The Association has the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the site, including, without limitation, the content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use of the site. Use of this site is solely at the Association’s discretion and the Association reserves the right to prohibit anyone from accessing, browsing, supplying information to, downloading information from, or conducting business on this site.
The site contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, without limitation, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound, and the contents of the site are copyrighted under the United States copyright laws and international treaties (“Information”). You are not granted any rights in or to this site or any Information, other than the limited right described in these terms and conditions and any policies and procedures that the Association may adopt and make available on this site from time to time, including the Privacy Policy.
The Information may be supplied by the Association or third parties and users of the site. Any opinions, advice, statements, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of the Association. In many instances, the content available through the site represents the opinions and judgments of the respective information provider or user. The Association neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the site by anyone other than authorized Association spokespersons acting in their official capacities.
You agree (i) to comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding your use of this site and the Information, (ii) not to retransmit, publicly display, sell or use the Information provided other than solely for your internal business purposes, (iii) not to alter or remove any of the Information or any consent or other proprietary notice or legend on any of the Information, (iv) not to post or transmit through the site any material that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law, (v) not to post or transmit through the site any material which contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services without the Association’s express prior approval, and (vi) not to use the site to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation. Any conduct by you that in the Association’s discretion restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the site will not be permitted.
Business associates or customers providing or using Information that is made available on this site are solely responsible for the accuracy and content of the Information supplied or used and agree not to supply any Information that infringes the intellectual property rights of any other party or that is misleading, fraudulent, defamatory, libelous, threatening, harassing, injurious to minors, pornographic, obscene or illegal.
By providing Information to the Association for posting on the site or transmitting any Information to the site, you grant to the Association and its successors and assigns a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to (i) use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, display, and broadcast that Information; (ii) authorize specified third parties to use, reproduce, distribute, download, create derivative works of and print such Information for their own internal business purposes; and (iii) otherwise use such Information in any manner consistent with the Association’s Privacy Policy. You agree that the Association shall be free to use any ideas, concepts or techniques contained in your Information for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products incorporating such ideas, concepts or techniques.
While it may monitor, remove or delete transmissions to this site, the Association is under no obligation to monitor, remove or delete any transmissions. The Association exercises no editorial review and assumes no responsibility for misleading, fraudulent, defamatory, libelous, threatening, harassing, pornographic, obscene or illegal Information supplied to this site; provided, however, that the Association may take any action with respect to any Information that the Association deems in its sole discretion is necessary or appropriate, including the deletion of any such Information. You agree to promptly report any suspicious or unauthorized use of this site to the Association. The Association reserves the right to monitor any and all activity on this site and the Association may notify the proper law enforcement officials if any suspicious activity is detected.
This site may provide links to other Internet sites. Such links are provided as a service to users and are not sponsored by or endorsed with this site or with the products and services of the Association. The Association is not responsible for the availability of such other sites and is not responsible or liable for any content, products or other materials available on such other sites. Further, the Association reserves the right to terminate any link at any time. The Association does not author, edit, or monitor these unofficial pages or links. You acknowledge and agree that the Association shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any information, goods or services available on or through any such site. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do this entirely at your own risk.
If you believe that your copyright in any material has been infringed by the Association, please provide our Agent for Notice, on file with and obtainable from the U.S. Copyright Office, with all of the following information (i) a description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed, (ii) a description of the material that you claim is infringing, identified with sufficient detail for the Association to locate it on the site, (iii) your address, telephone number and e-mail address, (iv) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized, (v) a statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that the above information is true and that you are the owner of the copyrighted interest or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf and (vi) a physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner’s interest.
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You agree to defend, indemnify and hold the Association harmless from and against any damage, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable attorney’s fee) that the Association may suffer or incur as a result of any claim attributable to or based upon your use of this site or any of the Information. If for any reason you are not satisfied with this site or the Information, your sole remedy is to cease using this site or the Information.
Nothing in these terms and conditions will be construed to make the Association or its business associates, customers or you an agent, employee, joint venture, partner, franchisee-franchisor or legal representative of any of the others. None of us will either have or represent itself to have any authority to bind another to any obligation.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is held to be unenforceable, this holding will not affect the validity of the other provisions.
The Association may change these terms and conditions from time to time and at any time, without actual notice to you. In the event of a change, the Association will post the revised version to our web site. Any access to or use of the site after such an update will be deemed consent to such update.
The foregoing provisions are for the benefit of the Association and its third party content providers and licensors and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own behalf.