Terms of Use

Terms of Use Agreement For THNKLIKEAThinkLikeaSavant.com

1. SCOPE

SAVANT created and maintains the ThinkLikeaSavant.com website (including all related SAVANT websites, collectively ThinkLikeaSavant.com ) and other websites added to ThinkLikeaSavant.com from time to time to provide a repository where you ( You or Your ) and other SAVANT software experts, developers, users, and other interested parties (each, a User and collectively, Users ) may obtain and share information around SAVANTs products and services, and other topics found on ThinkLikeaSavant.com. If You are accessing and/or using ThinkLikeaSavant.com on behalf of Your employer or as a consultant or agent of a third party (collectively Your Company ), You represent and warrant that You have the authority to act on behalf of and bind Your Company to the terms of this Terms of Use Agreement ( TOU ) and everywhere in this TOU that refers to You or Your, shall also include Your Company.

2. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

Unless otherwise agreed to in a separate signed agreement between Your Company and SAVANT, Your access and use of the ThinkLikeaSavant.com, Content (defined in Section 7 below), or any forums, wikis, blogs, or services provided on ThinkLikeaSavant.com (any Services ), are subject to this TOU. Additionally, Your use of the ThinkLikeaSavant.com, Content, and the Services may also be subject to disclaimers, legal notices, click-through agreements, or other legal agreements (any, Additional Legal Terms ), which may be posted on the ThinkLikeaSavant.com where applicable. This TOU and the applicable Additional Legal Terms (together Controlling Terms ) form a legally binding agreement between You and SAVANT regarding Your access and use of the ThinkLikeaSavant.com, Content, and the Services. Whenever there is a conflict between the terms in this TOU and the Additional Legal Terms, the terms in the Additional Legal Terms shall control. By accessing or using ThinkLikeaSavant.com, You accept and agree to abide by the terms of this TOU. If You do not agree to the terms of this TOU, You must not attempt to access or use ThinkLikeaSavant.com. Your access and use of any SAVANT software or related documentation provided on ThinkLikeaSavant.com (together SAVANT Software ) shall be subject to a separate software license agreement made available to You at the time You access or download the SAVANT Software.

3. CHANGES AND NOTICES

SAVANT reserves the right to make changes to this TOU and to modify, change or discontinue any part or all of the ThinkLikeaSavant.com and/or the Services at any time. SAVANT will notify You of any changes to this TOU when You visit the ThinkLikeaSavant.com, or via email, or by providing You with information on such update and updating the TOU which can be viewed via the Terms of Use link. SAVANT may make changes to its products, service offerings, the ThinkLikeaSavant.com, and/or the Services and SAVANT Software at any time without notice.
THE MOST CURRENT VERSION OF THIS TOU CAN BE ACCESSED BY CLICKING TERMS OF — USE WHICH IS INCLUDED ON THE BOTTOM OF EACH WEB PAGE COMPRISING THE ThinkLikeaSavant.com.

4. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

A. Except for Web sites within ThinkLikeaSavant.com which are clearly identified as non-public (each a Non-Public), the ThinkLikeaSavant.com is intended to be a public forum subject to the terms of this Agreement and You agree not to provide SAVANT or other Users with any confidential or proprietary information that You or the owner of the information do not intend to become public information. Any Content that You send or upload to ThinkLikeaSavant.com will be deemed NOT to be confidential or proprietary, and You expressly agree that You waive any trade secret or other confidentiality rights with respect to such uploaded Content.
B. You agree not to reproduce any Confidential Information to which you are provided access through the ThinkLikeaSavant.com in any form except as authorized at the time of disclosure. Any reproduction of SAVANT Confidential Information shall remain the property of SAVANT and shall contain any and all confidential or proprietary notices or legends which appear on the original. You agree to (a) take all reasonable steps (defined below) to keep all Confidential Information strictly confidential; (b) to use Confidential Information solely as authorized at the time of disclosure and (d) not to disclose any Confidential Information to any party without the prior written consent of SAVANT. You do not acquire any rights in Confidential Information except the limited rights as described above. In no event shall You use Confidential Information to create, enhance, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Software or Services, or compete with SAVANT Software or Services in whole or in part. As used herein, Confidential Information shall mean all trade secrets and other information or Services which SAVANT or third parties protect against unrestricted disclosure to others which is either labeled Confidential, accessed through a restricted area of ThinkLikeaSavant.com, pursuant to software downloads, or reasonably identifiable as confidential based on the type of information and the manner of its disclosure, and reasonable steps means those steps You and/or Your Company take to protect Your own similar Confidential Information, which shall not be less than a reasonable standard of care.
ALL UPLOADS BY YOU INTO ThinkLikeaSavant.com, WHETHER INTO A PUBLIC FORUM OR NON-PUBLIC FORUM, SHALL BE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND SAVANT TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE — USE OR MIS– USE OF ANY SUCH UPLOADED INFORMATION BY ANY OTHER — USER OF ThinkLikeaSavant.com.

