Visitor Agreement
Welcome to GeoNovaGroup.com, one of the family of informational, educational
and entertainment-oriented websites brought to you by Discovery Communications,
LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates ("Discovery"). Please read this Visitor
Agreement; by using this website, you accept its terms.
This Visitor Agreement applies to all of the websites where it is posted.
Those websites are referred to collectively in this Visitor Agreement as the
"Discovery Sites." Additional terms and conditions may apply to some services
offered on the Discovery Sites. Such terms and conditions may be found at the
place where the relevant service is offered. For example, policies governing
purchases through DiscoveryStore.com can be found at the bottom of each
DiscoveryStore.com page.
The Web is an evolving medium; we may change the terms of this
Visitor Agreement from time to time. By continuing to use any of the
Discovery Sites after we post any such changes, you accept this Visitor
Agreement, as modified. We may change, restrict access to, suspend or
discontinue the Discovery Sites, or any portion of the Discovery Sites,
at any time. Discovery respects the privacy of our users. Please take a
few minutes to review our Privacy Policy.
If you disagree with any material you find on the Discovery Sites,
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any material you believe to be factually inaccurate by contacting our
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and entertainment purposes only. Despite our efforts to provide useful
and accurate information, errors may appear from time to time. Before
you act on information you've found on the Discovery Sites, you should
confirm any facts that are important to your decision. Discovery and
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accuracy, timeliness, usefulness or completeness of the information
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guarantee the performance of, goods and services provided by our
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any product, service or other material offered on that site) by
Discovery or its licensors.
NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2),
notifications of claimed copyright infringement must be sent to Service
Provider's Designated Agent. Service Provider: AT&T
Name of Agent Designated to Receive Notification of Claimed
Infringement: Aaron Holbert
Full Address of Designated Agent to Which Notification
Should Be Sent: Aaron Holbert, Legal Affairs, Discovery
Communications, LLC, One Discovery Place, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Telephone Number of Designated Agent: 240.662.0000
Facsimile Number of Designated Agent: 240.662.1903
E-Mail Address of Designated Agent: DMCA@discovery.com
To be effective, the notification must be a written communication
that includes the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed,
or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered
by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to
be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access
to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit
us to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the
complaining party, such as an address, telephone number and, if
available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party
may be contacted;
- A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief
that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized
by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and,
under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act
on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
We may give notice to our users by means of a general notice on any of our
websites, electronic mail to a user's e-mail address in our records, or
written communication sent by first-class mail to a user's physical address
in our records. If you receive such a notice, you may provide counter-notification
in writing to the designated agent that includes the information below.
To be effective, the counter-notification must be a written communication
that includes the following:
- Your physical or electronic signature;
- Identification of the material that has been removed or to which
access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared
before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
- A statement from you, under penalty of perjury, that you have a
good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result
of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or
disabled; and
- Your name, physical address and telephone number, and a
statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of a Federal District Court
for the judicial district in which your physical address is located,
or if your physical address is outside of the United States, for any
judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept
service of process from the person who provided notification of
allegedly infringing material or an agent of such person.
In submitting user-generated video to the Discovery Sites, you agree
to the following terms and conditions: For good and valuable consideration,
the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, you grant
Discovery Communications, LLC ("Discovery"), Discovery's joint venture
partners, vendors, production companies, and programming and content
distributors, and the parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees,
successors and assigns of all of the foregoing (collectively, the
"DCI Parties") a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid
up license to make use of and distribute your user-generated video
submitted hereunder, as well your name, voice, likeness and appearance
therein (if any) and the personally identifying information you
provide on or in connection therewith (collectively, the "Video
Submission"), as further described below. You acknowledge and agree
that you shall not be entitled to share in any revenue that the DCI
Parties may or may not earn or generate through its use of your Video Submission.
DCI Parties' Right to Use Your Video Submission. You grant the DCI
Parties the non-exclusive right to edit in any manner, and to use and
distribute and license others to use and distribute, your Video Submission,
or any portions, reproductions or versions thereof, on the websites,
products and/or services (in any and all media, now known or hereafter
invented, including without limitation television, home video/DVD
products, and mobile services) of the DCI Parties, an unlimited number
of times, in perpetuity, throughout the world, with or without charge
or cost to end-users or other third parties. You also grant the DCI
Parties the right to use and distribute, and license others to use and
distribute, your Video Submission in the promotion of such websites,
products and/or services, to the same extent permitted for use and
distribution of your Video Submission hereunder.
