Terms of Service
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 15, 2005
CURRENT VERSION: May 8, 2006
Welcome to http://www.gritwire.com/ and other gritwire.com domains (hereinafter the "Gritwire Website"), and thank you for visiting the Gritwire Website. Please carefully read the following terms of service (hereinafter "TOS") prior to your initial use of the Gritwire Website, and thereafter, please carefully read each new version of the TOS.
SECTION I. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF GRITWIRE WEBSITE
A. Dizpersion Technologies, Inc. (hereinafter "Dizpersion") provides the Gritwire Website to you subject to the TOS, which may be updated by Dizpersion from time to time on the Gritwire Website without notice to you. You can review the most current version of the TOS at any time at the Gritwire Website.

B. By interfacing with the Gritwire Website in any capacity, you agree to bound by the TOS. In addition, when using the Gritwire Website, you and Dizpersion shall be subject to any posted guidelines, rules or policies applicable to the Gritwire Website, which may be posted from time to time on the Gritwire Website without notice to you. All such guidelines, rules and policies are hereby incorporated by reference into the TOS.
SECTION II. DESCRIPTION OF GRITWIRE WEBSITE
A. The Gritwire Website currently provides users with access to a rich collection of resources, including, but not limited to, various communications tools, forums, shopping services, search services, personalized content and branded programming through Dizpersion's network of properties which may be accessed through various mediums or devices now known or hereafter developed.

B. You also understand and agree that the Gritwire Website may include advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary for Dizpersion to provide the Gritwire Website.

C. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current Gritwire Website shall be subject to the TOS.

D. You understand and agree that the Gritwire Website is provided "AS-IS" by Dizpersion and that Dizpersion assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings.

E. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Gritwire Website and that access may involve third party fees (e.g., Internet service provider fees or airtime charges). You are responsible for such third party fees, including those fees associated with the display or delivery of advertisements. In addition, you must provide and are responsible for all equipment necessary to access the Gritwire Website.

F. Please be aware that Dizpersion has created certain areas on the Gritwire Website that contain adult or mature content. You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to access and view such areas. Dizpersion has the right to limit your access to certain areas if Dizpersion is aware or suspects you are not at least eighteen (18) years of age.
SECTION III. YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS
A. In consideration of registering an account on the Gritwire Website, you agree to:
  1. Provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Gritwire Website's registration form (hereinafter the "Registration Data"); and
  2. Maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
B. Registration Data and certain other information about you is subject to our Privacy Policy. For more information, see our full privacy policy at the Gritwire Website.

C. If you provide any Registration Data that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Dizpersion has reasonable grounds to suspect that your Registration Data is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, then Dizpersion has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Gritwire Website or any portion thereof.

D. Dizpersion is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users, particularly children. For this reason, Dizpersion does not allow the registration of accounts by children under the age of thirteen (13). If you are the parent or guardian of a child of under the age of eighteen (18), it is your responsibility to determine whether the Gritwire Website is appropriate for the child.
SECTION IV. MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY
A. You will define or receive a password and account designation upon completing the Gritwire Website's registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account.

B. You agree to:
  1. Immediately notify Dizpersion at of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security; and
  2. Ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.
C. Dizpersion cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section IV.
SECTION V. MEMBER CONDUCT
A. For consideration in registering a member account on the Gritwire Website, you agree to not to use the Gritwire Website to:
  1. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any information, data, text or other materials (hereinafter "Content") that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
  2. Harm minors in any way;
  3. Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Dizpersion official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
  4. Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Gritwire Website;
  5. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (e.g., inside information, and proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
  6. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
  7. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas of the Gritwire Website that are designated for such purpose;
  8. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material 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;
  9. Interfere with or disrupt the Gritwire Website or servers or networks connected to the Gritwire Website, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Gritwire Website;
  10. Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law;
  11. "Stalk" or otherwise harass another;
  12. Collect or store personal data about other users;
  13. Provide links to or promote competing websites without prior permission by Dizpersion;
  14. Monitor traffic or make search requests in order to accumulate information about individual users;
  15. Modify, delete, or damage any information contained on a computer system of any user of the Gritwire Website;
  16. Intentionally make available any misinformation; and
  17. Use the communication tools of the Gritwire Website ( e.g., e-mail, messaging, blogging and the like) to send unsolicited bulk communications, to authorize others to use your account or sub-accounts to send unsolicited bulk communications, to cause unsolicited bulk communications to be sent by someone else, and to harvest or collect information about users of the Gritwire Website and use that information for the purpose of sending unsolicited bulk communications.
B. You agree that Dizpersion may take any legal remedy and any technical remedy deemed necessary by Dizpersion to prevent or cure any member misconduct by you under this section V.

