Terms of Use

Welcome to sophiainstitute.com. Sophia Institute, Inc. ("Sophia Institute^®") and its affiliates provide their services to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit or shop at sophiainstitute.com, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully. In addition, when you use any current or future Sophia Institute^® service or visit or purchase from any business affiliated with Sophia Institute^®, whether or not included in the sophiainstitute.com Web site, you will also be subject to the guidelines and conditions applicable to such service or business.

  PRIVACY

  Please review our Privacy Notice, which also governs your visit to sophiainstitute.com, to understand our practices.

  COPYRIGHT

  All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Sophia Institute^® or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Sophia Institute^® and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of Sophia Institute^® or its software suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws.

  TRADEMARKS

  SOPHIA INSTITUTE, a trademark; SOPHIA INSTITUTE PRESS, a trademark; THE CATHOLIC READER, a trademark; and other marks indicated on our site are trademarks of Sophia Institute^®, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Sophia Institute's trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Sophia Institute's, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Sophia Institute^®. All other trademarks not owned by Sophia Institute^® that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by Sophia Institute^®.

  LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS

  Sophia Institute^® grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of Sophia Institute^®. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of Sophia Institute^®. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Sophia Institute^® and our affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Sophia Institute's name or trademarks without the express written consent of Sophia Institute^®. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Sophia Institute^®. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of sophiainstitute.com so long as the link does not portray Sophia Institute^®, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Sophia Institute^® logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.

YOUR ACCOUNT

  If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. The sophiainstitute.com Web site does not sell products for children. It sells its products to adults, who can purchase them with a credit card. If you are under 18, you may use sophiainstitute.com only with involvement of a parent or guardian. Sophiainstitute.com and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their sole discretion.

  REVIEWS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER CONTENT

  Visitors may post comments and other content and communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other content. Sophia Institute^® reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content.

  If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Sophia Institute and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant Sophia Institute^® and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Sophia Institute^® or its affiliates for all claims resulting from content you supply. Sophia Institute^® has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. Sophia Institute^® takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

  COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS

  Sophia Institute^® and its affiliates respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow our Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement.

  RISK OF LOSS

  All items purchased from the sophiainstitute.com Web site are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon our delivery to the carrier.

  PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS

  Sophia Institute^® and its affiliates attempt to be as accurate as possible. However, Sophia Institute^® does not warrant that product descriptions or other content of this site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If a product offered by Sophia Institute^® itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it in unused condition.

  OTHER BUSINESSES

  Parties other than Sophia Institute^® may operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines on this site.  In addition, we may provide links to the sites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of their Web sites. Sophia Institute^® does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, product, and content of all these and any other third parties. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use. If you connect to or use these sites, you do so at your sole risk.

  DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

  THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY SOPHIA INSTITUTE^® ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. SOPHIA INSTITUTE^®  MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON, AND/OR ORDERED FROM, THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, SOPHIA INSTITUTE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

  SOPHIA INSTITUTE^® DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM SOPHIA INSTITUTE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. SOPHIA INSTITUTE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

  CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION  OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE  DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

   APPLICABLE LAW

  By visiting the sophiainstitute.com Web site, you agree that the laws of the State of New Hampshire USA, without regard to principles of conflict of laws,  will govern these Terms of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Sophia Institute or its affiliates.

   DISPUTES

  Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to the sophiainstitute.com Web site or to products you purchase through sophiainstitute.com or from Sophia Institute shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Manchester, New Hampshire USA, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Sophia Institute's intellectual property rights, Sophia Institute^® may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the State of New Hampshire USA, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

   SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY

  Please review our other policies posted on this site. These policies also govern your visit to the sophiainstitute.com Web site. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Terms of Use at any time.  If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed  severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

   OUR ADDRESS

  Sophia Institute, Inc.
P.O. Box 5284
Manchester, NH 03108-5284

http://www.sophiainstiute.com

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Sophia Institute's copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying Sophia Institute^® and its affiliates that your copyrighted material has been infringed.

·          An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;

·          A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;

·          A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;

·          Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;

·          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;

·          A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

  Sophia Institute's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on its site is Mark Wright, who can be reached as follows:

  Mark Wright
McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, P.A.
900 Elm Street
P.O. Box 326
Manchester, NH  03105-0326
phone: (603) 628-1311

e-mail: mark.wright@mclane.com