We have developed these guidelines (“Conditions”) to better serve our users. These guidelines are provided to help you identify how we operate our website(s) and how we utilize any personally identifiable information that we may collect from you. These guidelines are broken down into four main areas, including:
- Terms of Use
- Content Policy,
- Privacy Policy
- Advertising Policy.
Use Acceptance
By use of this website(s), you as a user and/or member agree to its Terms of Use and Conditions set forth in these guidelines. If you do not agree to the Terms or Conditions set forth in these guidelines, do not use the website(s). Continued use of the website(s) indicates continuing acceptance and approval of the Terms and Conditions as defined in these guidelines.
Choice/Opt-in and Opt-out
In some instances this website(s) requires users to “opt-in” for their personal information to be used and/or to receive email notifications, electronic newsletters and/or promotional emails.
Our website(s) users and/or members are provided the opportunity to “opt-out” of having their personal information used by third parties for purposes not directly related to our website(s) at the point where we ask for their information. Users and/or members of our website(s) are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside party. This notification is provided so our users and/or members can make an informed decision as to whether or not they should request services associated with an outside party.
Users and/or members who no longer wish to receive our electronic newsletter or promotional materials from our Site and/or our partners may “opt-out” of receiving these communications by following the “unsubscribe” directions included with each email notification, electronic newsletter and/or promotional email.
Copyright
All elements of our Site, such as text, graphics, images and other material including software licensed by our Site to permit users to access the website (“Content”), are protected by copyright, trademark, and other federal, state and foreign laws. None of the Content may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, de-compiled, reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo-reproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of us, except limited excerpts of the data for personal use may be reproduced, provided that each such copy contains a copyright notice.
Each website user and/or member is solely responsible for compliance with any copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights and restrictions contained within Content provided by parties other than us. Users are referred to the publication data appearing in bibliographic citations, as well as to the copyright notices appearing in the original publications. Users may not sell or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use of the Content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited.
Trademarks
Our Site and its affiliates have a no-tolerance policy regarding the use of our trademarks or names in metatags and/or hidden text. Specifically, the use of our trademarks or names in metatag keywords is trademark infringement, and the use of trademarks or names in page text, metatags, and/or hidden text for purposes of gaining higher rankings from search engines is unfair competition. Framing, inline linking or other association of our Site or its Materials with links, advertisements and/or other information not originating from our Site is expressly prohibited.
Disclaimer
Our Site does not guarantee that the website(s) will be error-free, uninterrupted, nor that it will provide specific results from use of the website(s) or any content, search or link on them. The website(s) and its content is delivered on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis. We utilize anti-virus and security tools in an attempt to ensure content within our website(s) is error-free, however we cannot fully guarantee that files you download from the website(s) will be free of viruses or otherwise destructive features. Our Site disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including also any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of the website(s), including without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, punitive and consequential damages.