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CRI Genetics is an interactive online service on the Internet, owned and operated by CRI Genetics. (“CRI Genetics”), and consisting of independent reviews and evaluations based on our judgement of work of third party experts across multiple categories, as well as presentations where consumers can obtain conclusions, recommendations, or suggestions about what products or services are either ‘best bets’, ‘top-rated’, ‘suggested’, or in some way ‘recommended’, and rankings of third party reviews and other information sources across multiple categories. “Content” means the evaluations, presentations, rankings, reviews, other information, advertisements, chat room discussions, photos, video, graphics, music and sound contained on, distributed through, linked, downloaded or accessed from any of the services contained on CRI Genetics, whether such Content is owned by CRI Genetics or third parties. “User” means each person who establishes or accesses a connection for access and for use of CRI Genetics.
The DNA Service includes (1) us sending you a DNA Sample Kit, (2) you submitting a saliva sample for DNA testing and returning the DNA Sample to us as instructed, and (3) an online service where Users can create a free User Account and view their results.
By using the CRI Services, you agree to, acknowledge, and represent as follows:
A. You acknowledge that the information you learn from CRI Genetics is not meant to independently diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition or disease, or to determine the status of your health. You acknowledge that the CRI Services are intended for personal research, informational, and educational purposes only.
B. You acknowledge that some of the information you receive may be prove to be unwanted or unexpected, and may provoke strong emotion.
C. Genetic information that you choose to share with your physician or other health care provider may become part of your medical record and could become accessible to other health care providers and/or insurance companies in the future. You are responsible for all possible consequences resulting from your disclosure of your DNA Results and Genetic Information to others.
D. By submitting a DNA Sample for testing, you represent that you are eighteen (18) years of age or older, and the DNA Sample you are submitting is your own or of a person under the age of eighteen (18) for whom you are the legal guardian or have obtained legal authorization to provide their DNA to CRI Genetics. If you submit a DNA sample of a minor, you must provide written confirmation of our authority to do so, in a format acceptable to us, as requested prior to the DNA Results for the relevant minor being provided.
E. You warrant that you are not an insurance company or an employer attempting to obtain information about an insured person or an employee.
F. You acknowledge and agree that you shall acquire no rights of any kind in any of the research or commercial products that may be developed by CRI Genetics due to your submittal of your DNA Sample. You specifically understand that you will not receive compensation for any research or commercial products that include or result from your DNA Sample or Genetic Information.
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CRI Genetics includes a blog with a User comments section which allows Users to post information, provide feedback to CRI Genetics and its affiliates, and interact in real-time. Users will be responsible for, and indemnify and hold harmless CRI Genetics, its subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, agents and representatives against, any claim arising from any material that they post or transmit. Although CRI Genetics and its affiliates may from time to time monitor or review discussions, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards and other User and member generated pages on CRI Genetics neither CRI Genetics nor its affiliates is under any obligation to do so. Users acknowledge that CRI Genetics and its affiliates do not control the information available in the blog comments section, bulletin boards, and other User generated pages and that any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content presented or disseminated on any blog comments section, bulletin board or on any other User generated pages are those of their respective authors who are solely liable for their content. CRI Genetics and its affiliates reserve the right, in its sole discretion, to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the User comments section, bulletin boards or on any other User generated pages.
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(C) User shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on CRI Genetics any material in violation of any copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with User. User shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting material to CRI Genetics, User automatically grants and warrants that the owner of such material has expressly granted the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) worldwide, 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 that may exist in such material. User hereby grants CRI Genetics the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any material made available on CRI Genetics by User.
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Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or its breach, with the exception of injunctive relief sought by CRI Genetics for any violation of CRI Genetics’ proprietary rights, shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the then-current rules of the American Arbitration Association. Before entering into arbitration, the parties shall each appoint an arbitrator, and these two arbitrators shall select a third arbitrator to be a member of the panel. Should the two arbitrators not be able to agree on a choice of the third, then the American Arbitration Association shall make the appointment of the third arbitrator, and it shall be someone who is neutral to the parties. None of the arbitrators shall be officers or employees of the parties to this Agreement. Such arbitrators shall be natural persons and shall be experts in the computer/information technology field. The cost of arbitration, including fees per arbitrator, shall be borne equally by the parties. The location of arbitration shall be Los Angeles, California, USA.
The User’s privacy is important to CRI Genetics. All information gathered from the User in connection with User’s use of CRI Genetics will be governed by the provisions of the CRI Genetics Privacy Policy and Data Consent Agreement.