Clearance of Your Video Submission for the DCI Parties' Use. You represent
and warrant that your Video Submission is your original work and that you
have secured any and all rights, releases and permissions necessary for
the DCI Parties' use and distribution of your Video Submission hereunder,
including without limitation those related to any people, places, music,
performances of dance or music, video, photographs and/or graphics in your
Video Submission (collectively, the "Elements"). You represent and warrant
that, to the best of your knowledge, no further permissions or fees are due
for the DCI Parties' use and distribution of your Video Submission or any
Elements therein. You further represent and warrant that any statements
made by you or others in the Video Submission are true to the best of
your knowledge and that neither they, nor any Element of your Video
Submission, will violate any law or regulation or violate or infringe
upon the rights of any third party.
Waiver of Right of Approval. You hereby waive any right of inspection or
approval of your Video Submission as used and distributed by the DCI
Parties, including without limitation any approval of your appearance
and/or use of your name therewith or the uses to which either may be put.
Release and Waiver; Indemnification. You acknowledge that the DCI Parties
will rely on the foregoing terms and conditions potentially at substantial
cost to them, and you hereby waive the right to assert any claim of any
nature whatsoever against any party relating to the exercise of the
rights and permissions granted hereunder. You agree to indemnify, defend
and hold harmless the DCI Parties from any and all claims arising from
their use and distribution of your Video Submission as permitted herein.
COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, AND BLOGS
Discovery wants to encourage an open exchange of information and ideas
through the Discovery Sites. But we cannot and do not review every posting
made on Discovery’s community and social media sites, or in chat rooms,
forums, blogs, and other public posting areas. You can expect these areas
to include content, information, and opinions from a variety of individuals
and organizations other than Discovery. We do not endorse or guarantee the
accuracy of any posting, regardless of whether the posting comes from a user,
from a celebrity or "expert" guest, or from a member of our staff. There is
no substitute for healthy skepticism and your own good judgment.
Responsibility for what is posted on Discovery’s community and social
media sites, or in chat rooms, forums, blogs and other public posting areas
on the Discovery Sites lies with each user -- you alone are responsible for
material you post. Discovery does not control the messages, information or
other content that you or others may provide through the Discovery Sites.
You may use the Discovery Sites for lawful purposes only.
By using the Discovery Sites, you agree not to submit, post or transmit
through the Discovery Sites any material or otherwise engage in any conduct
that:
- Violates or infringes the rights of others including, without limitation,
patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, publicity, privacy or other
proprietary rights;
- Allows you to gain unauthorized access to the Discovery Sites, or
any account, computer system, or network connected to the Discovery Sites,
by means such as hacking, password mining or other illicit means;
- Is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous,
deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortuous, or contains
explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of, sexual acts;
- Victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or
group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation,
race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
- Collects for marketing purposes any email addresses or other personal
information that has been posted by other users of the Discovery Sites.
- Impersonates any person, business or entity, including Discovery and
its employees and agents or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your
affiliation with any person, business or entity, including Discovery;
- Contains an advertisement or solicitation or encourages others to
make a donation;
- Contains viruses or any other computer code, files or programs that
interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software
or hardware or telecommunications equipment, or otherwise permit the
unauthorized use of a computer or computer network;
- Encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense or that
gives rise to civil liability or that otherwise encourages others to
commit illegal activities or cause injury or property damage to any
other person;
- Results in the posting or transmission of any message anonymously
or under a false name;
- Permits any person to access, using your account, any features
of the Discovery Sites that may require registration;
- Results in a single message being posted to more than five areas
of any Discovery Site, results in any message being posted to any area
of the Discovery Sites if that message is, in our view, off-topic or in
violation of this Visitor Agreement; or
- Violates these Terms of Use, guidelines or any policy posted on the
Discovery Sites, or interferes with the use of the Discovery Sites by others.
Although Discovery cannot monitor all content on Discovery’s community
and social media sites, or postings in the chat rooms, forums, blogs and
other public posting areas, you understand that Discovery shall have the
right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of the Discovery
Sites to determine compliance with this Visitor Agreement and any other
operating rules that may be established by Discovery from time to time.
