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Terms of Use

By using this site, you signify your assent to these terms of use (“Terms”). If you do not agree to these Terms of use, please do not use the site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms at any time. Please check these Terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of this website (referred to as “the site”, “this site” herein) following the posting of changes to these Terms will mean you accept those changes.

Restrictions on the use of materials

This site is owned and operated by University Settlement (referred to as “we,” “us,”, or “our” herein). No material from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, amended, modified, revised, edited, changed, added to, deleted, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without our express written permission. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any purpose is a violation of University Settlement’s copyright and other proprietary rights. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to University Settlement and are to be kept intact.

Any communication or material, which is transmitted by you to the site by electronic mail or otherwise, will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Accordingly, anything you transmit or post may be used by us or our affiliates for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcasting and posting. Furthermore, we shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any communication you send to us for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products or events using such information.

Forums and Public Communication

“Forum” means a chat area, bulletin board, contact form, or e-mail function offered as part of our website. You alone are responsible for the content of your messages and the consequences of such messages, which you submit to the site.

You shall not upload to, distribute through, or otherwise publish through our site any content which in our opinion:

may constitute libel, defamation, invasion of privacy, or is obscene, pornographic, abusive, or threatening;
may infringe any intellectual property or other right of any entity or person;
may violate any applicable law or advocates illegal activity;
advertises or otherwise solicits funds or is a solicitation for goods, services, advertisers or sponsors or otherwise engages in commercial activity;
includes programs which may contain viruses, worms, trojan horses or other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunication;
contains links to other sites that contain the kind of content which falls within the descriptions set out above.

You shall not infringe any third party rights through your use of the site, or your activities conducted from the site, including without limitation, the intellectual property rights of others. You further agree not to use in any way any of our trademarks or other intellectual property, or in any way to represent yourself or your site or the activities on your site as connected with us, or link to the site in any manner whatsoever without our express prior written consent and not to damage, interfere with or disrupt access to the site or do anything that may interrupt or impair its functionality.

Termination

These Terms are effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate these Terms at any time by destroying all materials obtained from this site and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise. These Terms will terminate immediately without notice from us if in our sole discretion you fail to comply with any of these Terms. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from this site and all copies thereof, whether made under these Terms or otherwise.

Links

From time to time we will make available to you links from the site to third party sites. These sites are not in any way approved, checked, edited, vetted or endorsed by us and you agree that we shall not be responsible or liable in any way for the content, advertising or products available from such sites, the quality, functionality, suitability or legality of such sites or for any dealings that you may have, or the consequences of such dealings, with such third party site operators. You also agree that any dealings you have with such third party site operators shall be on the terms and conditions (if any) of the third party operator and you hereby waive any claim you might have against us with respect to such sites. You agree that we are not liable in any way for and you agree to indemnify us in the manner referred to below in these Terms in relation to such dealings. Any arrangements made between you and any third party named on the site are at your sole risk and responsibility.

From time to time third parties may link to our site without our express consent or knowledge. We are not responsible in any way for any dealings which you may have with these unauthorized sites or any content which may be displayed or linked to by these third parties. If you do come across any link which is offensive or otherwise unsuitable or inappropriate to us or our users, please let us know.