Terms Of Use

Welcome to the University Notes (“UN”) Network, the first collegiate network/community dedicated to student interaction and the exchange notes, tests, and ideas from class and school. By checking the Agree to Terms of Use button on the registration page, you hereby state you have read the Terms of Use, fully understand them, and agree, in entirety, to its provisions and guidelines.

Agreement between you and University Notes, L.L.C.

1. These Terms of Use constitute a legal and binding contract between you and University Notes, L.L.C. You must accept without modification all of the terms, provisions, guidelines, and notices contained in these Terms of Use to access and utilize any portion of the UN. Failure to accept these Terms in their entirety will result in denial of access to UN.

2. Portions of UN may be governed by other rules, guidelines, and provisions not specifically posted in this agreement. All such rules, guidelines, provisions, etc. are hereby incorporated into the UN Terms of Use. In the event of conflict between those guidelines and this agreement, the Terms of Use shall control.

Modifications to the Terms of Use

1. UN regulated by University Notes, L.L.C., may at any time wish to alter the Terms of Use hereby posted to reflect changes in services offered, changes in law affecting these services, or for any other good reason. You understand that UN reserves the right to make these changes and that you are responsible for periodically reviewing the Terms of Use.

Personal Use

1. UN is intended and must be used for your own personal and non-commercial use. If a commercial use is wished (i.e. advertising), you must enter into a different agreement with University Notes, L.L.C. You may also not use any hardware, software, or hacking device that directly reduces the number of users directly accessing the UN website (i.e. “multiplexing” or “pooling” software or “hardware”).

2. As a member of UN, you may not copy, create, license, distribute, display, modify, publish, reproduce, transfer, or sell (not an exhaustive list) any information, products, services, or software that are a part of UN except as provided by these Terms of Use.

Personal Information

1. You are required to have a unique UN username (school email address) and password to utilize the services offered by UN. It is your responsibility to update any information requested by UN, such as contact information, to keep it current. UN agrees to use its best efforts to protect any personal information given by you and to not share, distribute, or transfer any of your information with third-parties. Any information provided by you will stay within the sole possession of UN and University Notes, L.L.C., and/or any of its agents, staff, and/or partners, except that information made public by your approval or creation. False contact information (including “dummy” email addresses) in creating accounts is prohibited. In the case of possible contests or giveaway, winners must have provided correct/legitimate contact information in order to receive their prize.

2. Your login and password are of your sole possession and you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information and passwords. You are also responsible for any activity which takes place on your account and shall notify UN of any unauthorized use of your account. No portion of UN or University Notes, L.L.C. is responsible for ANY loss you may incur as a result of any unauthorized person utilizing your account, password, and/or personal information.

3. For more information regarding personal information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

Illegal activity and prohibited use

1. In agreeing to these Terms of Use, you verify you will not use UN for any purpose that is unlawful or in opposition to these Terms of Use. You may also not use UN in any way that would disable, impair, or damage any other member or party’s use and/or enjoyment of UN.

2. As a member or visitor of UN, you may not attempt to gain any unauthorized access to any portion of UN, its computer systems, files, or information. You may not attempt to gain access to any information, documentation, or material not specifically and intentionally provided to you via UN’s services.

Links to third-party sites

1. The web pages under the control of University Notes, L.L.C. and within the universitynotes.net service may include links to third-party sites. However, the linked sites are not under the control of UN and therefore, neither UN or University Notes, L.L.C. are responsible for the content or information provided by a linked site, any site linked to a UN linked site, or any changes made to a site linked to UN.

2. UN is not responsible for the proper functioning of any linked site.

3. UN provides links to other sites for convenience and under business contracts. You are solely responsible for abiding by any terms of use, guidelines, and/or regulations these linked sites provide and any actions made by you on these linked sites. You are exclusively responsible for any dealings with any linked sites (including advertisers) that support UN or are identified by UN, including but not limited to, the delivery of goods, services, or payment to any of these linked sites. No portion of UN or University Notes, L.L.C. is responsible for any loss you may incur on these linked sites.

