Terms of Use.

Changes to the Terms of Use
Foundation For Design Integrity reserves the right, to modify, alter, update or remove portions of these Terms of Use at any time; so, please check them periodically as you use this web site, because we may add, delete or modify some or all of our products, programs or services at any time. You may amend these Terms of Use only with written agreement by us.

Disclaimers of Warranties
Web Site. THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED BY FOUNDATION FOR DESIGN INTEGRITY "AS-IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION, DATA, SERVICES, UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS, OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE. WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, USEFULNESS OR CONTENT OF INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES AND ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR WARRANTIES ARISING FROM USAGE OF TRADE OR COURSE OF DEALING.

THESE DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES APPLY TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF THE FOUNDATION FOR DESIGN INTEGRITY WEB SITE, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTUOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, PRODUCT LIABILITY OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION. BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW SOME OR ALL OF THESE DISCLAIMERS, THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, WARRANTIES SHALL BE DISCLAIMED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY SUCH STATE LAW.

Limitation of Liability
Web Site. NEITHER FOUNDATION FOR DESIGN INTEGRITY OR ANY OF OUR EMPLOYEES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, AGENTS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS OR AFFILIATES SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF THE FOUNDATION OF DESIGN INTEGRITY WEB SITE OR INABILITY TO GAIN ACCESS TO OR USE THE FOUNDATION FOR DESIGN INTEGRITY WEB SITE. FURTHERMORE, IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE FOUNDATION FOR DESIGN INTEGRITY WEB SITE EXCEED US$100.

Links
Our Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third party vendors and other third parties. We are providing these links as a convenience only. These links do not imply our endorsement, nor are we responsible for the content of any linked site. Your access to linked sites is at your own risk. You may only provide a hypertext link to the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site on another web site if you comply with all of the following: (a) the link must "point" to the URL www.ffdi.org and not to other pages within the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site; (b) the link, when activated by a user, must display the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site full-screen and not within a "frame" on the linking web site; and (c) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link must not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with our name and trademarks or create the false appearance we are associated with or sponsor the linking web site. We reserve the right to revoke our consent to any link at any time at our sole discretion.

System Integrity
You may not use any device or software, including but not limited to any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other malicious codes, intended to damage or interfere with the proper working of the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site or to surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information from the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site. You may not take any action, which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, including but not limited to denial of service attacks or "spam" or similar unsolicited mass E-mailing techniques.

Legal Compliance
You agree to comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site.

User Communication, Feedback and Submissions
The Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site may have functionality that permits public communication, including public postings and E-mail links. You agree not to submit, publish, distribute or transmit through this site or its E-mail links any content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal, hateful, racially or ethnically discriminatory or that would constitute or encourage a criminal or civil offense, violate the rights of any party or that would otherwise give rise to liability or violates any law. You agree that you will not submit, publish, distribute or transmit anything through this web site that will violate any right of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights. We do not endorse any information posted or content on the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site, and we are not liable for any information posted on the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site. We reserve the right to take any action with respect to information posted on the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site. However, we cannot, nor do we control the information provided by users or content providers that is made available through our system. By its very nature, other people's information may be offensive, harmful, and inaccurate or in some cases mislabeled or deceptively labeled.

Ownership
The Foundation For Design Integrity Web site and all intellectual property rights included in or related to
this web site (including but not limited to copyrights, trademarks, service marks, domain name rights, patents and data rights), are owned by Foundation For Design Integrity, and all right, title and interest in the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site and the intellectual property rights remain our property. Please note that pictures of Foundation For Design Integrity products and designs on the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site are NOT in the public domain and may not be used without our written permission. These Terms of Use do not give you permission to reproduce, reverse engineer, recompile, disassemble, modify or create derivative works with respect to the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site. Furthermore, you may not remove any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property or proprietary notice or legend contained on the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site or its content. You may not use our trademarks for any purpose whatsoever.

Termination of Usage
You may terminate these Terms of Use solely by discontinuing your use and access to the Foundation For Design Integrity Web Site.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Foundation For Design Integrity harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, costs, liabilities, losses and damages of any kind (including attorneys' fees) resulting from your breach of any provision of these Terms of Use and/or any intentional wrongdoing by you. Any such indemnification shall be conditioned on our: (a) immediately notifying you in writing of any such claim, demand, action, cost, liability, loss or threat of any thereof; (b) cooperating with you in the defense or settlement thereof; and (c) allowing you to control such defense or settlement. We shall be entitled to participate in such defense at our own cost and expense.

Other General Provisions
No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by these Terms of Use between Foundation For Design Integrity and you. These Terms of Use are an agreement between Foundation For Design Integrity and you and are not intended to be for the benefit of any third party. If any provision of these Terms of Use is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be struck and the remaining provisions enforced. Headings are for reference only. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. We reserve the right to report any wrongdoing, if we become aware of it, to the applicable government agencies or otherwise. These Terms of Use, and all writings and web pages incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use, set forth the entire understanding and agreement between Foundation For Design Integrity and you with respect to the subject matter hereof.