TERMS OF USE
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 without notice to you. 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
Through its network of Web properties, Microsoft provides
you with access to a variety of resources, including developer tools, download
areas, communication forums and product information (collectively "Services").
The Services, including any updates, enhancements, new features, and/or the
addition of any new Web properties, are subject to the TOU.
PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION.
Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your
personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit,
display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from,
transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from
the Services.
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 and/or its suppliers.
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"). An end user will be unable to install any Software that is
accompanied by or includes a License Agreement, unless he or she first agrees to
the License Agreement terms. 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, and may result in severe civil and criminal
penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible.
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. THE SOFTWARE IS WARRANTED, IF AT ALL, ONLY ACCORDING TO THE TERMS OF
THE LICENSE AGREEMENT. EXCEPT AS WARRANTED IN THE LICENSE AGREEMENT, MICROSOFT
CORPORATION HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THE
SOFTWARE, 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. RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND.
Any Software which is downloaded from the Services for or
on behalf of the United States of America, its agencies and/or instrumentalities
("U.S. Government"), is provided with Restricted Rights. Use, duplication, or
disclosure by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in
subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software
clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 or subparagraphs (c)(1) and (2) of the Commercial
Computer Software - Restricted Rights at 48 CFR 52.227-19, as applicable.
Manufacturer is Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA
98052-6399.
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. Violators will be prosecuted to
the maximum extent possible. Documents specified above do not include the design
or layout of the Microsoft.com 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.
MICROSOFT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO
REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE
DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE SERVICES FOR ANY
PURPOSE. ALL SUCH DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. MICROSOFT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM
ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, INCLUDING ALL
WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR
STATUTORY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. 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
INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES. 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. NOTICES REGARDING
SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE. 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. MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY.
If any of the Services 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.
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, personal web pages,
calendars, photo albums, file cabinets 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. Upload, or
otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software or
other material protected by intellectual property laws, including, by way of
example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of
privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have
received all necessary consent to do the same. 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 children 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, reproduction 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) 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 are granting
Microsoft, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use
your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses
(including, without limitation, all Microsoft Services), including, without
limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display,
publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to
publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to
sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services. 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.
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THOSE SITES.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES WILL LET YOU LEAVE MICROSOFT'S
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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 PROVIDING
THESE LINKS TO YOU ONLY AS A CONVENIENCE. THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT
IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY MICROSOFT OF THE SITE OR SERVICES YOU MAY OBTAIN FROM SUCH
SITE. ANY SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU FROM A THIRD PARTY SITE ARE NOT UNDER THE
CONTROL OF MICROSOFT AND ARE SUBJECT TO TERMS OF USE AT THE THIRD PARTY SITE.
MICROSOFT MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OR QUALITY OF THE
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MICROSOFT 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 YOUR USE OF THE THIRD PARTY SITE OR YOUR USE OR PERFORMANCE OF
SERVICES OBTAINED BY YOU FROM THIRD PARTY SITES.
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
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Claims of Copyright Infringement. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES. THE LINKS IN THIS
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