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TERMS OF SERVICE
1. INTRODUCTION.
Welcome to the web site ("Site") for Northwest Arkansas Food
Bank (NWAFB).
2. ACCESS TO THE SITE.
BY ACCESSING, BROWSING AND/OR USING THE SITE, YOU
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED TO BE
BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE ("TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF USE"), INCLUDING THE PRIVACY POLICY ("PRIVACY
POLICY") , (COLLECTIVELY, THE "TERMS") AND TO COMPLY WITH
ALL APPLICABLE U.S. LAWS AND REGULATIONS. If you do not or
cannot agree to the Terms, do not use the Site or any of the
services offered through the Site. NWAFB reserves the right,
in its sole discretion, to update, revise, supplement and to
otherwise modify these Terms, and to impose new or
additional terms and conditions on your use of the Site from
time to time. Such updates, revisions, supplements,
modifications and additional rules, polices, terms and
conditions (collectively referred to in these Terms as
"Additional Terms") will be effective immediately and
incorporated into these Terms upon notice thereof, which may
be given by any reasonable means including by posting to the
Site. Your continued viewing or use of the Site following
such notice will be deemed to conclusively indicate your
acceptance of any and all such Additional Terms.
3. ACCEPTABLE USE OF THE SITE.
In order to use the Site, you must obtain access to the
Internet and pay any and all service fees associated with
such access.
(a) Individual Use. You agree that
you are only authorized to visit, view and to retain a
single copy of pages of the Site for your own internal use
and not for any commercially-related purposes or in a manner
that in any way suggests a connection, affiliation or any
type of relationship between NWAFB and you or an entity
related to you. You also agree that you will not duplicate,
download, publish, modify or otherwise distribute any
material on the Site for any purpose other than for your own
internal use unless otherwise specifically authorized by
NWAFB in writing. NWAFB posts legal notices and various
credits on pages of the Site, which may not be removed even
in your permitted copies. Do not remove these notices or
credits, or any additional information contained along with
the notices and credits.
(b) Deep Links; Linking. You agree
not to "deep-link" to the Site, meaning that you will not
create, post, display, publish or distribute any link to any
page other than the front (home) page of the Site for any
purpose, unless specifically authorized by NWAFB in writing
to do so. If you do want to link to the Site in any manner,
please contact the NWAFB at
www.nwafoodbank.org
to seek approval.
(c) Framing . You agree not to
create any frames at any other web sites pertaining to or
using any of the content located at the Site for any
purpose, unless specifically authorized by NWAFB in writing
to do so.
(d) Security, Cracking and Hacking
. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate
the security of the Site. Accordingly, you agree not to: (i)
access data or materials not intended for you; (ii) log into
a server or account which you are not authorized to access;
(iii) attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a
system or network or to breach security or authentication
measures without proper authorization; or (iv) attempt to
interfere with service to any user, host or network,
including without limitation, by means of submitting a virus
to the Site, overloading, "flooding", "mailbombing" or
"crashing" the Site. Violations of system or network
security may result in civil or criminal liability. NWAFB
reserves the right to investigate occurrences which may
involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with,
law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who have
participated in such violations. You understand that data
and communications, including e-mail and other electronic
communications, may be accessed by unauthorized third
parties when communicated over the Internet.
(e) You Are Responsible For All of Your
Activities and All of The Content You Post or Submit .
You represent and warrant that any information and/or
material you post or provide to NWAFB by means of the Site,
including, without limitation, as part of any registration
or subscription or to gain access to or use any services
offered on the Site ("Submissions"), is truthful, accurate,
not misleading, not confidential property of others, not in
violation of any other third party's rights and offered in
good faith. You agree NOT to use the Site for or in
connection with any of the following activities: (i)
transmitting or relaying spam, spoofing or otherwise
impersonating any person or entity, or falsely stating or
otherwise misrepresenting your identity or affiliation in
any way; (ii) using the Site for any fraudulent or illegal
purpose; (iii) e-mailing, uploading, or otherwise
transmitting or using the Site in furtherance of the use,
distribution or transmission of any unlawful, harassing,
defamatory, tortious, libelous, sexually explicit, obscene,
hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable
material of any kind; and (iv) transmitting material that
contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs,
cancelbots or other computer programming routines or engines
that are intended to damage, destroy, disrupt or otherwise
impair a computer's functionality or the operation of the
Site.
