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TERMS OF USE

By using the Texas Food Safety Manager Certification web site, you signify your assent to the following terms and conditions of use. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions, please do not use the site.

Copyright
The Texas Food Safety Manager Certification site contains proprietary materials and information, including but not limited to text, software, photos, video, graphics, music, and sound. Except where noted, the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (“the NRAEF”) owns all rights, including copyright, in and to the contents of the site, and the NRAEF owns all rights, including copyright, in and to the site as a whole and as a collective work (as defined in the United States Copyright Act). You may not copy, reproduce, retransmit, publish, or otherwise use the site or any portion of the site for any reason other than for your own personal use. All other copying, reproduction, and retransmission of the site or any portion of the site is expressly prohibited unless the NRAEF or other copyright owner has expressly granted its prior written consent. The NRAEF expressly reserves all other rights.

Marks
The names, trademarks, service marks, and logos of the NRAEF appearing on the Texas Food Safety Manager Certification site are the sole property of the NRAEF and may not be used in advertising, publicity, or otherwise to indicate the NRAEF's sponsorship of or affiliation with any product, service, or web site without the NRAEF's prior express written consent.

Disclaimer of Liability
The NRAEF provides information, goods, and services via its site as a benefit and in furtherance of its educational and charitable purposes and in keeping with its tax-exempt status. The NRAEF makes no representations about the suitability of the information, goods, or services for any purpose.

The NRAEF will not be held liable for any improper or incorrect use of the information, goods, or services described on and/or available via its site, and it assumes no responsibility for any user's use of them. In no event shall the NRAEF be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including but not limited to procurement or substitute goods for services, loss of use, loss of data, loss of profits, or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of the Texas Food Safety Manager Certification site or the information, goods, or services available via the site, even if advised of the possibility of such damage. This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury, including but not limited to those caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of materials, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. Information and materials included on the site may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes may be periodically incorporated into the information and materials. The NRAEF may make improvements and changes in the information, materials, products, and services described and made available via the site, at any time and without notice.

THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS ON THE Texas Food Safety Manager Certification SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so this exclusion may not apply to you. The NRAEF does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials or information on the site or regarding the accuracy, adequacy, completeness, legality, reliability, or usefulness of any materials or information on the site.

Third-Party Materials
The NRAEF does not exert editorial control over materials posted to bulletin boards associated with its site by third parties or over materials that are sent to third parties by e-mail via the site. The NRAEF is not responsible for any material posted by any third party.

By placing material on a bulletin board and communicating with others via the site, you grant to the NRAEF and its affiliated entities a perpetual, non-exclusive license to copy, modify, display, distribute, reproduce, and otherwise use the material in any and all media now existing or developed in the future. You also agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the NRAEF and its agents, directors, and employees against any and all claims and costs arising from the NRAEF's use of any such materials.

Although the Texas Food Safety Manager Certification site contains links to and from other web sites, the NRAEF has not participated in the development of those other sites and does not exert any editorial or other control over those sites and their content, goods, and services.

Law and Jurisdiction
The terms and conditions of use of the Texas Food Safety Manager Certification site will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, United States of America without regard to its conflicts of law provisions, and any cause of action you may have with respect to the site must be brought in the State of Illinois.