This Visitor Agreement applies to all of the Web sites owned and operated by Discovery. The entire family of Discovery Web sites is referred to collectively in this Visitor Agreement as the "Discovery Sites." In addition to Discovery.com, the Discovery Sites include, without limitation, the following sites: AnimalPlanet.com, TravelChannel.com, TLC.com, DiscoveryHealth.com, DiscoveryKids.com, DiscoverySchool.com and DiscoveryStore.com. This particular site may not have all of the features discussed in the Visitor Agreement. Additional terms and conditions may apply to some services offered on the Discovery Sites. Such terms and conditions may be found at the place where the service is offered.
The Web is an evolving medium; we may change the terms of this Visitor Agreement from time to time. By continuing to use any of the Discovery Sites after we post any such changes, you accept the Visitor Agreement, as modified. We may change, restrict access to, suspend or discontinue the Discovery Sites, or any portion of the Discovery Sites, at any time.
Discovery respects the privacy of our users. Please take a few minutes to review our Privacy Policy.
If you disagree with any material you find on the Discovery Sites, we suggest that you respond by noting your disagreement in an appropriate site forum. We invite you to bring to our attention any material you believe to be factually inaccurate. Please forward a copy of the material to our Media Editor, along with an explanation of your disagreement.
If you are an owner of intellectual property who believes your intellectual property has been improperly posted or distributed via the Discovery Sites, please notify us by sending email to our Media Editor or by sending a notice by U.S. Mail to: Discovery.com Media Editor, Discovery Communications Inc., One Discovery Place, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
The material that appears on the Discovery Sites is for informational purposes only. Despite our efforts to provide useful and accurate information, errors may appear from time to time. Before you act on information you've found on the Discovery Sites, you should confirm any facts that are important to your decision. Discovery.com and its information providers make no warranty as to the reliability, accuracy, timeliness, usefulness or completeness of the information on the Discovery Sites. Discovery.com is not responsible for, and cannot guarantee the performance of, goods and services provided by our advertisers or others to whose sites we link. A link to another Web site does not constitute an endorsement of that site (nor of any product, service or other material offered on that site) by Discovery.com or its licensors.
USE OF TRAVEL-BOOKING FEATURES OF DISCOVERYTRAVEL.COM
The travel-booking features of DiscoveryTravel.com are provided solely to assist customers in determining the availability of travel-related goods and services and to make legitimate reservations or otherwise transact business with suppliers, and for no other purposes. By using these travel-booking features, you warrant that you are at least 18 years of age. You agree to be financially responsible for your use of DiscoveryTravel.com (as well as for use of your email address by others, including without limitation minors living with you). You agree to supervise all usage by minors of DiscoveryTravel.com under your name or email address. You also warrant that all information supplied by you or members of your household in using DiscoveryTravel.com is true and accurate. Without limitation, any speculative, false or fraudulent reservation or any reservation in anticipation of demand is prohibited. You agree that the travel services reservations facilities of DiscoveryTravel.com shall be used only to make legitimate reservations or purchases for you or for another person for whom you are legally authorized to act. You understand that overuse or abuse of the travel services reservation facilities of DiscoveryTravel.com may result in your being denied access to such facilities.
Separate terms and conditions will apply to your reservation and purchase of the travel-related goods and services that you select. You agree to abide by the terms and conditions of purchase imposed by any supplier with whom you elect to deal, including, but not limited to, payment of all amounts when due and compliance with all rules and restrictions regarding availability of fares, products or services. You shall be completely responsible for all charges, fees, duties, taxes and assessments arising out of your use of the travel-booking features of DiscoveryTravel.com.
USE OF HEALTH INFORMATION FROM DISCOVERYHEALTH.COM
The information that appears on DiscoveryHealth.com is presented in summary form only and is intended to provide general consumer understanding of health care topics. The information should not be used in place of a visit, call or consultation with a physician or other health care provider. DiscoveryHealth.com does not recommend the self-management of health or medical problems, nor does DiscoveryHealth.com promote or recommend any particular form of medical or alternative treatment. People using information accessed through DiscoveryHealth.com should also research original sources of authority. Information obtained by using DiscoveryHealth.com is not exhaustive and does not cover all diseases, ailments, physical conditions or their treatment. Should you have any health care related questions, please call or visit your physician or other health care provider. You should never disregard medical advice — or delay in seeking it — because of something you have read on DiscoveryHealth.com. You should always seek prompt medical care for any specific health issue and consult a physician before starting a fitness regiment.
