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(d) Wireless Connection. Your NOOK has built-in wireless Internet connectivity capabilities.
We will use commercially reasonable eorts to provide wireless Internet connectivity at no
additional cost to you. The wireless connectivity is provided by a third-party carrier and may be
subject to restrictions and limitations imposed by such carrier, such as coverage area, file size and
carrier policies.
(e) No Responsibility for Digital Content. Your
NOOK is designed to permit you access to
a wide variety of Digital Content, some of which may be inappropriate for, or oensive to, some
readers. We do not exercise any editorial control over the Digital Content. We provide only your
NOOK and the Service, which are intended to allow you access to the Digital Content. Under no
circumstance will we be liable for any loss, damage or harm caused by your access to or reliance
on the Digital Content. You must determine whether the Digital Content accessed through your
NOOK is appropriate, useful, accurate and complete. Your use of the Digital Content and the
Service is solely at your own risk.
2. License and Intellectual Property.
(a) License. Subject to your compliance with and the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
we grant you a non-exclusive, revocable license to make personal, non-commercial use of: (i) the
Service; (ii) the software loaded onto your
NOOK, as may be updated, modified, added to or
upgraded from time to time (the “Software”); and (iii) any printed or electronic documentation for
such Software (the “Documentation”), all solely for the purposes that we intend, as described on
the Web Site and in the Documentation.
(b) Third-Party Software. Certain portions of the Software are subject to separate licensing
terms as set forth in Attachment 1. By using your
NOOK, you agree that you have read, understand
and agree to be bound by such terms.
(c) Reservation of Rights. The sale of your
NOOK to you does not transfer to you any right,
title or interest in or to any of our intellectual property rights or those of our suppliers or licensors.
For example, all Software is either owned by us or is the property of our suppliers or licensors.
The Software has been licensed, not sold, to you. © 2009 BARNES & NOBLE, INC. ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED. Your
NOOK, portions thereof, the Service or methods or processes related to either
of them may be covered by one or more patents or pending patent applications.
NOOK™, n™,
Barnes & Noble® and B&N® are our trademarks. Other trademarks shown on your
NOOK or
through the Service are owned by our suppliers or licensors. Other than the limited license granted
to you in this Section 2, you have no other right, title or interest in or to the Service, Software
or Documentation. Any rights not expressly granted to you are fully reserved by us and our
suppliers or licensors, as applicable, and no such rights are conferred by estoppel, operation of law,
implication or otherwise.
(d) Restrictions. Except as may be expressly permitted by this Agreement, you may not,
directly or indirectly: (i) use the Software on any device other than your
NOOK; (ii) use, copy,
modify, distribute copies of, display or transmit the Software; (iii) disassemble, reverse engineer,
emulate, decompile, tamper with, create derivative works from or otherwise attempt to discover
the source code of the Software or technology used to provide the Service or attempt to reduce
the Software to human-readable form; (iv) bypass, modify, defeat, tamper with or circumvent any of
the security features of your
NOOK or the Service, including, without limitation, altering any digital