UN’s right to use notes/tests/information/feedback/suggestions

1. UN and University Notes, L.L.C. want to hear from you and any feedback, suggestions, information you wish to offer. When any information is submitted on any portion of the UN network, you understand that UN needs your full authorization to utilize the information you provide in whatever means UN deems appropriate to better the running and functionality of the website and its services. By agreeing to these Terms of Use, you understand that any information provided by you therefore bears with it full authorization by you to UN to use in whatever way UN chooses.

2. By submitting any ideas, information, notes, etc. to UN, you certify and represent that you own or control the rights to do so and therefore give UN the permission to use, modify, create, distribute, publish, share, license, transfer, create derivations from, copy, and/or sell any such feedback.

3. You understand that you must not post, upload, publish, or suggest the use of any copyrighted material on UN. The removal of copyrighted symbols and publication of such material is illegal and any user doing so can/will be punished by law.

4. UN is under no obligation to post or use any information provided by you and may at any time choose to remove any material which has been provided to by you at UN’s sole discretion.

Content Available on UN

1. All applications, programs, services, information, and content that are made viewable or downloadable by UN or pages belonging to universitynotes.net is either a non-copyrighted material, owned by or is a copyrighted work of UN and/or one of its suppliers or has been used by UN under granted permission from the owner/creator. Your use of this information, software, content, etc. is governed by any license agreement that accompanies or is included with these articles. You may not use or install any information, content, software, etc. until you have read and accepted the license agreement pertaining to that particular article. Once again, any non-personal use of UN shall result in possible suspension/termination of your account.

2. UN hereby allows you, the member, a personal, non-transferable license to use the content/software that is provided by UN. All software and content is owned by UN and/or its suppliers and is protected by copyright laws, trademarks, patents, etc. Any reproduction or redistribution without the explicit consent of UN and University Notes, L.L.C. is prohibited and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law. The copying or distributing of information to other persons, servers, and/or companies who are not a part of UN is also forbidden. You also agree that all content made available to you through UN is under and subject to any export laws and regulations of the United States of America and guarantee that you will not export or re-export anything directly or indirectly to any country that is subject to the United States of America export restrictions.

Posting to UN

1. UN will not tolerate threats against its staff or any of its users. UN will also not tolerate abusive language directed towards its staff or users. This is a serious matter and any threats of violence or death shall result in contacting law enforcement.

2. UN will not tolerate users who post merely to get a rise out of people or to make trouble and shall ban, without warning, any user it feels has done this. The majority of UN’s site is used for educational supplementation and information, and misuse shall result in the loss of this privilege.

3. Users shall avoid the use of profane language.

4. Racist remarks, hate, stereotyping, and/or other inflammatory remarks will not be tolerated.

5. Discussion of private aspects of other users and the giving of personal information to other users, unless it is your info you are giving, is prohibited.

6. UN promotes the proper use of language. Posting messages in slang, abbreviations, or incomplete thoughts is frowned upon and makes it harder for other users to understand the message you are trying to get across. Users should write in complete words and sentences where at all possible, especially for notes.

7. It is not acceptable to post about other users or operators of UN, especially posts malicious in nature.

8. When a post is closed or deleted, it is unacceptable to simply post again regarding the closed topic. The closing or removal of a post indicates that the discussion is over.

9. Articles, literature, comments, etc. from another source besides yourself should never simply be cut and pasted into any post on UN. UN is highly visible and copyright problems do occur. UN is an informative network sharing notes, tests, thoughts, ideas, etc. However, users must not post copyrighted materials unto the site unless it is of their own creation, therefore giving UN the right to host said material.

10. Posting to a thread simply to get it to the top of the list, known as "topping a thread" is an abuse of the system. Users caught performing this action can either be warned, suspended, and/or banned from the network.

11. Posts are final. They cannot and will not be edited by UN. It is important to think carefully before posting to the boards, because your comments may stay visible longer than you would like them to.

12. CHEATING is a serious offense! No portion of UN shall be used as an avenue to cheat in any way. Any users caught attempting to cheat or abusing the site in a similar manner to gain privileged information can/will be banned from UN and can be turned over to University administration for disciplinary action.

