Terms of Service

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55552.6. 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.
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57572.7. 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.
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5959#### 2.8. _Digital Millennium Copyright Act Safe Harbor Policy_.
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61EM 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, LLC, Attn: Ronald L. Young, 2 Executive Circle, Suite 150, 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):
61EM 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, LLC, Attn: Ronald L. Young, 1651 East Fourth Street, Suite 125,Santa Ana, Ca 92701 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):
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63631. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
64642. Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed;
65653. 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;
66664. Information sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, including address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
67675. 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
8484Nothing in this section shall preclude EM from bringing claims regarding such rights in court. Additionally, notwithstanding the provisions herein, either you or EM may bring a Claim in small claims court consistent with the jurisdictional and dollar limits that may apply. The route to small claims court shall only be the result of a direct filing by you or EM. As set forth below, a Claim that is commenced in Arbitration may not be secondarily directed to small claims court per otherwise applicable rules.
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8686THIS ENTIRE SECTION SHALL SURVIVE TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE PARTIES' RELATIONSHIP OR THE END OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE.
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8888#### 3.1 **Mandatory Informal Dispute Resolution for all Claims:**
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90You and EM agree to engage cooperatively to try to resolve any Claim informally prior to either Party initiating an arbitration proceeding or filing a small claims court action. The Party must first send a written notice to the other Party providing a detailed description of the Claim; their/its name and contact information (address, telephone number, email address, and account number if applicable); sufficient information to enable the other Party to identify any transaction at issue (including any receipts or purchase details); and a detailed description of: (a) the nature and basis of the Claim and (b) the nature and basis of the relief sought (including a detailed calculation of any damages). Our notice to you must be personally signed by an EM representative and EM attorney, and sent to the most recent contact information that you have provided to us. Your notice to EM must be personally signed by you (and your attorney if you are represented by legal counsel), and sent to: Entrepreneur Media, LLC, ATTN: Legal, 2 Executive Circle, Suite 150, Irvine, CA 92614.
90You and EM agree to engage cooperatively to try to resolve any Claim informally prior to either Party initiating an arbitration proceeding or filing a small claims court action. The Party must first send a written notice to the other Party providing a detailed description of the Claim; their/its name and contact information (address, telephone number, email address, and account number if applicable); sufficient information to enable the other Party to identify any transaction at issue (including any receipts or purchase details); and a detailed description of: (a) the nature and basis of the Claim and (b) the nature and basis of the relief sought (including a detailed calculation of any damages). Our notice to you must be personally signed by an EM representative and EM attorney, and sent to the most recent contact information that you have provided to us. Your notice to EM must be personally signed by you (and your attorney if you are represented by legal counsel), and sent to: Entrepreneur Media, LLC, ATTN: Legal, 1651 East Fourth Street, Suite 125, Santa Ana, Ca 92701.
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9292For a period of 60 days from the date of receipt of a completed notice from the other Party, the Parties will work together using reasonable efforts to try to resolve the Claim. If requested by the defending Party, the Parties shall both personally participate in an individualized telephone settlement conference (and if represented by an attorney, the attorney may also participate), in which both parties agree to make reasonable efforts to resolve the Claim. Compliance with this informal dispute resolution process is mandatory and a condition precedent to filing a lawsuit or a small claims court proceeding (if permitted by small claims court rules), or commencing an arbitration proceeding.
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9494#### 3.2 **Class Action Waiver; Jury Trial Waiver**
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9696Claims may only be brought on an individual basis. You and EM hereby voluntarily and knowingly waive the right to a trial by jury, to assert or participate in a class action lawsuit or class action arbitration, to assert or participate in a private attorney general lawsuit or private attorney general arbitration, to bring Claims on behalf of anyone other than your or our individual capacity, and to assert or participate in any joint or consolidated lawsuit or joint or consolidated arbitration of any kind.