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1. NAR reserves the right at its sole discretion to change, modify, add or remove portion of these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice or liability, and such modification shall become effective upon posting on the Web Site and/or electronic transmission to you. Your use of the services at this Web Site following any such modification shall be conclusively deemed to be your acceptance of such modification.
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5. NAR may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the service provided at this Web site at any time without notice or liability, including the availability of any feature, database or content.
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.. a. You may download one copy of the Content provided by NAR to a single computer for your own use. Except as provided below you may also use copies of Content provided by NAR in connection with your real estate business, provided all such copies indicate the Content is copyrighted by NAR and is reproduced with NAR permission. The following legend should be used in connection with all copies of the Content authorized by this subparagraph: "Copyright National Association of REALTORS®, Reprinted from REALTOR.org with permission."
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ii) Content from NAR’s Letter of the Law newsletter shall be subject to the terms of the Letter Of The Law reprint policy
..b. You may not sublicense, transfer or otherwise make any content available to any third party for commercial purposes or financial gain or use the content in any other media or in any other location other than as permitted in this section.
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12. NAR reserves the right to send electronic mail to any and all users of REALTOR.org for the purpose of informing them of changes or additions to REALTOR.org or any related services or products, but shall have no obligation to do so.
13. NAR may at any time, in its sole discretion, terminate, limit or suspend your access to REALTOR.org, without notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation your breach of this Agreement or the termination of your membership in NAR.
14. REALTOR.org may from time to time make available "discussion areas" on various subject matters which may of interest to persons authorized to use REALTOR.org. NAR may, with or without notice, and at the sole discretion of NAR, establish, discontinue and/or delete any or all "discussion areas." You agree that if you participate in a "discussion area" (post or read a message or comment at the discussion area) you will abide by the rules and regulations governing discussion area as hereinafter set forth.
.. a. NAR does not review the content of messages or comments posted to discussion areas within REALTOR.org by persons authorized to use REALTOR.org other than NAR, and you agree that NAR shall have no liability for any damages arising out of the content of those messages or comments. If you post a message or comment at a discussion area, you agree to indemnify and hold NAR harmless from any and all liability, damages or expenses whatsoever due, directly or indirectly, to any cause of action arising out of the message or comment posted by you.
.. b. NAR is authorized, but not obligated, to reproduce and distribute through NAR's REALTOR.org service copies of all comments and messages posted to a discussion area. NAR reserves the right, but does not assume a duty to any party, to delete from any discussion area any comment or message which NAR determines, in its sole discretion, does not comply with these rules and regulations.
.. c. You agree to use discussion areas in REALTOR.org only for lawful purposes and not to post any unlawful message or comment or in any other way use REALTOR.org so as to violate any local, state, or national law.
.. d. You agree not to post any defamatory, libelous, threatening, vulgar, sexual explicit, or obscene messages or comments. All comments and messages posted to a discussion area in REALTOR.org will reflect the professionalism of REALTORS® and the spirit of the Code of Ethics as expressed in its preamble, "Whatsoever would that others should do to you, do ye even so to them."
.. e. You agree not to take any action which would disrupt the dialogue in a discussion area or take any other action which would interfere in the normal use of REALTOR.org by other authorized users.
.. f. You agree not to post any advertising, promotional or other type of solicitation to other authorized users of REALTOR.org except in those areas of REALTOR.org where such postings may be specifically authorized.
.. g. You agree not to impersonate any other person in your postings to a discussion area in REALTOR.org.
.. h. Individual discussion areas may have additional rules and regulations specific to the subject matter being covered in the discussion area. These rules and regulations will be posted at the discussion area. You agree to abide by the rules and regulations of individual discussion areas in which you participate.
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You hereby agree that any and all disputes which may arise and any litigation that may arise from such disputes will be litigated before a court located in the state of Illinois, County of Cook, U.S.A., to the exclusion of the courts of any other state or country.
