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The price for an item on the NOOK.co.uk Site may differ from the price shown in a User's shopping basket. It is possible that such price may increase or decrease between the time the item is placed in a shopping basket and the time that the purchase is actually made. On rare occasions, an item may be priced incorrectly on the NOOK.co.uk Site. If the price for the item on the NOOK.co.uk Site is incorrect and is actually higher than the price provided at the time of purchase, then, at the sole discretion of Barnes & Noble and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Barnes & Noble may either (i) contact the User for instructions before shipping the item or charging the User for such item; (ii) cancel the order for such item and notify the User of such cancellation; or (iii) ship the item at the incorrect price to the benefit of the User.
In certain instances (and/or to the extent not required to be stipulated by applicable law), physical items ordered from the NOOK.co.uk Site may be subject to additional local import duties and taxes, levied once the item is delivered. Prices shown on the NOOK.co.uk Site or shown in a User’s shopping basket may not reflect these additional charges. Any such additional charges must be borne by the User and Barnes & Noble has no control over these charges.
Please note that this policy regarding prices applies only to items sold and shipped by Barnes & Noble. Any purchases of Digital Content, as that Term is defined in Section XI below, or from any third-party sellers on the NOOK.co.uk Site (e.g., sellers of products provided via Barnes & Noble BookQuest LLC, where applicable) may be subject to different policies in the event of an incorrectly priced item.
With the exception of Digital Content, as that Term is defined in Section XI below, the risk of loss and title for all items purchased via the NOOK.co.uk Site shall pass to the User upon delivery of the item to the carrier.
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Barnes & Noble may issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate any User's right to use or access all or any part of the NOOK.co.uk Site including any account thereon, with notice, for any reason, at Barnes & Noble's sole discretion, including, without limitation, violation of the Terms of Use, or Barnes & Noble's belief that such access would violate any applicable law or would be harmful to the interests of, or potentially cause financial loss or legal liability to, Barnes & Noble, any Barnes & Noble Provider or another User.
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Barnes & Noble offers Users the ability to purchase or download digital content, such as eBooks, digital magazines, digital newspapers, digital journals and other periodicals, blogs, applications (including applications developed by Barnes & Noble or third parties) and other digital content as determined by Barnes & Noble from time to time from and through the NOOK.co.uk Site (individually and collectively, "Digital Content"). Barnes & Noble grants you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence to access and make personal, non-commercial use of the Digital Content in accordance with these Terms of Use.
Users may generally browse, preview or search Digital Content without having to purchase or download the Digital Content. In order to be able to purchase and/or download Digital Content, a User must first open a Barnes & Noble account, provide valid credit card information and the User's billing address to Barnes & Noble and install Barnes & Noble's eReader software application (the "Barnes & Noble eReader Software") onto their computer or electronic reading device(s), if such Barnes & Noble eReader Software is not already preloaded. At the time of installation, Barnes & Noble grants the User a non-exclusive, revocable licence to download and make personal, non-commercial use of the Barnes & Noble eReader Software solely for the purpose of downloading, purchasing, accessing, reading and using Digital Content, all subject to the terms of the Barnes & Noble eReader Software End User Licence Agreement. Use of your Barnes & Noble eReader device, on which the Barnes & Noble eReader Software is preloaded, is subject to Barnes & Noble eReader device Terms of Service. You must register your NOOK by logging into your Barnes & Noble account from your Barnes & Noble eReader device prior to purchasing and/or downloading Digital Content.
Barnes & Noble reserves the right to automatically update, modify and/or reinstall the Barnes & Noble eReader Software. The Barnes & Noble eReader Software is subject to restriction and/or revocation for security purposes or other purposes as determined by Barnes & Noble.
There may be separate end user licence agreements you may need to accept in connection with specific hardware or software you may use to interact with the Barnes & Noble eReader Software. Your failure to accept and agree to the terms of those agreements may prevent, restrict and/or limit your ability to use the Barnes & Noble eReader Software.
Your purchased Digital Content will be stored in, or accessible from, your NOOK Library on the NOOK.co.uk Site. You can access your NOOK Library by signing into your Barnes & Noble account. You may also transfer the Digital Content from your NOOK Library to no more than a total of six (6) other electronic devices that you own. You may not transfer the Digital Content from one electronic reading device to another without maintaining the applicable digital rights management solution for that Digital Content. You may not bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent any of the security features, special rules or other applications that protect the Digital Content.
