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Your use of this Site is governed by the provisions contained in these Terms and Conditions (the "Terms and Conditions"). Please take a few minutes to review these provisions. Your use, or access, of the Site constitutes your agreement to be bound by these provisions. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you may not access or otherwise use the site.


Please also view our Official Drawing Rules and Official Points Rules.


1. Use Of This Site

You may access and use this Site solely pursuant to these Terms and Conditions for your personal, non-commercial use. Any use contrary to as stated herein requires our prior written consent. You must be 18 years of age or older to join the ELITEOpinion Panel and participate in any surveys, polls, or panels as a member.


2. Registration and Passwords
You may access this site anonymously as a visitor and will not be required to provide personally identifiable information. However, in order to access certain services and content on the Site, such as surveys, you will be required to register to become a Member of the Site. You must provide truthful information when signing up to become a Member, and may not use any aliases or other means to mask your true identity. Panelists shall not activate or use more than one account.

During registration, you will choose a password to use with your email address. The password provided should be safeguarded at all times. You are responsible for the security of your password and will be solely liable for any use or unauthorized use under such password. We may suspend or terminate your membership at any time with or without notice.


3. Unauthorized Use

You may not use spiders, robots or other automated data mining techniques to catalog, download, store or otherwise reproduce or distribute content available on the Site or to manipulate the results of any panel, poll, survey or sweepstakes on the Site. You may not take any action to interfere with the Site or any other user's use of the Site, including, without limitation, via means of overloading, "flooding", "mailbombing" or "crashing" the Site. You may not send unsolicited email, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services, through the Site or forge or mask your true identity in any email or posting. You may not frame portions of the Site within another website, alter the appearance of the Site or establish links from any other website to any page of the Site other than the home page. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, or inflammatory material or any material that could otherwise violate any law. Lightspeed will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Lightspeed to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.


4. Intellectual Property

All pages and content within this Site, including but not limited to, text, graphics, audio, video, photographs, surveys, logos or other materials are the intellectual property of, or are authorized for use by, Lightspeed and its licensors, business partners and affiliates, including all trademarks, service marks, copyrights, patents and trade secrets contained therein. Except as expressly permitted in these terms and conditions, you may not modify, copy, reproduce, create derivative works, republish, display, upload, post, transmit, or distribute in any way content available on this site without the prior written consent of Lightspeed.


5. Sweepstakes and Promotions

From time to time Lightspeed may offer or conduct panels, sweepstakes, points programs or other promotions or programs in connection with this Site. All such services shall be subject to any additional terms, conditions, rules, guidelines or agreements that are provided to you at the time of accessing such services. . Lightspeed reserves the right to change point awards or other incentives within the recruitment for a study.


6. Third-Party Information
This Site may contain (i) links to other websites not maintained by Lightspeed or (ii) information about products or services of third parties. Lightspeed does not independently verify the business practices of these third parties and makes no warranties on their behalf. The availability of any link or reference of any third party shall in no way constitute an endorsement by Lightspeed of such third party. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site and to read the terms and conditions of each and every website that you visit. The information contained on this Site is for informational purposes only. The views and opinions expressed on this Site are not necessarily those of Lightspeed.


7. Communications with Lightspeed
Any communication or material you transmit to Lightspeed by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, panel responses, suggestions, or the like is, and will be treated as, nonconfidential and nonproprietary. Except to the extent expressly covered by our Privacy Policy, anything you transmit or post may be used by Lightspeed or its affiliates for any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, Lightspeed is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site without compensation and for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services using such information.


8. Privacy
Lightspeed takes the privacy of you and your information very seriously. For further information about how we use information collected from you, please view our Privacy Policy.


9. Disclaimer
The Site, including all content or services made available on or accessed through the Site, is provided "as is." To the fullest extent permissible by law, Lightspeed makes no representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever for the content on the Site. Further, Lightspeed disclaims any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, non-infringement, title merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Lightspeed does not warrant that the functions contained in the Site or any materials or content contained therein will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Site or the server that makes it will be corrected, or that the Site or the server that makes it available is free of viruses or other harmful components. In no event will Lightspeed be liable under any theory of tort, contract, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for any lost profits, lost data, lost opportunities, costs of cover exemplary, punitive, personal injury/wrongful death, special incidental, indirect or other consequential damages, each of which is hereby excluded by agreement of the parties regardless of whether or not either party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.


10. Changes
All information posted on the Site is subject to change without notice. In addition, these Terms and Conditions may be changed at any time without prior notice. We will make such changes by posting them here. You should check this page for such changes frequently. Your continued access of the Site after such changes conclusively demonstrates your acceptance of those changes.


11. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Lightspeed, its employees, directors, officers, agents and representatives from and against any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs or expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees and expenses, arising from, or related to, any breach by you of any of these Terms and Conditions or applicable law.

12. Severability
If any part of these Terms and Conditions shall be held or declared to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be ineffective but shall not affect any other part of these Terms and Conditions.


13. Governing Law
The laws of the State of New York shall govern these Terms and Conditions. You hereby expressly consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the courts located in New York County, New York.


14. Questions
Should you have any questions regarding these Terms and Conditions you may contact us by email at support@eliteopinion.com, by mail at 180 Mount Airy Road, Suite 100, Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920 or by telephone at 1-877-839-5030


Lightspeed Online Research, Inc.
180 Mount Airy Rd.
Suite 100
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
Tel: 1-877-839-5030