Terms of Use

1. Intro­duc­tion and Accep­tance of Terms of Use.

   Bright Foun­da­tion offers you a wide range of con­tent, com­mu­ni­ca­tion tools, forums, and infor­ma­tion about its prod­ucts and ser­vices (“Mate­ri­als”) via this web site. By using this web site, you are agree­ing to accept and com­ply with the terms and con­di­tions of use as stat­ed below (“Terms of Use”), which Bright Foun­da­tion may update at any time with­out notice. You should vis­it this page peri­od­i­cal­ly to review the then-cur­rent Terms of Use. Please note that Bright Foun­da­tion may, at its sole dis­cre­tion, ter­mi­nate your access to this web site at any time with­out notice.

2. Lim­it­ed Right to Use.

   This web site is owned and oper­at­ed by Bright Foun­da­tion. Unless oth­er­wise spec­i­fied, all Mate­ri­als on this web site are the prop­er­ty of Bright Foun­da­tion and are pro­tect­ed by the copy­right laws of the Unit­ed States and, through­out the world by the applic­a­ble copy­right laws. You may, view, print and/​or down­load one copy of the Mate­ri­als from this web site on any sin­gle com­put­er sole­ly for your per­son­al, infor­ma­tion­al, non-com­mer­cial use, pro­vid­ed you keep intact all copy­right and oth­er pro­pri­etary notices. No Mate­ri­als pub­lished by Bright Foun­da­tion on this web site, in whole or in part, may be copied, repro­duced, mod­i­fied, repub­lished, uploaded, post­ed, trans­mit­ted, or dis­trib­uted in any form or by any means with­out pri­or writ­ten per­mis­sion from Bright Foun­da­tion. The use of any such Mate­ri­als on any oth­er web site or net­worked com­put­er envi­ron­ment or for any oth­er pur­pose is strict­ly pro­hib­it­ed and such unau­tho­rized use may vio­late copy­right, trade­mark and oth­er sim­i­lar laws.

3. Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

   Except for any dis­clo­sure by you for tech­ni­cal sup­port pur­pos­es, or as spec­i­fied in our Pri­va­cy State­ment, all com­mu­ni­ca­tions from you to this web site will be con­sid­ered non-con­fi­den­tial and non-pro­pri­etary. You agree that any and all com­ments, infor­ma­tion, feed­back and ideas regard­ing our com­pa­ny, prod­ucts or ser­vices that you com­mu­ni­cate to Bright Foun­da­tion (“Feed­back”) will be deemed, at the time of com­mu­ni­ca­tion to Bright Foun­da­tion, the prop­er­ty of Bright Foun­da­tion, and Bright Foun­da­tion shall be enti­tled to full rights of own­er­ship, includ­ing with­out lim­i­ta­tion, unre­strict­ed right to use or dis­close such Feed­back in any form, medi­um or tech­nol­o­gy now known or lat­er devel­oped, and for any pur­pose, com­mer­cial or oth­er­wise, with­out com­pen­sa­tion to you. You are sole­ly respon­si­ble for the con­tent of your com­mu­ni­ca­tions and their legal­i­ty under all laws and reg­u­la­tions. You agree not to use this web site to dis­trib­ute, link to or solic­it con­tent that is defam­a­to­ry, harass­ing, unlaw­ful, libel­lous, harm­ful to minors, threat­en­ing, obscene, false, mis­lead­ing, or infring­ing a third par­ty intel­lec­tu­al or pri­va­cy rights.

4. Access to Pass­word Pro­tect­ed or Secured Areas.

   Access to and use of pass­word pro­tect­ed or secured areas of this web site is restrict­ed to autho­rized users only. You will be asked to pro­vide accu­rate and cur­rent infor­ma­tion on all reg­is­tra­tion forms on this web site. You are sole­ly respon­si­ble for main­tain­ing the con­fi­den­tial­i­ty of any user­name and pass­word that you choose or is cho­sen by your web admin­is­tra­tor on your behalf, to access this web site as well as any activ­i­ty that occur under your username/​password. You will not mis­use or share your user­name or pass­word, mis­rep­re­sent your iden­ti­ty or your affil­i­a­tion with an enti­ty, imper­son­ate any per­son or enti­ty, or mis­state the ori­gin of any Mate­ri­als you are exposed to through this web site.

5. Mon­i­tor­ing.

   Although Bright Foun­da­tion is not oblig­at­ed to do so, it will have the right to review your com­mu­ni­ca­tions on this web site to deter­mine whether you com­ply with our Terms of Use. Bright Foun­da­tion will not have any lia­bil­i­ty or respon­si­bil­i­ty for the con­tent of any com­mu­ni­ca­tions you post to this web site, or for any errors or vio­la­tions of any laws or reg­u­la­tions by you. Bright Foun­da­tion will com­ply with any court order in dis­clos­ing the iden­ti­ty of any per­son post­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions on this web site. It is advis­able that you review our Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy before post­ing any such com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Please note that when you con­duct trans­ac­tions with oth­er com­pa­nies pro­vid­ing con­tent via this web site, you will also be sub­ject to their pri­va­cy policies.

