Terms of Use

By reading, linking to, quoting, or in any way making use of my weblog’s content in any means, place, or forum, you agree to the following:

1. All original content of thomasparkerhudson.com is copyrighted by thomasparkerhudson.com’s owner, Thomas Parker Hudson, and is not to be used without permission except as provided herein. thomasparkerhudson.com is a trademark belonging to Thomas Parker Hudson. In using this weblog you recognize that all content is provided on an as-is basis, and that no factual statement on this site should be relied upon without further investigation on your part. These terms of use are subject to change, and should be reviewed regularly.

2. Privacy: thomasparkerhudson.com doesn’t collect any information about you. thomasparkerhudson.com isn’t even interested in any information about you. But our advertisers and traffic monitoring service do automatically collect anonymous information about the comings and goings of our readers.

3. Permission is granted to read, quote, cite, link to, print out or otherwise use thomasparkerhudson.com content, so long as you comply with the terms below.

A. All quotations from thomasparkerhudson.com will include credit to thomasparkerhudson.com or to
Thomas Parker Hudson and, wherever practicable, a hyperlink of the form http://thomasparkerhudson.com … to the site.

B. In exchange for the access to thomasparkerhudson.com content described above, you agree not to sue thomasparkerhudson.com for its content, whether original or linked or quoted from another source, in any court, on any grounds whatsoever in law or equity. Should you violate this agreement by filing such a lawsuit, you agree to pay thomasparkerhudson.com’s owner or owners the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) as liquidated damages, in addition to all attorney’s fees, court costs, and other expenses associated with this litigation, and to indemnify and save harmless
thomasparkerhudson.com and its owners from any damage award made against them in such an action. Should this agreement not to sue be held unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, you agree to binding arbitration, with all arbitration
expenses to be paid by you. The arbitration panel shall be composed of three people selected by thomasparkerhudson.com’s owner or operators. The award in such arbitration shall be limited to (1) a monetary sum not to exceed $10; and (2) the publication of a retraction on the thomasparkerhudson.com site. Should this arbitration provision be held
unenforceable in a court of competent jurisdiction, you agree to accept as liquidated damages in any lawsuit against thomasparkerhudson.com the sum of ten dollars ($10), and you agree that you will be entitled to no other relief of any kind in
law or equity. You agree that all disputes concerning these terms of use or the content of thomasparkerhudson.com are to be resolved in the courts of Lorain County, Ohio, under the laws of Ohio and the United States of America.

C. You agree that efforts to obtain thomasparkerhudson.com content in violation or circumvention of these terms of use constitute a violation of thomasparkerhudson.com’s copyright and you understand and agree that (1) by virtue of this agreement you are estopped from arguing otherwise: and (2) such violations may lead to civil or criminal penalties.

D. If you are a corporation, you agree to provide, upon the filing of any lawsuit or the mailing of any letter threatening legal action, a bond in the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) as security against the liquidated damages provided for in paragraph 3.B. above. If you are an attorney or law firm representing a party filing such lawsuit or causing such a letter to be sent, you agree to provide a bond in the same amount as security against the liquidated damages provided for in paragraph 3.B. above unless you have never accessed, viewed, read, or otherwise made use of thomasparkerhudson.com content in any
form.

4. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please exit the site immediately.

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