Discovery shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to edit, move,
delete, or refuse to post any material, including but not limited to
Video Submissions, submitted to or posted on the Discovery Sites for
any reason, including violation of these Terms of Use, whether for legal
or other reasons, or because the material is objectionable or stale.
Notwithstanding this right of ours, users shall remain solely responsible
for the content of their messages and Video Submissions. You acknowledge
and agree that neither Discovery nor any of its affiliates shall assume or
have any liability for any action or inaction by Discovery with respect to
any conduct within the Discovery Sites or any communication or posting on
the Discovery Sites. Discovery also reserves the right to disclose any
information that Discovery believes necessary to satisfy any law, regulation
or governmental request, or to refuse to post or to remove any information or
materials, in whole or in part.
Discovery requires you not to use the Discovery Sites to violate anyone's
copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights. By posting or
submitting any material (including, without limitation, photographs and
videos) to the Discovery Sites, you are warranting and representing that
you own or have the right to post or make such submission of the material,
or are making your submission or posting with the express consent of the
owner, and that no other party has any right, claim, or interest in the
material that you have submitted or posted. You also warrant that all
moral rights in any material that you submit to us or post have been
waived. Submitting or posting material that is the property of another,
without the consent of its owner, is not only a violation of this Visitor
Agreement, but may also subject you to legal liability for infringement
of copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights.
USE OF MATERIALS
With the exception of any and all Video Submissions (Discovery’s
permitted use of which is discussed above) and any material posted on
Discovery’s community and social media sites, all other material you
submit to any of our chat rooms, forums, blogs and other public posting
areas, whether text or images, becomes the property of Discovery and may
be reproduced, modified and distributed as we see fit, in any medium,
for any purpose and in perpetuity. Further, you understand that by posting
material on Discovery’s community and social media sites, you are granting
to Discovery, and to anyone authorized by Discovery, a royalty-free,
perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to
display, use, copy, modify, transmit, sell, exploit, create derivative
works from, distribute, and/or publicly perform such materials posted on
Discovery’s community and social media sites, in whole or in part, in any
manner or medium, now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose. The
foregoing grant shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights
in such posting or submission, including, but not limited to, rights under
copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction.
Also, in connection with the exercise of such rights, you grant Discovery, and
anyone authorized by Discovery, the right to identify you as the author of
any of your postings or submissions by name, email address or screen name,
as Discovery deems appropriate. Please also note the last paragraph in
the “COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, AND BLOGS"
section above. Click here for the terms and conditions that govern the
submission of user-generated video to the Discovery Sites.
The materials available through the Discovery Sites are the property of
Discovery or its licensors, and are protected by copyright, trademark and
other intellectual property laws. You are free to display and print for
your personal, non-commercial use information you receive through the
Discovery Sites. But you may not otherwise reproduce any of the materials
without the prior written consent of the owner. You may not distribute copies
of materials found on the Discovery Sites in any form (including by e-mail or
other electronic means), without prior written permission from the owner.
Of course, you're free to encourage others to access the information themselves
on the Discovery Sites, and to tell them how to find it.
LINKING
We welcome links to the Discovery Sites. You are usually free to
establish a hypertext link to any of the Discovery Sites so long as the
link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your site
by any of the Discovery Sites or by Discovery. However, you should check
the copyright notice on the page to which you wish to link to make sure
that one of our content providers does not have its own policies regarding
direct links to their content on the Discovery Sites.
NO SOLICITING
You agree not to use the Discovery Sites to advertise, or to solicit
anyone to buy or sell, products or services, nor to solicit anyone to
make donations of any kind, without our express written approval.
NO SPAMMING OR SPIMMING
From time to time, users post their e-mail addresses in our chat
rooms, forums, blogs and other public posting areas. You may not gather
these e-mail addresses for commercial or illegal purposes, such as
sending unsolicited or unrequested e-mail or instant messages.
NO FRAMING
Without the prior written permission of Discovery, you may not frame,
or make it appear that a third-party site is presenting or endorsing, any
of the content of the Discovery Sites, or incorporate any intellectual
property of the Discovery Sites, Discovery or any of their licensors into
another website or other service.
TRADEMARKS
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use any trademark or service mark appearing on the Discovery Sites
without the prior written consent of the owner of the mark.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY
We work hard to make the Discovery Sites interesting and enjoyable
places, but we cannot guarantee that our users will always find everything
to their liking. Please read this Disclaimer carefully before using any of
the Discovery Sites.
