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THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES THE TERMS ON WHICH WE OFFER YOU SERVICES BY PRESSING THE "SUBMIT" BUTTON WHEN YOU COMPLETE A FORM OF ANY KIND, OR BY VISITING OR USING THE GIFTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, INC. WEB SITES, YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BELOW AND AGREE THAT THIS CONSTITUTES A BINDING CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND GIFTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, INC.

If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions, please do not visit or use the Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. Web Sites. These Terms of Service may be amended at any time by us from time to time in our sole discretion without specific notice to you. The latest Terms of Service will be posted on our sites, and you should review them prior to using the sites.



Description of Service

Gifts of Encouragement, Inc operates the Christian Women's Speakers Directory and associated- web pages.  For purposes of these Terms of Service all of these sites will be referred to as the "CWD Web sites."

Gifts of Encouragement, Inc offers you access to the CWD Web sites which provide you access to a collection of on-line resources, including personal information about authors, speakers and other individuals in exchange for your agreement to accept and comply with the terms, conditions, and notices stated herein and as may be modified by Gifts of Encouragement, Inc from time-to-time in its sole discretion without notice to you. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features or products that augment or enhance the current Service shall be subject to these Terms of Service.


General Use of the CWD Web sites
You promise that you will not use the CWD Web sites, in whole or in part, for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use. You agree that you will not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, frame in another web page, use on any other web site, transfer, or sell any information, software, lists of users, databases or other lists, products or services provided through or obtained from the CWD Web sites. This means, among other activities, that you agree not to engage in the practices of "screen scraping", "database scraping", or any other activity with the purpose of obtaining lists of users or other information. You agree that you will not use the CWD Web sites in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the CWD Web sites or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the CWD Web sites. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the CWD Web sites. Except with the written permission of Gifts of Encouragement, Inc, you agree that you will not access or attempt to access password protected, secure or non-public areas of the CWD Web sites. Unauthorized individuals attempting to access prohibited areas of the CWD Web sites may be subject to prosecution.

Registration/Privacy Policy
In order for you to participate in some of the Services, Gifts of Encouragement, Inc will require that you provide specific information about yourself, letters of recommendation, and/or the payment of service fees.

If you choose to participate in such services and apply for a listing, or a link page on the CWD Web sites, or, as an Event Planner, you submit suggestions, feedback or URLs to our web sites, you agree to provide true, accurate and complete information and to refrain from impersonating or falsely representing yourself and/or your affiliation with any person or entity (such information being "Submitted Data"). You agree and acknowledge that Submitted Data from the afore mentioned process is used to send you information about Gifts of Encouragement, Inc and its Services, including, but not limited to, the use of your email address for newsletters and other necessary company communication.

Although privacy issues are very important to us, given the current regulatory and technical environment you should not have an expectation of privacy in your Speaker Listing or Web link. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept your private communications. We cannot ensure that all private communications or information associated with your listing and/or links will remain private. (PayPal handles all financial transactions and they ARE a secure server.)



Content Submitted to Gifts of Encouragement, Inc
The CWD Web sites include a number of venues such as interactive maps, information segments, speaker data and links, photos and personal information, registration and feedback forms, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to disseminate and exchange information to and with other members of the public.  Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. cannot be responsible for the appropriateness, accuracy, sufficiency, correctness, veracity, completeness, or timeliness of all submitted information.  Always use caution when reviewing submitted data via personal verification.



Speaker Conduct
You, and not Gifts of Encouragement, Inc, are entirely responsible for confirming all information, data, text, photographs, graphics, messages or other materials posted via the Service.  Gifts of Encouragement, Inc does not confirm the accuracy, correctness, veracity, or completeness of all of the Submitted Data which is posted via the Service and as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content.

With respect to the content of your personal submissions, you agree not to: submit any content not related to appropriate subject matters; submit any content which is misleading to others, including, but not limited to, event planners, speakers, or other web site visitors; submit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; submit any content that you do not have a right to post and transmit under any law or contractual or fiduciary relationshipsnondisclosure agreements); interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service; impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; attempt to access the accounts of others, or attempt to penetrate security measures of Gifts of Encouragement, Inc., the CWD Web sites, or other entities' systems ("hacking"), whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of data; resell or exploit for any commercial purpose Gifts of Encouragement, Inc.'s services by any and all means.

Should you submit or suggest information inappropriate for this online community, we may change or remove some or all of your listing or linked-page content (unless they violate these Terms of Service in which case they should not be on our system at all). If we change or remove any of your content and you oppose that decision, your only recourse is to petition via email. Errors and reversed decisions will be changes within 7 days at no charge to you.  However, should we insist that the changes remain, and you oppose that decision, your only recourse is to cancel your listing and/or linked page and forfeit any remaining months of service for which you have prepaid.



