Terms of Service

Terms of Use

Last Updated: 6/14/2022

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE COGNITEA.COM WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE USING THE SITE AS A VISITOR, THEN BY USING THE SITE, YOU AGREE THAT SUCH USE CONSTITUTES YOUR ASSENT TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU CREATE AN ACCOUNT OR MAKE A PURCHASE ON THE SITE, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BY CLICKING THE “I ACCEPT” BUTTON, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR AGREEMENTS IS ON BEHALF OF AN ENTITY, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO BIND THAT ENTITY TO OUR AGREEMENTS. IN THAT EVENT, “YOU” AND “YOUR” WILL REFER AND APPLY TO THAT ENTITY AS WELL AS TO YOURSELF. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU MAY NOT USE THE SITE.

Legal Notices. This website (the “website” or “site” or “service”) is provided by CogniTea LLC, a Virginia limited liability company (“CogniTea”) as a service to our users. Please carefully review the following basic rules that govern your use of the website. Please note that your use of the site constitutes your unconditional agreement to follow and be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to them, do not use the website, provide any materials to the site or download any materials from it. CogniTea reserves the right to update or modify these Terms at any time without prior notice to you (the “User”). Your use of the site following any such change constitutes your unconditional agreement to follow and be bound by these Terms as changed. For this reason, we encourage you to review these Terms of Use whenever you use this website. These Terms of Use apply to the use of the CogniTea site and do not extend to any linked third party sites. In this Agreement, “we”, “us” and “CogniTea” mean Health Product Declaration Collaborative, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and “you” means the person using the service, your administrators, executors, successors and assigns, as well as the organization or company on whose behalf you may be acting when you access this site. These Terms, and our Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference, contain the entire agreement (the “Agreement”) between CogniTea and you with respect to this site. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

Permitted and Prohibited Uses. You may use the website for the sole purpose of purchasing tea and tea-related products and to share your stories of personal growth and overcoming obstacles in life. You may not use the website to violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law, including without limitation any applicable laws relating to antitrust or other illegal trade or business practices, federal and state securities laws, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, and any U.S. laws, rules, and regulations governing the export and re-export of commodities or technical data. You may not upload or transmit any material that infringes or misappropriates any person's copyright, patent, trademark, or trade secret, or disclose via the website any information the disclosure of which would constitute a violation of any confidentiality obligation on your part. You may not upload any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or other forms of harmful computer code, nor subject CogniTea’s network or servers to unreasonable traffic loads, or otherwise engage in conduct deemed disruptive to the ordinary operation of CogniTea’s website. You’re strictly prohibited from communicating on or through this site any unlawful, harmful, offensive, threatening, abusive, libelous, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful, fraudulent, sexually explicit, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable material of any sort, including, but not limited to, any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law.

As a condition for accessing the site and using the site, you agree not to (i) reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit for any commercial purposes any portion of the content appearing on the site other than as expressly allowed under these Terms of Use; (ii) use CogniTea’s name, trademarks, server, or other materials in connection with, or to transmit, any unsolicited communications or emails; or (iii) frame the site, place pop-up windows over its pages, or otherwise affect the display of its pages.

You may not use the website in a way that harms CogniTea or CogniTea’s members, affiliates or vendors, or other users of the site.

Copyright and Limited License to Site and Site Materials. All email messages or notices sent to you by CogniTea, in connection with this service, the website and all materials on the website, including without limitation any CogniTea and third party logos and all other documents, videos, text, graphics, pictures, information and other content (collectively, “site materials”), are the proprietary property of CogniTea or its licensors. You are granted a limited, nonexclusive license (without the right to sublicense) to download and reproduce site material documents that are specifically made available on the site for the general public to download (“public documents”), provided that any copyright notices on each page of public document reproductions are reproduced in full and that you agree to comply with all such notices. Such license is subject to these Terms of Use and excludes: (i) any resale of the site or any site materials; (ii) any distribution, public performance or public display of any site materials, other than sharing copies of public documents as provided by these Terms of Use; (iii) modifying or otherwise making any derivative uses of the site or any site materials; (iv) use of any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction, automated account registration, or account utilization methods; or (v) downloading (other than the page caching) of any portion of the site, the site materials (except as provided above) or any information contained therein. Any use of the site or site materials other than as specifically authorized herein is strictly prohibited and will terminate the foregoing license

Trademarks. COGNITEA, the CogniTea logo, PRODUCTIVE ENERGY, DEEP SLEEP, HERBAL IMMUNITY, STEEP WITH PURPOSE, I CAN. I WILL., and any other product or service name or slogan contained in the website are trademarks of CogniTea and/or its licensors and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of CogniTea or the applicable trademark holder. You may not use any metatags or any other “hidden text” utilizing “COGNITEA” or any other name, trademark or product or service name of CogniTea without our prior written permission. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned on the website are the property of their respective owners. Reference to any products or services, whether by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise, does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof by CogniTea.