CHAT ROOMS AND FORUMS
Discovery wants to encourage an open exchange of information and ideas. But we cannot and do not review every posting made in chat rooms, forums and other public-posting areas. You can expect these areas to include information and opinions from a variety of individuals and organizations other than Discovery. We do not endorse or guarantee the accuracy of any posting, regardless of whether the posting comes from a user, from a celebrity or "expert" guest, or from a member of our staff. There is no substitute for healthy skepticism and your own good judgment.
Responsibility for what is posted in the chat rooms, forums and other public-posting areas on the Discovery Sites lies with each user — you alone are responsible for material you post. By using the Discovery Sites, you agree not to post or transmit any defamatory, abusive, obscene, threatening or illegal material, or any other material that infringes on the ability of others to enjoy the Discovery Sites or that infringes on the rights of others. You may not post or transmit any message anonymously or under a false name. You may not permit any person (other than an agent acting on your behalf and subject to your supervision) to access, using your account, any features of the Discovery Sites that may require registration. Users may not post a single message to more than five areas of any Discovery Site, or post any message to any area of the Discovery Sites if that message is, in our view, off-topic. We retain the right to deny access to anyone who we believe has violated these terms or any other term of this agreement.
Although Discovery.com cannot monitor all the postings in the chat rooms, forums and other public areas, we reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to delete, move or edit any postings that come to our attention that we consider unacceptable or inappropriate, whether for legal or other reasons. We will not, in the ordinary course of business, review private electronic messages that are not addressed to Discovery.com or members of its staff. However, we will comply with any applicable legal requirements regarding disclosure of such messages to others, including law enforcement agencies.
Discovery.com expects that you will not use the service to violate anyone's copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights. By submitting material to the Discovery Sites, you are representing that you are the owner of the material, or are making your submission with the express consent of the owner. Submitting material that is the property of another, without the consent of its owner, is not only a violation of this agreement, but may also subject you to legal liability for infringement of copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights.
NO SOLICITING
No soliciting. You agree not to use the Discovery Sites to advertise or to solicit anyone to buy or sell products or services, or to make donations of any kind, without our express written approval.
NO SPAMMING
No spamming. From time to time, users post their email addresses in our chat rooms, forums and other public-posting areas. You agree not to gather these email addresses for purposes of spamming, that is, sending unsolicited email.
USE OF MATERIALS
All material you submit to any of our chat rooms, forums and other public-posting areas becomes the property of Discovery.com and may be reproduced, modified and distributed as we see fit in any medium and for any purpose. You warrant that all moral rights in any material that you submit to us have been waived.
The Internet allows people throughout the world to share valuable information, ideas and creative works. To ensure continued open access to such materials, we all need to protect the rights of those who share their creations with us.
Although we make the Discovery Sites freely accessible, we don't intend to give up our rights, or anyone else's rights, to the materials appearing on the Discovery Sites. The materials available through the Discovery Sites are the property of Discovery.com or its licensors, and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You are free to display and print for your personal, noncommercial use information you receive through the Discovery Sites. But you may not otherwise reproduce any of the materials without the prior written consent of the owner. You may not distribute copies of materials found on the Discovery Sites in any form (including by email or other electronic means), without prior written permission from the owner. Of course, you're free to encourage others to access the information themselves on the Discovery Sites, and to tell them how to find it.
Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found on the Discovery Sites should be sent to: Discovery.com General Manager, Discovery Communications Inc., One Discovery Place, Silver Spring, MD 20910, or letters@discovery.com.
LINKING
We welcome links to the Discovery Sites. You are usually free to establish a hypertext link to any of the Discovery Sites so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by any of the Discovery Sites or Discovery Communications Inc. However, you should check the copyright notice on the page to which you wish to link to make sure that one of our content providers does not have its own policies regarding direct links to their content on our sites.
