1. Welcome
Welcome to www.safetyalert.com or other affiliated or related websites (public or
private) created from time to time by Safety Alert Network, Inc. or its related or
affiliated companies (collectively or individually “Safety Alert”) (the “Safety Alert
Web Site”). These Terms of Use (these “Terms of Use”) are between you and Safety Alert
is located at 3488 Brentwood Drive, Suite 104. These Terms of Use describe the terms and
conditions applicable to your use of all the
Safety Alert Web Site.
2. Your Acceptance
a. You acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms of Use and that you
accept and agree to be bound by the terms hereof as well as any additional rules or
policies that are or may be published by Safety Alert from time to time. YOU AGREE
TO READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS Safety Alert WEB SITE. If you do
not agree to these Terms of Use, you may not access or otherwise use this Safety Alert
Web Site. b. Safety Alert may monitor your use
of this Safety Alert Web Site and may freely use and disclose any information and
materials received from you or collected through your use of the Safety Alert Web Site
for any lawful reason or purpose. c. Safety Alert
reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any portion
of these Terms of Use, in whole or in part, at any time. Notification of changes in the
Agreement will be posted on the Safety Alert
Web Site. Unless otherwise stated, all amendments will be effective immediately upon
posting on the Safety Alert Web Site.
3. Availability of Safety Alert Web Site
The Safety Alert Web Site is only available to individuals who can form legally binding
contracts under applicable law. Our Safety Alert Web Site is not available to minors
under the age of 18 (or 21, depending on state law or such other age, in the case
of other countries) under any circumstances. If you do not wish to use our Safety Alert
Web Site and do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not use the Safety Alert Web
Site. Safety Alert may refuse Safety Alert
Web Site to anyone at any time at our sole discretion. If you are requested or invited
to provide information to the Safety Alert Web Site, you as the user must provide to
Safety Alert your first and last legal name, address,
city, state, country, postal code, and e-mail address (“Your Information”). When
providing Your Information, you must provide accurate and complete information. Should
you knowingly falsify any of Your Information, your
access to the Safety Alert Web Site shall be terminated immediately without prior
notice. You may never use another’s account without permission. You are solely
responsible for your interaction with the Safety Alert Web
Site. You must notify Safety Alert immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized
use of Your Information. Safety Alert will not be liable for any losses caused by
unauthorized use of Your Information, and you may
be liable for any of Safety Alert’s losses caused by your unauthorized use. You may also
direct Safety Alert to send via email certain articles existing on the Safety Alert Web
Site to another individual if you provide
Safety Alert with the email addresses of these individuals. You may also provide a
personal note to said individuals, but be advised that Safety Alert shall have complete
access to the note and reserves the right to delete
or amend the text.
4. Safety Alert’s Intellectual Property
a. The Safety Alert Web Site is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or
compilation, pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions, and other
copyright laws.
b. You acknowledge and agree that
Safety Alert owns all database information, collective and similar rights, title and
interests worldwide, owns other proprietary information databases, all rights in the
selection, coordination and arrangement in the Safety
Alert Web Site, rights in trademarks, trade names and Safety Alert Web Site marks of
Safety Alert, and rights in all content, software, graphics, photos, sounds, music,
videos, interactive features on the Safety Alert Web
Site. You acknowledge that neither you nor any other User shall receive any right,
license permission to use, manipulate, and reproduce any of Safety Alert’s trademarks,
copyrights, content, service marks, patents or other
intellectual property rights without the prior written permission of Safety Alert. The
contents of the Safety Alert Web Site are only for your personal, non-commercial use.
All materials contained on the Safety Alert Web
Site are protected by copyright and are owned or controlled by Safety Alert or the party
credited as the provider of the Content. You will abide by any and all additional
copyright notices, information, or restrictions
contained in any Content on the Safety Alert Web Site. Copying or storing of any Content
for other than personal, noncommercial use is expressly prohibited without the prior
written permission from Safety Alert or the copyright
holder identified in the individual Content’s copyright notice.
5. User Conduct
a. You understand that all information, data, text, photographs, images, messages or
other materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole
responsibility of the person from whom such content originated. This means that you, and
not Safety Alert, are entirely responsible for all content that you upload post, email,
transmit or otherwise make available via the Safety Alert Web Site. Content that you
upload or enter for any purpose to the Safety
Alert Web Site shall be defined herein as “Your Content”. Safety Alert does not control
the content posted via the Safety Alert Web Site and as such does not guarantee the
accuracy, integrity or quality of such content.
