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Terms of Use

   

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Ochlockonee River Kennel Club Of Florida Inc. Terms of Use 

Effective as of January 2019    

 

Welcome to the Ochlockonee River Kennel Club Of Florida Inc. (abbreviated as “ORKC”) Terms  of Use agreement. For purposes of this agreement, “Site” refers to the Company’s website,  which can be accessed at ​https://www.orkc.com/​. “Service” refers to the Company’s services  accessed via the Site, in which users can post on forums, download & upload documents, create  profiles, communicate with other members, and stay up to date on all ORKC related activities.  The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the Company. “You” refers to you, as a user of our Site  or our Service.    

 

The following Terms of Use apply when you view or use the Service via our website located at  https://www.orkc.com/​.    

 

Please review the following terms carefully. By accessing or using the Service, you signify your  agreement to these Terms of Use.​ If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Use in  their entirety, you may not access or use the Service​.    

 

PRIVACY POLICY   
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The Company respects the privacy of its Service users. Please refer to the Company’s Privacy  Policy which explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that pertains to your  privacy. When you access or use the Service, you signify your agreement to the Privacy Policy  as well as these Terms of Use.   

 

ABOUT THE SERVICE   

 

The Service allows you to: 

  • Create user profile with personal information 

  • Communicate with other members via Forums 

  • Upload and download Company related documents 

  • Receive announcements    

 

REGISTRATION; RULES FOR USER CONDUCT AND USE OF THE SERVICE   
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You need to be at least 18 years old and a resident of the United States to register for and use the Service. 

 

If you are a user who signs up for the Service, you will create a personalized account which  includes a unique username and a password to access the Service and to receive messages from  the Company. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your password  and/or account. The Company will not be responsible for any liabilities, losses, or damages  arising out of the unauthorized use of your member name, password and/or account.   

 

USE RESTRICTIONS
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Your permission to use the Site is conditioned upon the following use, posting and conduct  restrictions:   You agree that you will not under any circumstances:  ·  

  • access the Service for any reason other than your personal, non-commercial use solely as  permitted by the normal functionality of the Service,  ·   

  • collect or harvest any personal data of any user of the Site or the Service   ·   

  • use the Site or the Service for the solicitation of business in the course of trade or in  connection with a commercial enterprise unless expressly requested by the Company;  ·   

  • distribute any part or parts of the Site or the Service without our explicit written permission  (we grant the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials  from the site for the sole purpose of creating publicly-available searchable indices but retain the  right to revoke this permission at any time on a general or specific basis);  ·   

  • use the Service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities;  ·   

  • attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group;  ·   

  • use another user’s account without permission;  ·   

  • intentionally allow another user to access your account;   ·   

  • provide false or inaccurate information when registering an account;  ·   

  • interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Service;  ·   

  • make any automated use of the Site, the Service or the related systems, or take any action  that we deem to impose or to potentially impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large  load on our servers or network infrastructure;  ·   

  • bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the  Service, or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Service or  harvest or manipulate data;   ·   

  • circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with any security-related features of the Service or  features that prevent or restrict use or copying of content, or enforce limitations on use of the  Service or the content accessible via the Service; or   ·   

  • publish or link to malicious content of any sort, including that intended to damage or disrupt  another user’s browser or computer.     

 

POSTING AND CONDUCT RESTRICTIONS   
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When you create your own personalized account, you may be able to provide full name, email  address, telephone number, address, and profile image (“User Content”) to the Service. You are  solely responsible for the User Content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make  available via the Service. You agree that we are only acting as a passive conduit for your online  distribution and publication of your User Content. The Company, however, reserves the right to  remove any User Content from the Service at its sole discretion. 

