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User Agreement for CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter

1. Agreement and General Terms of Use

1.1 This User Agreement constitutes the agreement between Croneal Consulting Group and the subscriber or user ("you," "your," "user," "visitor," "basic member," "full member") who accesses or establishes a connection to CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter. CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter is a digest of selected laws and adopted regulations on campaign finance and lobbying that is distributed every Friday of each month. "You," "your," "user," "visitor," "basic member," or "full member," means an adult user of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter for itself and you as parent or guardian for any minor which you allow to access CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, for whom you will be held strictly responsible. A "basic member" is a member who has registered on the Croneal Consulting Group site but only has free access to specific parts of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter. A "full member" has registered on the site and has paid for unlimited access to the entire components of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter.

1.2 You agree to abide by all of the provisions in this Agreement in order to remain an authorized user of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, and your use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter constitutes your agreement to abide by these provisions. Distribution of your user name or password to unauthorized persons (excluding employees of the same company) for access to CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter is prohibited and may result in termination of your account or other liability. Your use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter indicates that you are bound by this agreement with us. If you do not agree with any of these terms and conditions, discontinue use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter.

1.3 Croneal Consulting Group reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change any or all of the provisions of this Agreement at any time. Croneal Consulting Group will make the current Agreement available as a link on its subscription page for CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter. The Agreement in effect at the time of your use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter shall govern your use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter after the effective date of any changes to this Agreement will be deemed your acceptance of the changes. If you do not want to be bound by a change, discontinue use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter.

1.4 Croneal Consulting Group reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, limit, or discontinue any aspect, content, tool, or feature that is a part of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter. Croneal Consulting Group further reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to restrict the use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter as well as suspend or revoke your rights to use CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter based on Croneal Consulting Group's belief that your use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter violates that permitted by this Agreement or applicable law.

1.5 IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH CCG's CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND LOBBYING NEWSLETTER, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF CCG's CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND LOBBYING NEWSLETTER.

2. Subscription, Fees and Payments, Free Trial Use

2.1 As part of the subscription process, you will be e-mailed a user name and a password granting you access to Croneal Consulting Group's CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter. You will be responsible for the confidentiality and use of your user name and password and agree not to transfer or resell your use of or access to CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter to any third-party. YOU ARE ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF YOUR USER NAME AND PASSWORD AND ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY AND ALL ACTIVITIES THAT ARE CONDUCTED THROUGH YOUR ACCOUNT.

2. 2 If you become a paid member ("subscriber, subscribers, member, members,") of any of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, you will be bound by the payment terms set forth herein.

2.3 Except as set forth herein or as described by offers we make from time to time, access to the entire CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter requires payment. If you subscribe, you must provide accurate, complete and updated subscriber information. You will pay Croneal Consulting Group for all fees, charges, and any applicable taxes, associated with CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter in accordance with the current rates, payment terms, and policies specified by Croneal Consulting Group in the applicable CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter enrollment screens and online help areas. You acknowledge that you will pay Croneal Consulting Group all such fees, charges, and applicable taxes for CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter where enrollment in CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter has been made using your credit card or other means, whether made by you personally or by someone else in your household or organization on your behalf. If you enroll in CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter using a credit card, you certify to Croneal Consulting Group that you are at least 18 years of age and that you are the cardholder of the credit card, or that you are certifiably at least 13 years of age and expressly authorized by the cardholder to enroll in CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter.

2.4 You further acknowledge that your obligation to pay Croneal Consulting Group all such fees, charges, and applicable taxes for CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter does not depend on usage of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, and that you remain obligated to pay Croneal Consulting Group for CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter regardless of whether CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter is used or not. Unless you enroll as part of a free trial, your obligation to pay for CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter begins on the date of your enrollment in CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, not the date of your first use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter. If made available, free trial or free access periods to use CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter also begin on the date of your enrollment in the free trial for CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, and not the date of your first use of it.

You may not cancel your subscription to CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter mid-term after enrollment. However, you can decide not to renew your subscription after it automatically terminates after a one-year period.

2.5 The price you pay for CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter is stipulated at the time you enroll in such CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter and is valid for the initial period for which you enrolled in CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter. Croneal Consulting Group reserves the right to change the price paid for a monthly or annual subscription after the initial enrollment period.

2.6 If you obtained your subscription through a corporate subscription or other promotional code, you must comply with the terms of that subscription. You agree not to disclose your promotional code to other persons. Croneal Consulting Group reserves the right to cancel a subscription redeemed through a corporate subscription or other promotional code if we determine that the user of the promotional code was not the intended recipient of that code. We also reserve the right to seek compensation from individuals who share or disseminate their promotion codes contrary to this policy.