User Submissions. CogniTea does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through the site. By posting, submitting or transmitting any material, information, or other communication (“Content”) directly to CogniTea’s website, you (a) agree that such Content will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, (b) agree that CogniTea will be under no obligation of any kind with respect to such information, and (c) grant, and hereby grant, to CogniTea a perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, fully sublicensable and irrevocable license to reproduce, make derivative works from, use, disclose, and distribute the Content to others without limitation. At our sole election, CogniTea may provide authorship attribution by listing your name. Further, you agree to waive and forego asserting any moral rights you may have in the Content. By submitting Content to CogniTea, you represent and warrant that you have authority to provide such Content to CogniTea and grant the rights to the Content granted herein, and that doing so does not and will not constitute the infringement or misappropriation of the trade secrets or other confidential information of you or any third party. 

User Discussion Forums. CogniTea may, but is not obligated to, monitor or review any areas on the website where users transmit or post communications or communicate solely with each other, including but not limited to chat rooms, bulletin boards or other user forums, and the content of any such communications. CogniTea, however, will have no liability related to the content of any such communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. CogniTea may edit or remove content on the website at its discretion at any time.

 Use of Personally Identifiable Information. Information submitted to the website is governed according to CogniTea’s then-current Privacy Policy.

You agree to provide true, accurate, current, and complete information when registering with our website. It is your responsibility to maintain and promptly update this account information to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete. If you provide any information that is fraudulent, untrue, inaccurate, incomplete, or not current, or we have reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is fraudulent, untrue, inaccurate, incomplete, or not current, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account without notice and to refuse any and all current and future use of this site.

Although sections of the site may be viewed simply by visiting the site, in order to access some Content and/or additional features offered at the site, you may need to sign on as a guest or register as a member. If you create an account on the site, you may be asked to supply your name, address, email address, telephone number, User ID, and password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur in connection with your password or account. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of either your password or account or any other breach of security. You further agree that you will not permit others, including those whose accounts have been terminated, to access this site using your account or User ID. You grant CogniTea, its affiliated companies, and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of the site the right to transmit, monitor, retrieve, store, and use your information in connection with the operation of the site and in the provision of services to you. CogniTea cannot and does not assume any responsibility or liability for any information you submit, or your or third parties’ use or misuse of information transmitted or received using this site. To learn more about how we protect the privacy of the personal information in your account, please visit our Privacy Policy.

 Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CogniTea, its employees, directors, officers, affiliated companies, agents, vendors or suppliers from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from or related to your use or misuse of the site, including, without limitation, your violation of these Terms of Use, your infringement or that of any other subscriber or user of your account, of any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity.

Termination. These Terms of Use are effective until terminated by either party. If you no longer agree to be bound by these Terms, you must cease use of this website. If you’re dissatisfied with this website, its content, or any of these terms, conditions, and policies, your sole legal remedy is to discontinue using this website. CogniTea reserves the right to terminate or suspend your access to and use of this site, or parts of this site, without notice, if we believe, in our sole discretion, that such use is (i) in violation of any applicable law; (ii) is harmful to our interests or the interests, including intellectual property or other rights, of another person or entity; or (iii) where CogniTea has reason to believe that you are in violation of these Terms of Use.

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER. THE COGNITEA WEBSITE AND ASSOCIATED MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, COGNITEA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. COGNITEA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTY THAT THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE; NOR DOES COGNITEA MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SITE. COGNITEA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES INCLUDED ON THIS SITE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL COGNITEA OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATED COMPANIES, EMPLOYEES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, AGENTS, VENDORS OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF INFORMATION) ARISING OUT OF THE USE, MISUSE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, EVEN IF COGNITEA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS DISCLAIMER CONSTITUTES AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS AGREEMENT. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS PROHIBIT THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. 

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY CONTENT DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF CONTENT. COGNITEA SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED, OR ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, BY THE INFORMATION OR IDEAS CONTAINED, SUGGESTED OR REFERENCED IN OR APPEARING ON THE SITE. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE SITE IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM COGNITEA OR THROUGH COGNITEA, ITS EMPLOYEES, OR THIRD PARTIES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE, BY YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

Liability Limitation. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, WHETHER IN TORT, CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, SHALL COGNITEA OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATED COMPANIES, EMPLOYEES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, AGENTS, VENDORS OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES OR DAMAGES OF ANY NATURE ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE OR FOR ANY BREACH OF SECURITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSMISSION OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION THROUGH THE SITE OR FOR ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA, WORK STOPPAGE, ACCURACY OF RESULTS, OR COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, EVEN IF AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF COGNITEA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

COGNITEA’S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE WILL NOT EXCEED ONE THOUSAND U.S. DOLLARS ($1,000.00). YOU AGREE AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY ARE AN ESSENTIAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN AND THAT COGNITEA WOULD NOT PROVIDE THE WEBSITE ABSENT SUCH LIMITATION.