 

We grant you permission to use and access the Service, subject to the following express  conditions surrounding User Content. You agree that failure to adhere to any of these  conditions constitutes a material breach of these Terms.   By transmitting and submitting any User Content while using the Service, you agree as follows:  ·   

  • You are solely responsible for your account and the activity that occurs while signed in to or  while using your account;  ·   

  • You will not post information that is malicious, libelous, false or inaccurate;·   

  • You will not post any information that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libelous,  or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise objectionable and offensive;  ·   

  • You retain all ownership rights in your User Content but you are required to grant the  following rights to the Site and to users of the Service as set forth more fully under the “License  Grant” and “Intellectual Property” provisions below: When you upload or post User Content to  the Site or the Service, you grant to the Site a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free,  transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and  perform that Content in connection with the provision of the Service; and you grant to each user  of the Service, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to access your User Content  through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and  perform such Content to the extent permitted by the Service and under these Terms of Use;  ·   

  • You will not submit content that is copyrighted or subject to third party proprietary rights,  including privacy, publicity, trade secret, or others, unless you are the owner of such rights or  have the appropriate permission from their rightful owner to specifically submit such content;  and  ·   

  • You hereby agree that we have the right to determine whether your User Content  submissions are appropriate and comply with these Terms of Service, remove any and/or all of  your submissions, and terminate your account with or without prior notice.   

 

You understand and agree that any liability, loss or damage that occurs as a result of the use of  any User Content that you make available or access through your use of the Service is solely  your responsibility. The Site is not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User  Content.  

 

The Site does not, and cannot, pre-screen or monitor all User Content. However, at our  discretion, we, or technology we employ, may monitor and/or record your interactions with the  Service or with other Users.   

 

ONLINE CONTENT DISCLAIMER   
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Opinions, advice, statements, offers, or other information or content made available through the  Service, but not directly by the Site, are those of their respective authors, and should not  necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content.    

 

We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the Site or  the Service nor do we adopt nor endorse, nor are we responsible for, the accuracy or reliability  of any opinion, advice, or statement made by other parties. We take no responsibility and  assume no liability for any User Content that you or any other user or third party posts or sends  via the Service. Under no circumstances will we be responsible for any loss or damage resulting  from anyone’s reliance on information or other content posted on the Service, or transmitted to  users. 

 

Though we strive to enforce these Terms of Use, you may be exposed to User Content that is  inaccurate or objectionable when you use or access the Site or the Service. We reserve the right,  but have no obligation, to monitor the materials posted in the public areas of the Site or the  Service or to limit or deny a user’s access to the Service or take other appropriate action if a user  violates these Terms of Use or engages in any activity that violates the rights of any person or  entity or which we deem unlawful, offensive, abusive, harmful or malicious. E-mails sent  between you and other participants that are not readily accessible to the general public will be  treated by us as private to the extent required by applicable law. The Company shall have the 

right to remove any material that in its sole opinion violates, or is alleged to violate, the law or  this agreement or which might be offensive, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten  the safety of users or others.  Unauthorized use may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution  under Federal, State and local law. If you become aware of a misuse of our Service or violation  of these Terms of Use, please contact us ​info.orkc@gmail.com​.   

 

LINKS TO OTHER SITES AND/OR MATERIALS 
 

As part of the Service, we may provide you with convenient links to third party website(s)  (“Third Party Sites”) as well as content or items belonging to or originating from third parties  (the “Third Party Applications, Software or Content”). These links are provided as a courtesy to  Service subscribers. We have no control over Third Party Sites or Third Party Applications,  Software or Content or the promotions, materials, information, goods or services available on  these Third Party Sites or Third Party Applications, Software or Content. Such Third Party Sites  and Third Party Applications, Software or Content are not investigated, monitored or checked  for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness, and we are not responsible for any Third Party  Sites accessed through the Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on,  available through or installed from the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness,  opinions, reliability, privacy practices or other policies of or contained in the Third Party Sites or  the Third Party Applications, Software or Content. Inclusion of, linking to or permitting the use  or installation of any Third Party Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content does  not imply our approval or endorsement. If you decide to leave the Site and access the Third  Party Sites or to use or install any Third Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at  your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies, including these Terms of  Use, no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy  and data gathering practices, of any Third Party Site to which you navigate from the Site or  relating to any applications you use or install from the Third Party Site.   