Only certain eBooks are eligible for lending. EBooks with an icon on their product pages indicate their eligibility for lending and will also have a "LendMe" link in the customer's NOOK Library, once purchased. Under the LendMe feature, a customer who has purchased an eBook on the NOOK.co.uk Site may loan that eBook to only one person. Currently, the maximum number of times that an eBook can be lent is once per eBook title for a period of up to 14 days. During the lending period, the loaned eBook will be disabled in the lending customer's NOOK Library. After the lending period has expired, the eBook will be re-enabled in the lending customer's NOOK Library. The borrower must have a Barnes & Noble account with a default credit card payment method for accessing the borrowed eBook. The borrower cannot lend the borrowed eBook to another person. Upon expiry of the 14-day lending period, the loaned eBook will be disabled in the borrower's NOOK Library and the borrower will no longer be able to access it. The borrower cannot archive or delete a borrowed eBook. The borrower can only return the borrowed eBook to the lending customer. The borrower will be allowed to return the loaned eBook to the lending customer prior to the expiry of the 14-day lending period. The following types of Digital Content are not eligible for lending: digital audio books, digital magazines, digital newspapers, free eBook samples and Google books. Please note that customers who have the eReader Software installed prior to 30 November 2009 will need to upgrade the eReader Software in order to take full advantage of the LendMe feature. [Click here to upgrade.]
Digital Content is only available for purchase by Users with a credit card that is registered in a European Union Member State. By opening a Barnes & Noble account for Digital Content, you represent and warrant to Barnes & Noble that you reside in the European Union and that you are capable of entering into a contract under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Barnes & Noble reserves the right to modify or discontinue the offering of any Digital Content at any time. If a unit of Digital Content becomes unavailable prior to download but after purchase, your sole and exclusive remedy is the refund of the purchase price paid for such Digital Content. Some Digital Content may not remain available for re-download from your NOOK Library, if for example, the publisher of the Digital Content no longer retains the rights or other licences, consents or permissions to that Digital Content. Digital Content already downloaded to your device[s] will not be affected.
You may not (i) modify, alter, duplicate, reproduce, copy, distribute copies of, disassemble, reverse engineer, emulate, decompile or tamper with the Barnes & Noble eReader Software or Digital Content; (ii) create derivative works from or of the Barnes & Noble eReader Software or Digital Content; (iii) bypass, modify, tamper, defeat or circumvent any of the security components, special rules or other applications that protect the Barnes & Noble eReader Software or Digital Content; (iv) use any robot, spider, data miner, crawler, scraper or other automated means to access or index the Digital Content or any portion thereof, including but not limited to any metadata associated with the Digital Content; or (v) rent, loan, lease, sub-licence, transfer, network, reproduce, display, distribute or otherwise make any of the Digital Content available to any third party.
The NOOK.co.uk Site offers numerous opportunities for interactive activities, which enable Users to communicate with each other directly or which enable Users to post information and other material that will be visible to other Users of those services ("Interactive Community"). This Section XII, Interactive Community, applies to the activities of persons who are using interactive services on the Site ("Interactive Community Users"). The scope of these services may change from time to time, without notice. You are using Interactive Community services if you view or participate in, each where available, the Barnes & Noble Book Clubs, post a review, create a list, create a profile, submit any User Created Content, as defined below, or otherwise participate in any interactive feature.
Interactive Community services may be used only for lawful purposes in accordance with these Terms of Use. If you are using any Barnes & Noble Interactive Community services, and post, publish or communicate any information, data, software, photographs, graphs, videos, typefaces, graphics, music, sounds and other material on or through the Interactive Community services, please choose carefully the information that you post and/or provide to other Users ("User Created Content"). The User is prohibited from posting on or transmitting through the NOOK.co.uk Site any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including but not limited to any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable law in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and in any country where the material is posted or terminated. Barnes & Noble reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting or other User Created Content (including private messages) from you, or to deny, restrict, suspend or terminate access to all or any part of the Interactive Community services at any time, for any or no reason, without prior notice or explanation and without liability.
Barnes & Noble reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to remove your profile and/or deny, restrict, suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Interactive Community services for any reason.
If you become aware of misuse of the Interactive Community services, including any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violates any applicable law, please activate the Flag feature on the page in question.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except to the extent strictly required by applicable law (and then only to the extent it cannot be excluded), Barnes & Noble assumes no responsibility for ongoing monitoring of the NOOK.co.uk Site or for removal or editing of any User Created Content, even after receiving notice. Barnes & Noble assumes no liability for any action or inaction with respect to conduct, communication or User Created Content within the Interactive Community.
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You may not post User Created Content that: involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters" or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming" or "spamming"; contains restricted or password-only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users; involves commercial activities and/or sales such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising or pyramid schemes; includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent; circumvents or modifies, or attempts to circumvent or modify, or encourages or assists any other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or software that is part of the NOOK.co.uk Site; involves the use of viruses, bots, worms or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorised use of or access to a computer or a computer network; covers or obscures the banner advertisements on your personal profile page; involves any automated use of the NOOK.co.uk Site, such as, but not limited to, using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages; interferes with, disrupts or creates an undue burden on the NOOK.co.uk Site or the networks or services connected to the Interactive Community services; impersonates or attempts to impersonate another Interactive Community User, person or entity; uses the account, username or password of another Interactive Community User at any time or discloses your password to any third party or permits any third party to access your account; sells or otherwise transfers your profile; uses any information obtained from the NOOK.co.uk Site in order to harass, abuse or harm another person or entity, or attempts to do the same.