(f) Do Not Violate Third Party
Intellectual Property Rights . Without limiting the
foregoing, you may not, and by using the Site you agree not
to, use the Site to: (i) transmit or post any Submissions
that are copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or
have obtained the permission of the copyright owner to
transmit it; (ii) transmit or post any Submissions that
reveal trade secrets, unless you own them or have the
permission of the owner to so transmit them; or (iii)
transmit or post any Submissions that infringe on any
Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below) of others or
violates the privacy or rights of publicity of others.
Furthermore, unless otherwise expressly provided, you
acknowledge and agree that: (a) all Submissions will become
property of NWAFB; (b) NWAFB has the right to publish the
Submissions for any type of use including for promotional
and advertising purposes, in accordance with the terms set
forth in the Privacy Policy, without compensation to you of
any kind; (c) any Submissions that you submit to any part of
the Site are non-confidential for all purposes; and (d) that
if you make any such Submission, you automatically grant,
represent and warrant that the owner of such content has
expressly granted NWAFB a royalty-free, perpetual,
irrevocable, world-wide exclusive license to use the
Submissions in any manner, media or form now known or
hereafter developed. NWAFB shall have the right to
sublicense its rights. The term "Intellectual Property
Rights" means collectively, rights under patent, trademark,
copyright and trade secret laws, and any other intellectual
property or proprietary rights recognized in any country or
jurisdiction worldwide including, without limitation, moral
rights and similar rights.
(g) Ownership . NWAFB puts a lot of
content on the Site for you to examine from time to time
including, without limitation, text, graphics, photographs,
pictures, drawings, animation, audio, video, literature and
any other material distributed by NWAFB on, through or in
connection with the Site. Moreover, NWAFB attempts to
display the content in a way that will be easily accessible
and useful for you, the user. All content and materials on
the Site including, without limitation, text, graphics,
logos, button icons, images, audio clips and software
included in the Site and any services offered on the Site,
are the property of NWAFB, its sponsors or business
affiliates, and/or their respective licensors, and are
subject to U.S. and international Intellectual Property
Rights laws. The compilation of all content on the Site is
the exclusive property of NWAFB and is protected by U.S. and
international copyright laws. All software used on the Site
is the property of NWAFB or its licensors and is subject to
U.S. and international copyright laws. Except to the minimum
extent otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no
copying or exploitation of material from the Site is
permitted except expressly in accordance with these Terms or
with the express written permission of NWAFB and any other
applicable copyright owner. You acknowledge that you do not
acquire any ownership rights by virtue of downloading
copyrighted material from the Site. All rights not expressly
granted hereunder are expressly reserved to NWAFB.
(h) Spidering . THE USE OF ANY
TOOLS, PROGRAMS, ROBOTIC ALGORITHMS OR PRODUCTS TO
AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOAD OR "SPIDER" THE SITE OR ANY OF THE
PAGES OF THE SITE INFRINGES ON NWAFB’s AND/OR ITS LICENSORS'
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. DO NOT USE ANY SUCH TOOLS OR
PRODUCTS ON OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE.
4. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER.
THE CONTENT, SERVICES, INFORMATION AND ACCESS TO THE SITE
ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, SATISFACTORY QUALITY AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. NWAFB DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY PART OF
THE SITE WILL OPERATE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT
DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER
THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
COMPONENTS OR THAT TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SITE AND
ACCESS TO THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, CONTINUOUS OR
ERROR-FREE. NWAFB DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY
REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE
OF THE SITE IN TERMS OF ITS QUALITY, CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY,
RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU SHOULD THEREFORE VERIFY ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE SITE BEFORE ACTING ON IT.
EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED,
NWAFB EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
ACCURACY, CONTENT, AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION, PRODUCTS,
SERVICES OR MERCHANDISE FOUND ON THIRD PARTY SITES THAT LINK
TO OR FROM THE SITE. NWAFB DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR
PRODUCT OR SERVICE ORDERING FUNCTIONS, ORDER FULFILLMENT OR
COMPLIANCE OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES WITH ANY MANUFACTURER'S
WARRANTIES OR SPECIFICATIONS. NWAFB CANNOT BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MATERIAL CONTAINED ON THIRD PARTY SITES
AND/OR RELATED SERVICES NOR DOES NWAFB MAKE ANY
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE SECURITY OF ANY
INFORMATION YOU MIGHT BE REQUESTED TO GIVE TO THIRD PARTY
SITES.
5. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. TO THE FURTHEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, NWAFB’s NEGLIGENCE, SHALL NWAFB BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL,
EXEMPLARY AND/OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM YOUR
USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, ANY CONTENT AND/OR ANY
RELATED SOFTWARE, EVEN IF NWAFB OR AN AUTHORIZED NWAFB
REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE CONTAINED IN THESE
TERMS, IN THE EVENT THE TERMS OF THIS SECTION, OR ANY PART
OF THIS SECTION, SHALL BE HELD INVALID OR UNENFORCEABLE BY A
COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION, IN NO EVENT SHALL NWAFB’s
TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU, OR ANYONE CLAIMING BY OR THROUGH
YOU, FOR ANY DAMAGES, LOSSES, CLAIMS AND/OR CAUSES OF
ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE
EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).
6. INDEMNIFICATION.
You shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless NWAFB and its
sponsors, business affiliates, subsidiaries, affiliates,
officers, directors, employees, attorneys and agents, from
and against any and all damages, claims and actions brought
by you or any third party resulting from your use of the
Site in violation of these Terms or the infringement by you
of any Intellectual Property Rights of any person or entity.
7. GOVERNING LAW AND ARBITRATION.
The laws of the State of Arkansas (excluding any principles
of conflicts of laws) govern your use of the Site, the
services and these Terms. You agree that the parties shall
settle any claim or dispute relating to these Terms by
binding arbitration in Springdale, Arkansas under the
Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration
Association. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, no arbitration under these Terms shall be joined to an
arbitration involving any other party subject to these
Terms, whether through class arbitration proceedings or
otherwise. NOTWITHSTANDING THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH ABOVE, FOR ANY INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
RELATING TO YOUR ACCESS TO, OR USE OF, THE SITE INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, RELATED SERVICES, YOU AGREE AND HEREBY
SUBMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF THE
APPROPRIATE STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS LOCATED IN WASHINGTON
COUNTY, ARKANSAS, U.S.A.
8. WAIVER AND SEVERABILITY.
Furthermore, no delay or omission by NWAFB to exercise any
right or any noncompliance on your part with respect to the
Terms shall impair any such right or be construed to be a
waiver by NWAFB. If any provision of the Terms is found by a
court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or
unenforceable in whole or in part, such provision shall, as
to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such
invalidity or unenforceability without in any manner
affecting the validity or enforceability thereof in any
other jurisdiction or the remaining provisions hereof in any
jurisdiction, provided, however, if such invalid or
unenforceable provision may be modified so as to be valid
and enforceable as a matter of law, such provision will be
deemed to have been modified so as to be valid and
enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.
9. CONTRACT ELECTRONICALLY.
You agree that the Terms, combined with your act of using
the Site and/or the services offered on or through the Site
have the same legal force and effect as a written contract
with your written signature and satisfy any laws that
require a writing or signature, including any applicable
Statute of Frauds. You further agree that you shall not
challenge the validity, enforceability or admissibility of
the Terms on the grounds that it was electronically
transmitted or authorized. In addition, you acknowledge that
you have had the opportunity to print the Terms.
Updated March 2, 2009
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