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St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce Website Terms of Use

Last Updated: May 10, 2022                        

THESE TERMS OF USE GOVERN THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE (WWW.STPETE.COM). PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING THE WEBSITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS DO NOT ACCESS THE WEBSITE. BY ACCESSING THE WEBSITE OR ANY OF ITS PAGES YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE. THE ST. PETERSBURG AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (“THE CHAMBER”) RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REVISE, AMEND, OR MODIFY THESE TERMS AND OUR OTHER POLICIES AT ANY TIME AND IN ANY MANNER BY UPDATING THIS PAGE. YOU SHOULD VISIT THIS PAGE FROM TIME TO REVIEW THE THEN-CURRENT TERMS BECAUSE THEY ARE BINDING ON YOU.

This Website has been established by the Chamber for the sole purpose of conveying information about the Chamber and to provide services to its customers and potential customers.

 

Use of Website

Restrictions on Use

This Website may only be used for lawful purposes consistent with all rights of other parties and may not be used to violate any state, federal, or local laws. Unlawful activities include but are not limited to storing, distributing or transmitting any threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, or pornographic or any other content (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) in violation of privacy rights or copyright or trademark rights, or attempting to compromise the security of this Website or any networked account. You are expressly prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of this Website, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account which you are not authorized to access, (b) attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization, or (c) attempting to interfere with service to any other user, host, or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Website, overloading, "flooding", "spamming", "mailbombing", or "crashing". Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. The Chamber may investigate occurrences which involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting those who are involved in such violations.

 

Further, except with the Chamber’s express advance authorization or in a clearly designated area, you may not use the Website to: (a) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Communications that provide any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses; (b) engage in commercial activities within the Website (such as by advertising or selling products or services or inducing other users to enroll in a promotional or money-making enterprise); or (c) solicit donations for any purpose.

Links to Other Websites

From time to time the Chamber may place links to other websites on this page or on other pages of this Website. The Chamber has no control over any other website and is not responsible for the content on any website other than this one. You assume all responsibility when you go to other sites via the links on the pages of this Website.

Privacy Policy

Please see our Privacy Policy, which contains a description of the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Website. As a condition to the use of this Website, users expressly agree to the terms set forth in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference in to these Terms as if they were fully set forth in these Terms.

Website Information

All the information contained on the Website is the property of the Chamber unless indicated otherwise. You may view and download information from the Website for your personal, non-commercial use if you agree to treat this information with respect and use it properly. You may not modify the information contained on the Website. None of the information on the Website may be used, distributed, or reproduced for commercial purposes without the Chamber’s express written permission. Modification or unauthorized use of the information is a violation of U.S. copyright law and other proprietary rights. Graphics displayed on the site may not be reproduced without written permission from the Chamber.

The content of any comments, suggestions, questions, information, and feedback received by the Chamber shall be deemed to be non-confidential. The Chamber shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such information and shall be free to use, disclose, reproduce, and distribute the information to others without limitation. Further, the Chamber shall be free to use any concepts, ideas, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose whatsoever.

The trademarks, trade names, and service marks (the “Marks”) used on the Website belong to the Chamber or to various other parties. No one is authorized to use any of the Marks in any manner without the prior express written permission of the owner of the Mark. The materials displayed on the Website are protected by U.S. and international copyright law and treaties, and shall not be transmitted, broadcast, copied, adapted, displayed, reproduced, republished, uploaded, downloaded, posted, distributed, performed, or otherwise used except as permitted by law. All Website design rights, databases and other intellectual property rights associated with the Website, whether registered or unregistered, and related goodwill, are proprietary rights of the Chamber.  Modification of any Marks or materials displayed on the Website or the use of any materials displayed for any other purpose is a violation of the copyrights and other proprietary rights of the Chamber and is prohibited.

 

Modifications to these Terms of Use or the Website

The Chamber reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Website (or any part thereof) with or without notice. The Chamber shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Website.

Likewise, the Chamber may change these Terms of Use at any time. In addition, other terms of use may be contained throughout the Website. Please revisit this page periodically to check its modification date and be aware of other terms of use found on this Website.

Disclaimer

You assume total responsibility and risk for your use of the Website and the internet. The Chamber makes no representation, warranty, or guaranty as to the reliability, timeliness, quality, suitability, truth, availability, accuracy or completeness of the Website or any content. The Chamber does not represent or warrant that:

  • the use or operation of the Website will be secure, timely, uninterrupted or error-free,
  • the Website will meet your requirements or expectations,
  • any stored content will be accurate or reliable or its integrity maintained,
  • the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you through the Website will meet your requirements or expectations,
  • errors or defects will be corrected,
  • the Website or the server(s) that make the site available are free of viruses or other harmful components.

The Website and all content is provided to you strictly on an "as is" basis. all conditions, representations and warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of third party rights, are hereby disclaimed to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law by the Chamber.

Limitation of Liability

The Chamber is not responsible for any loss, damage, expense, or penalty (either in tort, contract, or otherwise), including direct, indirect, special, consequential, incidental, punitive, exemplary or treble damages, that result from the access of or use of this Website, even if the Chamber has been advised of the possibility of any such damages. This limitation includes, but is not limited to the omission of information, the failure of equipment, the delay or inability to receive or transmit information, the delay or inability to print information, the transmission of any computer virus, or the transmission of any other malicious or disabling code or procedure. This limitation applies even if the Chamber has been informed of the possibility of such loss or damage.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Chamber, its officers, directors and employees and its suppliers from and against any liabilities, losses and reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) arising out of any claims or suits by any third party connected with or resulting from your use of this Website in any unlawful manner or in any manner inconsistent with these Terms.

By using this Website, you agree that you will not:

Violate or attempt to violate the security of the Website;

Send or otherwise transmit to or through this Website any unlawful, infringing, harmful, harassing, defamatory, threatening, hateful or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, any material that can cause harm or delay to the Website or computers of any kind, and any unsolicited advertising, solicitation or promotional materials;

Misrepresent your identity or affiliation in any way, or provide any untruthful information to us;

Restrict, discourage, or inhibit any person from using this Website, collect, harvest, or disclose personal information obtained from this Website, or collect information about users of this Website;

Reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile any section or technology on this Website, or attempt to do any of the foregoing;

Gain unauthorized access to this Website or computers or websites connected or linked to this Website;

Launch or use any automated system, including without limitation, "robots", "spiders", or "offline readers", that access this Website in a manner that sends more request messages to our servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional web browser (except that the Chamber grants the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from the publicly available searchable indices of the materials, not caches or archives of such materials);

Send or otherwise transmit to or through this Website chain letters, unsolicited messages, so-called "spamming" or "phishing" messages, or messages marketing or advertising goods and services;

Violate any applicable laws or regulations or these Terms of Use; or

Assist or permit any persons in engaging in any of the activities described above.

The Chamber reserves the right to change these Terms of Use or the content of any portion of our Website without notice. Your continued access of this Website will be subject to these Terms of Use in effect at the time you access our Website.

This Agreement and the use of this Website are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict of law provisions and without regard to your state of residence.

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