FRAMING
No Framing. Without the prior written permission of Discovery, you may not frame any of the content of the Discovery Sites, or incorporate into another Web site or other service any intellectual property of Discovery.com, the Discovery Sites, Discovery or any of their licensors. Requests for permission to frame our content may be sent to the General Manager, either by email or at the address above.
TRADEMARKS
We don't want anyone to be confused as to which materials and services are provided by Discovery and which are not. You may not use any trademark or service mark appearing on the Discovery Sites without the prior written consent of the owner of the mark. Discovery, Discovery.com, Discovery Channel Online, DiscoveryKids, DiscoveryHealth.com, Discovery School, Discovery Store, Animal Planet, TLC, the Discovery logos, and all of the logos associated with any of the foregoing products and services, are trademarks and/or service marks of Discovery.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY
We work hard to make the Discovery Sites interesting and enjoyable places, but we cannot guarantee that our users will always find everything to their liking. Please read this Disclaimer carefully before using any of the Discovery Sites.
YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE DISCOVERY SITES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE DISCOVERY SITES, AND THE INHERENT HAZARDS AND UNCERTAINTIES OF ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION, THERE MAY BE DELAYS, OMISSIONS, INACCURACIES OR OTHER PROBLEMS WITH SUCH INFORMATION. IF YOU RELY ON ANY DISCOVERY SITE OR ANY MATERIAL AVAILABLE THROUGH THE DISCOVERY SITES, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED FROM OR OTHERWISE PROVIDED THROUGH THE DISCOVERY SITES.
THE DISCOVERY SITES ARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS, AND AS AVAILABLE. THE DISCOVERY SITES, DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. AND THEIR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE DISCOVERY SITES, NOR DO THEY GUARANTEE THAT THE DISCOVERY SITES WILL BE ERROR-FREE, OR CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE, OR THAT THE DISCOVERY SITES WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL THE DISCOVERY SITES, DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, INC., OR THEIR AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF THE DISCOVERY SITES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. (BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, THE LIABILITY OF THE DISCOVERY SITES, DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC., AND THEIR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY SUCH STATE LAW.) YOU AGREE THAT THE LIABILITY OF THE DISCOVERY SITES, DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC., AND THEIR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS, IF ANY, ARISING OUT OF ANY KIND OF LEGAL CLAIM IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE DISCOVERY SITES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. FOR THE USE OF THE DISCOVERY SITES.
MISCELLANEOUS
The Discovery staff does its best to ensure that information we post to the Discovery Sites is both timely and accurate. But the news changes over time and reports that were accurate when posted quickly become, well, old news. Though we may post follow-up reports, and may continue to provide access to the original report, as in an archive of news stories, for example, we don't go back and change the original report to reflect new developments. If you're looking for the most recent information on a given subject, and not the history of how the story unfolded, be sure you're not looking at an out-of-date report.
To obtain access to certain services on the Discovery Sites, you may be given an opportunity to register with the Discovery Sites. As part of any such registration process, you will select a user name and a password. You agree that the information you supply during that registration process will be accurate and complete and that you will not register under the name of, or attempt to enter any Discovery Site under the name of, another person. Discovery reserves the right to reject or terminate any user name that, in its judgment, it deems offensive. You will be responsible for preserving the confidentiality of your password and will notify Discovery of any known or suspected unauthorized use of your account. You must be at least 13 years old to register on Discovery.com. Please inform Discovery.com if there is a change in the information you provided at the time of your initial registration, including any change of address or name, by returning to the registration screen and resubmitting an updated profile form.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Discovery Communications Inc., its affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers, from and against any and all losses, expenses, damages and costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) resulting from any violation of this Visitor Agreement or any activity related to your account (including negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing any Discovery Site using your account.
This Visitor Agreement has been made in and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland. By using this Discovery Site, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Maryland, in all disputes arising out of or relating to this agreement or use of this Web site or any of the Discovery Sites.
In the event that any portion of this Visitor Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the enforceability or validity of any other portion of this Visitor Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect and be construed as if the invalid or unenforceable portion were not part of the Visitor Agreement.
By using the Discovery Sites, you agree to abide by the terms of this Visitor Agreement. We hope you enjoy using the Discovery Sites, and we welcome suggestions for improvements. Thanks for making Discovery.com part of your discoveries online!
Last updated Jan. 8, 2001