AALF - Terms of Use
Terms of Use
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES.
The AALF Web site provides you with access to a variety of resources, including content and communication forums (collectively "Services").
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS.
By accessing and using this Web site ("Site"), you agree to the terms and conditions set forth herein ("Terms of Use"). AALF reserves the right to modify the Terms of Use at any time without notice to you. Your use of the Site following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Agreement as modified.
USE OF SITE.
You may use the Services solely for personal, non-commercial purposes. No right or interest in any of the Services is transferred to you. AALF reserves complete title and full intellectual property rights to all Services. You may not alter, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services.
DOCUMENTS ON THIS WEB SITE.
Permission to use documents made available in non-password-protected areas of the Services (such as case studies, press releases, knowledge base articles, and FAQs) is granted, provided that (1) the following copyright notice: © 2006 Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation. All rights reserved., appears in all copies, (2) use of such Documents is for informational and non-commercial or personal use only, and (3) no modifications of any documents are made.
The documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the AALF.org Web site. Elementhttp://admin.aalf.org/cms/index.phps of AALF Web sites are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any AALF Web site may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by AALF.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.
AALF MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES. AALF EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, WITH REGARD TO THE SERVICES. AALF DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED. AALF DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE SERVICES. THE SITE, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
NO EVENT WILL AALF BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR OTHER INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF (1) THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, (2) ANY TRANSACTION CONDUCTED THROUGH OR FACILITATED BY THE SERVICES, (3) ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN THE SERVICES, (4) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA, OR (5) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICES, EVEN IF AALF HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, AALF'S LIABILITY IS LIMITED AND WARRANTIES ARE EXCLUDED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BUT SHALL, IN NO EVENT, EXCEED $100.00.
MEMBER ACCOUNT AND PASSWORD SECURITY.
Some Services provide you with access to licensed, password-restricted content. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account information, and for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify AALF immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. AALF will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge.
NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE.
As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any AALF server, or the network(s) connected to any AALF server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any AALF server or to any of the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Services.
USE OF COMMUNICATION FACILITIES.
The Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services, chat areas, forums, communities, file cabinets and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a "Communication Service" and collectively "Communication Facilities"). You agree to use the Communication Facilities only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Communication Facilities, you will not: (1) Use the Communication Facilities in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages, (2) Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others, (3) Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information, (4) Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including, by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consent to do the same, (5) Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party, (6) Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another, (7) Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed, performed, and/or distributed in such manner, (8) Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded, (9) Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Facilities, (10) Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service, (11) Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, (12) Violate any applicable laws or regulations, (13) Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others, (14) Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof.
AALF has no obligation to monitor the Communication Facilities. However, AALF reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication Facilities and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. AALF reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Facilities at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever. AALF reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as AALF deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in the AALF's sole discretion.
Use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about yourself or your family in any Communication Facilities. AALF does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Facilities. AALF specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Facilities and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Facilities.
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO AALF OR POSTED AT ANY AALF WEB SITE.
AALF does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to AALF (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting ("Posting") your Submission you are granting AALF permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all AALF Services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. AALF is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and AALF may remove any Submission at any time in its sole discretion.
By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in these Terms of Use including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by Posting a Submission that contains images, photographs, or pictures ("Images"), you warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you permission to use such Images, (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms of Use, and (c) that each person depicted in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms of Use, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, the distribution, public display and reproduction of such Images. By Posting Images, you are granting to the general public (for each such Images available anywhere on the Services), permission to use your Images in connection with the use, as permitted by these Terms of Use, of any of the Services, (including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, making prints and gift items which include such Images), and including, without limitation, a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free license to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Images without having your name attached to such Images, and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services. The licenses granted in the preceding sentences for a Images will terminate at the time you completely remove such Images from the Services, provided that, such termination shall not affect any licenses granted in connection with such Images prior to the time you completely remove such Images. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Images.
MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to service@aalf.org.
LINKS TO AND FROM THIS SITE.
AALF Services may provide links to other Web sites ("Linked Sites"). If you use these links you will leave AALF's web site. The Linked Sites are not under the control of AALF. AALF is not responsible for the availability of any such Linked Sites or the contents of any such Linked Site. AALF is providing these links solely as a convenience to you, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by AALF of the site.
You may not connect "deep links" to Web pages within AALF Services. For example, you may not create a link to this site that bypasses the Home page. You may not mirror or frame the home page or any other pages of the Services on any other web site or web page.
UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS.
AALF does not want to receive and does not accept unsolicited ideas or proprietary information from you via the Services. You agree that any material, information, or data you transmit to us or post to the Services will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.
TRADEMARKS.
You are prohibited from using any of the marks or logos appearing throughout the Services without permission from the trademark owner, except as permitted by applicable law.
