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TERMS & CONDITIONS
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
WashingtonTV's website contains copyrighted material,
trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text,
software, photos, video and audio material, graphics, music and sound. The entire
contents of WashingtonTV's website are copyrighted as a collective work under the
United States copyright laws. WashingtonTV owns a copyright in the selection, coordination,
arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original
to it. Visitor may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or
sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole
or in part. Visitors may download copyrighted material for Visitors' personal use
only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution,
retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material is
allowed without the express written permission of WashingtonTV and the copyright
owner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and subject to your overall compliance with
the provisions of this Agreement, WashingtonTV hereby grants to you a limited, personal,
revocable, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-sublicensable license to access
the website via the Internet solely for purposes of viewing its content, interacting
with its content, and to print pages of the website for your own, personal, non-commercial
use. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted
material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright
notice shall be made. Visitor acknowledges that it does not acquire any ownership
rights by downloading copyrighted material.
Visitors acquire no rights or license whatsoever
in the content or materials of this website, other than the limited rights to use
the site in accordance with these terms and conditions. Any of the content or materials
accessed or downloaded from this website must be accessed or downloaded in strict
accordance with these "Terms and Conditions of Use." WashingtonTV reserves any rights
not expressly granted under these "Terms and Conditions of Use."
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
AND CONDITIONS
By using, viewing, browsing, accessing, or visiting
this website, or submitting or posting any data, information, content or other material
to the website, you (hereinafter "Visitor") are acknowledging your agreement, without
qualification or limitation, to these "Terms and Conditions of Use," and to be legally
bound to adhere to the terms and conditions of this "Agreement." If you do not agree
to be bound by these provisions, then you may not use this website and must exit
the WashingtonTV website at this time.
PRIVACY
We are dedicated to protecting your privacy when
visiting this website. WashingtonTV has adopted an independent "Privacy Policy,"
the terms of which you should immediately read.
Your use of WashingtonTV's website constitutes your
concurrence with WashingtonTV's Privacy Policy and your agreement to abide by its
terms.
RIGHT TO AMEND OR CHANGE TERMS
WashingtonTV shall have the right at any time, at
its sole discretion, to amend, change, delete, or modify the terms and conditions
applicable to your use of this website, or any part thereof, or to impose new conditions,
including, but not limited to, imposing charges for its use. In such event, you
may be notified by e-mail. However, it is advisable that Visitors check these "Terms
and Conditions of Use" periodically to ascertain whether they have been updated,
modified, or amended. In the event of an update, modification, or amendment to the
"Terms and Conditions of Use," changes shall become effective immediately upon posting
or notification by e-mail, whichever occurs sooner. In such event, your continued
use of WashingtonTV's website would constitute your assent to such changes.
ACCESS TO AND USE OF SERVICE
WashingtonTV reserves the right, but does not assume
the obligation, to review postings, uploads, submissions, and other content placed
on the website by a Visitor, and at its sole discretion, with or without prior notice
and without liability, to terminate or delete said postings, uploads, submissions,
and other content placed on the website by a Visitor, and to discontinue access
to the website, or any aspect of the website and/or to suspend or terminate your
access to all or any part of the website, at any time, with or without reason. These
provisions apply to all website Visitors, including Visitors who may share or upload
audio material, video clips, written or textual matter, or other content on the
website. WashingtonTV further reserves the right, based upon its sole determination,
and at its discretion, to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information postings,
uploads, submissions, and other content placed on the website by a Visitor.
MATERIAL UPLOADED OR SUBMITTED TO WashingtonTV
WashingtonTV permits Visitors to the website to share,
post or upload audio material, video clips, written or textual matter, or other
content on the website for viewing, listening, or reading. Each Visitor assumes
responsibility for the content of his or her shared or uploaded material. Any information
or material posted on the website by Visitors, including judgments, advice and opinions,
constitute the views, opinions and responsibility of those individual Visitors to
the website who have posted such material or content, and do not necessarily represent
the views of WashingtonTV. WashingtonTV does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction,
encourage, verify, oppose or agree with the comments, opinions, views, judgments,
or statements posted or expressed by Visitors to the website. Nor does WashingtonTV
make any warranties with respect to any comments, opinions, statements, audio material,
video clips, written or textual matter, or other content, posted by Visitors to
the website. Under no circumstances will WashingtonTV be liable for any loss or
damage caused by a Visitor's reliance on information obtained through or from WashingtonTV's
website. It is the responsibility of Visitors to independently evaluate the accuracy,
completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content
available through the website. All Visitors shall be solely responsible for their
own submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them.