You understand that by using the Safety Alert Web Site, you may be exposed to Content
that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will Safety Alert
be liable in any way for any content, for any
errors or omissions in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a
result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made
available via the Safety Alert Website.
b. You represent, warrant and covenant
that: (aa) you shall not upload, post or transmit to or distribute or otherwise publish
through the Safety Alert Web Site any materials which (i) restrict or inhibit any other
user
from using and enjoying the Safety Alert Web Site, (ii) are unlawful, threatening,
abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, offensive, pornographic, profane,
sexually explicit or indecent, (iii) constitute or encourage
conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or
otherwise violate law, (iv) violate, plagiarize or infringe the rights of third parties
including, without limitation, copyright, trademark,
patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right, (v) contain a
virus or other harmful component, (vi) contain any information, software or other
material of a commercial nature, (vii) contain advertising
of any kind, or (viii) constitute or contain false or misleading indications of origin
or statements of fact; (bb) you are at least eighteen (18) years old; (cc) you are
solely responsible for the truth and accuracy of
all information you provide publicly or privately to us or other Users during the
registration or in any public message area, including but not limited to chat,
discussion forums, and your email; (dd) you shall not impersonate
any person or entity, including but not limited to a Safety Alert official or falsely
state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (ee) you shall
not intentionally or unintentionally violate
any applicable local, state, national or international law, or any regulations having
the force of law; (ff) you shall not stalk or otherwise harass another User; (gg) you
shall not harvest, collect or store personal data
about other Users; and (hh) you shall not use or launch any automated system, including
without limitation robots, spiders, or offline readers, that access the Safety Alert Web
Site in a manner that sends more request messages
to Safety Alert’s servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce
in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.
6. Safety Alert’s Use of Your Content
Safety Alert may allow Your Content for placement in the Safety Alert Web Site and for
other use by Safety Alert, including but not limited to use in print, digital, CD-ROM,
and DVD or any other formatted materials. Safety Alert’s choice of content is
in its sole discretion, and you recognize and acknowledge that uploading or entering
Your Content does not constitute an agreement by Safety Alert that Your Content is
appropriate, private or confidential. In fact, Your
Content will be stored on our servers and will at all times be accessible, removable or
changeable by Safety Alert.
7. Assignment
a. You irrevocably grant to Safety Alert perpetually, exclusively, and for all media
throughout the world (including without limitation print, film, digital, slides,
non-theatrical, home video, CD-ROM, DVD, internet and any other electronic medium
presently
in existence or invented in the future), the rights to own, use, display, prepare
derivative materials, adapt, modify, publish, republish, distribute, perform, reproduce
and incorporate (alone or together with other materials),
in whole or in part, Your Content, including but not limited to photographs, video or
digital footage, audio, and text of You and any other image which you upload to the
Safety Alert Web Site. You further hereby irrevocably
grant to Safety Alert perpetually and exclusively the right to use your name, voice,
likeness, and image and the name, voice, likeness and image in connection with Safety
Alert and the Safety Alert Web Site.
b. Safety Alert shall have complete worldwide
ownership of Your Content, including but not limited to photographs, video or digital
footage, audio or text in which your name, voice, likeness, and image (collectively,
“Property”),
including but not limited to copyright interests, and you acknowledge that you have no
interest or ownership in the Property or its copyright.
c. You hereby agree that you will not bring or consent to others bringing any
claims, suits or actions against Safety Alert on the grounds that anything contained in
the Property, or in the advertising and publicity
used in connection herewith, is defamatory, libelous, slanderous, reflects adversely on
you, or violates any other right whatsoever, including, without limitation, rights of
privacy and publicity. You hereby release and
agree to indemnify and hold harmless Safety Alert, its directors, officers, successors
and assigns from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, causes of actions,
suits, costs, expenses, liabilities, and damages
whatsoever that you may hereafter have against Safety Alert in connection with the
Property. This indemnity shall survive indefinitely, to the maximum extent of the law.
d. Whether or not Your Content is selected,
uploaded or entered onto the Safety Alert Web Site, these Terms of Use shall not
obligate Safety Alert to use Your Content or the Property or any other rights granted
hereunder, or to prepare, produce, exhibit, distribute
or exploit Your Content or the Property.
