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Fair Isaac Copyright Usage Requirements

The following requirements apply to all content contained on the Web site having the primary URL of fairisaac.com (referred to below as the "Fair Isaac Site"):

Everything that appears on the Fair Isaac Web Site, including articles, graphics, photographs, and other information, individually and as a collective whole (all of which is referred to as the "Content"), as well as the "look and feel" of the Fair Isaac Web Site, is protected under the copyright laws of the United States and applicable international copyright laws and treaties. No display, copying, modification, publication, performance, reverse engineering, or redistribution of the Content by any method is permitted except as provided in these Usage Requirements.

The copyrights in the Content are owned by Fair Isaac Corporation ("Fair Isaac") or by third parties who have licensed their materials to Fair Isaac. These third-party materials are also copyrighted, and no copying or redistribution is permitted without the express written permission of Fair Isaac and the third party.

The following applies to all Fair Isaac materials on the Fair Isaac Web Site:

Limited License to Copyrighted Fair Isaac Materials

Individual Use:

Except for Content identified as being licensed from a third party, you may download, store, print, and copy selected portions of the Content for your own personal, noncommercial use, provided that:

1. You do not modify or alter the Content in any way.
2. You do not delete or modify any copyright or trademark notices.
3. You do not publish or post any part of the Content on any other Internet site.
4. You do not display, publish, or broadcast any part of the Content in or on any other media.
5. You do not sell or charge others for the use of any materials you print or download.

Fair Use and Use for Educational Purposes:

Fair Isaac does allow "fair use" of limited portions of the Fair Isaac Content for quotations, references, research, etc., as allowed by applicable law.

Any use described in the foregoing paragraph must be complete, accurate, and not misleading, and must not delete or modify any copyright or trademark notices. Any publication or display of Content must clearly disclose that the Content is the copyrighted property of Fair Isaac and that additional information can be found at www.fairisaac.com.

An example of an appropriate disclosure notice is:

"This information is provided by Fair Isaac Corporation, and is used with permission. Copyright © Fair Isaac Corporation. All rights reserved. Further use, reproduction, or distribution is governed by the Fair Isaac Copyright Usage Requirements, which can be found at www.fairisaac.com."

Journalists

For more information on Fair Isaac, including media contact information, please refer to the "News" section of www.fairisaac.com.

Commercial Use:

In general, use of Content for commercial purposes is prohibited. For example, without Fair Isaac's express written permission, you may not:

" Use any Content for commercial purposes to sell, market, or promote any product or service that competes, directly or indirectly, with any product or service offered by Fair Isaac through the Fair Isaac Web Site or otherwise;
" Use or refer to any Content in any way that expresses or implies any sponsorship or endorsement by Fair Isaac or is otherwise likely to mislead consumers into thinking that any third-party Web sites, materials, products, or services are provided, created, sponsored, or endorsed by or affiliated with Fair Isaac.

Affiliates

Affiliate Partners of Fair Isaac may obtain consent to use portions of our Content. Please see Reprint or Reuse Permission below for instructions.

Limitations and Termination

Except as expressly stated above, you may not copy, download, print, publish, display, perform, distribute, transmit, transfer, translate, modify, add to, create derivative works from, update, abridge or in any other way transform or adapt all or any part of the Content without first obtaining written permission from Fair Isaac. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. No license is granted to any HTML or other code incorporated into the Fair Isaac Web Site.

Any license granted hereunder does not allow you to misstate or mischaracterize the Content or any position taken by Fair Isaac, including reproducing portions of the Content out of context in a way that is likely to be misleading to any person.

Any license granted under these Usage Requirements will terminate automatically if you breach any of these Usage Requirements.

Reprint or Reuse Permission

If you would like to use materials published on the Fair Isaac Web Site in ways not authorized by this limited license, you must first obtain written permission from Fair Isaac. Contact us at webmanager@fairisaac.com or write to us at:

Webmaster
fairisaac.com
Fair Isaac
200 Smith Ranch Road
San Rafael, CA 94903
Please describe the specific content and your proposed use in reasonable detail.

Version and Right to Make Changes

These Copyright Usage Requirements were posted on October 15, 2003. Fair Isaac reserves the right to change these Usage Requirements at any time by posting a revised version on the Fair Isaac Web Site.