13. Be Nice.

Disclaimers

UN AND/OR ITS AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, AFFILIATES, AND PROVIDERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND/OR ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SERVICES, ADS, AND GRAPHICS CONTAINED OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE UN NETWORK. ALL SUCH INFORMATION IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS AND COMES WITH NO GUARUNTEE OF ANY KIND. UN AND ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION.

IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF UN, THE WAY IT IS RUN, THE CONTENT OF THE SITE, ITS GOAL, AND/OR ITS RELATED MATERIAL, YOUR SINGLE AND EXLCUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE ITS USE.

1. The mission of UN is to supplement classroom learning by providing students with an online community to exchange notes and ideas about class. Note forums, test banks, and online communication with other students give members a higher chance to succeed in whatever curriculum they choose.

2. UN is not intended to replace regular class attendance, but to provide students with a unique setting to further their understanding of a subject through additional documentation, notes, and interaction with fellow students.

3. It is the responsibility of each and every individual student to maintain and upkeep classroom attendance, regular study habits, and classroom participation. As noted above, UN is a supplemental information provider, and merely serves as an avenue to gain pertinent information regarding the topics studied in class and acts as a guide, where available, in studying by providing how the information has been tested in the past.

4. Although UN attempts to keep the most up-to-date information as feasibly possible, the site does not replace student-professor interaction and should not be used in any way as a guide, syllabus, or classroom replacement. The most relevant course information can only be attained in classroom and UN greatly supports everyday classroom attendance and participation.

5. The test banks provided by UN are composed of tests on reserve, previous tests donated by past students, tests given back to students to keep, tests uploaded by other users, and tests given by professors. The tests provided by this site are intended to act as a guide for how professors have tested the topics under study in the past. However, the composition of course tests are always at the sole discretion of the course professor and information regarding the test should always be obtained from your current professor. The UN makes no claim to the creation of the tests hosted on its site.

6. UN attempts to screen everything on the UN website and to vouch for its validity. However, any information, especially notes, information, and documentation freely posted by students in the designated notes area, test banks, and message boards, should always be checked for validity by other fellow classmates and/or the professor. The online notes section is in place to provide for a convenient and easily accessible location for students to gain supplemental classroom information, eliminate losses of course topics due to missed attendance, increase peer-to-peer classroom communication, and to cut down on disposable resources such as overused and abused paper copies, etc.

7. UN in no way accepts, approves, or supports any form of cheating by any of its members. CHEATING is a serious offense and any obvious and recognized forms of it will be struck down by UN as soon as possible. Members caught attempting to gain information on missed tests or any other recognizable form in any way from other members with any desired advantage will have their membership to UN terminated and any information provided by them removed from the UN website at the sole discretion of UN and University Notes, L.L.C. Dependant upon the form, nature, and method of CHEATING, UN can/will, upon its sole discretion, contact the University and/or take any legal actions provided copyright, distribution, and/ or exporting laws have been infringed. If you are a witness of any form of cheating or attempted cheating, it is of your responsibility to notify system administrators as soon as possible.

Member Support

1. If you, as a member have any questions, comments, concerns, etc. please feel free to contact us.

Termination and restriction of access

1. UN reserves the right to, at any time and under its sole discretion, cancel/terminate your membership to UN without notice, especially if any activity in direct opposition to the Terms of Use has been witnessed.

2. UN may also suspend or terminate any membership it feels has fallen into a state of inactivity. Upon termination to UN membership, all privileges and available services provided by UN to you immediately ceases.

General

1. These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the State of Louisiana, U.S.A. You hereby irrevocably agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, U.S.A. in all disputes pertaining to UN and/or its services.

2. You agree to hold harmless, indemnify and defend UN, its officers, affiliates, and/or employees from any claim, demand, or damage, including any and all costs, damages and/or attorney fees in any way arising from your use or conduct on UN.

3. If any term or provision of this agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the offending term or provision shall be revoked in its entirety, but the remainder of this agreement will be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Property Notices

1. Universitynotes.net is under the sole ownership and operation of University Notes, L.L.C.

2. All trademarked, copyrighted, and patented material is under the ownership of University Notes, L.L.C. and/or one of its suppliers, affiliates, members, creators, etc. and any use of said material without the sole permission of its owner is strictly prohibited.