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Agreement Between User and the Urban and Community Forestry Society
The Urban and Community Forestry Society website is comprised of various web pages operated by the Urban and Community Forestry Society.
The Urban and Community Forestry Society website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the Urban and Community Forestry Society website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
Other applicable terms
These Terms of Use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our website:
About us
This website is operated by the Urban and Community Forestry Society, a U.S. registered 501(c)6 exempt non-profit registered in the State of Ohio under number 31-1020171 and whose registered office at PO Box 13242, Des Moines, Iowa 50310.
You are able to contact us in relation to our website at info@ucfsociety.org, or write to us at the above address. Further contact information can be located at the “Contact Us” page of this website.
Modification of These Terms of Use
The Urban and Community Forestry Society reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the Urban and Community Forestry Society website is offered, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the Urban and Community Forestry Society website.
Changes to our website
We may update our website and/or change the content at any time. However, we do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions. Any of the content on our website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.
Accessing our website
Our website is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our website is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue, and/or change all or any part of our website without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them (note, in particular, the section entitled “Children Under 12 Years of Age” in these Terms of Use).
Your account and password
If you use a login email address and choose a password as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any email address or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your login password, you must promptly notify us at info@ucfsociety.org.
Intellectual property rights
This website and all content, including any software, code, designs, graphics, and/or other materials contained on or pertaining to this website are owned by or licensed to us and are protected by copyright, trademarks, patents, and/or other proprietary or intellectual property rights and/or laws (the “IP”). All of our rights pertaining to our IP (including any moral authorship or otherwise) are reserved. You are not permitted to use any of our IP except for as provided in these Terms of Use (or as otherwise specified on this website).
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our website for your personal use, and you may draw the attention of others within your organization to content posted on our website. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences, and/or any graphics provided on our website separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our website must always be acknowledged, and you must not remove any copyright or trade mark notices from any copies of the content of this website without our prior written consent. You must not use any part of the content on our website for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us or our licensors (as applicable).
If you print off, copy or download any part of our website in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. You are responsible at all times for complying with these Terms of Use and any applicable intellectual property laws which apply to our website.
No reliance on information
The content on our website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our website is accurate, complete, or up-to-date.
Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or limits our liability for:
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations, and/or other terms which may apply to our website or any content on it, whether express or implied (including any warranties with respect to availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or otherwise).
We will not be liable to any user or any other person for any loss or damage (including any direct, indirect, incidental, and/or consequential losses), whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, arising under or in connection with the:
We only provide our website for domestic and private use, and you agree not to use our website for any commercial or business purposes without obtaining our prior written consent.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect or otherwise affect your computer equipment, computer programs, data, and/or other proprietary material due to your use of our website or to your accessing or downloading of any content on our website, or on any website linked to it.
We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our website. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
We shall not be liable to you for any breach of these Terms of Use or any failure or delay in providing to you our services through this website.
No Unlawful Or Prohibited Use
As a condition of your use of the Urban and Community Forestry Society website, you warrant to the Urban and Community Forestry Society that you will not use the Urban and Community Forestry Society website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Urban and Community Forestry Society website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Urban and Community Forestry Society website or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Urban and Community Forestry Society website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Urban and Community Forestry Society websites.
Use Of Communication Services
The Urban and Community Forestry website contains bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, "Communication Services"), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:
The Urban and Community Forestry Society has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, the Urban and Community Forestry Society reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. The Urban and Community Forestry Society reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.
The Urban and Community Forestry Society reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as 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 Urban and Community Forestry Society’s sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. The Urban and Community Forestry Society does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, the Urban and Community Forestry Society specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized Urban and Community Forestry Society spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of the Urban and Community Forestry Society.
Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
Materials Provided to UCFS or Posted at any UCFS Website
The Urban and Community Forestry Society does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to the Urban and Community Forestry Society (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Urban and Community Forestry Society website or its associated services (collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting the Urban and Community Forestry Society, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. The Urban and Community Forestry Society is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in the Urban and Community Forestry Society’s sole discretion.
By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
Copyright and Trademark Notices
All contents of the Urban and Community Forestry Society website are: Copyright by the Urban and Community Forestry Society and/or its suppliers. All rights reserved.
Trademarks
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
The example companies, organizations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
Viruses
We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our website. You should use your own, up-to-date virus protection software.
You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, and/or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service (DOS) attack or a distributed denial-of service (DDOS) attack. By breaching this provision, you may commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, and we will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website will cease immediately.
Linking to our website
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. Our website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our website in any website that is not owned by you. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
If you wish to make any use of content on our website other than that set out above, please contact us using the details set out in the “About Us” section of these Terms of Use.
Links to Third-Party Sites
The Urban and Community Forestry Society website may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of the Urban and Community Forestry Society and the Urban and Community Forestry Society is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. The Urban and Community Forestry Society is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. The Urban and Community Forestry Society is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Urban and Community Forestry Society of the site or any association with its operators.
Severance
In the event that any part of these Terms of Use is held to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable by a competent body, it shall not affect the validity, legality, or enforceability of any other remaining terms within these Terms of Use.
Waiver
If we do not enforce any right conferred to us under these Terms of Use, such non-enforcement shall not constitute a waiver of that right.
Applicable law and Jurisdiction
These Terms of Use (including their formation), your use of this website, and the contents of this website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the State of Ohio.
Address
PO Box 13242
Des Moines, Iowa 50310
United States
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