8. Indemnification
You hereby agree to release, indemnify, defend and hold harmless Safety Alert, and all
its officers, directors, owners, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, employees,
information providers, advisors, licensors and licensees (collectively, the “Indemnified
Parties”) from and against any and all losses, liabilities, claims (including claims
without legal merit or brought in bad faith), demands, damages, costs or expenses,
causes of action, suits, proceedings, judgments, awards,
executions and liens, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs (whether brought by
third parties or otherwise) (collectively, “Claims”) due to or arising out of your use
of or conduct on the Safety Alert Web Site
or in connection with the Safety Alert Web Site. You shall cooperate as fully as
reasonably required in the defense of any claim. Safety Alert reserves the right, at its
own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and
control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you and you shall not in
any event settle any matter without the written consent of Safety Alert. This indemnity,
to the maximum extent permitted by law, shall
survive indefinitely.
9. Breach, Failure to Perform, and Misuse
Without limiting any other remedies, Safety Alert may suspend, delete, or terminate any
current and future accounts and/or access to the Safety Alert Web Site by a User who
violates any of these Terms of Use or terminate or perpetually suspend your access
to the Safety Alert Web Site if you misuse your account or any Safety Alert Web Site or
Safety Alert is unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to it.
10. No Endorsement
The Safety Alert Web Site contains or may contain links and pointers to the other
related World Wide Web Internet sites, resources, and sponsors of the Safety Alert Web
Site. Links to and from Safety Alert Web Site to other third party sites, maintained
by third parties, do not constitute an endorsement by Safety Alert or any of its
subsidiaries or affiliates of any third party resources, or their contents. Safety Alert
disclaims any and all responsibility for content
contained in any third party materials provided through links from the Safety Alert Web
Site. Safety Alert assumes no responsibility for and has no control over the content,
privacy policies or practices of said third party
sites. By using the Safety Alert Web Site, you hereby release Safety Alert from any and
all liability arising from your use of any third party website, and we encourage you to
review the third party’s site terms and conditions
after you leave the Safety Alert Web Site and enter a third party site. Safety Alert
does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion,
statement, or other information displayed or distributed
through the Safety Alert Web Site. You acknowledge that any reliance upon any such
opinion, advice, statement, memorandum, or information shall be at your sole risk.
Safety Alert reserves the right, in its sole discretion,
to correct any errors or omissions in any portion of the Safety Alert Web Site.
11. Disclosure
Safety Alert does not and cannot review all materials posted to the Safety Alert Web
Site by users, and Safety Alert is not responsible for any such materials posted by
users. However, Safety Alert reserves the right at all times to disclose any information
as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or government request, or to edit, refuse to
post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in Safety
Alert’s sole discretion are objectionable or in
violation of these Terms of Use.
12. Safety Alert’s Representations, Warranties, Indemnification and Limitation of
Liability
You represent that all information provided by you in connection your use of the Safety
Alert Web Site is accurate and current. THE Safety Alert WEB SITE, INCLUDING ALL
CONTENT, SOFTWARE, FUNCTIONS, MATERIALS AND INFORMATION MADE AVAILABLE ON OR ACCESSED
THROUGH THE Safety Alert WEB SITE, IS PROVIDED “AS IS.” TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, Safety Alert AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES MAKE NO
REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER FOR THE CONTENT
ON THE Safety Alert WEB SITE OR THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION AND FUNCTIONS MADE ACCESSIBLE
BY THE SOFTWARE USED ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE Safety Alert WEB SITE, FOR ANY PRODUCTS
OR SERVICES OR Safety Alert WEB SITE OR HYPERTEXT
LINKS TO THIRD PARTIES OR FOR ANY BREACH OF SECURITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSMISSION OF
SENSITIVE INFORMATION THROUGH THE Safety Alert WEB SITE OR ANY LINKED SITE. THE Safety
Alert WEB SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS
AVAILABLE” WITH NO TECHNICAL SUPPORT. FURTHER, Safety Alert AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND
AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Safety Alert DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE
Safety Alert WEB SITE OR ANY MATERIALS OR CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN OR THE Safety Alert
WEB SITE OFFERED WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR
FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE Safety Alert WEB SITE OR THE SERVER
THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. Safety Alert AND
ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE
LIABLE FOR THE USE OF THE Safety Alert WEB SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE
CONTENT AND ANY ERRORS CONTAINED THEREIN. UNDER NO CIRMUMSTANCES SHALL Safety Alert BE
LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL INDIRECT,
REMOTE, INCIDENTAL PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, LOSS OF BUSINESS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR
SIMILAR DAMAGES.
