License Agreement

This is a license agreement between you, as the Licensee, and Wolters Kluwer.

The following terms and conditions govern your use of the Business Owner's Toolkit.

1. You are granted a nonexclusive, nontransferable limited license to access and use for your internal use only the Tax Learning Center from CCH online services and materials as from time to time made available to you. This license does not cover any use by you of the foregoing materials for the providing or offering of any product or services to others. It is not to be used to provide information processing services or service bureau-type services to any third party. Further, you may not publish, broadcast, sell or otherwise redistribute downloaded information or materials for any commercial purposes.
2. All right, title and interest (including all copyright rights and other intellectual property rights) in the Online Services and Materials (in both print and machine-readable forms) belong to Wolters Kluwer. You acquire no proprietary interest in the Online Services or Materials, or copies thereof.
3. You may not use the Online Services or Materials retrieved from the Tax Learning Center from CCH in any fashion that infringes copyright or proprietary interests therein, including any patent, trade secret, trademark, or similar intellectual property right.
4. You may not remove or obscure the copyright notice or other notices contained in materials retrieved from the Tax Learning Center from CCH.
5. Wolters Kluwer is not engaged in rendering legal or other professional services. If legal or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.
6. Disclaimer of Warranty. The Tax Learning Center from CCH online services and materials are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Further, Wolters Kluwer does not warrant, guarantee, or make any representations regarding the use, or the results of the use, of the software or the materials in terms of correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. you assume the entire risk as to the results and performance obtained from the Tax Learning Center from CCH online services and materials.
   Wolters Kluwer assumes no responsibility for and hereby disclaims all warranties, oral or written, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for a particular purpose. Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so portions of the above may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you, as licensee, may have other rights that vary from state to state.
7. Limitation of Liability. Wolters Kluwer shall not be liable to you, as licensee, or to any third party for any direct, indirect, special, consequential, or incidental damages (including damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, and the like) arising out of the use of or inability to use the Tax Learning Center from CCH online services and materials even if Wolters Kluwer has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Wolters Kluwer's entire liability and your sole and exclusive remedy for any other cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of action, including negligence, shall not exceed the lesser of the amount of your actual direct damages or $5,000 (five thousand dollars).