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This website is owned and operated by 21st Century School Fund/BEST - Building Educational Success Together. These Terms of Use apply and govern your use of the BEST Website (www.21csf.org/best-home) (the "Site").

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USE OF WEBSITE INFORMATION
All content and information (the "Content") contained on the Site is the sole property of 21CSF/BEST and is copyright protected. (Copyright Notice: "Copyright © 2006 21CSF/BEST -Building Educational Success Together, All Rights Reserved") You may view, copy, print or download documents and graphics (the "Documents") from the Site, as long as: (1) the Documents are to be used solely for personal, informational, educational or non-commercial purposes; (2) the Documents are not be modified or altered in any way; and (3) copies of the Documents include 21CSF/BEST's copyright notice. Unless your use constitutes "fair use" under copyright law, you may not use, copy, print, display, download, upload, perform, reproduce, publish, post, transmit, distribute or license any information from the Site, in whole or in part, without the express written authorization of 21CSF/BEST.

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PRIVACY
21CSF/BEST is concerned about the security of any personal information we have collected from you and has taken reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized access to that information. It is the goal of 21CSF/BEST to balance the benefits of e-commerce with the right of individuals to prevent misuse of personal information. However, 21CSF/BEST will not be held liable for any unauthorized access to your personal information. Please read the Privacy Policy posted on this Site.

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DISCLAIMER
While 21CSF/BEST attempts to provide accurate information on this Site, it assumes no responsibility for accuracy. 21CSF/BEST may change or update the content or information on the Site at any time without notice to you. While reasonable effort is made with regard to downloadable files, you understand that 21CSF/BEST cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that the files available for downloading through this Site are free from viruses, worms or any other code that can manifest destructive capabilities or properties. You are fully responsible for implementing procedures to protect your data and for the restoration of any lost data. You assume total responsibility for your use of this Site and the Internet. EXCEPT WHERE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE, THE SITE, AND ALL CONTENT, MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS PROVIDED ON THE SITE, ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. 21CSF/BEST 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, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

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The information, products, and services included on or provided through the Site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. 21CSF/BEST may make improvements and/or changes in the Site at any time. 21CSF/BEST MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THE TERMS CONTAINED HEREIN AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM. YOU HAVE EVALUATED THE DESIREABILITY OF USING THE SITE AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH HEREIN.

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TERMINATION OF USE
You agree that 21CSF/BEST may, in its sole and arbitrary discretion, at any time terminate your access to the Site and any account(s) you may have in connection with the Site. Access to the Site may be monitored by 21CSF/BEST.

JURISDICTION AND CHOICE OF LAW
You agree that this agreement and all claims or issues regarding this Site, shall be governed according to U.S. Federal law and the laws of the District of Columbia. Any legal action or proceeding concerning these Terms or this Site shall be brought within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises and must be brought in a federal or state court in the District of Columbia. You agree to submit to the jurisdiction of and agree that venue is proper in these courts in any such legal action or proceeding.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between 21CSF/BEST and you with respect to your use of the BEST Site. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision herein, or any portion thereof, to be unenforceable, the provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to affect the intent of these Terms of Use, and the remainder of these Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect.

CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions regarding these Terms of Use or if you have any other questions regarding the Site, please contact Jordan Spooner at info@21CSF.com. © 2007 21st Century School Fund/BEST - Building Educational Success Together. All rights reserved.

PRIVACY POLICY
21CSF/BEST ("BEST")respects your privacy and has developed this Privacy Policy to inform you of its privacy policy and practices and of the choices you can make while accessing this Site.

By accessing the BEST Website (www.21csf.org/best-home) (the "Site"), you (the "User") acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions described below as to 21CSF/BEST Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms discussed here, you should exit this Site now. 21CSF/BEST may revise this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you, and your continued use of the system constitutes the acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

21CSF/BEST is concerned about the security of any personal information 21CSF/BEST has collected from you and has taken reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized access to that information. It is the goal of 21CSF/BEST to balance the benefits of e-commerce with the right of individuals to prevent misuse of personal information. However, 21CSF/BEST will not be held liable for any unauthorized access to your personal information. 21CSF/BEST has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to privacy. The policy discloses 21CSF/BEST information gathering and dissemination practices for this Site.

COLLECTING INFORMATION
Generally, 21CSF/BEST does not collect any personally identifiable information from individuals unless specifically provided by that individual. For example, when you request information regarding its products, promotions or warranties, you voluntarily provide your name, company, contact address, e-mail address and other information.