60-Day Paid-Listing Unconditional Speaker Guarantee

Should a speaker choose to cancel her listing and/or linked-page within 60-days of the dated PayPal submission, for any reason whatsoever, Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. shall refund 100% of her  investment, upon her request. 


Breech of Contract
We believe in each person's right to express themselves, but should you breech any of the afore- mentioned terms by falsifiying or misusing information in any way, or by appearing to falsify or misuse information in any way, your listing and/or link will be promptly removed from the CWD Web sites with no compensation for unused months of service.

Should we deem it necessary, for any reason other than abuse of this contract, to remove your site, we will refund to you the remaining portion of your prepaid annual fee.



Third Party Content
For your convenience, the CWD Web sites contain content and information from Gifts of Encouragement, Inc.'s speakers, partners and/or links to speaker/partner web sites ("Speaker Content"). Such content is not under the control of Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. and Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. is not responsible for such content, including, without limitation, any link contained in such content, or any changes or updates to such content. Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. is providing such Speaker Content to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of such content does not imply endorsement by Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. of such content or the affiliate. You may be subject to additional and/or different terms, conditions, and privacy policies when you use Speaker services, content, software, or sites.

Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. is not and will not be responsible for (i) the terms and conditions of any transaction between you and any Speaker, Event Planner or other party, (ii) any insufficiency of or problems with any such individual or organization's background, performance, insurance, credit or licensing, or (iii) the quality of services performed by any such third party or any other legal liability arising out of or related to the performance of such services. In the event that you have a dispute with any such third party, you release Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. (and its affiliates, agents and employees) from any and all claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.



DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

(A) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS PROVIDE OUR SERVICE, THE CWD WEB SITES, AND SPEAKER LISTINGS AND WEB LINKs "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE.

(B) GIFTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, INC. MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,    (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SERCURE OR ERROR-FREE, AND (iii) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS.

(C) ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE, THE CWD SITES OR SPEAKER LISTINGS OR LINKED WEB SITES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.



LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT SHALL GIFTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, INC. AND/OR OUR SUPPLIERS, SPEAKERS, EVENT PLANNERS, ASSOCIATES OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS (HOWEVER ARISING, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) EVEN IF GIFTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, INC. OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS, SPEAKERS, ASSOCIATES OR AFFILIATES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH (A) THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, (B) THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, (C) FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND REALTED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SERVICE, (D) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE, OR (E) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.



IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE CWD WEB SITES, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE CWD WEB SITES.



Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. and its, speakers, event planners, suppliers, affiliates, partners, subsidiaries, employees harmless from any and all claims and demands, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of any information, included but not limited to speaker information, and your submitted information, provided by you to Gifts of Encouragement, Inc.and/or its affiliates.



Copyright
All materials on the CWD Web sites (as well as the organization and layout of the CWD Web sites) are owned and copyrighted or licensed by Gifts of Encouragement, Inc., its affiliates or its suppliers. All rights reserved. No reproduction, distribution, or transmission of the copyrighted materials at the CWD Web sites is permitted without the written permission of Gifts of Encouragement, Inc.. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.


Modification
Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. reserves the right at anytime and from time to time to modify, discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.


Termination
You agree and acknowledge that Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. may pre-screen content posted directly onto the main and any linked pages of the CWD Web sites.  Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse, change, or remove any content that is linked-to or submitted by you or any other party to the CWD Web Sites.

You further agree that Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. shall have the right to remove information from your Speaker's Listing or Linked Site, or your submitted feedback, links or other data, with or without notice to you, at any time at our sole discretion, for any reason. You further agree that Gifts of Encouragement, Inc., in its sole discretion, may terminate your listing and/or links and/or your use of the Service for any reason, including, without limitation, if you breach these Terms of Service, for lack of use, if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us, or if Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the spirit of these Terms of Service. We may also terminate your listing and/or linked Web site if we decide, in our sole discretion, to discontinue offering our services.


Modification
Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. reserves the right at anytime and from time to time to modify, discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Gifts of Encouragement, Inc. shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.


General Information
These Terms of Service shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the state of Nevada, U.S.A. as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within Nevada between Nevada residents. Both parties submit to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in Nevada and further agree that any cause of action arising under these Terms of Service shall be brought in a court in Clark County, Nevada. If any provision of these Terms of Service is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. You may not assign or transfer these Terms of Service or your rights in your Speaker listing and/or linked Web Site, and any attempt to the contrary is void. These Terms of Service sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof. The section titles in the Terms of Service are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. A printed version of this Agreement shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this Agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.



The services hereunder are offered by
Gifts of Encouragement, Inc.
3155 East Patrick Lane, Suite 1
Las Vegas, NV 89120-3481
1-877-77-HOW-TO





 
February 04, 2012
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