C. You agree that any violation of this Section V by you may result in immediate termination of your member account and legal action against you by Dizpersion.
SECTION VI. CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE GRITWIRE WEBSITE
A. Dizpersion does not control the Content posted via the Gritwire Website and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Gritwire Website, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.

B. Under no circumstances will Dizpersion be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Gritwire Website.

C. You acknowledge that Dizpersion does not pre-screen Content, but that Dizpersion and its designees shall have the right, but not the obligation, in their sole discretion to refuse or move any Content that is available via the Gritwire Website, including, but not limited to Content that:
  1. Is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry , hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
  2. Harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
  3. Involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
  4. Promotes information that You know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
  5. Promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
  6. Contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
  7. Displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind; (8) Provides material that exploits people under the age of eighteen (18) in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under the age of eighteen (18);
  8. Provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
  9. Solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
  10. Engages in commercial activities and/or sales without Dizpersion's written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes; and
  11. Solicits people you don't know to add you or accept you as a contact in the community section of the Gritwire Website.
D. Without limiting the foregoing, Dizpersion and its designees shall have the right to remove any Content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable.

E. agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by Dizpersion or submitted to Dizpersion.

F. Dizpersion does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Gritwire Website. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Gritwire Website, you grant Dizpersion the following world-wide, irrevocable, royalty free and non-exclusive license(s) to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display the Content in any medium. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Gritwire Website and will terminate at the time you remove or Dizpersion removes such Content from the Gritwire Website.

G. "Publicly accessible" areas of the Gritwire Website are those areas of Dizpersion that are intended by Dizpersion to be available to the general public.

H. You understand that Content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not Dizpersion, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Gritwire Website.

I. You acknowledge and agree that Dizpersion may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
  1. Comply with legal process;
  2. Enforce the TOS;
  3. Respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or
  4. Protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Dizpersion, its users and the public.
J. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Gritwire Website, including your Content, may involve:
  1. Transmissions over various networks; and
  2. Changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.
SECTION VII. SUPPORT BY DIZPERSION
A. You agree that your use of the Gritwire Website is at your own risk and that Dizpersion provides no assistance to you other than the information posted on the Gritwire Website.

B. Dizpersion is under no obligation to provide you with any error corrections, updates, upgrades, bug fixes and/or enhancements of the Gritwire Website.
SECTION VIII. ENDORSEMENT BY DIZPERSION
A. The Gritwire Website may contain links to other web sites, resources and advertisers. Dizpersion is not responsible for the availability of these external sites nor does it endorse, or is it responsible for, the aesthetics, appeal, suitability to taste or subjective quality of informational content, advertising, products or other materials made available on or through such external sites.

B. Under no circumstances shall Dizpersion or any of the affiliated providers be held responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage caused or alleged to have been caused to you in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on such external sites. You should direct any concerns to such external sites' administrator or Webmaster.
SECTION IX. ELECTRONIC DELIVERY POLICY
A. Dizpersion, as an online business, transacts with its users electronically. WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR THE GRITWIRE WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO RECEIVE ELECTRONICALLY FROM DISZPERION AGREEMENTS, POLICIEIS, DISCLOSURES, REPORTS, DOCUMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, OR OTHER RECORDS (COLLECTIVELY HEREINAFTER, "NOTICES").

