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Welcome to PeaceBuilders and to our Web site, PeaceBuilders.com. The following are the terms and conditions for using the Web site and for being part of the PeaceBuilders On-line community.
Agreement
Modifications of these Terms
Use of Site
Copyrights & Trademarks
Notices for Claims of Copyright Information
Typographical Errors
User Participation
User Submissions
User Chat Rooms
Third-Party Links
Claims
Disclaimer
Limitation of Liability
Indemnification
Applicable Laws
Mediation/Arbitration
General
Our Address
Agreement Between User and PeacePartners, Inc.
The network of Web Sites (collectively, the “PeaceBuilders Site”) operated by PeacePartners, Inc. or its affiliates or subsidiaries (PeacePartners, Inc.), is comprised of various Web sites and Web pages. The PeaceBuilders Site is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the PeaceBuilders Web Site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.

Please Read the Following Terms of Use and Disclaimers Carefully Before Using This Web Site
By accessing or using this Site, you agree to these terms of use, conditions and all applicable laws. If you do not agree to these terms you may not use this Site.

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Modification of These Terms of Use
PeacePartners, Inc. reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the PeaceBuilders Web Site is offered, including but not limited to any charges associated with the use of the PeaceBuilders Web Site. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms and conditions.

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Use of Site, Personal and Non-Commercial Use Limitation
Unless otherwise specified, the PeaceBuilders Web Site is for your personal and noncommercial 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 PeaceBuilders Web Site, other than specific materials covered by a current Site License from PeacePartners, Inc.

You may display and, subject to any expressly stated restrictions or limitations relating to specific material, electronically copy, download and print hard copy portions of the material from the different areas of the Site solely for your own noncommercial use, or to place an order with PeacePartners, Inc., or to purchase PeaceBuilders products. Any other use of materials on the Site, including but not limited to the modification, reproduction, distribution, republication, display or transmission of the content of this Site, without prior written permission of PeacePartners, Inc. is strictly prohibited, except as covered by an existing PeaceBuilders Site License agreement and covered in that agreement.

Harassment in any manner or form on the Site, including via e-mail and chat or by obscene or abusive language is strictly forbidden. Impersonation of others, including a PeacePartners, Inc. employee, host, or representative or other members or visitors on the Site is prohibited. You may not upload to, distribute, or otherwise publish through the Site any content which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal, or otherwise objectionable, or which may constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or otherwise give rise to liability or violate any law. You may not upload commercial content on the Site or use the Site to solicit others to join or become members of any other commercial online service or other organization.

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Copyrights and Trademarks
The entire content included in this Site, including but not limited to text, design, graphics, interfaces, or code and the selection and arrangements thereof is copyrighted as a collective work under the United States and other copyright laws, and is the property of PeacePartners, Inc.. The collective work includes works that are licensed to PeacePartners, Inc. Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. All Rights Reserved. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names (collectively the “Marks”) are trademarks or registered trademarks of and are proprietary to PeacePartners, Inc., or other respective owners that have granted PeacePartners, Inc. the right and license to use such Marks.

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Notices and Procedures 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 the website’s designated agent. All inquires not relevant to or not complying with the following procedure will receive no response.

PeacePartners, Inc. respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users and visitors to do the same. PeacePartners, Inc. will process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and other applicable intellectual property laws. Upon receipt of notices complying with the DMCA, PeacePartners, Inc. will act to remove or disable access to infringing activity and will act to remove or disable access to any reference or link to material or activity that is found to be infringing.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide PeacePartners, Inc. the following information. Please be advised that to be effective, the Notification must include ALL of the following:
  1. a physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright that is allegedly infringed;
  2. a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
  3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
  4. your address, telephone number, and email address and all other information reasonably sufficient to permit PeacePartners, Inc. to contact you;
  5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Notices of claimed copyright infringement should be directed to:
By Mail: PeacePartners, Inc.
1439 W. Chapman Ave. #363
Orange, California 92868
By Fax: (562) 590-3902
By E-mail: info@peacebuilders.com


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Typographical Errors
These terms and conditions are applicable to you upon your accessing the Site and/or completing the registration or shopping process. These terms and conditions, or any of them, may be modified or terminated by PeacePartners, Inc. without notice at any time for any reason. The provisions relating to Copyrights and Trademarks, Disclaimer, Claims, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Applicable Laws, Arbitration and General, shall survive any termination.

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User Participation
PeacePartners, Inc. does not and cannot review all communications and materials posted to or created by users accessing the Site and is not in any manner responsible for the content of these communications and materials. You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to view and distribute user generated content on the Site, PeacePartners, Inc. is merely acting as a passive conduit for such distribution and is not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to any contents or activities on the Site. However, PeacePartners, Inc. reserves the right to block or remove communications or materials that it determines to be (a) abusive, defamatory, or obscene, (b) fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading, (c) in violation of a copyright, trademark or; other intellectual property right of another or (d) violates any law or regulation or (e) offensive or otherwise unacceptable to PeacePartners, Inc. at its sole discretion. Note that nay personally identifiable information you may post or transmit will be treated by PeacePartners, Inc. in accordance with PeacePartners’ Privacy Statement.

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User Submissions
Except for any personally identifiable information we may collect from you under the guidelines established in our Privacy Statement, any material, information or other communication you transmit, upload or post to this Site (“Communications”) will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, unless submitted as part of a contest to be considered as part of new products. PeacePartners, Inc. will have no obligations with respect to the Communications. PeacePartners, Inc. and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Communications and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or noncommercial purposes.