5. YOUR INFORMATION, PRIVACY, AND DATA PROTECTION

You understand and agree that SAVANT collects, uses, stores and otherwise processes Your personal information and utilization data and may share such data with third party service providers for the purposes of improving or providing the Services subject to SAVANT’s Privacy Statement. Data to be processed includes Your name, email address, and other information which may include but is not limited to Your telephone number, and postal address. In a limited number of cases when accessing specific websites or responding to sales offers (each, a "Transaction"), SAVANT may temporarily collect and utilize Your credit card number and expiration date for the purposes of processing a Transaction. Collection and processing of credit card numbers and expiration dates will be subject to a separate agreement. All personal data will be treated confidential.  You agree that SAVANT may access, preserve and disclose Your personal information and/or Content if required to do so by law or to: (i) comply with a legal process; (ii) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third parties or (iv) protect the rights, property or personal safety of SAVANT, Users, and the public.
YOU AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF THE ABOVE SAVANT PRIVACY STATEMENT, AND THE PRIVACY TERMS FOUND BY CLICKING ON PRIVACY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HOME WEB PAGE COMPRISING THE ThinkLikeaSavant.com.

6. COPYRIGHT POLICY

Unauthorized copying, distribution, modification, public display, or public performance of copyrighted works is an infringement of the copyright holders rights. You agree that You will not use ThinkLikeaSavant.com to infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of SAVANT or others in any way. You must not remove, overprint or deface any notice of copyright, trademark, logo, legend, or other notice of ownership from any originals or copies of SAVANT Software, third party software, or any Content accessed on the ThinkLikeaSavant.com. As used herein, Intellectual Property Rights means patents of any type, design rights, utility models or other similar invention rights, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secret or confidentiality rights, and any other intangible property rights including applications for any of the foregoing, in any country, arising under statutory or common law or by contract and whether or not perfected, now existing or hereafter filed, issued, or acquired.
You agree to comply with the terms of the above SAVANT Copyright Policy and those terms found by clicking on Copyright/Trademark at the bottom of the home web page comprising the ThinkLikeaSavant.com.

7. RESPONSIBILITY FOR LINKS AND CONTENT

SAVANT is not responsible or liable for the Content posted on the ThinkLikeaSavant.com. ThinkLikeaSavant.com may contain links to external Web sites and information provided on such external websites by SAVANT partners and third-party service providers. SAVANT shall not be responsible for the contents of any linked Web site, or any changes or updates to such sites. You further agree that SAVANT shall not be directly or indirectly responsible or liable for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with Your use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through any such linked Web site. Any article, information, data, code, text, software, documentation, graphics, image, marketing material, video, photograph, message, or posting to any forum, wiki, or blog on ThinkLikeaSavant.com (any Content ), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person or entity providing the Content.

