PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.

As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

• Upload, share, distribute, or otherwise use any PDF files for which you lack the necessary rights, permissions, or licenses. This encompasses copyrighted material, trade secrets, and confidential documents that you are not explicitly authorized to access or disseminate by the rightful owner(s).
• Engage in any activity that constitutes academic dishonesty, including but not limited to cheating, plagiarism, or any other form of academic misconduct. This includes, without limitation, using our service to obtain unauthorized assistance or materials, providing or receiving unauthorized assistance on academic assignments or exams, or submitting any work or content that is not your own original creation. You acknowledge that academic integrity is crucial for the growth and development of individuals and educational institutions, and any violation of this provision may result in the immediate termination of your access to our service, at our sole discretion, without notice or liability. Additionally, we reserve the right to report any such violations to relevant educational institutions, authorities, or other parties as deemed appropriate.
• Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
• Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords.
• Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content contained therein.
• Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Services.
• Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
• Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
• Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.
• Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Services.
• Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Services.
• Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
• Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
• Attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user.
• Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats ("gifs"), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as "spyware" or "passive collection mechanisms" or "pcms").
• Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks or services connected to the Services.
• Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Services to you.
• Attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the Services.
• Copy or adapt the Services' software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
• Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Services.
• Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorized script or other software.
• Use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on the Services.
• Make any unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
• Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Services and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.

USER GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS

The Services may invite you to chat, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionality, and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or on the Services, including but not limited to text, writings, video, audio, photographs, graphics, comments, suggestions, or personal information or other material (collectively, "Contributions"). Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Services and through third-party websites. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that:

• The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party.
• You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize us, the Services, and other users of the Services to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
• You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
• Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.
• Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation.
• Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us).
• Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
• Your Contributions are not used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person and to promote violence against a specific person or class of people.
• Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule.
• Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
• Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography or otherwise intended to protect the health or well-being of minors.
• Your Contributions do not include any offensive comments that are connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or physical handicap.
• Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Legal Terms, or any applicable law or regulation.

Any use of the Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Services.

Contribution License

We do not claim ownership of your Contributions. You retain complete ownership of all your Contributions and any associated intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights. We are not responsible for any statements or representations in your Contributions, provided by you in any section of the Services. You are solely accountable for your Contributions to the Services, and you explicitly agree to release us from any and all liability and refrain from any legal action against us concerning your Contributions.

We reserve the right, at our sole and complete discretion, (1) to modify, censor, or otherwise alter any Contributions; (2) to reclassify any Contributions to place them in more suitable locations on the Services; and (3) to prescreen or delete any Contributions at any time and for any reason, without prior notice. We are not obligated to monitor your Contributions.

SERVICES MANAGEMENT

We retain the right, but are not obligated, to:

1. Monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms;
2. Take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Legal Terms, including, but not limited to, reporting such users to law enforcement authorities;
3. At our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any part thereof;
4. At our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, remove from the Services or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessively large or burdensome to our systems; and
5. Otherwise manage the Services in a manner aimed at protecting our rights and property and facilitating the proper functioning of the Services.

COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS

We honor the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material accessible on or through the Services infringes upon any copyright you own or control, please promptly notify us using the provided contact information (a "Notification"). A copy of your Notification will be forwarded to the individual who posted or stored the material mentioned in the Notification. Please be aware that according to applicable law, you may be held liable for damages if you provide false information in a Notification. Therefore, if you are uncertain whether material located on or linked to by the Services violates your copyright, it is advisable to first consult with an attorney.

TERM AND TERMINATION

These Legal Terms will remain in full force and effect while you utilize the Services. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, WE RETAIN THE RIGHT TO, AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES (INCLUDING BLOCKING CERTAIN IP ADDRESSES), TO ANY INDIVIDUAL FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, VIOLATION OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT STATED IN THESE LEGAL TERMS OR ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE SERVICES OR DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU POSTED AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION.

If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account using your name, a false or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you are acting on behalf of the third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take suitable legal action, including, but not limited to, seeking civil, criminal, and injunctive relief.

MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS

We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without prior notice. However, we are not obligated to update any information on our Services. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any changes, price adjustments, suspensions, or discontinuations of the Services.

We cannot guarantee that the Services will be available at all times. We may encounter hardware, software, or other issues or need to perform maintenance related to the Services, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We retain the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify the Services at any time or for any reason without notifying you. You agree that we bear no responsibility whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Services during any downtime or discontinuance of the Services. Nothing in these Legal Terms should be interpreted as obligating us to maintain and support the Services or to provide any corrections, updates, or releases related to them.

DISCLAIMER

The Services are provided on an as-is and as-available basis. You acknowledge that your use of the Services will be at your sole discretion. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we renounce all warranties, whether express or implied, regarding the Services and your usage thereof, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a specific purpose, and non-infringement. We make no assurances or representations concerning the accuracy or completeness of the Services' content or the content of any linked websites or mobile applications, and we assume no liability for any (1) errors, inaccuracies, or mistakes in content and materials, (2) personal injury or property damage of any kind resulting from your access to and use of the Services, (3) unauthorized access to or usage of our secure servers and/or any personal or financial information stored therein, (4) interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Services, (5) bugs, viruses, Trojan horses, or similar elements transmitted to or through the Services by any third party, and/or (6) errors or omissions in any content and materials or for any loss or damage incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, transmitted, or made available via the Services. We do not guarantee, endorse, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by a third party through the Services, any hyperlinked website, or any website or mobile application featured in any banner or other advertising, and we will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and any third-party providers of products or services. As with the purchase of a product or service through any medium or in any environment, you should use your best judgment and exercise caution where appropriate.

LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

Under no circumstances will we or our directors, employees, or agents be liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages, including lost profit, lost revenue, loss of data, or other damages arising from your use of the Services, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Regardless of anything to the contrary contained herein, our liability to you for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of action will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to us during the one (1) month period prior to any cause of action arising. Certain U.S. state laws and international laws may not allow limitations on implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. If these laws are applicable to you, some or all of the above disclaimers or limitations may not apply to you, and you may have additional rights.