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User Chat Rooms
PeacePartners, Inc. may, but is not obligated to, monitor or review any areas on the Site where users transmit or post Communications or communicate solely with each other, including but not limited to chat rooms, bulletin boards or other user forums, and the content of any such Communications. PeacePartners, Inc., however, will have no liability related to the content of any such Communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, trademarks, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise.

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Third-Party Links
In an attempt to provide increased value to our visitors, this Site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third party vendors and other third parties (the “External Sites”). However, even if the third party is affiliated with PeacePartners, Inc., PeacePartners, Inc. has no control over these linked sites, all of which have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of PeacePartners, Inc.. PeacePartners, Inc. has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. These linked sites are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk. Links do not imply that PeacePartners, Inc. sponsors, endorses, is affiliated with or associated with, or has been legally authorized to use any trademark, trade name, service mark, design, logo, symbol or other copyrighted materials displayed on or accessible through such External Sites. Nonetheless, PeacePartners, Inc. seeks to protect the integrity of its Site and the links placed upon it and therefore requests any feedback on not only its own Site, but for sites it links to as well (including if a specific link does not work). You should contact the Site administrator or Webmaster for those External Sites if you have any concerns regarding such links or the content located on such External Sites.

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Claims
Each claim or statement about the effectiveness of PeacePartners, Inc. products and/or each claim or statement comparing the effectiveness of PeacePartners, Inc. products to the effectiveness of other products is expressly limited to the United States, unless otherwise disclosed on the Site.

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Disclaimer
PeacePartners, Inc. makes no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of this Site’s content or the content of any site or External Sites.

PeacePartners, Inc. does not filter advertisement or other content that children may view through ’hot-linked’ sites, and they could receive content and materials from the Internet and/or advertising that are inappropriate for children. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to consider using electronic filtering software.

This site and the materials, information, services, and products in this site, including, without limitation, text, graphics, and links, are provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, PeacePartners, Inc. disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, freedom from computer virus, and warranties arising from course of dealing or course of performance. PeacePartners, Inc. does not represent or warrant that the functions contained in the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes the site available are free of viruses or other harmful components. PeacePartners, Inc. does not make any warranties or representations regarding the use of the materials in this site in terms of their completeness, correctness, accuracy, adequacy, usefulness, timeliness, reliability or otherwise. The above limitations may not apply to you.

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Limitation of Liability
In no event shall PeacePartners, Inc. be liable for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, incidental, exemplary or consequential, damages, or any damages whatsoever, even if PeacePartners, Inc. Has been previously advised of the possibility of such damages, whether in an action under contract, negligence, or any other theory, arising out of or in connection with the use, inability to use, or performance of the information, services, products, and materials available from this site. These limitations shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, or the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitations may not apply to you.

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Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless PeacePartners, Inc., its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers (collectively the “Provider”) from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees, resulting from any violation of these terms and conditions or any activity related to your Internet account (including negligent or wrongful conduct), by you or any other person accessing the Site using your Internet account.

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Applicable Laws
Your use of this Site shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the state of California , U.S.A. , without regard to choice of law provisions, and not by the 1980 U.N. Convention on contracts for the international sale of goods. You agree that jurisdiction over and venue in any legal proceeding directly or indirectly arising out of or relating to this Site (including but not limited to the purchase of PeacePartners, Inc. products) shall be in the state or federal action or claim you may have with respect to the Site(including but not limited to the purchase of PeacePartners, Inc. products) must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. PeacePartners, Inc.’s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of these terms and conditions shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any of these terms and conditions. PeacePartners, Inc. may assign its rights and duties under this Agreement to any party at any time without notice to you.

PeacePartners, Inc. makes no representation that the materials in the Site are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to them from territories where their content is illegal and prohibited. Those who choose to access this Site from locations outside California do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. You may not use or export the materials in violation of U.S. export laws and regulations. Any claim relating to the materials shall be governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of California.

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Mediation / Arbitration
By using this Site, you agree to submit all claims, or disputes arising from use of this Site, or these Terms and Conditions concerning or, including disputes arising from or concerning their interpretation, violation, nullity, invalidity, non-performance or termination, as well as disputes about filling gaps in this contract or its adaptation to newly arisen circumstances, to mediation, by a mediator agreed to by PeacePartners, Inc. and you. If for any reason the mediation fails to bring resolution of the dispute or claim and/or the parties cannot agree on a choice of a mediator, then PeacePartners, Inc. at its sole discretion may require you to submit any disputes arising from the use of this Site, or these Terms and Conditions concerning or, including disputes arising from or concerning their interpretation, violation, nullity, invalidity, non-performance or termination, as well as disputes about filling gaps in this contract or its adaptation to newly arisen circumstances, to final and binding arbitration under the International Rules of Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association, by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with the said Rules. Notwithstanding these rules, however, such proceeding shall be governed by the laws of the state as set forth in the previous section.

Any award in an arbitration initiated under this clause shall be limited to monetary damages and shall include no injunction or direction to any party other than the direction to pay a monetary amount. Further, the arbitrator(s) shall have no authority to award punitive, consequential or other damages not measured by the prevailing party’s actual damages in any arbitration initiated under this section, except as may be required by statute.

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General
PeacePartners, Inc. may revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these Terms may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Site.

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Our Address:
PeacePartners, Inc.
741 Atlantic Avenue • Long Beach • California • 90813-4510
Toll Free: (877) 4 PEACE NOW • (877) 473-2236
Phone: (562) 590-3600 • Fax: (562) 590-3902
E-mail: info@peacebuilders.com


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