 

COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS AND COPYRIGHT AGENT 
 

(a) Termination of Repeat Infringer Accounts. We respect the intellectual property rights of  others and requires that the users do the same. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 512(i) of the United States  Copyright Act, we have adopted and implemented a policy that provides for the termination in  appropriate circumstances of users of the Service who are repeat infringers. We may terminate  access for participants or users who are found repeatedly to provide or post protected third  party content without necessary rights and permissions. 

(b) DMCA Take-Down Notices.  If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe, in  good faith, that any materials provided on the Service infringe upon your copyrights, you may  submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (​see 17 U.S.C 512)  (“DMCA”) by sending the following information in writing to the our designated copyright  agent at 226 Merritt Lane, Havana, Fl 32333:   

  1. The date of your notification; 

  2. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the  owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

  3. A description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple  copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a  representative list of such works at that site; 

  4. A description of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of  infringing activity and information sufficient to enable us to locate such work;

  5. Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such  as an address, telephone number, and/or email address; 

  6. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner  complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and 

  7. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of  perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right  that is allegedly infringed. 

(c) Counter-Notices. If you believe that your User Content that has been removed from the Site  is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright  owner's agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the content in your User Content, you  may send a counter-notice containing the following information to our copyright agent using  the contact information set forth above:    

  1. Your physical or electronic signature; 

  2. A description of the content that has been removed and the location at which the  content appeared before it was removed; 

  3. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the content was removed as a  result of mistake or a misidentification of the content; and 

  4. Your name, address, telephone number, and email address, a statement that you  consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in Florida and a statement that you will  accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged  infringement. 

 

If a counter-notice is received by our copyright agent, we may send a copy of the counter-notice  to the original complaining party informing such person that it may reinstate the removed  content in ten (10) business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court  order against the content provider, member or user, the removed content may (in our sole  discretion) be reinstated on the Site in ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days or more after  receipt of the counter-notice.   

 

LICENSE GRANT

   

By posting any User Content via the Service, you expressly grant, and you represent and  warrant that you have a right to grant, to the Company a royalty-free, sublicensable,  transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce,  modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, publicly perform, publicly  display, and make derivative works of all such User Content and your name, voice, and/or  likeness as contained in your User Content, if applicable, in whole or in part, and in any form,  media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with  the Service.   

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY   

 

You acknowledge and agree that we and our licensors retain ownership of all intellectual  property rights of any kind related to the Service, including applicable copyrights, trademarks  and other proprietary rights. Other product and company names that are mentioned on the Service may be trademarks of their respective owners. We reserve all rights that are not  expressly granted to you under these Terms of Use.   

 

EMAIL MAY NOT BE USED TO PROVIDE NOTICE   

 

Communications made through the Service’s email and messaging system will not constitute  legal notice to the Site, the Service, or any of its officers, employees, agents or representatives in  any situation where legal notice is required by contract or any law or regulation.   

 

USER CONSENT TO RECEIVE COMMUNICATIONS IN ELECTRONIC FORM   

 

For contractual purposes, you: (a) consent to receive communications from us in an electronic  form via the email address you have submitted; and (b) agree that all Terms of Use, agreements,  notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any  legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were in writing. The foregoing  does not affect your non-waivable rights.   

 

We may also use your email address to send you other messages, including information about  the Site or the Service and special offers. You may opt out of such email by changing your  account settings, using the “Unsubscribe” link in the message, or by sending an email to  info.orkc@gmail.com​ or mail to the following postal address: 

Website Customer Support 

226 Merritt Lane 

Havana, Fl 32333 

 

Opting out may prevent you from receiving messages regarding the Site, the Service or special  offers.   

