• 5.1. The Website may provide functionalities for users to upload, download, or post comments, ideas, articles, information, data, text, software, graphics, messages, and other materials or submissions (“End-User Content”). The views and opinions expressed therein do not necessarily reflect those of RF. The end user who posted the End-User Content is solely responsible for such End-User Content.
• 5.2. RF does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of End-User Content and disclaims all liability for any errors, omissions, violation of third party rights or illegal conduct arising from End-User Content posted, emailed, or otherwise transmitted via the Website.
• 5.3. Prohibited End-User Content:You agree not to upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any End-User Content:
  • 5.3.1. that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, indecent, offensive, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
  • 5.3.2. that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or for which the execution of a non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement authorizing the same is required and you are not so covered;
  • 5.3.3. that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
  • 5.3.4. that contains software viruses, malicious software or other contaminating or destructive devices, features 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 or provides information relating to or otherwise facilitating the use of malware or other destructive materials or mechanisms;
  • 5.3.5. that contains advertising or promotional material of any kind;
  • 5.3.6. that contains personally identifiable information pertaining to any party;
  • 5.3.7. that undermines the purpose of the material on the Website and the course with which it is used, including but not limited to promoting the reliability of the bulk power system.
• 5.4. You acknowledge that RF does not pre-screen End-User Content. RF reserves the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to monitor, refuse to post, or remove any End-User Content for any reason. RF reserves the right to terminate your access to the Website to prevent further posting of prohibited End-User Content.
• 5.5. You acknowledge and agree that RF reserves the right to preserve End-User Content indefinitely in the event of a potential violation of these terms or dispute pertaining to End-User Content. You acknowledge and agree that RF further reserves the right to disclose End-User Content in association with your contact and/or personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the terms of service hereunder; (c) respond to claims that any End-User Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of RF, its users and the public.

• 6.1. upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any prohibited End-User Content described in Section 5.3;
• 6.2. impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
• 6.3. upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “Junk mail,” “Spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form solicitation;
• 6.4. use, or attempt to use, any “deep-link,” “scraper,” “robot,” “bot,” “spider,” “data mining,” “computer code” or any other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, process or methodology or manual process having similar processes or functionality, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of the Website, any data or content found on or accessed through the Website or any other RF Materials without the prior express written consent of RF;
• 6.5. obtain, or attempt to obtain, through any means any materials, End-User Content, or any other data, content, software, or code available on or through the Website (“Website Content”) that have not been intentionally made publicly available either by their public display on the Website or through their accessibility by a visible link on the Website;
• 6.6. violate any measure employed to limit or prevent access to the Website or Website Content;
• 6.7. violate the security of the Website or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, Website Content, or computer systems or networks connected to any service of the Website through hacking, password mining or any other means;
• 6.8 .interfere, or attempt to interfere, with the proper working of the Website or any activities conducted on or through the Website, including accessing any Website Content prior to the time that it is intended to be available to the public on the Website;
• 6.9. take or attempt any action that, in the sole discretion of RF, imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load or burden on the Website or the infrastructure of the Website;
• 6.10. disrupt the normal flow of dialogue or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to engage in exchanges or to normally post data or submissions;
• 6.11. interfere with or disrupt the Website, or servers or networks connected to the Website, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Website; or
• 6.12 .intentionally, or unintentionally, violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law.

• 9.1. In obtaining private access to the Website under this Agreement, you certify to RF that: (a) the information you have provided to RF in order to register as an end user is complete, accurate and current; (b) you will notify RF immediately of any change in your registration information; (c) you will not share your login username; and (d) you will timely update your password as required.
• 9.2. If any of these certifications is or becomes untrue, or if you do not comply in full with these requirements, RF has the right to suspend and/or terminate your access to the Website.
• 9.3. You are also responsible for obtaining and using all computer hardware and software required for your access to and use of the Website.
• 9.4. You are responsible for all uses of the Website through your login username and password, whether the use is made by you personally or by someone else. You are responsible for protecting and securing your username and password from unauthorized use and disclosure. In the event that you become aware of or believe there has been any breach of the Website, such as the theft or unauthorized use of your login username and password, you will notify RF immediately by using the form on the “Contact Us” page.

• 10.1. You may terminate your private access rights to use the Website at any time and without cause by notifying RF of your decision to terminate. See Section 15 for details.
• 10.2. RF may, in its sole and absolute discretion, and with or without notice, suspend or terminate your private access to all or any part of the Website, or terminate this Agreement and thus your rights to use the Website, for any conduct or use (whether by you or anyone else having access under your login username or password) that RF believes is a violation of the Agreement or for any other conduct or use that RF believes is harmful to other end users, RFs content providers, the Website, or the interests of RF.

• 11.1. RF’s entire liability to you, and your sole and exclusive remedy, regarding the private access use of the Website shall be the replacement of a login username or password if a currently valid login username or password fails to allow access to the Website.
• 11.2.Your sole right with respect to any disagreement or dissatisfaction with (a) the Agreement, as modified from time to time; (b) access to, use of, or performance of the Website; or (c) any Website Content, is to terminate your access as provided for in Section 10.

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Notice of change to your end-user registration information as referenced under Section 9 is to be done through your online RF Account Profile accessible via the Website or through the RF Portal.

Miscellaneous

• 16.1. This Agreement is personal to you, and you may not assign, transfer or delegate your rights or obligations to anyone. The Agreement shall be governed and interpreted pursuant to the laws of the State of Ohio, notwithstanding any principles of conflicts of law. You specifically consent to personal jurisdiction in Ohio in connection with any dispute between you and RF arising out of the Agreement or pertaining to the subject matter hereof. The parties to the Agreement each agree that the exclusive venue for any dispute between the parties arising out of the Agreement will be in the state and federal courts in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 16.2. You acknowledge that RF will be irreparably harmed by any breach of this Agreement by you or by your unauthorized use of the Website or Website Content and, further, that monetary damages may not be a sufficient remedy for such harm. You agree that RF shall be entitled, without waiving any other rights or remedies and without further demonstration of irreparable harm or the inadequacy of monetary damages, to obtain injunctive or other equitable relief in the event of any breach of this Agreement by you or by your unauthorized use of the Website or Website Content.
• 16.3. Except as otherwise provided in any pertinent non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement, this Agreement is the entire agreement between RF and you with respect to the Website.
• 16.4. Headings in this Agreement are for your convenience only and do not have any legal meaning or effect.
• 16.5. If RF waives or fails to enforce any term or condition of this Agreement on any one or more occasions, whether by conduct or otherwise, its waiver or failure to enforce will not mean that it must waive or cannot enforce such term or condition on any other occasion, or any other term or condition of this Agreement. The meaning of this Agreement cannot be changed by your or RF’s conduct, even if repeated, or by any custom or practice of others engaged in the same or similar businesses.
• 16.6. A printed version of the Agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to the Agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

• 16.7. In the event that any provision of the Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, pursuant to judicial decree or decision, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable according to its terms.