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This online
service is provided by CampusDiscovery.com, a division of Goal Financial,
LLC (“CampusDiscovery.com”) to the person using the Service (“You” or
“Your”) pursuant to these Terms of Use (the “Terms”) and any operating
rules or policies that may be published from time to time by CampusDiscovery.com.
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Binding Nature
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These Terms are a
binding agreement. By accessing or using the Internet site located at
www.CampusDiscovery.com operated by CampusDiscovery.com for third parties
(the “Site”) or any services provided to You in connection with the
Site (the “Services”), You agree to
abide by these Terms of Use ("Terms"), as they may be amended by
CampusDiscovery.com from time to time in its sole discretion. Please read
them carefully. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, DO NOT
ACCESS OR USE THE SITES OR THE SERVICE. YOU AGREE THAT BY USING THE SITES
OR THE SERVICE YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD AND THAT
YOU ARE LEGALLY ABLE TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT.
Electronic
Notices.
By using this
Website, you agree to receive electronic communications from us. You agree
that any notice, agreement, disclosure, or other communication that we send
you electronically will satisfy any legal communication requirements,
including that such requirements be in writing.
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Modifications and Amendments
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CampusDiscovery.com
reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently,
the Site or the Services for any reason, at its sole discretion, with or
without notice to You. CampusDiscovery.com likewise may change the terms
and conditions of the Terms from time to time with or without notice to
You. You agree to review the Terms periodically to ensure that You are
aware of any modifications. Your continued access or use of the Site after
the modifications have become effective shall be deemed Your conclusive
acceptance of the modified Terms.
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Eligibility for Scholarships and
Awards
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Your use of the
Site and the submission of any applications, profiles, forms or surveys
completed by You through the Site or the Services DOES NOT qualify You for
any financial aid, scholarships, or awards. Your eligibility for financial
aid, scholarships, and awards will be determined by Your individual
financial situation and the opinion of external agencies (e.g., scholarship
providers, schools, lenders, and the United States Department of
Education), among other things. Submitting a profile or a survey does not
guarantee that You will receive any scholarship, award, financial aid, or
other funds.
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Privacy
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When registering
or completing and submitting a profile or survey on any Site, You agree to
provide current, complete, and accurate information about You. If any
information You provide is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete,
CampusDiscovery.com has the right to terminate Your account. Please see the Privacy Policy, which is
incorporated by reference into these Terms, for the details of
CampusDiscovery.com’s commitment to Your privacy and how your information
will be used.
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User Name and Password
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When registering
or completing and submitting a profile, or survey, on the Site, You will be
asked to provide a user name and password. You are entirely responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of Your user name and password and for any
and all activities that occur under Your password or account. You agree to
immediately notify CampusDiscovery.com of any unauthorized use of Your
account, user name, or password or any other breach of security known to
You. You may not use the account, username, or password of someone else at
any time. CampusDiscovery.com shall not be liable for any loss that You
incur as a result of someone else using Your user name or password, either
with or without Your knowledge. You may be held liable for any losses
incurred by CampusDiscovery.com, its affiliates, officers, directors,
employees, consultants, agents, and representatives due to someone else’s
use of Your account, user name or password.
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WARRANTY DISCLAIMER
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CAMPUSDISCOVERY.COM
HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES. CAMPUSDISCOVERY.COM IS PROVIDING THE SITE
AND THE SERVICES ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND. YOU ASSUME THE RISK OF ANY AND ALL DAMAGE OR LOSS FROM USE OF, OR
INABILITY TO USE, THE SITES OR THE SERVICE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW, CAMPUSDISCOVERY.COM EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE SITE AND THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. CAMPUSDISCOVERY.COM DOES NOT
WARRANT (I) THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (II)
THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR
ERROR-FREE, (III) THE RESULTS WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE
SERVICES OR (IV) THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED
THROUGH THE SERVICE. CampusDiscovery.com disclaims any warranty that the
Site and the Services (or any information or software contained therein)
are free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that manifest
contaminating or destructive properties. CampusDiscovery.com assumes no
responsibility for the deletion or failure to store or transmit any data or
other information provided by You in connection with the Services.
