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By navigating the Website and viewing or downloading any of the Information presented on the Website or distributed to you by TradingEducation.com in any manner, you represent that you have read and understand this Disclaimer and agree to be bound by all of the Terms and Conditions contained herein. TradingEducation.com may change the Terms and Conditions from time to time and at any time without notice to you, by posting such changes on the Website. By navigating the Website following any modifications to these Terms and Conditions, you agree to be bound by any such modifications to the Terms and Conditions. Should you object to any provisions of these Terms and Conditions or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with the Information (including the Blog Service) in any way, your sole and exclusive remedy and only recourse is to immediately discontinue your use of the Website.

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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 Website or the Terms and Conditions must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.TradingEducation.com, LLC is affiliated through common ownership with Market Technologies, LLC

 

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

 
CLAIM NOTICE PROCEDURE

Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy

 

We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. We assume no responsibility for content on other web sites that you may find or access when using our products or services. Material available on or through other web sites may be protected by copyright and the intellectual property laws of the United States and/or other countries. The terms of use of those web sites, and not our Terms of Service, govern your use of that material.

 

It is our  policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of our company and/or others.

Notice for Claims of Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Violations and Agent for Notice

Pursuant to Title 17, U.S. Code 512(c)(2), notifications of claimed copyright infringement, or notification of other intellectual property rights violation, should be sent ONLY to the Designated Agent below.

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED EXCLUSIVELY FOR
NOTIFYING THE SERVICE PROVIDERS REFERENCED BELOW THAT YOUR
COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL MAY HAVE BEEN INFRINGED. DO NOT SEND ANY INQUIRIES UNRELATED TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT (E.G., REQUESTS FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR CUSTOMER SERVICE, REPORTS OF EMAIL ABUSE, ETC.) TO THE CONTACT LISTED BELOW. YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE IF SENT TO THIS CONTACT.

Written notification of claimed copyright infringement must be submitted to the following Designated Agent via the following routes:

            Mail:

 

            Smith & Hopen, PA

            180 Pine Avenue North

            Oldsmar, FL 34677

           

            Fax:  813-925-8525

 

            Email: staff@smithhopen.com

 

 

Under Title 17, 51 2(c)(3)(A) of the United States Code, the Notification of Claimed Infringement must include the following:

1.       An electronic or physical signature of the owner or of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.

2.       An identification of the copyrighted work, or works, that you believe to have been infringed upon. The identification must provide sufficient detail to specify the work. For example, an identification for a web page might state, The copyrighted work at issue is the text that appears on http://www.originalexpression.com/original_page.html. Where the work is another form of publication, the identifying information could include the name, edition, ISBN number and pages of a book from which an excerpt was copied, the music album or single, etc. as appropriate.

3.       A clear description of where the infringing material is located on our web site(s), including, as applicable, its URL, so that we can locate the material.

4.      Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you. An email address is preferred. Alternatively, you might provide your mailing address and/or telephone number.

5.       The following statement: I have a good-faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.

6.       The following statement: I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.