Terms of Use
1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Ripalip provides a collection of online resources (referred to hereafter as “the Service”) subject to the following Terms of Use (“Terms”). By using the Service in any way, you are agreeing to comply with these Terms. In addition, when using particular Ripalip services, you agree to abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all Ripalip services, which may change from time to time. Should you object to any term or condition of these Terms, any guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with Ripalip in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of Ripalip.
2. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these terms and conditions at any time. Such modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof. You must review this agreement on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes.
You can find the latest version of this document at: https://www.ripalipuniversity.com/privacy.
3. CONTENT
Content available through the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of Ripalip. Ripalip makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such site. Your linking to any other websites is at your own risk. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will Ripalip or any of its members who did not originate the Content be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Service. You acknowledge that Ripalip shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via the Service, for violating the letter or spirit of the Terms or for any other reason.
4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES
The Ripalip site and Content available through the Service may contain features and functionalities that may link you or provide you with access to third party content which is completely independent of Ripalip, including web sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information and databases, applications, software, programs, products or services, and the Internet as a whole. Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties. You agree that Ripalip shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings. If there is a dispute between participants on this site, or between users and any third party, you understand and agree that Ripalip is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release Ripalip, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and/or our service. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.”
5. NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please notify Ripalip’s agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement (“Agent”), at abuse@ripalip.com.
Please provide our Agent with the following Notice:
Identify the material on the Ripalip service that you claim is infringing, with enough detail so that we may locate it;
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that (1) the above information in your Notice is accurate, and (2) that you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner;
Your address, telephone number, and email address; and
Your physical or electronic signature.
Ripalip will remove the infringing posting(s), subject to the procedures outlined in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).
6. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
Ripalip has established a Privacy Policy to explain to users how their information is collected and used, which is located at the following web address https://www.ripalipuniversity.com/privacy
Your use of the Ripalip website or the Service signifies acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that Ripalip may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: comply with legal process; enforce these Terms; respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to claims that contact information (e.g. phone number, street address) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Ripalip, its users or the general public.
7. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE
You agree that Ripalip has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that Ripalip reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that Ripalip shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
8. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE
Ripalip grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Service for your own personal use. This license does not include any collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Service nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by Ripalip. You may create a hyperlink to the home page of Ripalip sites so long as the link does not portray Ripalip, its employees, or its affiliates in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access granted to you by Ripalip immediately terminates said permission or license. In order to collect, aggregate, copy, duplicate, display or make derivative use of the the Service or any Content made available via the Service for other purposes (including commercial purposes) not stated herein, you must first obtain a license from Ripalip.
9. TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that Ripalip, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, if Ripalip believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. Further, you agree that Ripalip shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service. Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after said termination. Sections 2, 4, 6 and 10-16 shall survive termination of these Terms.
10. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
The Service is protected to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or through the Service is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site or the collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the sites or any portion thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without the express written consent of Ripalip. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service without the express written consent of Ripalip, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Service. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Service.
11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE RIPALIP SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE RIPALIP SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” OR “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RIPALIP DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE RIPALIP SITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RIPALIP DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE RIPALIP SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE RIPALIP SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RIPALIP DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE RIPALIP SITE OR THE SERVICE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.
12. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL RIPALIP BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF RIPALIP HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE RIPALIP SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE RIPALIP SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE RIPALIP SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE RIPALIP SITE OR THE SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE RIPALIP SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE RIPALIP SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE RIPALIP SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE RIPALIP SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.
13. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold Ripalip, its officers, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, directors, officers, agents, service providers, suppliers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post or make available through the Service, your use of the Service, your violation of the Terms, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another.
14. GENERAL INFORMATION
The Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Ripalip and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and Ripalip. The Terms and the relationship between you and Ripalip shall be governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and Ripalip agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Hennepin, Minnesota. The failure of Ripalip to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
15. VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
Please report any violations of the Terms, by flagging the posting(s) for
review, or by emailing to: abuse@Ripalip.com
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. You understand and agree that, because damages are often difficult to quantify, if it becomes necessary for Ripalip to pursue legal action to enforce these Terms, you will be liable to pay Ripalip the following amounts as liquidated damages, which you accept as reasonable estimates of Ripalip’s damages for the specified breaches of these Terms:
If you aggregate, display, copy, duplicate, reproduce, or otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content (except for your own Content) in violation of these Terms without Ripalip’s express written permission, you agree to pay Ripalip three thousand dollars ($3,000) for each day on which you engage in such conduct. Otherwise, you agree to pay Ripalip’s actual damages, to the extent such actual damages can be reasonably calculated. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms, Ripalip retains the right to seek the remedy of specific performance of any term contained in these Terms, or a preliminary or permanent injunction against the breach of any such term or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in these Terms, or any combination thereof.
16. FEEDBACK
We welcome your questions and comments on this document by emailing us at info@ripalip.com.