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Ownership
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The contents of
the Site and the Services, including their "look and feel" (e.g.,
text, graphics, images, logos, and button icons), editorial content,
notices, software (including html-based computer programs), and other
material and the compilation of all such content on the Site are protected
under both United States and foreign copyright, patent, trademark, and
other laws. Such contents, the Site and the Services and all rights therein
are, and shall at all times remain, the sole and exclusive property of
CampusDiscovery.com or its affiliates and/or their respective licensors.
The information and materials contained in the Site or the Services may not
be copied, displayed, distributed, downloaded, licensed, modified,
published, reposted, reproduced, reused, sold, supplemented, transmitted,
used to create a derivative work or otherwise used for public or commercial
purposes without the express written permission of CampusDiscovery.com. The
Site and the Service are proprietary and confidential to
CampusDiscovery.com, and You agree to use the Site and Services solely for
Your internal business purposes. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate,
copy, sell, resell, use or exploit for any commercial purposes, the Site or
Services or use of or access to the Site or Services or any information or
technology obtained from the Site, or assist or permit any third party to
do so. You agree that You will not use any robot, spider, other automatic
device, or manual process to monitor or copy pages of the Site or the
content contained therein. You agree that You will not use any device,
software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper
working of the Site or Services or any transaction being conducted on the
Site.
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Compliance with Laws
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You agree to
comply with by all applicable local, state, national, and international
laws and regulations, and any rules or policies that may be published from
time to time by CampusDiscovery.com, in Your use of the Site and the
Services. The Site and the Services are available only to individuals who
are permitted to use them under applicable law. If You do not qualify, You
may not use the Site or the Services. You agree to be solely responsible
for Your actions and the contents of Your transmissions through the Site
and Services. You agree not to impersonate any person or entity or falsely
state or otherwise misrepresent Your identity or affiliation with a person
or entity.
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Violations
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You agree that
CampusDiscovery.com may terminate Your password, account, or use of the
Site or the Services in its sole discretion for any reason. To ensure that
CampusDiscovery.com provides a high quality experience for You and for
other users of the Site and the Services, You agree that
CampusDiscovery.com or its representatives may access Your account and
records on a case-by-case basis to investigate complaints or allegations of
abuse, infringement of third party rights, or other unauthorized uses of
the Site or the Services. CampusDiscovery.com does not intend to disclose
the existence or occurrence of such an investigation unless required by
law, but CampusDiscovery.com reserves the right to terminate Your account
or Your access to the Site or Services immediately, with or without notice
to You, and without liability to You, if CampusDiscovery.com believes that
You have violated any of these Terms, submitted or otherwise furnished
CampusDiscovery.com with false or misleading information, or interfered
with use of the Site or the Services by others.
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LIMITED LIABILITY
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CAMPUSDISCOVERY.COM’S
LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. IN NO
EVENT SHALL CAMPUSDISCOVERY.COM BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA, REGARDLESS OF THE FORESEEABILITY OF
THOSE DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SITE, WHETHER RESULTING IN
WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLEGENCE,
STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF CAMPUSDISCOVERY.COM AND/OR ITS
SUPPLIERS HAD BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBLITY OF DAMAGES+. This
limitation shall apply regardless of whether the damages arise out of
breach of contract, tort, or any other legal theory or form of action, and
includes but is not limited to any liability associated with any viruses
which may infect Your computer equipment. Calculators and tools contained
on the Site or in the Services provide You with estimates that may be
different than actual amounts.
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Affiliate Sites and Links
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On the Sites, You
will find content, functions, information, and tools, including those
provided by third parties that are not the property of CampusDiscovery.com.
On the Sites You may also find links that will transfer You to the websites
of organizations that can provide You with value-added information and/or
functionality. By linking to these websites, CampusDiscovery.com does not
represent or imply that there is any business relationship between the two
entities. Furthermore, CampusDiscovery.com strives to keep these links as
current and accurate as possible, but it cannot guarantee and expressly
does not warrant that such links point to the intended third party site.
Links to and from these sites do not constitute an endorsement by
CampusDiscovery.com. CampusDiscovery.com has no control over and no
liability for any third party websites or materials, including those of
partners and affiliates whose Internet sites may be linked with the Site.