Interactive Community Users may upload to or otherwise submit to Barnes & Noble for distribution on the NOOK.co.uk Site only (i) User Created Content that is not subject to any copyright or other proprietary rights restrictions; or (ii) User Created Content which the owner or licensor has given express authorisation for Barnes & Noble to distribute over the Internet. You may not upload, embed, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available any material that infringes any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any person or entity. Any copyrighted or other proprietary User Created Content distributed with the consent of a copyright owner should contain a phrase such as "Copyright, owned by [name of owner]; used by permission". Barnes & Noble is entitled to presume that all User Created Content conforms to the foregoing requirements. The unauthorised submission of copyrighted or other proprietary User Created Content is illegal and could subject the User to personal liability for damages in a civil suit as well as criminal prosecution. Interactive Community Users assume all liability for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights or proprietary rights, or from any other harm arising from an unauthorised submission or submission of User Created Content. Barnes & Noble assumes no liability for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights or proprietary rights, or from any other harm arising from any User Created Content. By submitting User Created Content within the Interactive Community, Interactive Community Users automatically grant, or represent and warrant that the owner or authorised licensor of such User Created Content has expressly granted Barnes & Noble, the royalty-free, for the full period of copyright (and any renewals and extensions thereof), (and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, a perpetual and irrevocable) right and licence to use, reproduce, publish, translate, sub-license, copy, modify, delete, enhance and distribute the User Created Content in whole or in part worldwide and/or to incorporate such User Created Content in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such User Created Content, together with a full waiver of all moral rights therein (to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law). Subject to this grant, the licensor of User Created Content submitted to Barnes & Noble retains any and all rights which may exist for such User Created Content.
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Barnes & Noble is not responsible for and makes no warranties, express or implied, as to any Content appearing on or accessed through the Site, including without limitation, any Digital Content and User Created Content or the accuracy and reliability of the Content, including Digital Content and User Created Content, posted on the NOOK.co.uk Site or through the NOOK.co.uk Services, whether caused by Users of the NOOK.co.uk Site or the NOOK.co.uk Services or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilised in the NOOK.co.uk Site or the NOOK.co.uk Services, including the Barnes & Noble eReader Software. Content, including Digital Content and User Created Content, does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Barnes & Noble. Profiles and third-party applications created and posted by Users on the NOOK.co.uk Site may contain links to other websites. Barnes & Noble is not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are not necessarily investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by Barnes & Noble. Use of such websites will be subject to their own terms of use and privacy policies. Inclusion of any linked website on the NOOK.co.uk Services does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by Barnes & Noble. When you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. Barnes & Noble takes no responsibility for third-party advertisements or third-party applications that are posted on or through the NOOK.co.uk Site or the NOOK.co.uk Services, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers. Barnes & Noble is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of the NOOK.co.uk Site or the NOOK.co.uk Services. Barnes & Noble assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to, or alteration of, any User communication. Barnes & Noble is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of the Barnes & Noble eReader Software, or any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or on any of the NOOK.co.uk Services or combinations thereof, including any injury or damage to Users or to any person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the NOOK.co.uk Site or Services. To the maximum extent permitted under local law, under no circumstances shall Barnes & Noble be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the NOOK.co.uk Site or Services, from any Content, including Digital Content and User Created Content, posted on or through the NOOK.co.uk Services, from the Barnes & Noble eReader Software, or from the conduct of any Users of the NOOK.co.uk Site or NOOK.co.uk Services, whether online or offline.
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Under no circumstances shall Barnes & Noble or any Barnes & Noble Provider be liable for any damages that result from the use of or inability to use the NOOK.co.uk Site, including but not limited to reliance by a User on any information obtained from the NOOK.co.uk Site or that results from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files or e-mails, errors, defects, viruses, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance, whether or not resulting from acts of god, communications failure, theft, destruction or unauthorised access to Barnes & Noble's records, programs or services. The User hereby acknowledges that this paragraph shall apply to all Content, including Digital Content and User Created Content, the Barnes & Noble eReader Software, merchandise and services available through the NOOK.co.uk Site.
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The provisions of these Terms of Use are intended to be severable. If for any reason any provision of these Terms of Use shall be held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part in any applicable jurisdiction, such provision shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability without in any manner affecting the validity or enforceability thereof in any other jurisdiction or the remaining provisions hereof in any jurisdiction. The failure of Barnes & Noble to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not operate as a temporary or permanent waiver of such right or provision.
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The Terms of Use, including all documents referenced herein, represent the entire understanding between the User and Barnes & Noble regarding the User's relationship with Barnes & Noble and supersede any prior statements or representations. Headings used in the Terms of Use are for reference only and shall not affect the meaning of any terms. "Including" means "including, without limitation".
Barnes & Noble reserves the right to make changes to the NOOK.co.uk Site, posted policies and Terms of Use at any time without notice or liability. These terms were last revised on 10 September 2012. Click here to see a prior version of the Terms of Use.