VISITOR CONDUCT
No Visitor to the WashingtonTV website shall use
the website and/or services for any inappropriate, improper, immoral or illegal
purpose. Further, your use of our bulletin board services; chat areas; forums; news
groups; "Your Stories," "Perspectives," "Country Study," or "Country Profile" features;
and communities and/or message or communication facilities, shall be only to post,
share, or upload content and/or send and receive messages and material that is proper
and related to that particular forum. Should a Visitor fail to adhere to any of
the provisions of these "Terms and Conditions of Use," WashingtonTV reserves the
right, without further notice, to automatically change your username, delete your
posts or uploads from the website, deny you access to the website, or any combination
of these options. You further agree, in the course of visiting or using the website,
not to transmit, distribute, post, upload, share, communicate or store, audio, video,
written or textual information or other material on, to, or through WashingtonTV's
website that:
(a) is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright
owner or valid licensee to such material and you have the right to grant to WashingtonTV
the rights and licenses necessary for it to lawfully post such information and provide
appropriate documentation to WashingtonTV to verify and actually grant that right;
(b) infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others, or on the privacy
or publicity rights of others; (c) is vulgar, profane, indecent, obscene, defamatory,
libelous, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, disparaging, false misleading,
deceptive, fraudulent, slanderous or embarrassing to any person or entity, or which
contains sexually-explicit images or language, epithets, slurs, attacks of a personal,
sexual, racial or religious nature, or expressions of bigotry, racism, violates
the rights of privacy or publicity of any third party, or which is otherwise in
violation of applicable law or these "Terms and Conditions of Use" as determined
by WashingtonTV at its sole discretion; (d)
constitutes commercial advertising, solicitation of business, surveys, contests,
chain letters or pyramid schemes; (e) interferes with any other Visitor's use or
enjoyment of the website; (f) is intended to promote a cause or movement, be it
political, religious, racial, or other; (g) exceeds ____ minutes if uploaded as
a video or audio clip, or _____ pages of written or textual material; (h) contains
viruses, robots, spiders, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or other computer programming
routines or engines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, intercept,
expropriate, or impair any system, data or information.
By visiting and interacting with the WashingtonTV
website, Visitor further agrees not to: (a) use any incomplete, false or inaccurate
data or biographical information or other information for purposes of registering
as a Visitor ("user") of the website; (b) delete or revise any material or other
information of any other Visitor to the WashingtonTV website; (c) harvest, collect,
or send information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent;
(d) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load
on the website's infrastructure; (e) use any device, software or routine to interfere
or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the website, or any activity
being conducted on the website; (f) use or attempt to use any engine, software,
tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers,
spiders, robots, avatar's or intelligent agents) to navigate or search the website
for the purpose of harvesting or otherwise collecting information from the website
to be used for any commercial or other purpose other than that for which the website
was intended; (g) allow any other person or entity to use any username or password
assigned or registered to you, for posting, uploading or viewing comments or sending
or receiving materials; or (h) attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse
engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the website;
(i) access, or attempt to access data not intended for you, or log or attempt to
log into a server or account that you are not authorized to access; (j) attempt
to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security
or authentication measures without proper authorization; (k) attempt to interfere
with service to or use by any Visitor, user, host or network, including, without
limitation, by way of submitting a virus to, or overloading, "flooding", "spamming",
"mailbombing" or "crashing" the website; (l) send unsolicited e-mail, including
promotions and/or advertising of products or services; or (m) forge any TCP/IP packet
header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or posting. Violations
of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability.
