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Terms of Use

Your access to and use of the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its services is exclusively governed by these terms of use. Please carefully read the terms of use as outlined below before using the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or services. By accessing or using our Web site and/or services, you accept and agree to be bound by these terms of use. ColumbusSports.com reserves the right to modify, remove or add to these terms of use at any time and at its discretion.

The information and content contained on the ColumbusSports.com Web site is for entertainment, educational, and informational purposes only. The information and content is not represented to be free from any error(s). Our Web site and/or services are provided on an as is, as available basis. ColumbusSports.com does not warrant that any of the features or functions of the Web site and/or its services will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the Web site or services will be free of any or all harmful components. Any links to information that is not associated with ColumbusSports.com are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute any endorsement by ColumbusSports.com.

MODIFICATION

ColumbusSports.com reserves the right to make modifications, alterations or changes to its Web site and/or services, including the terms of use, without prior notice. Please check our terms of use page periodically as your continued use of the ColumbusSports.com Web site or its services following the modifications, additions or removal of the terms means that you accept the changes.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STATEMENT

All content on the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or services is the copyrighted material of ColumbusSports.com or the appropriate contributor, and is protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws. The ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or services may include content, designs, trademarks, graphics, slogans, logos, colors, and designs that are the property of ColumbusSports.com or other third parties. Nothing that is contained on ColumbusSports.com and/or its service(s) grants any license or other right to any of ColumbusSports.com's intellectual property or any third party's intellectual property. You may not copy (other than for personal use, provided that you do not remove any trademark, copyright or any other notice contained in or on the content), change, distribute, display, reproduce or republish any of the data on our Web site and/or service(s) without obtaining the written permission of ColumbusSports.com.

APPLICABLE LAW

The ColumbusSports.com Web site and service(s) are controlled in the State of Ohio. As a result, the laws of the State of Ohio will govern the terms of use without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. The parties agree that a condition of using the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s) is that any and all claims that arise out of the use of this Web site and/or service(s) will be tried in a court in the State of Ohio and Ohio law will apply. The Ohio courts in Franklin County, Ohio shall have exclusive jurisdiction and venue, and you consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts over any claim, suit or proceeding arising out of the use of the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or service(s) or its terms of use.

USER CONTENT

Any user generated content that you exchange, share, or otherwise make available through the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s) ("User Content") is your responsibility and ColumbusSports.com assumes no liability or responsibility for such User Content. As a user of the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s), you acknowledge and agree that the community oriented features and functionality of the Web site and/or its service(s) is intended to provide users with the opportunity to share and provide information that you voluntarily provide and desire to make public. ColumbusSports.com does not make any representations or guarantees of confidentiality or privacy and accepts no responsibility for User Content and other information provided by users of the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s).

ColumbusSports.com does not control the User Content posted on the Web site and/or its service(s) and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such User Content. Under no circumstances will ColumbusSports.com be liable in any way for any User Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any User Content posted, emailed, sent or otherwise made available via the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s).

ColumbusSports.com expressly states, and you acknowledge and understand that ColumbusSports.com is not accepting any responsibility for monitoring or policing the exchange or transmission of User Content. However, as the provider of the Web site and/or service(s), ColumbusSports.com reserves the right to monitor, view, store, forward, and use however it wishes any and all information and content provided.

You agree not to use the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its services to:

(a) submit materials that are protected by copyright, patent or any other proprietary rights unless you are the owners of such material or have license or permission from the owner of any such proprietary rights to provide the material;

(b) upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defaming, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

(c) harm minors in any way;

(d) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, any employee or associate of ColumbusSports.com or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;

(e) manipulate identifiers in any way in order to disguise the origin of any User Content transmitted through the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s);

(f) upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;

(g) upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software, viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, harm, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

(h) upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional materials; or

(i) collect or store personal data about other users.

You acknowledge that ColumbusSports.com does not pre-screen User Content, but that ColumbusSports.com and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or move any User Content that is available via the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s). ColumbusSports.com and its designees shall have the right to remove any User Content that violates the terms of use or is otherwise objectionable.

You acknowledge and agree that ColumbusSports.com may preserve User Content and may also disclose User Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonable necessary to: (1) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the terms of use; (c) respond to claims that any User Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property or personal safety of ColumbusSports.com, its users, and the public.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE COLUMBUSSPORTS.COM WEB SITE AND/OR SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. COLUMBUSSPORTS.COM AND ITS AFFILIATES, THIRD-PARTY LICENSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE AND/OR ITS SERVICE(S) AND YOUR USE THEREOF.

COLUMBUSSPORTS.COM MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENT ON THE WEB SITE AND/OR SERVICE(S) OR ON ANY SITES LINKED TO THIS SITE AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (1) ERRORS, MISTAKES OR INACCURACIES, (2) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE WEB SITE AND/OR ITS SERVICE(S), (3) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE COLUMBUSSPORTS.COM SERVERS OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED ON THE SERVERS, (4) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF YOUR USE OF THE WEB SITE AND/OR SERVICE(S), OR (5) ANY VIRUSES OR RELATED PROBLEMS THAT MAY BE ACQUIRED OR TRANSMITTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE AND/OR ITS SERVICE(S).

COLUMBUSSPORTS.COM DOES NOT REPRESENT, WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY ON THE WEB SITE, SERVICE(S), ANY LINKED WEB SITE OR BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND COLUMBUSSPORTS.COM WILL NOT IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS.

LIMITS OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL COLUMBUSSPORTS.COM OR ITS AFFILIATES, REPRESENTATIVES, CONTRACTORS OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH (1) THE USE OF THE COLUMBUSSPORTS.COM WEB SITE AND/OR ITS SERVICE(S), (2) ANY FAILURE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY, COMPUTER VIRUS OR LOSS OF DATA, (3) ANY LOSS OF USE RELATED TO OUR WEB SITE AND/OR ITS SERVICE(S) OR A LINKED SITE, OR (5) ANY CONTENT ON THIS WEB SITE OR LINKED SITE.

YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS COLUMBUSSPORTS.COM AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS AND CONTRACTORS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS, DEMANDS, LIABILITIES, COSTS OR EXPENSES, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO ANY BREACH BY YOU OF ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE OR APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING THOSE REGARDING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

GUIDELINES FOR CHILDREN

It is ColumbusSports.com's policy to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. By accessing the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s), you affirm that you are more than 18 years old, are an emancipated minor, or have the consent of your parents or legal guardian and, therefore, are fully capable and competent to abide by and enter into the agreements and obligations set forth in these terms of use.

You further affirm that you are at least 13 years old, as the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s) are not intended for children under 13 years old. If you do not comply with this age restriction, then please do not use the ColumbusSports.com Web site and/or its service(s).

TERMINATION OF WEB SITE AND/OR SERVICE(S)

ColumbusSports.com reserves the right to terminate the Web site and/or its service(s) in their entirety at any time and for any reason, without prior notification.

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