Occasionally, visitors to our website may be asked to voluntarily supply certain personally identifying information. If you choose to give us your name, E-mail address, postal address, phone number, organization, or any other identifying information, it will be used only to provide you with the services you have requested or additional information about NABC. We will not sell or rent any personally identifying information obtained through this website to any other organization, and will never willfully disclose any personally identifying information about our audience to any third party without first receiving the user's permission. We do not collect personally identifying information from our visitors, other than what is supplied to us on a voluntary basis.
Your access to and use of the nabc.ksu.edu website (the "NABC website") and all services of NABC, are subject to the terms, conditions and disclaimers set forth below, to our Online Privacy Policy, and to all applicable laws and regulations. In addition, NABC reserves the right to terminate access to the NABC website for any reason, and to take any other actions that NABC, in its sole discretion, believes to be in its interest and of its users as a whole. NABC reserves the right to modify these disclaimers, terms and conditions of access, without advance notice.
This is a binding contract between NABC and you. By your acceptance of this agreement and use of the NABC website, and as a material condition of such use, you warrant that you are over the age of eighteen and that you have provided accurate and complete information in any communication with NABC including your login and user profile.
Access to the NABC website is provided free of charge and does not create a professional services relationship or any other relationship with NABC. Access to many pages on the NABC website is limited to registered users, who are issued user names and passwords. Use of any password-protected area of the NABC website is restricted to the registered user who has been given permission and a password to enter such area. This password may not be distributed to others, and the registered user is responsible for any and all damages to NABC resulting from the distribution of his or her password.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You shall be responsible for all uses of your registration, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to notify NABC immediately of any unauthorized use of your registration or password.
If you do not abide by the disclaimers, terms, or conditions herein, you are not authorized to use the NABC website.
The NABC website may be used only by you, and you may not rent, lend, sub-license, or transfer the NABC website or any data residing on it or any of your rights under this agreement to anyone else. You may not develop or derive for commercial sale any data in machine-readable or other form that incorporates or uses any substantial part of the NABC website. You may not transfer to or store any data residing or exchanged over the NABC website in any electronic network for use by more than one user unless you obtain prior written permission from NABC.
For any images, text, data or other information (referred to here as "Content") you submit to NABC, including profile information, on forum pages, and any e-mail, you warrant that you own the right to utilize, to license and to sublicense the Content and you grant to NABC a non-exclusive, worldwide, paid-up and royalty-free perpetual license, including right of sublicense, to use, display, distribute, perform, reproduce in whole or in part, modify and create derivative works from the Content, in any media.
NABC and the NABC website, and all other text and images contained on the NABC website and in NABC's products are protected by United States trademark and copyright law and other applicable laws and are the property of NABC, except as otherwise identified. All copyrights and trademarks not the property of NABC that are used or referred to in the NABC website and NABC's products are the property of their respective owners. Nothing contained in the site or other products shall be construed as granting any license or other rights to any copyright, trademark, patent or other property of NABC or any third party, whether by implication, laches, estoppel or explicit grant. Because the content is proprietary, any unauthorized use of materials on the site or other products may violate the law.
NABC's products, including materials on the site, may not be modified, reproduced or displayed for any commercial or public purpose without specific written permission from NABC.
You are solely responsible for any and all acts and omissions that occur during or relating to your use of the NABC website, and you agree not to engage in unacceptable use of the NABC website, which includes, without limitation, use of the NABC website to:
Opinions and other statements expressed by users and third parties are theirs alone, not opinions of NABC. Content created by third parties is the sole responsibility of the third parties and its accuracy and completeness are not endorsed or guaranteed. The NABC website and third parties may provide links to webpages, websites, and various resources or locations on the web. NABC has no control over the information you access via such links, does not endorse that information, and shall not be responsible for it or for the consequences of your use of that information.