B. You agree that Dizpersion generally can send you electronic Notices in either or both of the following ways:
  1. To the e-mail address that you provided to Dizpersion during registration; or
  2. Dizpersion may post Notices on a welcoming screen, top page, or through a message delivery system of the Gritwire Website.
C. The delivery of any Notice from Dizpersion is effective when sent by Dizpersion, regardless of whether you read the Notice when you receive it or whether you actually receive the delivery.

D. Your only method of withdrawing consent to receive Notices electronically from Dizpersion is to terminate your member account of the Gritwire Website under these Terms of Service.
SECTION X. NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY
The Gritwire Website is made available to you for your non-commercial use only. If You want to make commercial use of the Gritwire Website, including, but not limited to selling or distributing the Gritwire Website for payment or the posting of advertising or marketing messages in the Gritwire Website, then you must enter into an agreement with Dizpersion or obtain Dizpersion's written permission in advance. Further, you may not distribute the Gritwire Website or software associated with or derived from it, modify, copy, license, or create derivative works from the Gritwire Website, unless you obtain Dizpersion's written permission in advance.
SECTION XI. SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE
Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable Content. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.
SECTION XII. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold Dizpersion, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit or make available through the Gritwire Website, your use of the Gritwire Website, your connection to the Gritwire Website, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights of another.
SECTION XIII. NO RESALE OF GRITWIRE WEBSITE
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Gritwire Website, use of the Gritwire Website, or access to the Gritwire Website without the express written permission of Dizpersion.
SECTION XIV. GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE
A. You acknowledge that Dizpersion may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Gritwire Website, including without limitation:
  1. The maximum number of days that message board postings or other uploaded Content will be retained by the Gritwire Website;
  2. The maximum number of email messages that may be sent from or received by an account on the Gritwire Website;
  3. The maximum size of any email message that may be sent from or received by an account on the Gritwire Website;
  4. The maximum disk space that will be allotted on Dizpersion's servers on your behalf, and
  5. The maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access the Gritwire Website in a given period of time.
B. You agree that Dizpersion has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other Content maintained or transmitted by the Gritwire Website.

C. You acknowledge that Dizpersion reserves the right to log off accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time. You further acknowledge that Dizpersion reserves the right to change these general practices and limits at any time, in its sole discretion, with or without notice.
SECTION XV. MODIFICATIONS TO THE GRITWIRE WEBSITE
Dizpersion reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Gritwire Website (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Dizpersion shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Gritwire Website.
SECTION XVI. TERMINATION
A. You agree that Dizpersion, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the Gritwire Website, and remove and discard any Content within the Gritwire Website, for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if Dizpersion believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS.

B. You agree that any termination of your access to the Gritwire Website under any provision of this TOS may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that Dizpersion may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or the Gritwire Website. Further, you agree that Dizpersion shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Gritwire Website.
SECTION XVII. DEALINGS WITH ADVERTISERS
A. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Gritwire Website, including payment and delivery of related goods or Gritwire Websites, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser.

B. You agree that Dizpersion shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Gritwire Website.
SECTION XVIII. LINKS
The Gritwire Website may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because Dizpersion has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that Dizpersion is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that Dizpersion shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such Content, goods or Gritwire Websites available on or through any such site or resource.
SECTION XIX. DIZPERSIONS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
A. You acknowledge that Dizpersion or third parties all right, title and interest in and to the Gritwire Website, portions thereof, or software provided through or in conjunction with the Gritwire Service, including without limitation all Intellectual Property Rights owed by Dizpersion, which shall mean any and all rights existing from time to time under patent law, copyright law, trade secret law, trademark law, unfair competition law, and any and all other proprietary rights, and any and all applications, renewals, extensions and restorations thereof, now or hereafter in force and effect worldwide.