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3.1CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter and all content and tools provided by Croneal Consulting Group on CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter are protected by copyright, trademark and/or other applicable intellectual property and proprietary rights laws and are owned, controlled, and/or licensed by Croneal Consulting Group. All trademarks appearing on CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter are the property of their respective owners. You agree not to use any trademarks or copyrighted material without express written permission of Croneal Consulting Group.

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3.3 You may search, retrieve, display, download to your area on CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, and print content from CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter solely for your personal or business use. You may not download electronic copies of our content for any purpose other than those permitted by Fair Use or otherwise by law. You shall make no other use of the content without the express written permission of Croneal Consulting Group. You will not modify, publish, distribute, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, translate, create derivative works, or in any way exploit other than as set forth herein, any of the content, tools or technology, in whole or in part, found on CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter. Further, you shall not engage in any systematic downloading or other activity directed towards any of the content, in whole or in part, found on CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter that would create any electronic database or archive containing such content. You shall not make any changes to any content that you are permitted to use under this Agreement, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You also will not "frame" any of the content, tools or technology on CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter or CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter themselves without the express written permission of Croneal Consulting Group. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any downloaded content. You further agree that all rights in CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter and any of the content found on CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter not granted to you under this Agreement are expressly reserved to Croneal Consulting Group and/or its licensors.

3.4 In searching CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, you shall not employ any automated search tools, including so called "crawlers," "bots" and "spiders" that programmatically access and extract content in order to repurpose or resell CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter content and tools, nor may you "scrape" and/or reformat any information off CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter HTML pages or XML interface, including meta tags, results pages, abstracts, and documents except as permitted by our FAQs without the express written permission of Croneal Consulting Group.

4. User Activities and Privacy of User Information on CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter

4.1 You will use CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter and any tools, content, material, or information found on CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter solely for lawful purposes. You shall not upload to, distribute to or through, or otherwise disseminate through CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter any material or information of any kind that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise violates any law or infringes or violates any privacy or other rights of any other person or entity, or contains a solicitation of funds, advertising, or a solicitation for goods or services.

4.2 Croneal Consulting Group has no obligation to, and does not and cannot, review every item of material or information that you and users other than you make available through CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, and Croneal Consulting Group is not responsible for any content of this material or information. However, Croneal Consulting Group reserves the right to delete, move, or edit any material or information that it deems, in its sole discretion, unacceptable, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise in violation of any law or that infringes or violates any privacy or other rights of any person or entity. Further, Croneal Consulting Group reserves the right at all times to disclose any material or information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation, or governmental request.

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6. Indemnification

6.1 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Croneal Consulting Group (and any of its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, distributors, third-party providers, and licensors (and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents)) from and against all claims, liability, and expenses, including attorneys' fees and legal fees and costs, arising out of your use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter or your breach of any provision of this Agreement. Croneal Consulting Group reserves the right, in its sole discretion and at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. You will cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any claim.

7. Third-Party Content, Third-Party Providers, Advertising and Links

7.1 CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter includes a number of third-party providers for content. Croneal Consulting Group makes no warranty concerning content provided by third-party providers.

7.2 Parts of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter may also contain advertising or other third-party content. Advertisers are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion with CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter complies with international and national law. Croneal Consulting Group is not responsible for any third-party content or error, omission or inaccuracy in any advertising material. CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter may contain links to other web sites. Croneal Consulting Group is not responsible for the availability of these web sites or their contents.

8. Site Security

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9. Contacting Us

9.1 You may contact us at customerservice@cronealconsultinggroup.com. If a response is necessary, we will contact you by sending electronic mail to the address you provide to us, or by posting a notice on the home page of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter. This will never serve as legal notice or effective notice for cancellation purposes, all of which are governed by the above sections.

10. Termination

10.1 Croneal Consulting Group may terminate this Agreement and your use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, or discontinue CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter, at any time. Croneal Consulting Group shall have the right immediately upon notice to you to terminate your use of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter in the event of any conduct by you which Croneal Consulting Group, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by you of this Agreement or violation of applicable law. In such event you will not be entitled to any refunds for unused services.

11. Law Governing Performance and Disputes

11.1 This Agreement, your performance under it, and any disputes arising under it shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the United States of America and the State of Illinois, without giving effect to their conflict of laws principles. You expressly consent to the exclusive forum, jurisdiction, and venue of the Courts of the State of Illinois in Cook County and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in any and all actions, disputes, or controversies relating to this Agreement.

12. General Terms

12.1 This Agreement and any policies and rules posted on the home page of CCG's Campaign Finance and Lobbying Newsletter by Croneal Consulting Group constitute the complete and exclusive and final expression of the agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. No waiver by either Croneal Consulting Group or you of any breach or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Croneal Consulting Group and its successors, trustees, and assigns. Croneal Consulting Group may assign this Agreement, or any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, with or without notice to you. Any such assignment by Croneal Consulting Group does not relieve you of your obligations under this Agreement.

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