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MISCELLANEOUS
The Discovery staff works hard to ensure that information we
post to the Discovery Sites is both timely and accurate. But the news
changes over time and reports that were accurate when posted may
quickly become old news. Though we may post follow-up reports, and
may continue to provide access to the original report, as in an archive
of news stories, for example, we don't go back and change the original
report to reflect new developments. If you're looking for the most
recent information on a given subject, and not the history of how the
story unfolded, be sure you're not looking at an out-of-date report.
To obtain access to certain services on the Discovery Sites, you may be
given an opportunity to register with the Discovery Sites. As part of any
such registration process, you will select a user name and a password. You
agree that the information you supply during that registration process will
be accurate and complete. You also agree not to (i) select, register, or
attempt to register, or use a user name of another person with the intention
of impersonating that person; (ii) use a user name of anyone else without
authorization; (iii) use a user name in violation of the intellectual
property rights of any person; or (iv) use a user name that Discovery
considers to be offensive. Discovery reserves the right to reject or
terminate any user name or password that, in its judgment, it deems
offensive. You will be responsible for preserving the confidentiality
of your password and will notify Discovery of any known or suspected
unauthorized use of your account. Further, you agree that you are
responsible for all statements made and acts or omissions that occur
on your account while your password is being used. If you believe
someone has used your password or account without your authorization,
you must notify Discovery immediately. Discovery reserves the right to
access and disclose any information including, without limitation, user
names of accounts and other information to comply with applicable laws
and lawful government requests. You must be at least 13 years old to
register on Discovery.com. Please inform Discovery if there is a change
in the information you provided at the time of your initial registration,
including any change of address or name, by contacting our representatives
at 1-800-889-9950 or filling out the form at
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You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Discovery Communications,
LLC, its affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors
and suppliers, from and against any and all losses, expenses, damages and costs
(including reasonable attorneys' fees) resulting from any violation of this
Visitor Agreement or any activity related to your account (including negligent
or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing any Discovery Site
using your account.
This Visitor Agreement has been made in and shall be construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland. By using the Discovery
Sites, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal
courts located in Maryland, in all disputes arising out of or relating to
this Visitor Agreement.
In the event that any portion of this Visitor Agreement is found to be
invalid or unenforceable for any reason, such invalidity or unenforceability
shall not affect the enforceability or validity of any other portion of this
Visitor Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect and be
construed as if the invalid or unenforceable portion were not part of
the Visitor Agreement.
USE OF HEALTH INFORMATION FROM DISCOVERYHEALTH.COM
The information that appears on DiscoveryHealth.com is presented in
summary form only and is intended to provide general consumer understanding of
health care topics. The information should not be used in place of a visit,
call or consultation with a physician or other health care provider.
DiscoveryHealth.com does not recommend the self-management of health
or medical problems, nor does DiscoveryHealth.com promote or recommend
any particular form of medical or alternative treatment. People using
information accessed through DiscoveryHealth.com should also research
original sources of authority, including with your physician or other
health care provider. Information obtained by using DiscoveryHealth.com
is not exhaustive and does not cover all diseases, ailments, physical
conditions or their treatment. Should you have any health care-related
questions, please call or visit your physician or other health care
provider. You should never disregard medical advice -- or delay in
seeking it -- because of something you have read on DiscoveryHealth.com.
You should always seek prompt medical care for any specific health issue
and consult a physician before starting a fitness regimen.
ASSOCIATED PRESS CONTENT
The Discovery Sites include certain content owned by the Associated
Press. Without limiting the generality of any of the foregoing provisions
of this Visitor Agreement, you specifically acknowledge and agree that
(a) Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material
shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or
publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium;
(b) no Associated Press materials nor any portion thereof may be stored
in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use; (c) the
Associated Press will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies,
errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of
all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the
foregoing; (d) the Associated Press is an intended third-party
beneficiary of this Visitor Agreement and may exercise all rights
and remedies available to it; and (e) the Associated Press reserves
the right to audit possible unauthorized commercial use of Associated
Press materials or any portion thereof at any time.
By using the Discovery Sites, you agree to abide by the terms
of this Visitor Agreement. We hope you enjoy using the Discovery Sites,
and we welcome suggestions for improvements. Thanks for making the
Discovery Sites part of your discoveries online!
Last update: October 30, 2008