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February-03-2012PowerBar Community Terms of Use Thank you for visiting PowerBar.com. PowerBar.com is owned and operated by Nestle USA, Inc. ("Nestle USA", "PowerBar," "we," or "us"). These terms of use (the “Terms of Use”) govern your use of areas of the PowerBar website that allow you to access and view User Submissions (as defined below) (collectively and individually, “PowerBar Community Site” “Site”), and constitute a legal agreement between you and Nestle USA. To access or use the PowerBar Community Site, you must register for a username and login. By registering, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, any modifications to the Terms of Use and the PowerBar.com Privacy Policy [http://www.powerbar.com/privacy], which is incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use, as well as the PowerBar.com Terms&Conditions [http://www.powerbar.com/terms]. To the extent these Terms of Use contradict or are inconsistent with the PowerBar.com Terms&Conditions, these Terms of Use shall control. In addition, you agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations governing your use of the Site. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you are not permitted to access, browse or use the Site. Please return to the Site and review these Terms of Use from time to time, as they may be amended without notice to you. Any changes to these Terms of Use will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Terms of Use at the Site. Please note that your use of certain content and features of the Site may be subject to additional terms. By using such content and features, you also agree to be bound by such additional terms. REGISTRATION&PRIVACY Registration is required to use or access the PowerBar Community Site. Use of the Site is limited to legal United States residents 18 years of age and older. Your registration shall not impose any duty on us to provide any particular service or Site access to you. By submitting your registration information to register to use any of the Site, you agree that PowerBar and its third-party vendors (if any) may use it to contact you about the status of your account, your submissions and other administrative purposes. One user per email address, screen name and password is authorized. PowerBar will handle all information received from you in connection with your registration in accordance with the PowerBar.com Privacy Policy [http://www.powerbar.com/privacy]. We may refuse to grant you, and you may not use, a screen name or email address that is already being used by someone else, impersonates another person, belongs to another person (without his or her prior consent), violates the intellectual property or other rights of any person, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or that we reject for any other reason at our sole discretion. By registering as a user of the Site, you represent and warrant that you are registering an account on your own behalf, that all information submitted in connection with your registration is truthful, accurate, current, and complete, and that you will maintain accurate, current and complete identifying information about your user ID and your profile. PowerBar may terminate your account if any of the information provided is found to be inaccurate, false, out of date, or incomplete. Your username and password will be your login information, and you must keep your username and password confidential and agree to use your login solely in accordance with these Terms of Use. You must immediately notify us if you learn of or suspect (i) any loss or theft of your username or password, or (ii) any unauthorized use of your username or password. You agree that, unless and until you notify us of any such loss, theft, or unauthorized use, you are fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place using your account. In the event of such loss, theft, or unauthorized use, we may impose on you, at our sole discretion, additional security obligations. If any unauthorized person obtains access to the Site as a result of any act or omission by you, you shall use your best efforts to ascertain the source and manner of acquisition and shall fully and promptly brief us. You shall otherwise cooperate and assist in any investigation relating to any such unauthorized access. USER SUBMISSIONS Certain portions of the Site may permit you to post or upload content, comments, communications, materials, information, opinions or other content created by you and other users (collectively, “User Submissions”). User Submissions may be reviewed by human moderators to ensure that they comply with these Terms of Use. In connection with User Submissions, you agree your User Submissions reflect your honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experience, and are within your personal knowledge. You further agree that you will not: (i) submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including trademark, privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant us all of the license rights granted herein; (ii) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage us or any third party; (iii) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, false, misleading, defamatory, libelous, threatening, disparaging, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law or is otherwise inappropriate; (iv) post advertisements or solicitations of business; or (v) impersonate another person or provide false information regarding yourself or any other person or entity. We do not endorse any User Submission or any opinion, recommendation or advice expressed therein, and we expressly disclaim any and all liability in connection with User Submissions. In addition, PowerBar does not and is not responsible for reviewing approving Community Leaders or placing any Community Leader’s page within any Community category, or for representations made by Community Leaders in connection with their registration or use of the Site, and that PowerBar in no way reviews, endorses, or approves Community Leaders or their submissions. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT POWERBAR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USER SUBMISSION THAT PURPORTS TO GIVE MEDICAL ADVICE OR ADVICE REGARDING FITNESS TRAINING, EXERCISE, OR DIET. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER QUALIFIED HEALTH PROVIDER WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING A MEDICAL CONDITION OR A PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAM. If notified by a user or a content owner of a User Submission that allegedly does not conform to these Terms of Use, we may investigate the allegation and determine in our sole discretion whether to remove the User Submission or terminate the responsible party’s account, both of which we reserve the right to do at any time. For clarity, we do not authorize in any way copyright infringing activities on the Site, and reserve the right to remove content that allegedly does not conform to these Terms of Use, and to terminate access to the Site and remove all User Submissions submitted by any persons who we deem to be infringers or repeat infringers. We do not have any obligation to, and you agree that we have no obligation to, review the User Submissions posted and/or submitted by users accessing the Site, that we are not in any manner responsible for User Submissions, that we do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of User Submissions, and that we cannot assure that harmful, inaccurate, deceptive, offensive, threatening, defamatory, unlawful or otherwise objectionable User Submissions will not appear on the Site. You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to access and view User Submissions on the Site, we are merely acting as a passive conduit for such distribution and are not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to any User Submissions or activities of users on the Site. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that the information, materials and opinions expressed or included in any User Submissions are not necessarily ours. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that we have the absolute right (but not the obligation) to monitor User Submissions posted to the Site in our sole discretion. In addition, we reserve the right to alter, edit, refuse to post or remove any such User Submissions, in whole or in part, for any reason or for no reason, and to disclose such User Submissions and the circumstances surrounding their transmission to any third party. You agree that we do not have any obligation to use or respond to any User Submissions. You agree that you shall immediately notify us in writing of any objectionable content appearing on the Site. We will make good faith efforts to investigate allegations that any User Submission violates these Terms of Use but (a) make no warranty to you that we will edit, remove, or continue to permit the display of any specific User Submissions, whether or not subject to such allegations, and (b) will have no liability whatsoever for editing, removing, or continuing to permit the display of any User Submissions. Your User Submissions are not confidential or proprietary. You grant to us and our designees a non-exclusive, non-revocable, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable, royalty-free right and license to use your User Submissions, the ideas embodied therein, and/or your name, likeness and image in any manner or media now or later known, including, without limitation, the right to sublicense and assign and commercialize your User Submissions without any approval, compensation, or notice to you. 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