13. Your License to Safety Alert
By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data or engaging in any other form of
communication (individually or collectively “Communications”) to the Safety Alert Web
Site, you hereby grant to Safety Alert a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable,
unrestricted,
non-exclusive, royalty free license to use, copy, license, sublicense, adapt,
distribute, display, publicly perform, reproduce, transmit, modify, edit and otherwise
exploit such Communications, in all media now known or
hereafter developed. With respect to the subset of Communications that is defined as
Your Content, the Assignment provision of these Terms of Use applies. You hereby waive
all rights to any claim against Safety Alert for
any alleged or actual infringements of any proprietary rights, rights of privacy and
publicity, moral rights, and rights of attribution in connection with such
Communications. You acknowledge that transmission to and from
this Safety Alert Web Site are not confidential and your Communications may be read or
intercepted by others. You acknowledge that by submitting Communications to Safety
Alert, no confidential, fiduciary, contractually
implied or other relationship is created between you and Safety Alert other than
pursuant to these Terms of Use.
14. Governing Law
THESE TERMS OF USE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF LOUISIANA, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS. SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE
JURISDICTION FOR ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE
TERMS OF USE SHALL BE THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION PURSUANT TO ITS COMMERCIAL
RULES OF ARBITRATION TO BE HALD IN BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.
15. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
a. If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any Communications
or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant
to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by providing Safety Alert’s
Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for
further details): – A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that
is allegedly infringed; – Identification 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; – Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or
to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is
to be disabled and information reasonably
sufficient to permit the Safety Alert Web Site provider to locate the material; –
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the Safety Alert Web Site provider to
contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and,
if available, an electronic mail; – 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 – 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. Safety Alert’s designated Copyright
Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is Legal Department, Safety Alert
Industries Group, LLC, 8687 United Plaza Blvd., Baton Rouge, La. 70809, mmarx@Safety
Alert-industries.com, facsimile: 225 215-6375.
Only DMCA notices should go to the Copyright Agent. You acknowledge that if you fail to
comply with all of the requirements of this Section 16(a), your DMCA notice may not be
valid.
b. Counter-Notice. If you believe that your Communications which were
removed (or to which access was disabled) are 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 Submission, you may
send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Copyright Agent: –
Your physical or electronic signature; – Identification
of the content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the
location at which the content appeared before it was removed or disabled; – A statement
that you have a good faith belief that the content
was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the content;
and – Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, a statement that you
consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court
in New Jersey, and a statement that you will accept Safety Alert Web Site of process
from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement. If a
counter-notice is received by the Copyright Agent, Safety
Alert may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing
that person that it may replace the removed content or cease disabling it in 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 be replaced, or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more
after receipt of the counter-notice, in Safety
Alert’s sole discretion.
16. Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy
Safety Alert or any of its employees do not accept or consider unsolicited ideas,
including ideas for new advertising campaigns, new promotions, new products or
technologies, processes, materials, marketing plans or new product names. Please do not
send
any original creative artworks, samples, demos, or other works. The sole purpose of this
policy is to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes when Safety Alert products or
marketing strategies might seem similar to
ideas submitted to Safety Alert. So, please do not send your unsolicited ideas to Safety
Alert or anyone at Safety Alert. If, despite our request that you not send us your ideas
and materials, you still send them, please
understand that Safety Alert makes no assurances that your ideas and materials will be
treated as confidential or proprietary.
17. Entire Agreement
These Terms of Use, in addition to any other rules and policies, constitute the entire
agreement between Safety Alert and you with respect to your use of the Safety Alert Web
Site and Safety Alert Web Site. Your use of the Safety Alert Web Site shall
constitute your acceptance of any amendments to These Terms of Use as well as additional
rules or policies that are or may be published by Safety Alert, each with the new
modifications. If you do not agree to any of such
changes, you may request that your membership be cancelled. You acknowledge and agree
that such cancellation will be your sole and exclusive remedy and our sole liability if
you do not wish to abide by any changes to these
Terms of Use or any additional rules or policies that are or may be published by Safety
Alert. Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of the Safety Alert Web
Site must be commenced within one (1) year
after the claim or cause of action arises. If for any reason a court of competent
jurisdiction finds any provision of the Agreement, or portion thereof, to be
unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum
extent permissible so as to affect the intent of the Agreement, and the remainder of
these Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect.