to trade any goods or services, except in areas specifically designated for such purpose.
+- uploads copyrighted or other proprietary material of any kind on our Service without the express permission of the owner of that material.
+- uses or attempts to use another's account, password, service or system except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Service.
+- includes images, photos, articles or other content that constitutes, promotes or encourages illegal acts, violation of any right of any individual or entity, violation of any local, state, national or international law, rule, guideline or regulation, or otherwise creates liability.
+- uploads or transmits viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files.
+- disrupts, interferes with, or otherwise harms or violates the security of our Service, or any services, system resources, accounts, passwords, servers or networks connected to or accessible through our Service or affiliated or linked sites.
+- "inflames" any individual or entity (e.g., sends repeated messages related to another user and/or makes derogatory or offensive comments about another individual), or repeats prior posting of the same message under multiple threads or subjects.
+- is unrelated to the specific interactive area or the interactive area's topic.
+- disguises the origin of the post.
+- collects or stores other users' personal data.
+• is defamatory, threatening, disparaging, grossly inflammatory, false, misleading, deceptive, fraudulent, inaccurate, unfair, contains gross exaggeration or unsubstantiated claims, violates the privacy rights of any third party, is unreasonably harmful or offensive to any individual or community, contains any actionable statement, or tends to mislead or reflect unfairly on any other person, business or entity.
+• violates any right of EMI or any third party.
+• discriminates on the grounds of race, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability, or refers to such matters in any manner prohibited by law.
+• violates any municipal, state or federal law, rule, regulation or ordinance, or attempts to encourage such an evasion or violation.
+• unfairly interferes with any third party's uninterrupted use and enjoyment of our Service.
+• advertises, promotes or offers to trade any goods or services, except in areas specifically designated for such purpose.
+• uploads copyrighted or other proprietary material of any kind on our Service without the express permission of the owner of that material.
+• uses or attempts to use another's account, password, service or system except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Service.
+• includes images, photos, articles or other content that constitutes, promotes or encourages illegal acts, violation of any right of any individual or entity, violation of any local, state, national or international law, rule, guideline or regulation, or otherwise creates liability.
+• uploads or transmits viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files.
+• disrupts, interferes with, or otherwise harms or violates the security of our Service, or any services, system resources, accounts, passwords, servers or networks connected to or accessible through our Service or affiliated or linked sites.
+• "inflames" any individual or entity (e.g., sends repeated messages related to another user and/or makes derogatory or offensive comments about another individual), or repeats prior posting of the same message under multiple threads or subjects.
+• is unrelated to the specific interactive area or the interactive area's topic.
+• disguises the origin of the post.
+• collects or stores other users' personal data.
 .2. A violation of certain of posting rules may be referred to law enforcement authorities. EMI reserves the right to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request.
 ### 7\. Service Security Rules
 You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of our Service, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account which you are not authorized to access, (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization, (c) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to our Service, overloading, "flooding", "mailbombing" or "crashing", or (d) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail, forum, or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. EMI will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting those who are involved in such violations.
 .4 You agree to provide current, complete and accurate purchase and account information for all purchases you make through the Entrepreneur Bookstore®. You agree to promptly update your account and other information, including your email address and credit card numbers and expiration dates, so that we can complete your transactions and contact you as needed.
 .5 We assume no risk of loss of any EB Products purchased through the Entrepreneur Bookstore® once those Products have been delivered to the address designated by you in undamaged condition. If any EB Product you purchase arrives in damaged condition or has a physical defect such as bad binding or missing pages, please contact the Entrepreneur Bookstore® support team at [bookshelp@entrepreneur.com](mailto:bookshelp@entrepreneur.com) for a replacement, which will be sent to you at no charge.
 .6 We stand behind our products and our brand. If you are not satisfied with your purchase of any printed book or other printed EB Product ("Print Product") for whatever reason, you may return that Print Product for a refund of the purchase price if:
+• the Product is returned in the original condition received and with the original packing slip which was included with the order when received by you; and
+- the Product is returned in the original condition received and with the original packing slip which was included with the order when received by you; and
+- your return is postmarked or shipped within 30 days from your receipt.
+• your return is postmarked or shipped within 30 days from your receipt.
 You are responsible for the cost of mailing or shipping any returns, which cost is not refundable, and all returns must be sent to our distribution center at the following address:
 Returns Center
 Edwards Drive
 Jackson, TN 38301