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
WashingtonTV's website contains copyrighted material,
trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text,
software, photos, video and audio material, graphics, music and sound. The entire
contents of WashingtonTV's website are copyrighted as a collective work under the
United States copyright laws. WashingtonTV owns a copyright in the selection, coordination,
arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original
to it. Visitor may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or
sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole
or in part. Visitors may download copyrighted material for Visitors' personal use
only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution,
retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material is
allowed without the express written permission of WashingtonTV and the copyright
owner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and subject to your overall compliance with
the provisions of this Agreement, WashingtonTV hereby grants to you a limited, personal,
revocable, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-sublicensable license to access
the website via the Internet solely for purposes of viewing its content, interacting
with its content, and to print pages of the website for your own, personal, non-commercial
use. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted
material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright
notice shall be made. Visitor acknowledges that it does not acquire any ownership
rights by downloading copyrighted material.
Visitors acquire no rights or license whatsoever
in the content or materials of this website, other than the limited rights to use
the site in accordance with these terms and conditions. Any of the content or materials
accessed or downloaded from this website must be accessed or downloaded in strict
accordance with these "Terms and Conditions of Use." WashingtonTV reserves any rights
not expressly granted under these "Terms and Conditions of Use."
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
WashingtonTV may provide links or pointers to other
Internet websites operated by third-parties. WashingtonTV specifically disclaims
any and all responsibility or liability for any consequences which may result from
your interaction with other websites. WashingtonTV provides no warranty, either
express, or implied, with respect to these third-party sites.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Visitor expressly agrees that use of this website
is at your sole risk. Neither WashingtonTV, its affiliates nor any of their respective
employees, agents, third party content providers or licensors warrant that the site
will be uninterrupted or error free, nor do they make any warranty as to the results
that may be obtained from use of the site, or as to the accuracy or reliability
of any information, service or material provided through the site.
The site is provided on an "as is" basis without
warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to,
warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose. Additionally, there are no warranties as to the results obtained from the
use of this website.
This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages
or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, inaccuracy, interruption,
deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication
line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or
use of this site, whether sought for breach of contract, tortious behavior (including
strict liability), negligence, or under any other cause of action.
In no event shall WashingtonTV, its officers, directors,
employees, or agents, be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special,
punitive, or consequential damages whatsoever resulting from any (i) errors, mistakes,
or inaccuracies of content, (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature
whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of our website, (iii) any unauthorized
access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information and/or
financial information stored therein, (iv) any interruption or cessation of transmission
to or from our website, (iv) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like, which
may be transmitted to or through our website by any third party, and/or (v) any
errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred
as a result of your use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise
made available via the WashingtonTV website, whether based on warranty, contract,
tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not the company is advised of the
possibility of such damages. The foregoing limitation of liability shall apply to
the fullest extent permitted by law in the applicable jurisdiction.
Visitor hereby acknowledges that the provisions of
this section shall apply to all use of and content on the WashingtonTV website.
Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental
or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to
you. In no event shall WashingtonTV's total liability to Visitor for all damages,
losses and causes of action whether in contract, tort (including its own negligence)
or under any other legal theory (including strict liability) exceed the amount paid
by you, if any, for accessing this website.
INDEMNIFICATION
Visitor agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless
WashingtonTV and its affiliates and their respective members, directors, officers,
employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, damages,
costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising
out of your use of the site.
CHOICE OF LAW AND FORUM
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, notwithstanding its
conflict of law rules. Visitors' use of this website constitutes their express consent
and agreement to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and/or, the courts of the Commonwealth
of Virginia with respect to all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of
this website.
MISCELLANEOUS
Visitor agrees that no joint venture, partnership,
employment, or agency relationship exists between Visitor and WashingtonTV as a
result of this Agreement or Visitor's use of this website.
INQUIRIES AND CUSTOMER SUPPORT
Should you have any question in connection with WashingtonTV's
"Terms and Conditions of Use," or your experience or use of the website, please
click on "contact us" at the bottomn right corner of the website.
Phone & Fax:
+1.202.470.3030
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 34151
Washington, DC 20043-4151 www.TelevisionWashington.com
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