sites.com offers both an online search service and companion printed guides to provide Internet Users with quick and effective navigation on the web. With over 1 billion pages already posted, the web is experiencing an increasingly serious population explosion. Traditional search engines suffer from both a quantity and a quality problem: they provide countless websites without adequate assessment of the results. The frustration and time loss associated with web navigation is becoming a universal problem.

The guide gives readers the option to start their search before even turning on the computer. After flipping through the book for a site or category of interest, readers are encouraged to visit the related category site on sites.com for clickable links to the top websites. Since the sites.com site will be continuously updated, users will benefit from the most recent compilations online.

Search From Anywhere
Another unique advantage of the sites.com search service is that users can perform a search from wherever they are on the internet without having to visit our homepage first. With our proprietary DOT.SEARCH a method, users can simply enter keywords, separated by dots, and followed by "sites.com" from any browser address window to obtain our fast, relevant results. For instance, to search for movie review sites, the user can simply type www.movie.reviews.sites.com into any browser address window and they will be taken directly to the sites.com movie category.

About Our Founder
Sites.com, established in 1999, is the brainchild of founder Roger Abbiss and represents his third high-tech venture. A recipient of the 1998 Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Canada, Mr. Abbiss founded Optel Inc., a Canadian telecommunications company, in 1995. Sites.com guides and online search service was born of Mr. Abbiss's own frustration with searching the world-wide web and getting too much information. A busy entrepreneur, Mr. Abbiss knew that providing internest users with a single source for all the best websites would be better and produce results faster than poring through pages of traditional search engine results. Leveraging years of business experience, Mr. Abbiss conceived the search service and companion guides to provide users with fast, high-quality results.

Terms Of Service
Sites.com Terms of Service for Your Personal Use
Welcome! By using Sites.com's search engine services ("Sites.com Search Services"), you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (the "Terms of Service").

Content Linked to by Sites.com
The sites displayed as search results or linked to by Sites.com Search Service are developed by people over whom Sites.com exercises no control. The search results that appear from Sites.com's indices are indexed by Sites.com's automated machinery and computers, and Sites.com cannot and does not screen the sites before including them in the indices from which such automated search results are gathered. Searches using the Sites.com Search Services may produce search results and links to sites that are considered objectionable, inappropriate, or offensive by some people. Sites.com does not guarantee that a Sites.com search will not locate unintended or objectionable content and assume no responsibility for the content of any site included in any search results or otherwise linked to by the Sites.com Search Services.

Individual / Personal Use of Sites.com
The Sites.com Search Service is made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. Users are not authorized to use the Sites.com Search Service to sell any products or services, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales, unless expressly authorized in writing by sites.com to do so. You may not take the results from a Sites.com search and reformat and display them, or mirror the Sites.com home page or results pages on your Web site without prior written authorization. You may not "meta-search" Sites.com. If you want to make commercial use of the Sites.com Search Service, you must enter into an agreement with Sites.com to do so in advance. Please contact us at 1-866-628-9539 for more information. If you are interested in adding a Sites.com search box to your web site or your company's web site, please use the Add sites search to your site link.

Automated Queries not Authorized
You may not send automated queries of any sort to Sites.com's system without express permission in advance from Sites.com. Note that "automated queries" includes using any software which sends queries to Sites.com to determine how a website "ranks" on Sites.com for various queries.

Changes In Terms and Conditions and Sites.com Search Service We may modify or terminate our services from time to time, for any reason, and without notice, including the right to terminate with or without notice, without liability to you, any other user or any third party. We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Service from time to time without notice. Please review these Terms of Service from time to time so that you will be apprised of any changes.

Intellectual Property Policy
It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in an appropriate manner under such Act and other applicable intellectual property laws, including the removal or disabling of access to material claimed to be the subject of infringing activity. Direct any notices of infringement to: Sites.com, Inc. Attention: Roger Abbiss, CEO, ceo@sites.com and indicate the following in the subject line of your email: copyright infringement concern.