B. You agree not to violate any of the Intellectual Property Rights owned by Dizpersion, including, but not limited to:
  1. You agree not to modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Gritwire Website, or to extract significant portions of the Gritwire Website for use in other applications. You also agree to not remove, obscure, or alter the Gritwire Website or any third party's copyright notice, trademarks, or other proprietary rights notices affixed to or contained within or accessed in conjunction with or through the Gritwire Website;
  2. You acknowledge the Gritwire Website is protected by copyright pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions and other copyright laws, and all materials contained on the Gritwire Website are protected by copyright and are owned or controlled by Dizpersion or the party credited as the provider of the content. You therefore agree to abide by any and all additional copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any part of this TOS and that any copying or storing any part of the Gritwire Service is expressly prohibited by Dizpersion without prior written permission from Dizpersion or the copyright holder as identified on the Gritwire Website;
  3. GRITWIRE, SPEEDFEED and other service marks, trademarks and logos displayed on the Gritwire Website (hereinafter the "Trademarks") are the property of Dizpersion or its licensors, and you agree not to display or use the Trademarks in any manner; and
  4. Permission to use materials from the Gritwire Website is granted provided that: (a) The copyright notice appears in all copies; (b) Use of such materials is for informational and non-commercial or personal use only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or broadcast in any media; and (c) No modifications of the materials are made.
SECTION XX. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
A. YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
  1. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. DIZPERSION EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT;
  2. DIZPERSION MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED;
  3. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL; and
  4. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM DIZPERSION OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.
SECTION XXI. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT DIZPERSION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF DIZPERSION HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM:
  1. THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE GRITWIRE WEBSITE;
  2. THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE GRITWIRE WEBSITE;
  3. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA;
  4. STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE GRITWIRE WEBSITE; OR
  5. ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE GRITWIRE WEBSITE.
SECTION XXII. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF SECTIONS XX AND XXI MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
SECTION XXIII. COPYRIGHTS and COPYRIGHT AGENTS
A. Dizpersion respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. 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, the please provide Dizpersion's Copyright Agent with the following information:
  1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
  2. A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
  3. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
  4. Your address, telephone number, and email address;
  5. 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; and
  6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.
B. Dizpersion's Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached by the email address of
SECTION XXIV. CONSENT TO COLLECT NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Dizpersion may collect certain non-personally identifiable information that resides on Your computer, including, without limitation, the number of searches you do, the number of SpeedFeed items viewed, and the like. This information will be used by Dizpersion only for purposes of operating and improving future versions of the Gritwire Website and will not be disclosed to any third party in non-aggregate form.
SECTION XXV. PERMISION TO UTILIZE
A. In order to receive the benefits provided by the Gritwire Website, you hereby grant permission for the Gritwire Website to utilize the processor and bandwidth of the computer resources and communication channels you employ to access the Gritwire Website for the limited purpose of facilitating the communication between you, the Gritwire Website, and other Gritwire Website users.

B. You understand that the Dizpersion will use its commercially reasonable efforts to protect the privacy and integrity of your computer resources and communication channels you employ to access the Gritwire Website. However, you acknowledge and agree that Dizpersion cannot give any warranties in this respect.
SECTION XXVI. MISCELLANEOUS
A. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Dizpersion and govern your use of the Gritwire Website, superseding any prior agreements between You and Dizpersion. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other Dizpersion services, affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software.

B. Choice of Law and Forum. This Agreement and the relationship between you and Dizpersion shall be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and Dizpersion agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Cook, Illinois.

C. Waiver and Severability of Terms. The failure of Dizpersion to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect.

D. No Right of Survivorship and Non-Transferability. You agree that your Dizpersion account is non-transferable and any rights to your member account of the Gritwire Website or contents within your account terminate upon your death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your member account may be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted.

E. Statute of Limitations. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or this Agreement must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

F. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other members of the Gritwire Website, and Dizpersion reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members of the Gritwire Website

G. Section Titles. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
SECTION XXVII. VIOLATIONS
Please report any violations of this TOS to our Support group at