 

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER   

 

THE SERVICE, IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WITHOUT  LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER  EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, REGARDING THE SERVICE INCLUDING WITHOUT  LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE, TITLE, SECURITY, ACCURACY AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT  LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT  ACCESS TO OR OPERATION OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR  FREE. YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK OF LOSS RESULTING FROM YOUR  DOWNLOADING AND/OR USE OF FILES, INFORMATION, CONTENT OR OTHER  MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICE. SOME JURISDICTIONS LIMIT OR DO NOT  PERMIT DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTY, SO THIS PROVISION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.   

 

LIMITATION OF DAMAGES​; ​RELEASE   

 

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE SITE, THE  SERVICE, ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, OR EMPLOYEES, OR ITS LICENSORS OR  PARTNERS, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, USE,  OR DATA, OR FOR  ANY INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES,  HOWEVER ARISING, THAT RESULT FROM: (A) THE USE, DISCLOSURE, OR DISPLAY OF YOUR USER CONTENT; (B) YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (C) THE  SERVICE GENERALLY OR THE SOFTWARE OR SYSTEMS THAT MAKE THE SERVICE  AVAILABLE; OR (D) ANY OTHER INTERACTIONS WITH USE OR WITH ANY OTHER  USER OF THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT  (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT  WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A  REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.  SOME JURISDICTIONS LIMIT OR DO NOT PERMIT DISCLAIMERS OF LIABILITY, SO THIS  PROVISION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.   

 

If you have a dispute with one or more users, a restaurant or a merchant of a product or service  that you review using the Service, you release us (and our officers, directors, agents,  subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and  consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way  connected with such disputes.  

 

If you are a California resident using the Service, you may specifically waive California Civil  Code §1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does  not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by  him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.”   

 

MODIFICATION OF TERMS OF USE   

 

We can amend these Terms of Use at any time and will update these Terms of Use in the event  of any such amendments. It is your sole responsibility to check the Site from time to time to  view any such changes in this agreement. Your continued use of the Site or the Service signifies  your agreement to our revisions to these Terms of Use. We will endeavor to notify you of  material changes to the Terms by posting a notice on our homepage and/or sending an email to  the email address you provided to us upon registration. For this additional reason, you should  keep your contact and profile information current. Any changes to these Terms (other than as  set forth in this paragraph) or waiver of our rights hereunder shall not be valid or effective  except in a written agreement bearing the physical signature of one of our officers. No  purported waiver or modification of this agreement on our part via telephonic or email  communications shall be valid.   

 

GENERAL TERMS   

 

If any part of this Terms of Use agreement is held or found to be invalid or unenforceable, that  portion of the agreement will be construed as to be consistent with applicable law while the  remaining portions of the agreement will remain in full force and effect. Any failure on our part  to enforce any provision of this agreement will not be considered a waiver of our right to  enforce such provision. Our rights under this agreement survive any transfer or termination of  this agreement.   

 

You agree that any cause of action related to or arising out of your relationship with the  Company must commence within ONE year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such  cause of action is permanently barred.   

These Terms of Use and your use of the Site are governed by the federal laws of the United  States of America and the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict of law  provisions.   

 

We may assign or delegate these Terms of Service and/or our Privacy Policy, in whole or in  part, to any person or entity at any time with or without your consent. You may not assign or  delegate any rights or obligations under the Terms of Service or Privacy Policy without our  prior written consent, and any unauthorized assignment or delegation by you is void.   

 

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE, UNDERSTAND  THE TERMS OF USE, AND WILL BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU  FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THESE TERMS OF USE TOGETHER WITH THE  PRIVACY POLICY REPRESENT THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE  AGREEMENT BETWEEN US AND THAT IT SUPERSEDES ANY PROPOSAL OR PRIOR  AGREEMENT ORAL OR WRITTEN, AND ANY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN US  RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT. 

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