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    FPGA CENTRAL TERMS OF USE


    1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

    FPGA Central provides a collection of online resources, including forums, blogs and 
    various email services, (referred to hereafter as "the Service") subject to the following 
    Terms of Use ("TOU"). By using the Service in any way, you are agreeing to comply 
    with the TOU. In addition, when using particular FPGA Central services, you agree to 
    abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all FPGA Central services, which may 
    change from time to     time.  Should you object to any term or condition of the TOU, 
    any guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with 
    FPGA Central  in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of FPGA Central.


    2. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT

    We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise 
    alter these terms and conditions at any time.  Such modifications shall become 
    effective immediately upon the posting thereof. You must review this agreement 
    on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes. You can find the 
    most recent version of the TOU at:

    http://www.fpgacentral.com/legal 


    3. CONTENT

    You understand that all postings, messages, text, files, images, photos,
    video, sounds, or other materials ("Content") posted on, transmitted
    through, or linked from the Service, are the sole responsibility of the
    person from whom such Content originated. More specifically, you are
    entirely responsible for each individual item ("Item") of Content that you 
    post, email or otherwise make available via the Service. Any material which is
    Copyright, TradeMark or Intellectual Proprietary should only be regenerated with permission and 
    clear indication, FPGA Central takes no responsibility of such content. You understand that 
    FPGA Central does not control, and is not responsible for Content made available 
    through the Service, and that by using the Service, you may be exposed to 
    Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise 
    objectionable. Furthermore, the FPGA Central site and Content available through 
    the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely 
    independent of FPGA Central. FPGA Central makes no representation or warranty as 
    to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained 
    in any such site. Your linking to any other webites is at your own risk. 
    You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the 
    use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no 
    circumstances will FPGA Central be liable in any way for any Content or for 
    any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content 
    posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Service. You acknowledge 
    that FPGA Central does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that FPGA Central 
    shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to 
    refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via the Service, for 
    violating the letter or spirit of the TOU or for any other reason.


    4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES

    The FPGA Central site and Content available through the Service may contain 
    features and functionalities that may link you or provide you with access 
    to third party content which is completely independent of FPGA Central, 
    including web sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information 
    and databases, applications, software, programs, products or services, 
    and the Internet as a whole.  

    Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found on or through 
    the Service, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any 
    other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such 
    dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals. 
    You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate 
    before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these 
    third parties.  

    You agree that FPGA Central shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or 
    damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings. If there is 
    a dispute between participants on this site, or between users and any third 
    party, you understand and agree that FPGA Central is under no obligation to 
    become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other 
    users, you hereby release FPGA Central, its officers, agents and 
    successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and 
    consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and 
    unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related 
    to such disputes and / or our service. If you are a California resident, you 
    waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: "A general release does 
    not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in 
    his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must 
    have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."  


    5.  NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT

    If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes
    copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been
    otherwise violated, please notify FPGA Central's agent for notice of claims of
    copyright or other intellectual property infringement ("Agent"), at

    info@fpgacentral.com

    Please provide our Agent with the following Notice:

    a) Identify the material on the craigslist site that you claim is
    infringing, with enough detail so that we may locate it on the website;

    b) A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed
    use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

    c) A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that (1) the above
    information in your Notice is accurate, and (2) that you are the owner of
    the copyright interest involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf
    of that owner;

    d) Your address, telephone number, and email address; and

    e) Your physical or electronic signature.

    FPGA Central will remove the infringing posting(s), subject to the the procedures
    outlined in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).


    6. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE

    FPGA Central has established a Privacy Policy to explain to users how their
    information is collected and used, which is located at the following web 
    address:  

    http://www.fpgacentral.com/privacy 

    Your use of the FPGA Central website or the Service signifies acknowledgement of 
    and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that 
    craigslist may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, 
    as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, 
    and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good faith
    belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
    comply with legal process; enforce the TOU; respond to claims that any
    Content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to claims that contact 
    information (e.g. phone number, street address) of a third-party has been 
    posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; 
    protect the rights, property, or personal safety of FPGA Central, its users or 
    the general public.                