8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; LICENSE GRANT

Subject to any licenses You grant to SAVANT pursuant to this Agreement, You shall retain ownership of all Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Content provided by You on the ThinkLikeaSavant.com to the extent You are the owner or holder of the Intellectual Property Rights. Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit You from selling or licensing Your Content to any other party under a separate agreement.
By transmitting or uploading Content to ThinkLikeaSavant.com, You grant SAVANT a perpetual, unlimited, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to: use, reproduce, adapt, display, perform, modify, transmit, translate, distribute, and create derivative works of the Content; to make, have made, offer to sell, sell, lease, or otherwise distribute any Content or product; and to practice any method, embodying such Content (including the right to sublicense any of the foregoing). You further represent and warrant to SAVANT that You have the right, title, and/or authority to grant such license to SAVANT. SAVANT may elect not to post or publish the Content that You send or upload. If SAVANT elects to post or publish the Content, SAVANT may in its sole discretion elect to withdraw the posted or published information for any reason and without notice.
All Intellectual Proprietary Rights to any SAVANT Software and the Services shall belong to SAVANT. Nothing in this TOU shall be deemed to give You the right to modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative words from, transfer, or sell any SAVANT Software for any reason unless otherwise permitted by law. You hereby agree to assign and do assign to SAVANT any modifications or derivative works of any SAVANT Software made by You in contravention of this limitation.

9. PERMISSIBLE — USE OF ThinkLikeaSavant.com

You are permitted to access ThinkLikeaSavant.com and Use the Services Content and SAVANT Software solely for Your personal, informational, noncommercial purposes.

10. TERMINATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY

In the event You are in material breach of the Controlling Terms, SAVANT may, at its sole discretion refuse You any current or future use of ThinkLikeaSavant.com. SAVANT may remove any Content posted on ThinkLikeaSavant.com at SAVANTs sole discretion. SAVANT shall not be liable to You or any third party for any termination or change to ThinkLikeaSavant.com and/or the Services. If You send or upload Content that is confidential or proprietary of a third party without that third party’s permission, or, if You transmit or upload Content that is intended to infect, corrupt or otherwise disrupt the operation of ThinkLikeaSavant.com or any other Users computer system, SAVANT may report You to the relevant authorities to ensure You are held accountable to the fullest extent of applicable laws.
You agree not to use ThinkLikeaSavant.com to:

  • publish, upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that (a) You do not have the right to make available (b) is unlawful, harmful, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (c) infringes any Intellectual Property Rights of any party, (d) includes any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, surveys, junk mail, spamming, chain letters, or any other form of solicitation, commercial or otherwise, or (e) contains a software virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot, corrupted file, or any other computer file or software designed to interrupt, destroy, damage or limit the functionality of any computer hardware, software or other property;
  • defame, harass, abuse, stalk, threaten or violate the legal rights of others such as rights of privacy and publicity;
  • impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an SAVANT official, SAVANT employee, or any other third party, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent Your affiliation with a person or entity;
  • forge email headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Services;
  • download any file or Content posted by another user that You know, or reasonably should know, should not be legally reproduced, displayed, performed and/or distributed in such manner;
  • interfere with or disrupt the Services, servers, or networks which support the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services;
  • violate any applicable local, state, national or international law and any regulations;
  • harvest, collect, or store personal information or data of other Users.

11. SPECIFIC TERMS TO SAVANT SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ThinkLikeaSavant.com

SAVANT Software made available to download from ThinkLikeaSavant.com is the copyrighted work of SAVANT. Use of the SAVANT Software is governed by a software license agreement (License Agreement) which accompanies or is included in such SAVANT Software. You may not use or install any SAVANT Software which is accompanied by or includes a License Agreement until You first agree to the terms of the License Agreement. Any copying, reproduction, or redistribution of the SAVANT Software not in accordance with the License Agreement is expressly prohibited. You must not modify, decompile, or reverse engineer any SAVANT Software, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law. You must not remove, overprint or deface any notice of copyright, trademark, logo, legend, or other notice of ownership from any originals or copies of SAVANT Software or from any Content accessed on ThinkLikeaSavant.com.

12. INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify and hold SAVANT, its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, agents, partners, employees, and licensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Your Content or Your usage of the ThinkLikeaSavant.com or Services, Your breach of this TOU or SAVANT’s Copyright or Privacy Statements, or Your alleged violation of any other rights of a third party.

13. EXCLUSION OF SOFTWARE WARRANTIES

ThinkLikeaSavant.com, Content, and Services are being provided to You AS IS. SAVANT does not guarantee or warrant any features or qualities of the ThinkLikeaSavant.com, Content, or Services or give any undertaking with regard to any other quality. Statements and explanations to ThinkLikeaSavant.com, Content, Software or Services in promotional material or on ThinkLikeaSavant.com and in the documentation are made for explanatory purposes only; they are not meant to constitute any guarantee or warranty of certain features. No warranty or undertaking shall be implied by a User from any published SAVANT description of or advertisement except to the extent SAVANT has expressly confirmed such warranty or undertaking in writing. Warranties are validly given only with the express written confirmation of SAVANTs management.
SAVANT does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any (i) links to web-pages of third parties contained on the ThinkLikeaSavant.com, or the content obtainable on such web-pages or (ii) any information provided by third parties on ThinkLikeaSavant.com. SAVANT only reviews whether the content of such web-page at the time it was linked, and information provided by third parties on the ThinkLikeaSavant.com evidently contains illegal contents or infringements against intellectual property rights. SAVANT will not permanently control and/or review the linked web-pages and the information provided by third parties but upon sufficiently proven indication will remove the respective link and/or information. SAVANT shall not be liable for damages caused by the use of the content and/or information, unless such damages have been caused by SAVANTs willful misconduct, gross negligence or SAVANTs failure to fulfill its duty to review as stipulated herein.

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWABLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, SAVANT AND ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS, AND LICENSORS ARE NOT LIABLE TO ANY — USER FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, — USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF SAVANT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), HOWEVER CA– USED, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM: (i) THE — USE OR THE INABILITY TO — USE THE ThinkLikeaSavant.com, SAVANT SOFTWARE, OR SERVICES; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES ARISING OUT OF YOUR — USE OR INABILITY TO — USE ANY SAVANT SOFTWARE, CONTENT, OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED DURING TRANSACTIONS CONDUCTED ON THE ThinkLikeaSavant.com; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS, MESSAGES, OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE ThinkLikeaSavant.com; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE ThinkLikeaSavant.com OR SERVICES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY HEREIN, THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL NOT APPLY IN CASE OF INTENT OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE BY SAVANT AND IN CASE OF SAVANTS STATUTORY LIABILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY AND DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS.

15. APPLICABLE LAW

15. A. This site is created and controlled by SAVANT. You also agree to comply with all laws from the country in which You reside that are applicable to the transmission of data on the Internet, including, but, not limited to laws governing the use of encryption and laws governing the transmission of data across international boundaries, into prohibited countries, and containing personally identifiable information.
15. B. In the event You access or Use ThinkLikeaSavant.com from the United States, matters related to access and Use of ThinkLikeaSavant.com and these TOU shall be governed by U.S. federal law or the laws of the State of California. Any legal action or proceeding relating to your access to, or use of, ThinkLikeaSavant.com or Content shall be instituted in a state or federal court in San Francisco, California. You and SAVANT agree to submit to the jurisdiction of, and agree that venue is proper in, these courts in any such legal action or proceeding.

16. SURVIVAL

Your confidentiality obligations hereunder shall survive termination of Your access rights. Upon any termination of Your account, or SAVANTs written request, You must cease use of Confidential Information, Discoveries, and/or Services and return or destroy all Confidential Information in Your possession or control.

17. WAIVER AND SEVERABILITY

The failure of SAVANT to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this TOU shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. To the extent that any provision in this TOU shall be found to be unenforceable, such provision shall be modified in such a manner so as to make this TOU as modified, legal and enforceable under applicable laws and the balance of the provisions of this TOU shall not be affected thereby.