TERMS OF USE - THE GATES NOTES WEBSITE

Last Revised: July 30, 2010

Welcome to The Gates Notes website, (http://www.thegatesnotes.com) (the "Site"). Please read our Terms of Use carefully, including our Privacy Policy, which govern your use of the Site.

Privacy Policy

Please review our Privacy Policy, which is part of these Terms of Use and describes how we handle any personally identifying information about Site users.

User Discussion Policy

The Site maintains a User Discussion section to provide a forum for sharing opinions and information regarding the material posted on the Site. All statements and materials posted by contributors reflect the views of the individual contributors and do not reflect the views of The Gates Notes.  The Gates Notes takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party

If you do post any content, you grant The Gates Notes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display that content throughout the world in any media, and the right to use and display the name that you submit in connection with such content.  By posting content, you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity.

We encourage respectful, constructive dialogue and reserve the right to remove posts that are offensive, act as advertisements, or attempt to solicit funds. We also may remove identical or substantially similar comments that are posted more than once, including those posted for the purpose of monopolizing the discussion.

We value conversations on our Site, and thank you for following The Gates Notes.

Copyright

The Site owns or licenses the copyright in all the materials on the Site, including text, photographs, graphics, logos, button icons, audio, video and software, and those rights are protected by United States and international copyright laws and other intellectual property laws.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow our Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement, below.

Permitted Distribution

You may copy or distribute the materials that appear on the Site only for non-commercial purposes, specifically, research, teaching and learning and other similar purposes regarding educational, health care, environmental, economic, technology, social and political issues. You may not use the Site materials for any commercial purpose or in any manner that disparages or discredits any person. All distributed copies must display the following copyright notice: Copyright 2010 The Gates Notes, LLC. Permission to copy or distribute any materials that appear on the Site that are owned or copyrighted by others must be obtained from the third party that owns such content.

Links, Frames, and Metatags

You may link to the home page of the Site as long as you do not do so in a false or misleading manner. You may not frame the content of the Site. You may not use metatags or any other "hidden text" that incorporates our Site's contents without our express written consent.

Links to Other Web Sites

The Site contains links to other websites that we think may be of interest to you. We have no control over these other sites or their content. Remember that when you link to another site, that other site is governed by its own user agreement and privacy statement, which you should be sure to read.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

THIS SITE, INCLUDING TEXT, GRAPHICS, LOGOS, AUDIO AND VIDEO CLIPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND OTHER CONTENT, IS PROVIDED AS IS, AS AVAILABLE, AND WITH ALL FAULTS. ALTHOUGH WE WILL TAKE REASONABLE STEPS TO PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF VIRUSES, WORMS, "TROJAN HORSES" OR OTHER DESTRUCTIVE MATERIALS TO THE SITE, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT THE SITE OR MATERIALS THAT MAY BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE SITE ARE FREE FROM SUCH DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR HARM ATTRIBUTABLE TO SUCH FEATURES. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, LOSS OR INJURY BASED ON ERRORS, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN THE SITE, NOR FOR ANY CLAIM, LOSS OR INJURY THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR YOUR BREACH OF ANY PROVISION OF THESE TERMS OF USE.

Termination

We reserve the right to terminate the Site and this User Agreement at any time without notice for any reason, including, in the case of the User Agreement, for your violation of any of its provisions. The Limitation of Liability and Governing Law Sections of this User Agreement survive any such termination.

Governing Law

These Terms of Use, and use of the Site, is governed by the laws of the State of Washington applicable to contracts made and performed there without regard to its conflicts of law principles.

Comments and Questions

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the Site, including materials appearing on the Site, please contact us by going to the "Contact" link at the bottom of our home page and using the form located there.