Terms and conditions of use for MyNGLCC

1.        Introduction

1.1     These terms and conditions shall govern your use of MyNGLCC.

1.2     By using MyNGLCC, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use MyNGLCC.

1.3     If you register with MyNGLCC, submit any material to MyNGLCC or use any of MyNGLCC services], we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

1.4     You must be at least [18] years of age to use MyNGLCC; and by using MyNGLCC or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least [18] years of age.

1.5     MyNGLCC uses cookies; by using MyNGLCC or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our [privacy and cookies policy.

2.        Credit

2.1     This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (http://www.seqlegal.com).

3.        Copyright notice

3.1     Copyright (c) 2014, National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

3.2     Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a)     we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in MyNGLCC and the material on MyNGLCC; and

(b)     all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in MyNGLCC and the material on MyNGLCC are reserved.

4.        Licence to use website

4.1     You may:

(a)     view pages from MyNGLCC in a web browser;

(b)     download pages from MyNGLCC for caching in a web browser;

(c)     print pages from MyNGLCC;

(d)     use [MyNGLCC services] by means of a web browser

         subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

4.2     Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from MyNGLCC or save any such material to your computer.

4.3     You may only use MyNGLCC for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use MyNGLCC for any other purposes.

4.4     Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on MyNGLCC.

4.5     Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a)     republish material from MyNGLCC (including republication on another website);

(b)     sell, rent or sub-license material from MyNGLCC;

(c)     show any material from MyNGLCC in public;

(e)     redistribute material from MyNGLCC.

4.6     We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of MyNGLCC, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on MyNGLCC.

5.        Acceptable use

5.1     You must not:

(a)     use MyNGLCC in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b)     use MyNGLCC in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c)     use MyNGLCC to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(d)     conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to MyNGLCC without our express written consent;

(e)     access or otherwise interact with MyNGLCC using any robot, spider or other automated means;

(f)      violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for MyNGLCC; or

(g)     use data collected from MyNGLCC for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).

5.2     You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through MyNGLCC, or in relation to MyNGLCC, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

6.        Registration and accounts

6.1     You may register for an account with MyNGLCC by completing and submitting the account registration form on MyNGLCC, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you].

6.3     You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

6.4     You must not use any other person's account to access MyNGLCC, unless you have that person's express permission to do so.

7.        User IDs and passwords

7.1     If you register for an account with MyNGLCC, you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.

7.2     Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 10; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

7.3     You must keep your password confidential.

7.4     You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

7.5     You are responsible for any activity on MyNGLCC arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

8.        Cancellation and suspension of account

8.1     We may:

(a)     [suspend your account;]

(b)     [cancel your account; and/or]

(c)     [edit your account details,]

         at any time if you are in violation of these terms of service.

9.        Your content: licence

9.1     In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or MyNGLCC for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, MyNGLCC.

9.2     You grant to us a [worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence] to [use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media / reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website / reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish your content on and in relation to this website].

9.3     You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

9.4     [You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 9.2.]

9.5     [You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.]

9.6     [You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on MyNGLCC.]

9.7     Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

10.      Your content: rules

10.1   You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

10.2   Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

10.3   Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a)     be libellous or maliciously false;

(b)     be obscene or indecent;

(c)     infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;

(d)     infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e)     constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f)      constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;

(g)     be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;

 (l)     depict violence, in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner

 (q)    be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r)      cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

11.      Limited warranties

11.1   We do not warrant or represent:

(a)     the completeness or accuracy of the information published on MyNGLCC;

(b)     that the material on the website is up to date; or

(c)     that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

11.2   We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of MyNGLCC services, and to stop publishing MyNGLCC, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

11.3   To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, MyNGLCC and the use of MyNGLCC.

12.      Limitations and exclusions of liability

12.1   Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a)     limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b)     limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)     limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d)     exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

12.2   The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a)     are subject to Section 12.1; and

(b)     govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty.

12.3   To the extent that MyNGLCC and the information and services on MyNGLCC are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

12.4   We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

12.5   We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

12.6   We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

12.7   We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

12.8   You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

13.      Breaches of these terms and conditions

13.1   Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a)     send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)     temporarily suspend your access to MyNGLCC;

(c)     permanently prohibit you from accessing MyNGLCC;

(d)     block computers using your IP address from accessing MyNGLCC;

(e)     contact any or all your internet service providers and request that they block your access to MyNGLCC;

(f)      commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g)     suspend or delete your account on MyNGLCC.

13.2   Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to MyNGLCC or a part of MyNGLCC, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

14.      Variation

14.1   We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

14.2   The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of MyNGLCC from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions. / We will give you written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of MyNGLCC from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using MyNGLCC.

14.3   If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.

15.      Assignment

15.1   You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

15.2   You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

16.      Severability

16.1   If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

16.2   If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

17.      Third party rights

17.1   These terms and conditions are for our benefit and your benefit, and these terms and conditions are not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

17.2   The exercise of the parties' rights under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

18.      Entire agreement

18.1   Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions, together with [our privacy and cookies policy], shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of MyNGLCC and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of MyNGLCC.

19.      Law and jurisdiction

19.1   These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with US Law.

19.2   Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the U.S.

 

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