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Owner and Operator of The Corporate Focus website

This website (www.thecorporatefocus.org) is owned and operated by The Corporate Focus. The Corporate Focus website is created, operated and controlled by The Corporate Focus in the State of Texas, United States of America. The laws of the State of Texas will govern the Legal Notices and Conditions of Use without giving effect to any principles or conflicts of laws.

Conditions of Use

Welcome to The Corporate Focus website. By using The Corporate Focus website YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS CONDITIONS OF USE (explained below), LEGAL NOTICES, PRIVACY POLICY and all disclaimers and terms and conditions that appear elsewhere on The Corporate Focus website.

References to The Corporate Focus herein refer to The Corporate Focus and/or its affiliates, subsidiaries and designees as deemed appropriate by The Corporate Focus.

The Corporate Focus reserves the right, at its sole discretion to modify, change, add/remove portions within The Corporate Focus website and its Conditions of Use and Legal Notices at any time. Each time you use The Corporate Focus website, you should visit and review the then current Conditions of Use, Legal Notices and Privacy Policy that apply to your transactions and use of this site. If you are dissatisfied with The Corporate Focus website, its content or Conditions of Use and Legal Notices, you agree that your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue use of The Corporate Focus website. So long as you comply with these Terms of Use, The Corporate Focus grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited privilege to enter and use this website.

Violation of The Terms of Use

The Corporate Focus may disclose any information we have about you (including your identity) if we determine that such disclosure is necessary in connection with any investigation or complaint regarding your use of the website, or to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) rights or property of The Corporate Focus, or the rights or property of visitors to or users of the website (www.thecorporatefocus.com). The Corporate Focus reserves the right at all times to disclose any information that The Corporate Focus deems necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. The Corporate Focus also may disclose your information when The Corporate Focus determines that applicable law requires or permits such disclosure, including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection purposes.

You agree that The Corporate Focus may, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, terminate your access to this website and/or block your future access to this website if we determine that you have violated these Terms of Use or other agreements or guidelines which may be associated with your use of the website. You also agree that any violation by you of these Terms of Use will constitute an unlawful and unfair business practice, and will cause irreparable harm to The Corporate Focus, for which monetary damages would be inadequate, and you consent to The Corporate Focus obtaining any injunctive or equitable relief that The Corporate Focus deems necessary or appropriate in such circumstances. These remedies are in addition to any other remedies The Corporate Focus may have at law or in equity.

You agree that The Corporate Focus may, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, terminate your access to the Site, for cause, which includes (but is not limited to) (1) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (2) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions), (3) discontinuance or material modification of this website or any service offered on or through this website, or (4) unexpected technical issues or problems.
If The Corporate Focus does take any legal action against you as a result of your violation of these Terms of Use, The Corporate Focus will be entitled to recover from you, and you agree to pay, all reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of such action, in addition to any other relief granted to The Corporate Focus. You agree that The Corporate Focus will not be liable to you or to any third-party⁴ for termination of your access to this website as a result of any violation of these Terms of Use.

Legal Dispute Resolution

You agree that all matters relating to your access to or use of this website, including all disputes, will be governed by the laws of the United States and by the laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflicts of law provisions. You agree to the personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and federal courts in Harris County, Texas, and waive any objection to such jurisdiction or venue. The preceding provision regarding venue does not apply if you are a consumer based in the European Union. If you are a consumer based in the European Union, you may make a claim in the courts of the country where you reside. Any claim under these Terms of Use must be brought within one (1) year after the cause of action arises, or such claim or cause of action is barred. Claims made under the separate terms and conditions of purchase for goods and services are not subject to this limitation. No recovery may be sought or received for damages other than out-of-pocket expenses, except that the prevailing party will be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. In the event of any controversy or dispute between The Corporate Focus and you arising out of or in connection with your use of the Site, the parties shall attempt, promptly and in good faith, to resolve any such dispute. If we are unable to resolve any such dispute within a reasonable time (not to exceed thirty (30) days), then either party may submit such controversy or dispute to mediation. If the dispute cannot be resolved through mediation, then the parties shall be free to pursue any right or remedy available to them under applicable law.

