Terms and Conditions
Welcome to LiveMind.com. LiveMind (“LiveMind”, “We”, “us”, “our” or “The Company”) is pleased to serve you under these Terms of Use, as amended from time to time (“Terms”). YOUR USE OF OR REGISTRATION AT LiveMind.COM (“SITE”) CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PRIVACY POLICY, AND THE LiveMind TEACHER AND LiveMind STUDENT AGREEMENTS, which are incorporated herein. To be a Member and use our Site you must be 13 years of age or older. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, or if you are under 13, or if your jurisdiction will not honor these Terms, DO NOT USE OUR SITE OR SERVICES. “You” are the individual using the Site or described in the Site registration form.
1. Contact Information & Disclosure
2. Agreement to Conduct Transactions Electronically; Copies
3. Site Functionality and Availability
4. Services, Site Information and Ads
5. Privacy Policy
6. Infringement Of Our Rights or the Rights of Others
7. Your Conduct
8. Content License
9. Indemnification
10. NO WARRANTIES; AS IS
11. NO INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR CERTAIN OTHER DAMAGES
12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY
13. Termination or Cancelation
14. Entire Agreement; Miscellaneous
15. Connecticut Law Applies and Connecticut is the Exclusive Forum
16. Notices
17. Amendments
18. Legal Notices
1) Contact Information & Disclosure.
This Site is provided by LiveMind LLC, (“LiveMind”). Our street address, email address and telephone number is 264 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880, U.S.A., Legal@LiveMind.com. We do not charge you for merely using our Site, however we do charge for certain services and teachers may charge for the classes and courses that you take. If you want to receive the information about our name and address by email, or if you have a complaint about our service or want more information about services, click here for further information.
2) Agreement to Conduct Transactions Electronically; Copies.
You agree that all of your transactions with or through the Site may, at our option, be conducted electronically from start to finish, and that any oral conversations may be recorded. Also, classes and courses may be recorded and your teacher presentation may be recorded, and your voice may be recorded as a student. If we decide to proceed non-electronically, those services will still be governed by the remainder of these Terms unless you enter into different terms on a form provided by us. If the law allows you to withdraw this consent or if we are ever required to deal with you non-electronically, we reserve the right to charge or increase fees. You agree to print or make an electronic a copy of the Terms and any other contract or disclosure that we are required to provide to you.
3) Site Functionality and Availability.
You may use the Site only when and as available. See our Privacy Policy for a description of what our Site does. We reserve the right to change or eliminate, and restrict or block access to, all or any part of the Site from time to time without notice. You are responsible for all costs and expenses related to accessing the Site and using the Service, including costs to connect to the Internet and telephone charges related to calling into the Site to take or teach a class.
4) Services, Site Information and Ads.
The services we provide at LiveMind.com (the “Service” or the “Services”), include the ability for you to create and offer classes and courses, take classes and courses, and communicate with other teachers and students. We do not make any warranties with respect to any information contained in the classes or courses posted or taught on the Site, advertisements displayed on the site, or any product or service you purchase as a result of using the Site, and you agree that we are not liable or responsible for such postings, content, products or services supplied by teachers or third parties, or for actions you might take in reliance thereon.
5) Privacy Policy and LiveMind Teacher and Student Agreements.
Our Privacy Policy and our Teacher Agreement and Student Agreement are part of and incorporated into these Terms. We reserve the right to contact you for lawful purposes, such as in connection with our or your performance or enforcement of these Terms or a Site service or activity.
6) Infringement of Our Rights or the Rights of Others.
Our Site is protected by intellectual property laws and you agree to respect them. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved. As for intellectual property rights of others, anyone who believes that their work has been reproduced in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, may provide a notice to our copyright agent – see Legal Notices. It is our policy to terminate in appropriate circumstances any (if any) account or right of access for repeated infringement, and we also reserve the right to terminate for even one infringement.