Occasionally you may be asked to provide additional information regarding such things as your personal or professional interests, demographics, experience with its products, and contact preferences so that 21CSF/BEST may better understand your needs and continue to improve its products and services to you. 21CSF/BEST may also collect and store statistics and other information about the on-line activities of its visitors on an aggregate basis. 21CSF/BEST does not intend to obtain any personal information from minors. If you are under age 18, please do not provide 21CSF/BEST with any personal information.

USING INFORMATION
Although 21CSF/BEST has the utmost respect for your privacy, any communication or material that you transmit to this Site by electronic mail or otherwise, is and will be treated as non-confidential and nonproprietary. As a general rule, 21CSF/BEST will not sell, rent, lease or license your personally identifiable information and will not disclose your personally identifiable information to others except when 21CSF/BEST has your permission or under special circumstances, such as when 21CSF/BEST believes in good faith that the law requires it. 21CSF/BEST uses your personal information primarily to tailor its eService solutions to your needs, to track compliance with the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, for research purposes or for marketing and promotional purposes. 21CSF/BEST may also share such information with its advertisers, business partners or other affiliates. 21CSF/BEST may publish or use information about activity in the Site using transaction data that has been combined with other transaction data and that does not identify any Subscriber. 21CSF/BEST will employ whatever statistically sound methods it deems best to accomplish this result before reporting it on an aggregated basis.

CONTACTING YOU
Occasionally, 21CSF/BEST may send you email communications to provide information or offers that 21CSF/BEST believes you will find useful. You can opt not to receive future emails from 21CSF/BEST by changing your account preferences at any time, in accordance with the "Changing Your Information" section below. However, to the extent that corrected or deleted information is also stored in other databases, 21CSF/BEST cannot always ensure that such corrections or deletions will immediately reach other databases. Please be aware that 21CSF/BEST may occasionally contact you for administrative purposes even if you unsubscribe from its mail list.

CHANGING YOUR INFORMATION
You can change your contact information and preferences at any time by contacting info@21csf.org

COOKIES
This Site may employ cookies to better serve you. Any affiliate or partner networks that link to 21CSF/BEST Site may also use their own cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a Site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies may save information such as your page preferences. By saving this information, cookies make your Web surfing easier as well as giving 21CSF/BEST data regarding which areas of the Site are popular and which are not. This data may be used to effectively improve 21CSF/BEST Site. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that parts of BEST Site may not function properly if you do so. Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personally identifying information, your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. In some cases 21CSF/BEST may track or collect information about your use of its Site by the numeric address assigned to the computer you are using (your IP address) or by the URLs that you come from or leave to. These methods also allow 21CSF/BEST to resolve server problems or administer this Site. Generally, 21CSF/BEST does not associate this information with any other personally identifiable information that you may have provided to 21CSF/BEST.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS
21CSF/BEST provides third-party links for your convenience only. These third party sites may send their own cookies to you, or otherwise collect data or solicit personal information from you. You follow the third-party links posted on the BEST Site at your own risk. Those third party sites may not follow the same privacy policies as 21CSF/BEST. This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of those Web Privacy Policy posted on this Site or sites that are linked to BEST. 21CSF/BEST does not accept any responsibility or liability for privacy or any other issues associated with any sites that you may link to through this Site.

SECURITY
Keeping your personally identifiable information private is important to 21CSF/BEST. Whenever 21CSF/BEST handles personally identifiable information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, 21CSF/BEST uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information and takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while 21CSF/BEST strives to protect the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information, 21CSF/BEST cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to 21CSF/BEST or from this Site, and you do so at your own risk.

Once we receive your transmission, we make reasonable efforts consistent with those practices in the on-line industry to ensure its security on our systems. Finally, your careful use and protection of your passwords and account information will assist in making your Internet experience safe and secure.

LIMITS ON 21CSF/BEST ABILITIES
Although your privacy is very important to 21CSF/BEST, due to the existing legal and technical environment, 21CSF/BEST cannot ensure that your personally identifiable information will not be disclosed to third parties in ways not described in this policy. For example, 21CSF/BEST may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Additionally, 21CSF/BEST can (and you authorize 21CSF/BEST to) disclose any information about you to private entities, law enforcement or other government officials as 21CSF/BEST, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to address or resolve inquiries or problems.

NOTICE:
By using this Site, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this Site. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes to this policy will mean you accept those changes. You can access the full terms and conditions pertaining to use of this Site at Terms of Use. Please contact info@21csf.org if you have any additional questions or concerns regarding 21CSF/BEST Privacy Policy.

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