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Acceptance of Terms

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The Site

World Football (Soccer) Book, its affiliates and agents ("Metabasix") make this Web site and all other websites of World Football (Soccer) Book with links to the Terms of Use (collectively, the "Site"), and the Materials and Services, available for your access and use subject to the Terms of Use. "Materials" means all information, data, documents (e.g. press releases, datasheets, FAQs, etc.), communications, text, images, photographs, graphics, videos, webcasts, publications, content, tools, resources and products made available or enabled via the Site by World Football (Soccer) Book or users of this Site. "Services" means all services and resources offered or enabled via the Site by World Football (Soccer) Book and users of this Site, including download areas, product and other information services and communications services such as bulletin boards, calendars, chat areas, communities, e-mail, forums (including classifieds and user to user forums), newsgroups, personal webpages, photo albums and other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (collectively, "Communications Channels").

All Materials provided by World Football (Soccer) Book are referred to collectively as "World Football (Soccer) Book Materials". All user-supplied Materials are referred to collectively as "User Materials". Certain Services may involve collaboration and file-sharing services among a specified group. Materials posted by users in such group in conjunction with such collaboration and file-sharing Services are referred to collectively as "Shared Instances". The group of persons among which such collaboration and file sharing involving Shared Content takes place is referred to herein as the "Online Group". All User Materials that are not Shared Instances shall be referred to herein as "User Instances". World Football (Soccer) Book Materials and User Instances may have different restrictions and conditions associated with them under the Terms of Use and other guidelines and rules posted via the Site.

Use of World Football Book Materials

Except as indicated to the contrary elsewhere on this Site, you may view, download, and print the World Football (Soccer) Book Materials and User Instancces available on this Site subject to the following conditions:

The World Football (Soccer) Book Materials and User Instances may be accessed and used solely for personal, informational, non-commercial and internal purposes.
The World Football (Soccer) Book Materials and User Instances may not be modified or altered in any way.
The World Football (Soccer) Book Materials and User Instances on the Site may not be distributed or sold, rented, leased, licensed or otherwise made available to others.
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You will not quote or display World Football (Soccer) Book Materials or User Instances, or any portions thereof, out of context.
World Football (Soccer) Book reserves the right to revoke the authorization to view, download and print the World Football (Soccer) Book Materials and User Instances available via this Site at any time, and any such use shall be discontinued immediately upon notice from World Football (Soccer) Book.
The rights granted to you constitute a license and not a transfer of title.
World Football (Soccer) Book Materials and User Instances comprised of Software are subject to the additional provisions governing Software set forth herein.
Any World Football (Soccer) Book Materials or User Instances made available only upon payment of a fee or execution of a separate agreement may only be viewed, downloaded and printed subject to your payment of such fee or execution of such separate agreement.
Any World Football (Soccer) Book Materials or User Instances acquired upon your execution of a required separate agreement shall be provided with the additional rights and obligations set forth in that agreement, and your rights to such World Football (Soccer) Book Materials or User Instances shall immediately terminate if you fail to meet your obligations under or otherwise comply with such agreement or the terms and conditions of the Terms of Use.

Use of the World Football (Soccer) Book Materials or User Instances for any other purpose is expressly prohibited and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible.

Use of Shared Instances

Members of a Work Group may use the Shared Instances available to such Online Group in any manner that has been agreed upon by the user providing such Shared Instances. It is your sole responsibility to discuss with others in your Online Group and determine what limitations, if any, are placed on your use of the Shared Instances distributed within your Online Group. If you obtain access to materials created or used by others outside of your Online Group, you have no right to use such materials in any way. You also acknowledge and agree that World Football (Soccer) Book has no liability of any kind should members of your Online Group modify, destroy, corrupt, copy or distribute your Shared Instances, or violate the Terms of Use or other limitations that you may impose on the use of your Shared Instances.

Submitted Materials

All of your User Materials that you post on or otherwise submit via the Site and Services shall not be confidential information or trade secrets owned by you or any other party. You will receive no compensation for any use of your User Materials. World Football (Soccer) Book may, but is not required to, post or use any of your User Materials that you may post or otherwise submit. World Football (Soccer) Book does not pre-screen User Materials that users provide or otherwise submit via the Site or Services; however, World Football (Soccer) Book may remove any posted or submitted User Materials from the Site or any Service for any reason without notice in its sole discretion. By posting or submitting your User Materials, you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the Intellectual Property Rights and other rights to your User Materials as described in these Terms of Use, including all the rights necessary for you to post or submit your User Materials.

In addition, by posting or otherwise submitting your User Materials that contain images, photographs, pictures, videos, webcasts or that are otherwise graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you represent and warrant that: (a) you own the copyright in such Images, or that you have obtained all necessary license(s) from the copyright owner(s) of such Images to use such Images, or portions thereof, in keeping with your use in connection with the Site, the Services and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use; (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms of Use; and (c) you have received consent from any and all persons depicted in such Images to use the Images as set forth in these Terms of Use, including the distribution, public display, public performance and reproduction of such Images. By posting or otherwise submitting Images, you grant to World Football (Soccer) Book and all other users of this Site permission to use your Images in connection with their use permitted by these Terms of Use (including making prints and gift items incorporating such Images), including an unrestricted, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully paid up license under all Intellectual Property Rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate, transmit and reformat your Images, with or without having your name attached to such Images, in any manner or form and for any purpose, with full rights to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of distribution. You will receive no compensation with respect to the use of your Images.

You are solely and entirely responsible for all of your User Materials that you post or otherwise submit via the Site or Services. You shall assume all risks associated with the use of your User Materials including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of your User Materials. World Football (Soccer) Book does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of your User Materials. You acknowledge and agree that by accessing or using the Site or Services, you may be exposed to User Materials from others that are offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable.

World Football (Soccer) Book's Rights to Submitted User Materials

For all of your User Materials that you post or otherwise submit to the Site, including (a) comments to Communications Channels, (b) feedback, (c) social networking or (d) product suggestions, you grant World Football (Soccer) Book and the users of this Site an unrestricted, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully paid up license under all Intellectual Property Rights to use, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, copy, edit, modify, translate, reformat, transmit and distribute such User Materials, with or without having your name attached to such User Materials, in any manner or form and for any purpose, with full rights to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of distribution, and you also acknowledge and agree that World Football (Soccer) Book is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you provide for any purpose without any compensation to you. You acknowledge and agree that World Football (Soccer) Book shall not be liable for any failure to store User Materials on the Site at any time.

Restriction and Termination of Use

World Football (Soccer) Book may block, restrict, disable, suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Site, Services and Materials at any time in its sole discretion, without prior notice or liability to you.

Links to Third Party Sites

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