If you have a copyright complaint about any information on the NABC website, follow the procedure at this page. If you are aware of any communication in a forum on the NABC website that is unlawful, infringes the property rights of NABC, a user, or a third party, or otherwise fails to conform to these Terms of Service, please send an e-mail notification with the subject "Inappropriate Use" to webmaster@nabc.ksu.edu.
NABC does not initiate, edit, modify, select, or designate specific recipients for any messages or other data entered into online forums or any other part of the NABC website, except that (i) NABC may consolidate and edit for clarity any Content posted online forums, (ii) NABC may inform registered users or third parties of particular content, ask for their response, or ask them to host discussions, and (iii) NABC reserves the right to monitor the NABC website and to remove any information that NABC, in its sole discretion, considers to be inappropriate or unlawful. The exercise of such rights shall not create an obligation for NABC to monitor, screen or edit Content on the NABC website in any way.
Please note that, because NABC hosts message boards, feedback areas and other forums found on the NABC website (collectively, the "Forums") and, therefore, redistribute materials you give to us, NABC requires certain rights in those materials. Accordingly, by sending or transmitting to NABC creative suggestions, ideas, notes, concepts, information or other materials (collectively, "Submissions"), or by posting such Submissions to any area of the NABC website, you grant NABC and its designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers), assignable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, distribute (through multiple tiers), create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale and import such Submissions in any media now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the provider of the Submissions. None of the Submissions will be subject to any obligation, whether of confidentiality, attribution or otherwise, on the part of NABC and NABC will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submissions.
The Forums are designed to permit you to share your ideas and opinions. You acknowledge that a large volume of information is available in our Forums and that people participating in such Forums occasionally post messages or make statements, whether intentionally or unintentionally, that are inaccurate, misleading or deceptive. NABC neither endorses nor is responsible for such messages or statements, or for any opinion, advice, information or other utterance made or displayed on the NABC website or Forums by third parties. The opinions expressed in the Forums reflect solely the opinion(s) of the participants and may not reflect the opinion(s) of NABC. NABC is not responsible for any errors or omissions in postings in the Forums, for hyperlinks embedded in messages or for any results obtained from the use of such information. Under no circumstances will NABC or its affiliates, be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on such information obtained through the NABC website or the Forums.
We have no obligation to monitor the Forums, or any Submissions or other materials that you or other third parties transmit or post on the Forums. You acknowledge and agree that NABC has the right (but not the obligation) to monitor the Forums and the materials you transmit or post; to alter or remove any such materials (including, without limitation, any posting to a Forum); to disclose such materials and the circumstances surrounding their transmission to any third party in order to operate the NABC website properly; to protect ourselves, and our visitors; and to comply with legal obligations or governmental requests.
NABC has worked to ensure the accuracy of the information it provides through its products and services, including through the NABC website. This information frequently relies on data obtained from many sources, however, and NABC cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information provided or any analysis based thereon.
YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT THE USE OF NABC'S PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING THE NABC WEBSITE, IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. SUCH PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS AND NABC MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AND DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. NABC DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR FREE. NO ADVICE, OPINION OR OTHER INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE NABC WEBSITE OR FROM NABC, ORALLY OR IN ANY MEDIA, SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY FROM NABC NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS AGREEMENT.
NABC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS OR COSTS OR ATTORNEY'S FEES, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, NEGLIGENCE, OR STRICT LIABILITY, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER NABC WAS INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold NABC, its affiliates, licensors, suppliers, advertisers and sponsors, and its and their directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents and other representatives, harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) and other expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from (a) your breach of this agreement, including any violation of the Terms of Service; (b) any allegation that any Content or other materials you submit to us or transmit to the NABC website infringe or otherwise violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property or other rights of any third party; and/or (c) your activities in connection with the NABC website.
If any provision or portion of these Terms of Service is held in whole or in part to be unenforceable for any reason, the remainder of that provision and of the entire agreement will be severable and will remain in effect, to the fullest degree consistent with the intent of this document.