6. Links to Oth­er Sites.

   The linked sites are not under the con­trol of Bright Foun­da­tion and Bright Foun­da­tion is not respon­si­ble for the con­tent of any linked site or any link con­tained in a linked site. Bright Foun­da­tion reserves the right to ter­mi­nate any link at any time. Bright Foun­da­tion may pro­vide links from this web site to oth­er sites as a con­ve­nience to you and in no way should this be inter­pret­ed as an endorse­ment of any com­pa­ny, con­tent or prod­ucts to which it links. If you decide to access any of the third par­ty sites linked to this web site, you do this entire­ly at your own risk. Bright Foun­da­tion DIS­CLAIMS ANY AND ALL WAR­RANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO ANY SUCH LINKED SITES, INCLUD­ING BUT NOT LIM­IT­ED TO ANY TERMS AS TO THE ACCU­RA­CY, OWN­ER­SHIP, VALID­I­TY OR LEGAL­I­TY OF ANY CON­TENT OF A LINKED SITE.

7. Trade­marks.

   The trade­marks, ser­vice marks and logos of Bright Foun­da­tion and oth­ers used in this web site (“Trade­marks”) are the prop­er­ty of Bright Foun­da­tion and their respec­tive own­ers. You have no right to use any such Trade­marks, and noth­ing con­tained in this web site or the Terms of Use grants any right to use (by impli­ca­tion, waiv­er, estop­pel or oth­er­wise) any Trade­marks with­out the pri­or writ­ten per­mis­sion of Bright Foun­da­tion or the respec­tive owner.

8. Indem­ni­ty.

   You agree to indem­ni­fy, defend and hold Bright Foun­da­tion harm­less from and against any and all third par­ty claims, lia­bil­i­ties, dam­ages, loss­es or expens­es (includ­ing rea­son­able attor­ney’s fees and costs) aris­ing out of, based on or in con­nec­tion with your access and/​or use of this web site.

9. Lim­i­ta­tion of Liability.

   IN NO EVENT SHALL Bright Foun­da­tion OR ITS SUP­PLI­ERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDI­RECT, SPE­CIAL, INCI­DEN­TAL OR CON­SE­QUEN­TIAL DAM­AGES INCLUD­ING, WITH­OUT LIM­I­TA­TION, LOSS PROF­ITS OR REV­ENUES, COSTS OF REPLACE­MENT GOODS, LOSS OR DAM­AGE TO DATA ARIS­ING OUT OF THE USE OR INABIL­I­TY TO USE THIS WEB SITE OR ANY LINKED SITE, DAM­AGES RESULT­ING FROM USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE INFOR­MA­TION OR MATE­RI­ALS PRE­SENT­ED ON THIS WEB SITE, WHETHER BASED ON WAR­RAN­TY, CON­TRACT, TORT OR ANY OTH­ER LEGAL THE­O­RY EVEN IF Bright Foun­da­tion OR ITS SUP­PLI­ERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POS­SI­BIL­I­TY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

10. Dis­claimer.

    Bright Foun­da­tion assumes no respon­si­bil­i­ty for time­li­ness, or con­tent of the Mate­ri­als pro­vid­ed on this web site. You should not assume that the Mate­ri­als on this web site are con­tin­u­ous­ly updat­ed or oth­er­wise con­tain cur­rent infor­ma­tion. Bright Foun­da­tion is not respon­si­ble for sup­ply­ing con­tent or mate­ri­als from the web site that have expired or have been removed. THE MATE­RI­ALS PRO­VID­ED AT THIS WEB SITE ARE PRO­VID­ED ​“AS IS” AND ANY WAR­RAN­TY (EXPRESS OR IMPLIED), CON­DI­TION OR OTH­ER TERM OF ANY KIND, INCLUD­ING WITH­OUT LIM­I­TA­TION, ANY WAR­RAN­TY OF MER­CHANTABIL­I­TY, FIT­NESS FOR A PAR­TIC­U­LAR PUR­POSE, NON-INFRINGE­MENT OR TITLE IS HERE­BY EXCLUDED.

11. Applic­a­ble Laws.

    These Terms of Use are gov­erned by the law in force in the State of Iowa, Unit­ed States, and the par­ties irrev­o­ca­bly sub­mit to the non-exclu­sive juris­dic­tion of the courts of Iowa and courts of appeal from them for deter­min­ing any dis­pute con­cern­ing the Terms of Use.

12. Gen­er­al.

    If you have any ques­tions regard­ing the Terms of Use, please con­tact Bright Foun­da­tion via our Con­tact page.