Because neither CampusDiscovery.com nor the Site have control over the
content and performance of these partner and affiliate sites,
CampusDiscovery.com makes no guaranty and does not warrant the accuracy,
currency, content, or quality of the information provided by such sites or
that such sites are error-free or that Your access will be uninterrupted or
that material accessible from the Sites is free of viruses. In addition,
CampusDiscovery.com assumes no responsibility for unintended,
objectionable, inaccurate, misleading, or unlawful content that may reside
on those sites. Similarly, from time to time in connection with Your use of
the Sites, You may have access to content items (including, but not limited
to, websites) that are owned by third parties. You acknowledge and agree
that CampusDiscovery.com makes no guarantees about, and assumes no
responsibility for, the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of this
third party content, and that, unless expressly provided otherwise, these
Terms shall govern Your use of any and all third party content.
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Prohibited Users
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CampusDiscovery.com
imposes certain restrictions on Your permissible use of the Site and the
Services. You shall use the Site and the Services only for the purposes
authorized by CampusDiscovery.com. You may not use the Site or the Services
in violation of any applicable laws or regulations or in a manner that will
infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual
property rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity or other
personal rights of others. You are prohibited from violating or attempting
to violate any security features of the Site or Services, including,
without limitation, (a) accessing content or data not intended for You, or
logging onto a server or account that You are not authorized to access; (b)
attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services, the
Site, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or
authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) interfering or
attempting to interfere with service to any user, host, or network,
including, without limitation, by means of submitting a virus to the Site
or Services, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” or
“crashing”; (d) using the Site or Services to send unsolicited e-mail,
including, without limitation, promotions, or advertisements for products
or services; (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header
information in any e-mail or in any posting using the Service; or (f)
attempting to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or
otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of
the source code used by CampusDiscovery.com in providing the Site or
Services. Any violation of system or network security may subject You to
civil and/or criminal liability.
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Indemnity
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You agree to
indemnify, defend, and hold harmless CampusDiscovery.com and its related
companies, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents,
from and against all losses, expenses, damages, and costs, including
reasonable attorney fees, arising out of or relating to (i) access to or
use of the Site or the Services by You or any other person accessing the
Site or the Services using Your user name and password, (ii) Your violation
of these Terms. CampusDiscovery.com will notify You promptly of any such
claim, loss, liability, or demand, and will provide You with reasonable
assistance, at Your expense, in defending any such claim, loss, liability,
damage, or cost.
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Copyright
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All contents of
Site or Services are: Copyright © 2008 Goal Financial, LLC. All rights
reserved.
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No License
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Nothing contained
on the Site should be understood as granting You a license to use any of
the trademarks, service marks, or logos owned by Goal Financial, LLC or by
any third party.
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Miscellaneous
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You represent and
warrant that You possess the legal right and ability to enter into these
Terms and to use the Site and the Services in accordance with these Terms.
CampusDiscovery.com makes no claim that the Site or the Services may be
lawfully viewed or accessed outside of the United States. Together with any
other written contract, these Terms comprise the entire agreement between
You and Company and supersede all prior agreements between the parties
regarding the subject matter contained herein. These Terms shall be
governed in all respects by the substantive laws of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, without regard to its provisions relating to conflict of laws.
You and CampusDiscovery.com agree to submit to the personal and exclusive
jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located within the
County of Fairfax, Virginia. The failure of CampusDiscovery.com to exercise
or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not constitute a
waiver of such right or provision, and no waiver shall be effective unless
made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving
party. If any provision of these Terms is found by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court
should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in
the provision, and the other provisions of these Terms shall remain in full
force and effect. In no event shall CampusDiscovery.com be liable for
damages caused by third parties not under its control or by other causes
beyond its reasonable control, including, but not limited to, damages
caused by third party telecommunications service providers. You agree not
to assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms.
You agree that regardless of any statute, regulation, or law to the
contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of
the Sites or services or these Terms must be filed within one (1) year
after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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BY USING THE
SERVICE OR ACCESSING THE SITES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE
TERMS OF USE AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM.
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