Legal Notice

 

Last updated on March 31, 2008.

PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

Decipher Inc. is the sole owner, Licensee, or fair-use user of all content on decipher.com including without limitation, all applicable U.S. and non-U.S. copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, distinctive names, logos and images, information, data, software, photographs, videos, typefaces, graphics, sounds, and other intellectual property rights ("Site Materials") that are included and are used in the production, advertising, promotion, distribution and sale of Decipher products and services.

To the best of your knowledge and abilty, you agree that these proprietary rights are valid and protected in all forms, media and technologies existing now or hereinafter developed. The Site Materials are copyrighted individually and as a collective work under the U.S. copyright laws, and Decipher owns the copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of Site Materials. Decipher and its Licensors respectively reserve all rights to the Site Materials.

You may not modify, remove, delete, augment, add to, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit any of the Site Materials, in whole or in part. If no specific restrictions are displayed, you may make copies of select portions of the Site Materials as identified in the Use of Site Materials section.

You are strictly prohibited from creating works or materials that derive from or are based on the Site Materials or messages contained on decipher.com including without limitation, fonts, icons, link buttons, wallpaper, desktop themes, online postcards and greeting cards, unlicensed merchandise, content, audio and video. This prohibition applies regardless of whether the derivative materials are sold, bartered or given away, and this prohibition specifically applies to the rights of all Decipher Licensors.

Use of any software used on, in conjunction with, or underlying decipher.com shall be governed by a separate software license agreement.

Decipher allows you to reference its Site Materials in discussion but they may not be used to title, brand or identify or in any way name your own personal web page or products except as described in the Use of Site Materials section. When you reference a Decipher product, you must use a "TM" next to tradenames, a "®" next to registered trademarks, and also give Decipher credit for tradenames and trademarks in accordance with the Credit Guidelines section. All other uses of Site Materials require the express written permission of Decipher and its Licensors as the case may be.

USE OF SITE MATERIALS

Decipher supports and encourages the open discussion and publication of information about our products. For example, you are welcome to reprint accurately FAQs, card lists, sample games, packaging, and rules (for the purpose of promoting or explaining Decipher products). You may also copy, only for posting on your personal website, up to and including six (6) complete and unmodified card images. At no time may more than six (6) complete and unmodified images appear on your personal website at any one time without receiving additional, written permission from Decipher.

Copies must be of the entire card; no extraction, remanipulation, cutting or pasting of partial card images are permitted, nor are you permitted to create and/or post "dream cards". Whenever you republish any images as permitted by this section, you must give Decipher and Licensors credit in accordance with the Credit Gidelines section.

Any content downloaded from decipher.com may be used for your personal, noncommercial use only. You agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate content received from decipher.com regardless of whether you give, sell, lend, lease or otherwise barter the content. The only exception to this is Mentor activities and Decipher reserves the sole and exclusive right to identify and control what are proper and improper uses of content by Mentors. For example, you cannot use decipher.com content together with vulgar or offensive materials.

You may not make any claims whatsoever of being an "official" or "authorized" website of Decipher, its Licensors, its products or any other information or service that is offered by Decipher. You agree that you must affirmatively state that your website is an "unofficial" website. For example, a you CANNOT name a website "The Official Fight Klub™ Trading Card Game Website."

You may add a link from your website to decipher.com provided that the link physically takes the user to decipher.com; and, provided that the user does not "frame" any of decipher.com or take any other action that would give the appearance of ownership by or affiliation with someone other than Decipher. Also, the link must take the user to the main page of the website being linked; except that a user may link directly to a specific product in one of the e-commerce stores on decipher.com.

Decipher is not liable for any materials, content or practices of a third-party website that links to decipher.com.

SUBMISSIONS

It is the policy of Decipher, not to allow, accept or consider creative ideas, suggestions, or materials other than those it has specifically requested. Accordingly, we must request that no visitors to decipher.com submit or send any original or creative materials, including but not limited to submissions of scripts, game rules, game or card designs, characters, drawings, conceptual ideas, or any other creative work ("Ideas"). If, despite our prohibition of submissions, you send any Ideas, the Ideas shall be deemed and shall remain the sole property of Decipher, in perpetuity and throughout the world. By submitting any Ideas, sender automatically grants or warrants that the owner of the Ideas grants, Decipher, a royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, manufacture translate, and distribute such Ideas (in whole or in part) throughout the universe and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed, for the full term of any copyright, trademark, or patent that may exist in such Ideas for any purpose that Decipher, chooses, whether internal, public, commercial, or otherwise, without any compensation, credit or notice to you whatsoever. You specifically waive all so-called "moral rights" in all submitted Ideas. You further waive the right to make any claims against Decipher, or any other party obtaining rights from or through Decipher, relating to the unsolicited Ideas, including but not limited to, unfair competition, breach of implied contract and/or breach of confidentiality.

COUNTERFEITING

Trafficking in counterfeit goods is a criminal offense under the laws of the United States and other Nations. Decipher keeps an ever-watchful eye on the world markets for counterfeit product. If you question the authenticity of any Decipher product, please contact us. You can e-mail details by sending a message to ; please include Counterfeit Goods in the subject field and provide information about where you got or saw the item(s), the selling price, who sold it and where there might be more for sale. We may request that you mail the item to Decipher at our expense, so please be sure to provide a valid e-mail address, phone number and other contact information so that we can contact you.

CREDIT GUIDELINES

Provided you comply with the Use of Site Materials section above, when you place any materials obtained from decipher.com onto your website, your must give Decipher and our Licensors full credit for the materials. Credit must be placed on each page containing Decipher materials and shall read as follows:

"This material is used by permission and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. All Rights Reserved. Decipher Inc."

A similar notice must be used for each Licensor holding rights to the particular content in question.

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