    7. CONDUCT

    You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:

    a) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory,
    libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way;

    b) that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged in actual sexual conduct
    including but not limited to (i) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, 
    oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or
    opposite sex, or (ii) bestiality, or (iii) masturbation, or (iv) sadistic or 
    masochistic abuse, or (v) lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area 
    of any person;

    c) that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or
    group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation,
    race, ethnicity, age, or disability;

    d) that violates federal, state, or local equal employment opportunity
    laws, including but not limited to, stating in any advertisement for
    employment a preference or requirement based on race, color, religion,
    sex, national origin, age, or disability.

    e) with respect to employers that employ four or more employees, that
    violates the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and
    Nationality Act, including requiring U.S. citizenship or lawful
    permanent residency (green card status) as a condition for employment,
    unless otherwise required in order to comply with law, regulation,
    executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract.

    f) that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a
    FPGA Central employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your
    affiliation with a person or entity (this provision does not apply to Content 
    that constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of public figures.);

    g) that includes personal or identifying information about another person
    without that person's explicit consent;

    h) that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or
    constitutes "bait and switch";

    i) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other
    proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do not have a right to
    make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary
    relationships;

    j) that constitutes or contains  "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," 
    "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited 
    commercial advertisement;

    k) that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if:
    posted in areas of the FPGA Central site which are not designated for such 
    purposes; 

    l) that includes links to commercial services or web sites, except as allowed
    in "services";

    m) that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or
    programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any
    computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

    n) that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive amount of 
    Content (flooding attack) to the Service, or that otherwise negatively
    affects other users' ability to use the Service; or

    o) that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise
    manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content
    transmitted through the Service.

    Additionally, you agree not to:

    p) "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;

    q) collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful
    purposes;

    r) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining
    tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly
    permitted by FPGA Central;

    s) post irrelevant Content, repeatedly post the same or similar Content or otherwise 
       impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;

    t) attempt to gain unauthorized access to FPGA Cnetral's computer systems or
    engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes
    with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the Service or the
    FPGA Central website; or

    u) use any form of automated device or computer program that enables the 
    submission of postings on FPGA Central without each posting being manually 
    entered by the author thereof (an "automated posting device"), including
    without limitation, the use of any such automated posting device to submit
    postings in bulk, or for automatic submission of postings at regular intervals.

    8. NO SPAM POLICY

    You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email advertisements to
    FPGA Central email addresses or through craigslist computer systems, which is
    expressly prohibited by these TOU.  Any unauthorized use of FPGA Central computer systems
    is a violation of the TOU and certain federal and state laws, including
    without limitation the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030 et
    seq.), Section 502 of the California Penal Code and Section 17538.45 of the
    California Business and Professions Code.  Such violations may subject the
    sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.


    9. PAID POSTINGS

    We may charge a fee to post Content in some areas of the Service. The fee
    is an access fee permitting Content to be posted in a designated area.
    Each party posting Content to the Service is responsible for said Content
    and compliance with the TOU. All fees paid will be non-refundable in the
    event that Content is removed from the Service for violating the TOU.


    10. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE

    You acknowledge that FPGA Central may establish limits concerning use of the
    Service, including the maximum number of days that Content will be retained
    by the Service, the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or
    other Content that may be transmitted or stored by the Service, and the
    frequency with which you may access the Service. You agree that FPGA Central
    has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any
    Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that
    FPGA Central reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the
    Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that FPGA Central
    shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification,
    suspension or discontinuance of the Service.


    11. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE

    FPGA Central grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access 
    the Service for your own personal use. This license does not include:
    (a) any collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Service 
    nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and 
    extraction tools for any purpose. 
    A limited exception to (b) is provided to general purpose internet search 
    engines and non-commercial public archives that use such tools to gather 
    information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Service, 
    provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses 
    using an easily identifiable agent and comply with our file. 
    
    FPGA Central  may offers various parts of the Service in RSS format so that users
    can embed individual feeds into a personal website or blog, or view postings
    through third party software news aggregators.  FPGA Central may permit you to
    display, excerpt from, and link to the RSS feeds on your personal website
    or personal web blog, provided that (a) your use of the RSS feed is for
    personal, non-commercial purposes only, (b) each title is correctly linked
    back to the original post on the Service and redirects the user to the
    post when the user clicks on it, (c) you provide, adjacent to the RSS
    feed, proper attribution to 'FPGA Central' as the source, (d) your use or
    display does not suggest that FPGA Central promotes or endorses any third
    party causes, ideas, web sites, products or services, (e) you do not
    redistribute the RSS feed, and (f) your use does not overburden
    FPGA Central's systems.  FPGA Central reserves all rights in the content of
    the RSS feeds and may terminate any RSS feed at any time.

    Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access granted to you by
    FPGA Central immediately terminates said permission or license.  In order to
    collect, aggregate, copy, duplicate, display or make derivative use of the
    the Service or any Content made available via the Service for other
    purposes (including commercial purposes) not stated herein, you must first
    obtain a license from FPGA Central.


