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Welcome to The American Oil & Gas Reporter ("AOGR") Website (the "Site"), which is located at aogr.com. The following Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") contain the terms and conditions that govern your use of the Site. This Agreement describes your rights and responsibilities and what you can expect from the Site. Use of the Site constitutes acceptance of this agreement.

AOGR reserves the right to add, delete and/or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and in its sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on the Site. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to not use the Site. Your continued use of the Site following posting of new Agreement on the Site will constitute binding acceptance of the changes. Copyright.

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You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license (a) to access and use the Site strictly in accordance with this Agreement; (b) to use the Site solely for internal, personal, non-commercial purposes; and (c) to print out discrete information from the Site solely for internal, personal, non-commercial purposes and provided that you maintain all copyright and other policies contained therein. No print out or electronic version of any part of the Site or its contents may be used by you in any litigation or arbitration matter whatsoever under any circumstances.

Restrictions and Prohibitions on Use.

Your license for access and use of the Site and any information, materials or documents (collectively defined as “Content and Materials”) therein are subject to the following restrictions and prohibitions on use. You may not:

(a) copy, print (except for the express limited purpose expressed in the Permission Request section above), republish, display, distribute, transmit, sell, rent, lease, loan or otherwise make available in any form or by any means all or any portion of the Site or any Content and Materials retrieved therefrom;

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(e) remove, change or obscure any copyright notice or other proprietary notice or terms of use contained in the Site;

(f) make any portion of the Site available through any timesharing system, service bureau, the Internet or any other technology now existing or developed in the future;

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(h) use any automatic or manual process to harvest information from the Site;

(i) use the Site for the purpose of gathering information for or transmitting (1) unsolicited commercial email; (2) email that makes use of headers, invalid or nonexistent domain names, or other means of deceptive addressing; and (3) unsolicited telephone calls or facsimile transmissions;

(j) use the Site in a manner that violates any state or federal law regulating email, facsimile transmissions or telephone solicitations; and

(k) export or re-export the Site or any portion thereof, or any software available on or through the Site, in violation of the export control laws or regulations of the United States.

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LINKING POLICY

We welcome links to our website, as long as you do not copy and paste article content from our site. You may link to our main internet address (https://www.aogr.com) or any page within our site. You may not frame, or in any other way incorporate our website within your site, blog, discussion boards, etc., nor claim credit for the website or the resources embedded within it.

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