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DictionaryToday.com and the DictionaryToday Toolbar Usage Terms

This page contains the terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") for DictionaryToday.com and the DictionaryToday Toolbar (collectively, "DictionaryToday"). By downloading the DictionaryToday Toolbar, or using the page search functions, you agree to this agreement either for yourself or on behalf of your employer or another entity and agree to be bound by its terms and conditions.

Personal or Internal Business Use Only
DictionaryToday is made available to you for your personal or internal business use in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. If you want to make commercial use of DictionaryToday, including but not limited to selling or distributing DictionaryToday for payment, you must enter into an agreement with CDP or obtain CDP's written permission in advance. If you are asked to register you must provide complete and accurate identification, contact, and other information required as part of the registration process. CDP reserves the right to refuse or discontinue participation to any applicant at any time in its sole discretion.

Prohibited Actions
Except for distributions for internal business and/or personal use to your employees or contractors in compliance with these Terms and Conditions, you may not distribute DictionaryToday or any services or software associated with or derived from it, modify, copy, license, or create derivative works from DictionaryToday, unless you obtain CDP's written permission in advance. If you wish to do any of the above, please contact us by visiting cdpworldwide.com to contact us.

Distribution
Once you have obtained CDP's permission, you may make copies of DictionaryToday and distribute such copies to others provided that any such recipient has had an opportunity to review and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If others to whom you'd like to distribute DictionaryToday do not have this opportunity to review and agree to these Terms and Conditions but you would still like to distribute copies to them, you may do so provided that you have the legal right to bind each of those third parties to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not have this right and the recipients do not have an opportunity to review and agree to these Terms and Conditions, you may not distribute DictionaryToday to them. If you have any questions regarding the terms of distribution, please contact us by visiting cdpworldwide.com .

Automatic Updates
DictionaryToday may communicate with CDP's servers (unless you are using DictionaryToday for internal business use and your settings prevent this communication) to check for available updates to the software, such as bug fixes, patches, enhanced functions, missing plug-ins and new versions (collectively, "Updates"). During this process, DictionaryToday sends CDP a request for the latest version information. By installing DictionaryToday (unless you are using DictionaryToday for internal business use and your settings prevent this communication), you hereby agree to automatically request and receive Updates from CDP's servers.

How to uninstall DictionaryToday Toolbar
You can end your use of DictionaryToday at any time by uninstalling the DictionaryToday Toolbar software through the "Add or Remove Programs" Control Panel.

Information Practices
Protecting users' privacy is very important to CDP. As a condition of downloading and using DictionaryToday, you agree to the terms of the DictionaryToday Privacy Policy [link], which may be updated from time to time, as expressed in the most recent version that exists at the time of your use. Information collected by CDP may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which CDP Inc. or its agents maintain facilities. By using DictionaryToday you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

Intellectual Property
You acknowledge that CDP or third parties own all right, title and interest in and to DictionaryToday, portions thereof, or software or content provided through or in conjunction with DictionaryToday, including without limitation all Intellectual Property Rights. "Intellectual Property Rights" means 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. You agree not to (and agree not to allow third parties to) modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from DictionaryToday, or to extract significant portions of DictionaryToday's files for use in other applications. You also agree to (and agree not to allow third parties to) not remove, obscure, or alter CDP's 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 DictionaryToday.

Changes to Terms and Conditions
CDP reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions from time to time in its sole discretion, without notice or liability to you. You agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, as modified. Please review the most current version of the Terms and Conditions from time to time, located at dictionary.com (or such successor URL as CDP may provide), so that you will be apprised of any changes.

Disclaimer of Warranties
CDP and any third party who makes its software or content available in conjunction with or through DictionaryToday disclaim any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use (or use by your employees, agents or contractors) of DictionaryToday and/or any third party software or content accessed in conjunction with or through DictionaryToday.

DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP AND ANY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE AND CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OR THROUGH DICTIONARYTODAY ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. DICTIONARYTODAY AND SUCH THIRD PARTIES EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. DICTIONARYTODAY AND ANY THIRD PARTY WHO MAKES ITS SOFTWARE OR CONTENT AVAILABLE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OR THROUGH DICTIONARYTODAY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND PERFORMANCE OF DICTIONARYTODAY AND SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR CONTENT. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU DOWNLOAD AND/OR USE DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP AND ALL THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OR THROUGH DICTIONARYTODAY AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OR USE OF DICTIONARYTODAY AND SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE AND CONTENT. SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE AND JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.

Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL DICTIONARYTODAY OR ANY THIRD PARTY WHO MAKES ITS SOFTWARE OR CONTENT AVAILABLE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OR THROUGH DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP BE LIABLE TO ANY USER ON ACCOUNT OF THAT USER'S USE OR MISUSE OF DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP OR SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR CONTENT. SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO PREVENT RECOVERY OF DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHETHER SUCH CLAIM IS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, (EVEN IF DICTIONARYTODAY AND/OR A THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR CONTENT PROVIDER HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF AND RELIANCE ON DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP AND ALL THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OR THROUGH DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP, FROM INABILITY TO USE DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP AND ALL THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OR THROUGH DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP, OR FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP AND ALL THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE AND CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OR THROUGH DICTIONARYTODAY DESKTOP (INCLUDING SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES). SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING A FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Miscellaneous Provisions
These Terms and Conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to the conflict of laws provisions of Delaware or your actual state or country of residence. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of these Terms and Conditions to be unenforceable, the remainder of these Terms and Conditions will continue in full force and effect. These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede and replace all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. Any waiver of any provision of these Terms and Conditions will be effective only if in writing and signed by CDP and/or a third party who make its software and/or content available in conjunction with or through DictionaryToday.

Contacting DictionaryToday.com
If you have any questions regarding these terms and conditions or your experiences with DictionaryToday.com, we encourage you to contact us.

 
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