7) Your Conduct.You agree that you will not violate any law, contract or intellectual property right, or commit a tort. You also agree not to:
a) attempt to access any Service or area of the Site that you are not authorized to access;
b) access or use any part of the Site or Service for anything other than your personal use;
c) alter information on or obtained from the Site;
d) use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access the Site or extract data;
e) reverse engineer any aspect of the Site or do anything that might discover source code, or bypass or circumvent measures employed to prevent or limit access to any area, content or code of the Site (except as otherwise expressly permitted by law);
f) send to or otherwise impact us or the Site (or anything or anyone else) with harmful, illegal, deceptive or disruptive code such as a virus, “spyware”, “adware” or other code that could adversely impact the Site or any recipient;
g) access or use the Site or any service for any unlawful, unintended (by us) or harmful purpose, or other than in full compliance with applicable law and your agreements with us;
h) take any action which might impose a significant burden (as determined by us) on Site infrastructure;
i) interfere with the ordinary operation or mission of the Site or services;
j) “frame” our Site or otherwise make it look like you have a relationship to us or that we have endorsed you for any purpose;
k) have more than one Member account at LiveMind.com, (although you may more than on teacher profile) even if they have more than one e-mail address;
l) use machines, algorithms or other automatic functions to generate contents or accesses to web pages;
m) generate accesses to web pages in which a person or a group of people are requested to read material (chain letters, e-mails, etc.) that, without effective consideration of its content, has the purpose of increasing compensation;
n) erase any legends or lists of references in the published material;
o) defame or in any other way harass other participants;
p) add (affiliation) links on the Site, other than links to a webpage or social network sites maintained by the teacher posting the link;
q) publish any content on the Site that:
i) are biased, deliberately false, offensive, derogatory, libellous, morally objectionable or pornographic, or that otherwise constitute a punishable offence;
ii) violate the rights of third parties, especially patent rights, copyright, trademark rights, ancillary copyright or brand name rights, rights of trade secret or other intellectual property rights;
iii) contain viruses or other computer programs that impair the functioning of other computers;
iv) are chain letters;
v) serve the purpose of gathering, saving or using personal information of users, in particular for business purposes, without the users’ express consent; or,
vi) The operators of the Site deem inappropriate.
Upon discovery of any prohibited materials, we reserve the right to immediately remove such materials and you agree that we will have no liability of any kind therefore.
8) Content License.
You will be able to post materials on the Site. All materials posted on the site will be treated as non-confidential and may be viewed by the general public. By posting material on the Site you are representing and warranting to LiveMind that you are the owner of the material and you are responsible for ascertaining that you posses all necessary rights in and to the content you make available for publication on LiveMind and all necessary rights to use the information contained in any course or class you post on or teach through the Site. By posting materials on the Site you grant LiveMind and its parent and affiliated companies a perpetual, unlimited, royalty free right, any where in the known universe to use the content made available by you for the purposes of promoting the Site and the Services. This right includes, but is not limited to, editing, copying, transmitting, publishing and development rights, in any media, electronic or otherwise, now known or hereafter developed, as well as the right to transfer the rights of use to third parties without entitling you to compensation.
9) Indemnification.
You agree to indemnify and hold LiveMind, and its parent and affiliated companies, together with their officers, directors and employees, members and agents harmless from any and all claims, losses, damages, suits, fines, levy’s and costs (including reasonable attorney’s fees and expert witness costs, including costs associated with in-house counsel), (collectively “Claims”), arising from or related to your use of the Site and any content you place on the Site, including claims made by third parties. You agree that LiveMind has the unlimited right to defend any Claim and to settle any Claim without your prior permission. You agree to provide LiveMind with all reasonable assistance in the defence of any Claim.
10) NO WARRANTIES; AS IS. YOU AGREE THAT OUR SITE AND ALL SITE INFORMATION, SERVICES AND FUNCTIONALITY (collectively, “COMPLETE SITE”) ARE PROVIDED BY US OR ANY OF OUR PARENTS OR AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS OR AGENTS "AS IS" AND "WITH ALL FAULTS," AND YOU AGREE TO ASSUME ALL RISK RELATED TO THE SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY AND AVAILABILITY OF THE SITE. WE DO NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS AND DUTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY (if any) IMPLIED WARRANTIES, DUTIES OR CONDITIONS: (a) OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE, OF RESULTS, and OF ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OR PRIVACY OR SECURITY OF INFORMATION; AND (b) CREATED BY TRADE USAGE, COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. WE FURTHER DISCLAIM ALL DUTIES TO YOU, IF ANY SUCH DUTIES EXIST, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO REASONABLE CARE, WORKMANLIKE EFFORT, AND LACK OF NEGLIGENCE. IF A DUTY CANNOT BE DISCLAIMED, THAT DUTY SHALL BE MEASURED BY INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT. ALSO, THERE IS NO WARRANTY OF TITLE OR AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR ENJOYMENT OF ANY ASPECT OF THE COMPLETE SITE, OR AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF OTHERS. YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE ALL DUTIES AND ALL WARRANTIES THAT MIGHT EXIST BUT FOR THIS PARAGRAPH.