To file a notice of infringement with us, one needs to fulfill the requirements specified in Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. The text of this statute can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site, http://lcWeb.loc.gov/copyright/.

Disclaimer of Warranties
Sites.com disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or availability of information or material displayed in the Sites.com Search Services results. Sites.com disclaims any responsibility for the deletion, failure to store, misdelivery, or untimely delivery of any information or material. Sites.com disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from downloading or accessing any information or material on the Internet through the Sites.com Search Services.

THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. SITES.COM EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. SITES.COM DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE. SITES.COM DISCLAIMS, ANY WARRANTIES FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICES. SITES.COM DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED BY THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE, AS WELL AS FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICES. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU DOWNLOAD OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN MATERIAL OR DATA THROUGH THE USE OF THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS IN THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL OR DATA. SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE AND JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.

Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL SITES.COM BE LIABLE TO ANY USER ON ACCOUNT OF THAT USER'S USE OR MISUSE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE. ARISING FROM ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO PREVENT RECOVERY OF DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHETHER SUCH CLAIM IS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, (EVEN IF SITES.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF AND RELIANCE ON THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE, OR FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE (INCLUDING SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES). THIS LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICES. THIS LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL FURTHER APPLY WITH RESPECT TO THE PERFORMANCE OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE OR ANY INFORMATION OR MERCHANDISE THAT APPEARS ON, OR IS LINKED OR RELATED IN ANY WAY TO, THE SITES.COM SEARCH SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall Sites.com be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labor disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labor or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of third parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning.

Requests for Removal of Links or Cached Materials Sites.com occasionally receives requests from people to remove links from its indices. Although Sites.com reserves the right to address such requests individually, the general approach that Sites.com takes reflects the following principles: Sites.com's indices consist of information that has been identified, indexed and compiled through an automated process with limited advance review by human beings. Given the enormous volume of web site information added, deleted, and changed on a frequent basis, Sites.com cannot and does not screen all of that which is made available through its indices. For each web site reflected in Sites.com's indices, if either (i) a site owner restricts access to his or her web site or (ii) a site is taken down from the web, then, upon receipt of a request by the site owner or a third party in the second instance, Sites.com would consider on a case-by-case basis requests to remove the link to that site from its indices. However, if the operator of the site does not take steps to prevent it, the automatic facilities used to create the indices are likely to find that site and index it again in a relatively short amount of time. Sites.com stores many web pages in its cache to retrieve for users as a back-up in case the page's server temporarily fails. Site owners may block Sites.com from returning cached versions of their pages by using the NOARCHIVE meta-tag. Site owners may also request immediate removal of cached page from the Sites.com Search Service. Sites.com evaluates such requests for the immediate removal of cached content on a case-by-case basis and does not guarantee that every request will be granted.

Miscellaneous Provisions
These Terms of Service will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions or your actual state or country of residence. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of the Terms of Service to be unenforceable, the remainder of the Terms of Service will continue in full force and effect. These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. Any waiver of any provision of the Terms of Service will be effective only if in writing and signed by Sites.com.

Sites.com will use best efforts to resolve any problems or issues that you may have with us or our services in a satisfactory manner. If, however, we are unable to reach a mutually satisfactory resolution, each of us agrees that any dispute or controversy between us, or arising in any way out of the use or operation of our web site or other services, or any information, services, products, and materials contained in this site or available through our other services, shall be resolved by binding arbitration before a single arbitrator selected from a court provided list of appointed arbitrators as provided for under the applicable rules and procedures of the applicable Ontario Courts. The arbitrator shall have authority to resolve all matters in dispute between us (subject to the legal disclaimer and liability limitations set forth above), including the applicability, scope and binding effect of this arbitration agreement, and to award arbitration costs and expenses to the prevailing party as determined by the arbitrator. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may pursue preliminary or injunctive remedies in an appropriate judicial forum pending the decision of the arbitrator, without waiving the right or affecting the obligation to arbitrate hereunder.