Proprietary Rights

All content included on or comprising The Corporate Focus website including information, data, text, software, photographs, graphs, graphics, videos, typefaces, user interfaces, visual interfaces, trademarks, logos, music, sounds, artwork, computer code, and other material (collectively "Content") including but not limited to the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, “look and feel” and arrangement of such Content, contained on this website is owned, licensed by or to The Corporate Focus and is protected by copyright, trade dress, trademark, patent and/or other proprietary rights and unfair competition laws which are all valid and protected in all forms. All content is copyrighted as a collective work under the U.S. and international copyright laws, and The Corporate Focus owns, to the fullest extent allowed by such laws, the copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of all content.

Except as expressly authorized or licensed, you may not copy, modify, remove, delete, augment, add to, publish, , transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, lease or rental of, or create derivative works from or in any way exploit any of this website’s content, in whole or in part. Except as expressly authorized or licensed, you may not reproduce, upload, post, publicly display, encode, translate, transmit or distribute in any way, including “mirroring” to any other computer, server, website or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise.
The logos and other trademarks of The Corporate Focus that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners and are owned by, licensed to, or, where required, used with permission by The Corporate Focus and may not be reproduced, copied, or manipulated in any manner without expressed, written approval.

Security

You agree to accept responsibility for your activities within this website. The Corporate Focus website may only be used for lawful purposes. Activities including, but not limited to, tampering with the site, misrepresenting the identity of a user, or conducting fraudulent activities on this website is prohibited.
Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of The Corporate Focus website, including, without limitation,
(a) accessing data not intended for such user or logging onto a server or an account which the user is not authorized to access
(b) using the web site for manipulative purposes or trying to alter the behavior of or the operations within this website
(c) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization
(d) attempting to interfere with service to any user/visitor, host or network, including without limitation via means of submitting a virus to this website, overloading, "flooding," "spamming," "mail-bombing" or "crashing"
(e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability
(f) forging communications on behalf of the website (impersonating The Corporate Focus website) or to the website (impersonating as a legitimate user). Sending unsolicited and unauthorized e-mail on behalf of The Corporate Focus, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services, is expressly prohibited. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability.
You agree not to use any device, software or routine or data to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of The Corporate Focus website or any activity being conducted on this site. You agree, further, not to use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, data or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars, deep-link, page-scrape, or any other intelligent agents) to navigate or search The Corporate Focus website other than the search engine and search agents provided by The Corporate Focus or generally publicly available browsers. You are also prohibited from using any other similar algorithm or methodology, or any equivalent manual process to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of this website’s or any content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of this website or any content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through this website. The Corporate Focus reserves the right to bar any such activity.
You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of this website, or any other systems or networks connected to this website or to any The Corporate Focus server, or to any of the services offered on or through this website, by hacking, password “mining” or any other illegitimate means.

You may not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of this website or any network connected to this website, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the Site or any network connected to this website. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to this website, or any other customer of The Corporate Focus, including any The Corporate Focus account not owned by you, to its source, or exploit this website or any service or information made available or offered by or through this website, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by this website.
You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of this website or systems or networks that are maintained and operated by The Corporate Focus, or any systems or networks connected to this website or to The Corporate Focus.
You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this website or any transaction being conducted on this website, or with any other person’s use of this website.
You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send to The Corporate Focus on or through this website or any service offered on or through this website. You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.
You may not use this website or any Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of The Corporate Focus or others.

Disclaimers

THE CORPORATE FOCUS DOES NOT PROMISE THAT THIS WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT, SERVICE OR FEATURE OF THE SITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE WILL PROVIDE SPECIFIC RESULTS. THIS WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT ARE DELIVERED ON AN “AS-IS” AND “AS-AVAILABLE” BASIS. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE SITE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. THE CORPORATE FOCUS DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR THE ACTS, OMISSIONS AND CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND/OR ANY SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE CORPORATE FOCUS. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE AND ANY LINKED SITES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY AGAINST THE CORPORATE FOCUS FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT IS TO STOP USING THE SITE OR ANY SUCH CONTENT.

The above disclaimer applies to any damages, liability or injuries caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use, whether for breach of contract, tort, negligence or any other cause of action.
The Corporate Focus reserves the right to do any of the following, at any time, without notice: (1) to modify, suspend or terminate operation of or access to this website, or any portion of this website, for any reason; (2) to modify or change this website, or any portion of this website, and any applicable policies or terms; and (3) to interrupt the operation of this website, or any portion of this website, as necessary to perform routine or non-routine maintenance, error correction, or other changes.