11) NO INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR CERTAIN OTHER DAMAGES. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, YOU AGREE THAT NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF OUR AFFILIATES OR AGENTS WILL BE LIABLE TO YOU AND/OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, OR FOR DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOSS OR IMPAIRMENT OF PRIVACY, SECURITY OR DATA, FAILURE TO MEET ANY DUTY (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY DUTY OF GOOD FAITH, WORKMANLIKE EFFORT OR OF LACK OF NEGLIGENCE), OR FOR ANY OTHER SIMILAR DAMAGES WHATSOEVER THAT ARISE OUT OF OR ARE RELATED TO ANY BREACH OR OTHER ASPECT OF THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT OR COMPLETE SITE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IN THE EVENT OF FAULT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR STRICT OR PRODUCT LIABILITY OR MISREPRESENTATION.
12) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR SOLE, AGGREGATE REMEDY FOR ANY BREACH OF THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT (as defined below) (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE PRIVACY POLICY AND THE LiveMind TEACHER AGREEMENT AND STUDENT AGREEMENT) AND FOR ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OF ANY NATURE (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, TORT) RELATING TO ANY ASPECT OF THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT OR THE COMPLETE SITE SHALL BE, AT OUR OPTION: (1) REPAIR, SUBSTITUTION, REPLACEMENT OR CORRECTION OF ALL OR PART OF THE INFORMATION OR ACT GIVING RISE TO DAMAGES INCURRED IN REASONABLE RELIANCE AND NOT EXCLUDED ABOVE; OR (2) REFUND OF THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID FOR THE COURSE OR CLASS (AS A STUDENT OR TEACHER AS THE CASE MAY BE), CAUSING YOUR DAMAGES THAT ARE NOT EXCLUDED ABOVE. THE DAMAGE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IN THESE TERMS SHALL APPLY EVEN IF ANY REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
13) Termination or Cancelation. Either we or you may end this agreement (the Terms) with or without cause or notice at any time. You will still be liable for payment of any amounts due or other obligations incurred before it ends, and if you use the Site after it ends, that use will be your new agreement to the Terms. In the event that we terminate this agreement because of your violation of Sections 7, 8, 9 or 10 we reserve the right to terminate your account, and prohibit you from re-registering at the Site, as well as pursue any and all legal remedies that may be available to us. Without canceling the agreement, we may suspend or block your access to the Site whenever it appears to us that you might be breaching these Terms or otherwise about to cause harm or damage to us or others.
14) Entire Agreement; Miscellaneous. These Terms, including items incorporated into them (e.g., the Privacy Policy), as well as any additional terms or conditions contained on the Site for particular activities, and disclosures provided by us and consents provided by you on the Site (collectively, “Entire Agreement”), constitute the entire agreement between us and neither party has relied on any representations made by the other that are not expressly set forth in the Entire Agreement. If any provision of the Entire Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect, provided that the allocation of risks described herein is given effect to the fullest extent possible. Our failure to act with respect to a breach does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches, and time is of the essence of the Entire Agreement. Also, there are no third party beneficiaries of the Entire Agreement. This Site is controlled by us from our offices within the United States of America and is directed to U.S. users. If you choose to access this Site from locations outside the U.S., you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. You may not use or export anything from the Site in violation of U.S. export laws and regulations or the Entire Agreement.
15) Connecticut Law Applies and Connecticut is the Exclusive Forum. The Entire Agreement and all performances and claims of every nature (including without limitation, contract, tort and strict liability) relating in any way to any aspect of the Complete Site shall be governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut, U.S.A. without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes regarding such claims or arising under or related in any way to the Entire Agreement or the Complete Site shall be heard exclusively in the appropriate forum in Connecticut. You hereby consent to jurisdiction in a state or federal court sitting in Bridgeport, Connecticut and waive any claim or defense that such forum is not convenient or proper, and consent to service of process by any means authorized by Connecticut or federal law.
