ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS.
The services that Microsoft provides to you are subject to the following Terms of Use ("TOU"). Microsoft reserves the right to update the TOU at any time. We will send notice of any such update to the e-mail address you provide upon account registration. If you do not agree to these changes, then you must cancel and stop using the Service. If you do not stop using the Service, then your use of the Service will continue under the updated TOU. The most current version of the TOU can be reviewed by clicking on the "Terms of Use" hypertext link located at the bottom of our Web pages.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES.
Throughout this Web site, Microsoft provides you with access to a variety
of mashup related resources, including download areas, communication forums,
links to third party web service APIs, and other product/service information
including access to Microsoft and third party mashups (collectively "Services").
The Services, including any updates, enhancements, and/or new features, are
subject to the TOU.
PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.
See the Privacy Statement disclosures relating to the collection and use of
your information.
NOTICE SPECIFIC TO SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
Any software that is made available to download from the Services ("Software")
is the copyrighted work of Microsoft, its suppliers and/or other registered
users of the Services. Use of the Software is governed by the terms of the
end user license agreement, if any, which accompanies or is included with
the Software ("License Agreement").
The Software is made available for download solely for use by end users according
to the License Agreement. Any reproduction or redistribution of the Software
not in accordance with the License Agreement is expressly prohibited by law.
WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, COPYING OR REPRODUCTION OF THE SOFTWARE
TO ANY OTHER SERVER OR LOCATION FOR FURTHER REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION
IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED, UNLESS SUCH REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY
PERMITTED BY THE LICENSE AGREEMENT ACCOMPANYING SUCH SOFTWARE. YOU MAY NOT
REVERSE ENGINEER, DECOMPILE OR DISASSEMBLE THE SOFTWARE, EXCEPT AND ONLY TO
THE EXTENT THAT APPLICABLE LAW EXPRESSLY PERMITS, DESPITE THIS LIMITATION.
NOTICE SPECIFIC TO DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
Permission to use Documents (such as white papers, press releases, datasheets
and FAQs) from the Services is granted, provided that :(1) the below copyright
notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission
notice appear, (2) use of such Documents from the Services is for informational
and non-commercial or personal use only and will not be copied or posted on
any network computer or broadcast in any media, and (3) no modifications of
any Documents are made. Accredited educational institutions, such as K-12,
universities, private/public colleges, and state community colleges, may download
and reproduce the Documents for distribution in the classroom. Distribution
outside the classroom requires express written permission. Use for any other
purpose is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and
criminal penalties. If different or additional terms of use accompany or are
included in the Documents from the Services such terms of use shall govern
the use of such documents.
Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the Web
site or any other Microsoft owned, operated, licensed or controlled site.
Elements of Microsoft Web sites are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair
competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or
in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any Microsoft Web site may
be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by Microsoft.
NOTICE SPECIFIC TO SERVICES AND MASHUPS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
Any mashup or Service described or made available on this site may require
a separate subscription, and is subject to the individual use and access terms
of the respective mashup, Service or API owner.
NOTICES REGARDING SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS, MASHUPS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE
ON THIS WEB SITE
UNLESS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY AGREED, THE SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS, MASHUPS AND SERVICES
ARE ALL PROVIDED “AS IS”. MICROSOFT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS
HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THE SOFTWARE,
DOCUMENTS, MASHUPS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF
MERCHANTABILITY, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, MICROSOFT MAY MAKE AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE SERVICES
OR IN ITS SOFTWARE PRODUCTS, TOOLS AND UTILITIES FOR USE AND/OR DOWNLOAD.
MICROSOFT DOES NOT MAKE ANY ASSURANCES WITH REGARD TO THE ACCURACY OF THE
RESULTS OR OUTPUT THAT DERIVES FROM SUCH USE OF ANY SUCH TOOLS AND UTILITIES.
PLEASE RESPECT THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF OTHERS WHEN USING THE TOOLS
AND UTILITIES MADE AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICES OR IN MICROSOFT SOFTWARE PRODUCTS.
IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING
FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS, PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES,
OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES ON THIS WEB SITE OR THRU THIS WEB
SITE. THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THE SERVICES COULD INCLUDE
TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED
TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. MICROSOFT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE
IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED
HEREIN AT ANY TIME.
MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY.
Access to the Service requires you to open an account. You must complete the
registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information
as prompted by the applicable registration form. You also will choose a password
and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for
any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify
Microsoft immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other
breach of security. Microsoft will not be liable for any loss that you may
incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with
or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred
by Microsoft or another party due to someone else using your account or password.
You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission
of the account holder.
Access to the Service may also provide you with opportunities to access
third party services that may require you to open accounts with these third
party service providers. Please be sure to read and understand the terms of
access governing your use of these third party services.
NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE.
As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services
for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions,
and notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage,
disable, overburden, or impair any Microsoft server, or the network(s) connected
to any Microsoft server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment
of any Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services,
other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any Microsoft server
or to any of the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means.
You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through
any means not intentionally made available through the Services.
USE OF SERVICES.
The Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services, chat areas,
news groups, forums, communities, and/or other message or communication facilities
designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a "Communication
Service" and collectively "Communication Services"). You agree
to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages
and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular
Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree
that when using the Communication Services, you will not:
Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid
schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited
messages (commercial or otherwise).
Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights
(such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane,
defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which
are made available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.
Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots,
corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage
the operation of another's computer or property of another.
Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business
purpose, unless such Communication Services specifically allows such messages.
Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that
you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed,
performed, and/or distributed in such manner.
Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author attributions,
legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the
origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is
uploaded.
Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication
Services.
Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for
any particular Communication Service.
Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.
Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to
a person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or
usage information or any portion thereof.
Microsoft has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However,
Microsoft reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication
Services and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Microsoft reserves
the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services
at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.
Microsoft reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as
Microsoft deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal
process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any
information or materials, in whole or in part, in Microsoft's sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information
about yourself or your employer in any Communication Services. Microsoft does
not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication
Services and, therefore, Microsoft specifically disclaims any liability with
regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation
in any Communication Services. Managers and hosts are not authorized Microsoft
spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Microsoft.
Materials uploaded to the Communication Services may be subject to posted
limitations on usage, rereproduction and/or dissemination; you are responsible
for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO MICROSOFT OR POSTED AT ANY MICROSOFT WEB SITE.
Microsoft does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Microsoft
(including feedback and suggestions regarding site or other Microsoft material
posted on the site) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its
associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of
any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively
"Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing
or submitting ("Posting") your Submission you understand and agree
that you’re giving a license under your intellectual property rights
to Microsoft and all authorized users, including the rights to download, copy,
modify, distribute and repost, unless an individual project license specifies
otherwise. In addition, you’re giving Microsoft all the necessary rights
to make your Submission(s) available on this site and to make improvements
to the site based on your suggestions.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission,
as provided herein. Microsoft is under no obligation to post or use any Submission
you may provide and Microsoft may remove any Submission at any time in its
sole discretion
By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise
control all of the rights to your Submission as described in these Terms of
Use including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide,
post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by Posting
a Submission that contain images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise
graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent
that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright
owner of such Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any
content and/or images contained in such Images consistent with the manner
and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use and
the Services, (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and
sublicenses described in these Terms of Use, and (c) that each person depicted
in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images as set
forth in these Terms of Use, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation,
the distribution, public display and reproduction of such Images. By Posting
Images, you are granting (a) to all members of your private community (for
each such Images available to members of such private community), and/or (b)
to the general public (for each such Images available anywhere on the Services,
other than a private community), permission to use your Images in connection
with the use, as permitted by these Terms of Use, of any of the Services,
(including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, making prints and
gift items which include such Images), and including, without limitation,
a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free license to: copy, distribute, transmit,
publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat
your Images without having your name attached to such Images, and the right
to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services. The licenses granted
in the preceding sentences for a Images will terminate at the time you completely
remove such Images from the Services, provided that, such termination shall
not affect any licenses granted in connection with such Images prior to the
time you completely remove such Images. No compensation will be paid with
respect to the use of your Images.
NOTICES AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications
of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to Service Provider's Designated
Agent. ALL INQUIRIES NOT RELEVANT TO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE WILL NOT RECEIVE
A RESPONSE. See Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES.
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AND INFORMATION PROVIDED THERE ARE NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF MICROSOFT AND
MICROSOFT IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS OF ANY LINKED SITE OR ANY LINK
CONTAINED IN A LINKED SITE, OR ANY CHANGES OR UPDATES TO SUCH SITES. MICROSOFT
IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF TRANSMISSION RECEIVED
FROM ANY LINKED SITE. MICROSOFT IS PROVIDING THESE LINKS TO YOU ONLY AS A
CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY MICROSOFT
OF THE SITE.
UNSOLICITED IDEA SUBMISSION POLICY.
MICROSOFT OR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES DO NOT ACCEPT OR CONSIDER UNSOLICITED IDEAS,
INCLUDING IDEAS FOR NEW ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS, NEW PROMOTIONS, NEW PRODUCTS
OR TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES, MATERIALS, MARKETING PLANS OR NEW PRODUCT NAMES.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY ORIGINAL CREATIVE ARTWORK, SAMPLES, DEMOS, OR OTHER
WORKS. THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY IS TO AVOID POTENTIAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS
OR DISPUTES WHEN MICROSOFT'S PRODUCTS OR MARKETING STRATEGIES MIGHT SEEM SIMILAR
TO IDEAS SUBMITTED TO MICROSOFT. SO, PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR UNSOLICITED IDEAS
TO MICROSOFT OR ANYONE AT MICROSOFT. IF, DESPITE OUR REQUEST THAT YOU NOT
SEND US YOUR IDEAS AND MATERIALS, YOU STILL SEND THEM, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT
MICROSOFT MAKES NO ASSURANCES THAT YOUR IDEAS AND MATERIALS WILL BE TREATED
AS CONFIDENTIAL OR PROPRIETARY.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE.
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Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.