General. CogniTea is based in the United States. CogniTea makes no claims that the content on the site is appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the United States. Access to the site materials may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the site from outside the United States, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. These Terms are governed in all respects by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, excluding that state’s conflicts of laws provisions. The provisions of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply to these Terms. A party may give notice to the other party only in writing at that party's principal place of business, attention of that party's principal legal officer, or at such other address or by such other method as the party shall specify in writing. Notice shall be deemed given upon personal delivery or facsimile, or, if sent by certified mail with postage prepaid, 5 business days after the date of mailing, or, if sent by international overnight courier with postage prepaid, 7 business days after the date of mailing. If any provision herein is held to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force without being affected in any way. Further, the parties agree to replace such unenforceable provision with an enforceable provision that most closely approximates the intent and economic effect of the unenforceable provision. Section headings are for reference purposes only and do not define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. The failure of CogniTea to act with respect to a breach of this Agreement by you or others does not constitute a waiver and shall not limit CogniTea’s rights with respect to such breach or any subsequent breaches. Any action or proceeding arising out of or related to this Agreement or your use of this site must be brought in the state or federal courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and you consent to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts. Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of this site must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. These Terms set forth the entire understanding and agreement of the parties, and supersedes any and all oral or written agreements or understandings between the parties, as to their subject matter. The waiver of a breach of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any other or subsequent breach.

Links to Other Materials. This site may contain links to sites owned or operated by independent third parties. These links are provided for your convenience and reference only. We do not control such sites and, therefore, we are not responsible for any content posted on these sites. The fact that CogniTea offers such links should not be construed in any way as an endorsement, authorization, or sponsorship of that site, its content or the companies or products referenced therein, and CogniTea reserves the right to note its lack of affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement on this site. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do this entirely at your own risk. Because some sites employ automated search results or otherwise link you to sites containing information that may be deemed inappropriate or offensive, CogniTea cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in third party sites, and you hereby irrevocably waive any claim against us with respect to such sites.

Notification of Possible Copyright Infringement.

CogniTea’s policy is to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). Copyright-infringing materials found on our site can be identified and removed using the process listed below, and you agree to comply with such process in the event you are involved in any claim of copyright infringement to which the DMCA may be applicable.

If you believe in good faith that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide CogniTea’s copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying CogniTea that your copyrighted material has been infringed. CogniTea does not and will not make any legal decisions about the validity of your claim of infringement or the possible defenses to a claim. When a clear and valid notice is received pursuant to the guidelines set forth below, CogniTea will respond by either taking down the allegedly infringing content or blocking access to it. CogniTea may contact the notice provider to request additional information. Under the DMCA, CogniTea is required to take reasonable steps to notify the user who posted the allegedly infringing content ("Alleged Infringer"). The Alleged Infringer is allowed under the law to send CogniTea a counter-notification. Notices and counter-notices are legal notices distinct from regular CogniTea site activities or communications. We may publish or share the notices with third parties in our sole discretion (in addition to producing them pursuant to a subpoena or other legal discovery request). Anyone making a false or fraudulent notice or counter-notice may be liable for damages under the DMCA, including costs and attorneys' fees. Any person who is unsure of whether certain material infringes a copyright held by such person or a third party should contact an attorney.

To file a DMCA notice, the copyright owner must send in a written letter by fax, regular mail, or email only. We reserve the right to ignore a notice that is not in compliance with the DMCA, and we may, but are not obligated to, respond to a non-compliant notice.

A DMCA notice must:

  1. Identify specifically the copyrighted work(s) believed to have been infringed (for example, “My copyrighted work is the picture that appears at [list location where material is located].”);
  1. Identify the Content that a copyright owner claims is infringing upon copyrighted work. The copyright owner must provide information reasonably sufficient to enable us to locate the item on the CogniTea site. The copyright owner should provide clear screenshots of the allegedly infringing materials for identification purposes only. The information provided should be as detailed as possible;
  1. Provide information sufficient to permit us to contact the copyright owner directly: name, street address, telephone number, and email (if available);
  1. If available, provide information sufficient to permit us to notify the Alleged Infringer (email address preferred);
  1. Include the following statement: “I have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law”;
  1. Include the following statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed”;
  1. Be signed; and
  1. Be sent to our DMCA designated agent at the following address:

CogniTea LLC

Attention: Legal Dept

1800 North Oak St Floor 14 Suite 2

Arlington, VA 22209

Telephone Number of Designated Agent: (617)651-1411

E-Mail Address of Designated Agent: alex@cognitea.com

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