16) Notices
Notices to You. We may give you all notices that we are required to give by posting notice on the Site. You also agree that we may give notice by email in our discretion, including notice of subpoenas or other legal process (if any). We may provide notice to any email or other address that you provide during registration. You agree to keep your address current and to check for notices posted on the Site.
Notices to Us; Our Address for Legal Notices. We receive many emails and not all employees are trained to deal with every kind of communication, so you agree to send us notice by mailing it to “Our Address for Legal Notices” which is LiveMind LLC, 264 Riverside Ave, Westport, CT 06880, U.S.A. Attn. CEO. If a law requires us to accept email notice notwithstanding the foregoing, call us at 203 293-4712 for our address established for receipt of such notices.
17) Amendments.
You agree that from time to time we may alter these Terms, including adding or eliminating all or parts of the Privacy Policy, the LiveMind Teacher Agreement or the LiveMind Student Agreement or any other terms (“Amendments”). See the Amendments section of our Privacy Policy for details regarding how Amendments will be made – those details apply to all Amendments.
18) Legal Notices.
Various laws require or allow us to give users of this Site certain notices and each of them is incorporated into these Terms. You may review the notices by clicking on their link Notice of Copyright Agent.
Notice of Availability of Filtering Software.
Notice: No Harvesting or Dictionary Attacks Allowed.
Notice Re Trademarks.
Notice Re Copyright Ownership.
Further Information
If you have a complaint, you may contact us at 264 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880, U.S.A. If you are a California resident, the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the Dept. of Consumer Affairs may be contacted at 400 R Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 or (800) 952-5210.
NOTICE RE COPYRIGHT AGENT
LiveMind.com respects the intellectual property rights of others and requests that you do the same. Anyone who believes that their work has been reproduced in the Site in a way constituting copyright infringement may provide a notice to the designated Copyright Agent for the Site containing the following:
• An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
• The address, telephone number, and, if available, an e-mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
• A representation 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;
• A representation that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Copyright infringement claims and notices (but not other notices) should be sent to the attention of General Counsel in the following manner:
• by mail: Copyright Agent, 264 Riverside Ave, Westport, CT 06880
• by fax 203-682-6406
• by email: Copyright@LiveMind.com
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF FILTERING SOFTWARE We do not believe that the Site contains materials that would typically be the subject of filtering software. Nevertheless, all users are hereby informed by the provider of this interactive computer service that parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. A report detailing some of those protections can be found at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/ntiageneral/cipa2003/index.html (Children’s Internet Protection Act: Report on the Effectiveness of Internet Protection Measures and Safety Policies).
NOTICE: NO HARVESTING OR DICTIONARY ATTACKS ALLOWED We will not give, sell, or otherwise transfer addresses maintained by us to any other party for the purposes of initiating, or enabling others to initiate, electronic mail messages except as authorized by appropriate personnel or policies. Except for parties authorized to have addresses maintained by us, persons may violate federal law if they: (1) initiate the transmission to our computers or devices of a commercial electronic mail message (as defined in the U.S. “Can-Spam Act of 2003”) that does not meet the message transmission requirements of that act; or (2) assist in the origination of such messages through the provision of selection of addresses to which the messages will be transmitted.
NOTICE RE TRADEMARKS The trademarks "LiveMind.com" and all other trademarks used in the Site are trademarks or registered trademarks of LiveMind LLC. All rights are reserved.
NOTICE RE COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP: © LiveMind LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. As used herein, “Content” means (without limitation) all text, design, graphics, images, sound files, animation, video, interfaces, code and the selection and arrangement thereof appearing or included from time to time on the Site. All Content on the Site is subject to intellectual property rights, contractual or other protection. The intellectual property rights are owned by us or our licensors. No Content may be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted or transmitted in any way except pursuant to the express provisions of the Terms or with our prior non-electronic consent. Modification or use of the materials for any other purpose may violate intellectual property rights. No title to copies or to intellectual property rights are transferred to users – all title and rights remain with us.