    12. TERMINATION OF SERVICE

    You agree that FPGA Central, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not
    the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email or IP
    address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any
    part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any
    Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation,
    if FPGA Central believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or
    spirit of the TOU. Further, you agree that FPGA Central shall not be liable
    to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service.
    Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after said termination.
    

    13. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

    Any reproduction, modification, 
    creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the
    site or the collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the sites
    or any portion thereof to any other server or location for further
    reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without the express
    written consent of FPGA Central. You further agree not to reproduce, 
    duplicate or copy Content from the Service without the express written 
    consent of FPGA Central, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices 
    displayed on the Service. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse 
    engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the 
    Service. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, 
    duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any 
    aspect of the Service. 

    
    All the data that on Service will be owned by FPGA Central and you grant, 
    and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to
    FPGA Central an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide
    license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content and to
    prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said Content,
    and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through multiple tiers) of the
    foregoing. Furthermore, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, 
    you automatically grant FPGA Central all rights necessary to prohibit any 
    subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction, or 
    exploitation of the Content on the Service by any party for any purpose.


    14. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

    YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE FPGA CENTRAL SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT
    YOUR OWN RISK. THE FPGA CENTRAL SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS
    IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.  ALL
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    FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.  TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW,
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    WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE
    FPGA CENTRAL SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON
    THE FPGA CENTRAL SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FPGA CENTRAL
    DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN
    CONNECTION WITH THE FPGA CENTRAL SITE OR THE SERVICE.  Some jurisdictions do
    not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties.  In such jurisdictions, some
    of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to
    implied warranties.


    15. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

    UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL FPGA Central BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT,
    INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF FPGA Central
    HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY
    ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE FPGA Central SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE
    DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE FPGA Central SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM
    INABILITY TO USE THE FPGA Central SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION,
    SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE FPGA Central SITE
    OR THE SERVICE.  SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES
    INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR
    ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE FPGA Central SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY
    LINKS ON THE FPGA Central SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR
    ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE FPGA Central SITE
    OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE FPGA Central SITE.  THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL
    APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In some jurisdictions,
    limitations of liability are not permitted.  In such jurisdictions, some of
    the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.


    16. INDEMNITY

    You agree to indemnify and hold FPGA Central, its officers, subsidiaries,
    affiliates, successors, agents, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand,
    including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party
    due to or arising out of Content you submit, post or make available through
    the Service, your use of the Service, your violation of the TOU, your
    breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your
    violation of any rights of another.


    17. VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES

    You understand and agree that, because damages are often difficult to quantify, 
    if it becomes necessary for FPGA Central to pursue legal action to enforce the 
    TOU, you will be liable to pay FPGA Central the following amounts as liquidated 
    damages, which you accept as reasonable estimates of FPGA Central's damages for 
    the specified breaches of the TOU:

    a. If you post a message that (1) impersonates any person or entity; (2)
    falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or
    entity; or (3) that includes personal or identifying information about
    another person without that person's explicit consent, you agree to pay
    FPGA Central one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each such message.
    This provision does not apply to messages that are lawful non-deceptive
    parodies of public figures.

    b. If FPGA Central establishes limits on the frequency with which you may
    access the Service, or terminates your access to or use of the Service, you
    agree to pay FPGA Central one hundred dollars ($100) for each message posted
    in excess of such limits or for each day on which you access FPGA Central in
    excess of such limits, whichever is higher.

    c. If you send unsolicited email advertisements to FPGA Central list email
    addresses or through FPGA Central computer systems, you agree to pay
    FPGA Central twenty five dollars ($25) for each such email (for each 
    email address in the list).

    d. If you post Content in violation of the TOU, other than as described 
    above, you agree to pay FPGA Central one hundred dollars ($100) for each 
    Item of Content posted.  In its sole discretion, FPGA Central may elect 
    to issue a warning before assessing damages.

    e. If you aggregate, display, copy, duplicate, reproduce, or otherwise 
    exploit for any purpose any Content (except for your own Content) in 
    violation of the TOU without FPGA Central's express written permission, 
    you agree to pay FPGA Central three thousand dollars ($3,000) for each day 
    on which you engage in such conduct.

    Otherwise, you agree to pay FPGA Central's actual damages, to the extent such
    actual damages can be reasonably calculated. Notwithstanding any other 
    provision of the TOU, FPGA Central retains the right to seek the remedy 
    of specific performance of any term contained in the TOU, or a preliminary 
    or permanent injunction against the breach of any such term or in aid of the 
    exercise of any power granted in the TOU, or any combination thereof.


    18. FEEDBACK

    We welcome your questions and comments on this document, please contact us through FPGA Central feedback.
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