User Agreement: User Agreement

Arts Council of Rockland: Terms and Conditions This Arts Council of Rockland (ACOR) website ("our site" or "this site") is owned and operated by the Arts Council of Rockland.Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using our site. By using this site, you automatically agree to all of these terms of use. The Arts Council of Rockland may revise these terms from time to time. If you continue to use our site after we post changes to these terms and conditions, it will mean that you accept those changes Use of Materials o­n this Site The Arts Council of Rockland maintains this site for your personal information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse our site. All materials o­n our site, including but not limited to artwork, photographs, graphics, audio clips, video clips, text and trademarks, are the sole property of the Arts Council of Rockland or its licensors. The exclusive rights to all materials o­n this site are protected by U.S. and international laws of copyright, trademark and unfair competition.You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, prepare derivative works based o­n, republish, transmit, repost or otherwise use the content of our site, without prior written authorization from the Arts Council of Rockland. To request such permission, contact the Arts Council of Rockland. In no event may the Arts Council of Rockland trademarks, symbols, artwork or other visual or audio elements be reproduced separately from the textual content associated with them o­n the site.Downloading, printing or copying from this web site must be for noncommercial, personal use o­nly.Links to other web sites or references to products, services or publication other than those of the Arts Council of Rockland do not imply the endorsement or approval of such web sites, products, services or publications by the Arts Council of Rockland. Security This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. However, your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by the Arts Council of Rockland. The Arts Council of Rockland shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as the result of a breach of confidentiality with respect to information you transmitted to the site. Posted Materials The information and opinions expressed in materials posted by visitors o­n the chat areas, bulletin boards, lists or other venues connected with our site (collectively, "forums") are not necessarily those of the Arts Council of Rockland or its affiliates and the Arts Council of Rockland makes no representations or warranties regarding such posted materials. Users should be aware that our forums are public, not private communications. When you voluntarily disclose personal information o­n our forums, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people. You shall not submit, upload or post to our forums any content which (1) libels, defames, invades privacy, or is obscene, pornographic, abusive, or threatening; (2) infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity, including but not limited to, violating anyone's copyrights or trademarks; (3) falsifies or deletes author attributions, legal notices or other proprietary designations; (4) violates any law; (5) advocates illegal activity; (6) contains viruses, corrupted files, or other materials that may cause damage to another's computer; (7) supports or opposes any candidate for public office or (8) advertises or otherwise solicits funds or sales of goods or services. By posting any content o­n our forums, you automatically agree to indemnify the Arts Council of Rockland from and against any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs or expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from your breach of these posting restrictions. By posting any content o­n our forums, you automatically grant to the Arts Council of Rockland a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable and unrestricted worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and distribute the posted content or incorporate the posted content into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed for any purpose, including advertising and promotion, and you automatically waive all "moral rights" with respect to the posted content. Outside Links The Arts Council of Rockland has not reviewed all of the sites linked to this site and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to this site, whether or not they are affiliated with the Arts Council of Rockland Such linked sites are for your convenience o­nly and you access them at your own risk. The Arts Council of Rockland makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or functioning of any such link. That another web site is linked to our site does not constitute endorsement by the Arts Council of Rockland of the owner of the other site, the content of its site, or its products or services. PRIVACY: a) Normal website usage The Arts Council of Rockland has a firm commitment to internet privacy. You can visit most portions of www.artscouncilofrockland.org without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. The o­nly information we collect from a normal web site visit is the name of your internet service provider, the browser and type of machine you are using, the web site that referred you to us, the pages you request and the date and time you request them. We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity to improve the usefulness of the site to our visitors. b) Collection of personally identifiable information The Arts Council of Rockland may collect e-mail addresses and other personally identifiable data about visitors when such data is voluntarily submitted to the Arts Council of Rockland. For example, our site uses order forms for visitors to request information, products, and services, or to become a member. Contact information from the order form is used to send orders and information about the Arts Council of Rockland to our visitors.The Arts Council of Rockland makes every effort to ensure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information using industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies.The Arts Council of Rockland does not sell or otherwise disclose such user information outside the organization. However, if you become a member of the Arts Council of Rockland, some information o­n our membership lists, such as your name and address, may be exchanged with other organizations. Members may opt-out of such membership list exchanges by sending a message to the Arts Council of Rockland. c) Cookies Like most websites, the Arts Council of Rockland may place a "cookie," or small file, in the browser files of a visitor's computer. We use cookies to save information you give us so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. This allows us to personalize the site to your taste and provide the best web experience possible to our visitors. d) Special Notification with Respect to Children's Privacy (Users under age of 13). In response to concerns about protecting children's privacy o­nline, Congress enacted the Children's o­nline Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), which sets forth rules and procedures governing the ways in which Web sites may collect, use and disclose any personal information for children under the age of 13. In accordance with COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:1) Request or knowingly collect personally identifiable o­nline or offline contact information from users under 13 years of age;  2) Knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13 years of age with third parties; 3) Give children the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information; 4) Entice children with the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity. Questions regarding children's privacy should be directed to the Arts Council of Rockland. Limitations o­n the Arts Council of Rockland’s Liability The materials o­n this site are provided solely for educational and promotional purposes. Your use and browsing of this site is at your own risk. The materials could include technical inaccuracies or other errors. They are provided to you ''as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Arts Council of Rockland does not warrant that the functions contained in www.artscouncilofrockland.org materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that our site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. The Arts Council of Rockland does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials o­n our site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You (and not the Arts Council of Rockland) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall the Arts Council of Rockland be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or inability to use, the materials o­n our site, even if the Arts Council of Rockland or a Arts Council of Rockland-authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation may not apply to you. In no event shall the Arts Council of Rockland's total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action, including but not limited to negligence, arising out of our in connection with your use of this site, exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site. General Provisions The materials o­n www.artscouncilofrockland.org are presented solely for promotional purposes in the United States and Canada. This site is operated under the supervision of the Arts Council of Rockland from its offices within the state of New York. Arts Council of Rockland products are available in many parts of the world. However, our site may describe products that are not available worldwide. The Arts Council of Rockland does not warrant or represent that materials o­n our site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you choose to access our site from other locations, you do so at your own initiative and you are responsible for complying with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. You may not download or otherwise export or re-export software from our site in violation of United States export controls.These terms shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the state of New York, as they are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within New York. Any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to these terms shall be barred unless such claim or cause of action is brought within o­ne year after it arises; any such claim or cause of action shall be brought o­nly in the state or federal courts in New York, and you consent to jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating such actions.Whenever possible, each provision of these terms shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision is deemed prohibited or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of these terms.The Arts Council of Rockland serves the right to remove for any reason posted materials from our forums, and the right to deny in its sole discretion any user access to our site or our forums, without notice. This is the entire agreement between us relating to your use of this site. These terms may not be modified by you, in writing or otherwise, unless agreed to in a written document signed by the Arts Council of Rockland.