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IRIS Terms and Conditions
Use of this site
implies acceptance of the below Terms and
Conditions.
Table of Contents
User Accepts
Responsibility
User defined
An intended User may
represent a whole organization (e.g.
"Educational", "Government",
"Corporate", "Non-profit", etc.) or an
individual user (e.g. "Member",
"Non-Member", "Lobbyist", "Student",
"Researcher", etc.)
Users are Responsible
- Users are responsible
for providing all personal computer and
communications equipment necessary to
gain access to the System. User must
provide, at User's own cost, all
telephone, computer, modem and other
equipment and non-IRIS software
necessary to access and use the IRIS
System and shall be responsible for all
charges necessary for such access and
use.
- Access to and use of
the System is through a combination of
an ID and a password. Each User must
keep his/her password strictly
confidential. Remember your password!
For security reasons, IRIS will not
release passwords for any reason, except
as may be specifically required by law
or court order. Unauthorized access to
the System is a breach of this Agreement
and a violation of law.
- User is responsible
for maintaining the confidentiality of
his/her/its password. User shall be
fully liable for all use of his/her/its
registration information and/or
subscription privileges, including any
unauthorized use of these information
and/or subscription privileges prior to
IRIS's receipt of notice from User
regarding such unauthorized use.
- You as the User agree
to defend, indemnify and hold IRIS and
its affiliates and related companies
harmless from any and all liabilities,
costs and expenses, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, related to any
violation of these Terms and Conditions
by you or users of your account, or in
connection with the use of the IRIS
System or the Internet or the placement
or transmission of any message,
information, software or other materials
on the IRIS System or on the Internet by
you or users of your account.
- No User shall permit
others to use such User's registration
information and/or subscription
privileges and shall notify IRIS of any
known or suspected unauthorized use of
such User's registration information
and/or subscription privileges.
- User agrees to
indemnify and hold without harm IRIS,
its officers, employees, agents,
directors, shareholders and other Users
from any and all claims, damages,
expenses (including legal fees) and
liabilities resultant from any and all
use of the User's account whether
authorized or not authorized. In no
event shall provider be liable for any
damages, claim or loss incurred by user
(including without limitation
compensatory, incidental, indirect,
special, consequential or exemplary
damages, lost profits, lost sales or
business, expenditures, investments, or
commitments in connection with any
business, loss of any goodwill, or
damages resulting from lost data or
inability to use data) irrespective of
whether provider has been informed of,
knew of, or should have known of the
likelihood of such damages. This
limitation applies to all causes of
action in the aggregate including
without limitation breach of contract,
breach of warranty, negligence, strict
liability, misrepresentation, and other
torts.
- The right to use the
IRIS System is not transferable.
Accounts are for your use only! User is
responsible for the confidentiality of
User's passwords. Loaning your account
to others, connecting a system used by
multiple persons, group use of user
logins, and consuming more than one
modem line are explicitly prohibited.
Violation of this policy will be dealt
with as theft of service and may be
prosecuted under civil and criminal law.
- Use of this account
to violate the security of any computer
network, crack passwords or security
encryption codes, transfer or store
illegal material including that deemed
threatening or obscene, or engage in any
kind of illegal activity is expressly
prohibited. Users will abide by all
rules, regulations and policies of those
networks and computer systems accessed
via this account. If the User is unsure
of those policies, it is the Users
responsibility to ascertain said
policies.
- You do not receive
any, and IRIS retains all, ownership
rights in the IRIS System, including
LIRA. IRIS Systems are copyrighted and
may not be copied, even if modified or
merged with other products. You shall
not alter or remove any copyright notice
or proprietary legend contained in or on
the System.
Using IRIS
Systems
User may not
sublicense, assign or transfer any
license granted by any such agreement of
the LIRA System. Any attempt at any such
sublicense, assignment or transfer is
void.
- You may not copy,
reverse engineer, translate, port,
modify or create/make derivative works
of the IRIS System. You may not rent,
disclose, publish, sell, assign, lease,
sublicense, market, or transfer the
Products or use them in any manner not
expressly authorized by this Agreement.
You shall not derive or attempt to
derive the source code, source files or
structure of all or any portion of the
Products by reverse engineering,
disassembly, recompilation or any other
means.
- IRIS may, in its sole
discretion, terminate User's use of the
System, or suspend User's access to all
or part of IRIS System, for any reason.
Subscription to the System may be
terminated at any time, and without
cause, by either IRIS or the User upon
notification of the other by electronic
or conventional mail, or by telephone.
- Your use of the IRIS
System does not create a license or any
other rights in IRIS's copyrights and
other intellectual property.
- You authorize IRIS to
collect from any party and to retain all
relevant information relating to your
use of the IRIS System, and you hereby
authorize any party to provide us with
such information. You understand and
agree that unless you notify IRIS to the
contrary, you further authorize IRIS to
disclose, on a confidential basis, to
any party with whom IRIS has business
relations relevant information relating
to your dealings with us and the IRIS
System.
Interaction
Protocols/Policies
You are solely
responsible for your postings, messages
and online behavior. Respect fellow
System Users!
The System enables
users to share information with other
Users. Users shall not--under penalty of
prosecution--upload, distribute,
transmit, submit, display or otherwise
publish through the IRIS System any
content which is libelous, defamatory,
inaccurate, abusive, threatening,
racially offensive, obscene,
pornographic, vulgar, profane, indecent
or otherwise objectionable; or which
violates or infringes in any way upon
the rights of others, which invades
privacy or publicity rights, or which
encourages conduct that would constitute
a criminal offense, gives rise to civil
liability or otherwise violates any law;
or which contains viruses, "worms",
"Trojan horses" or any other harmful
properties, or use the IRIS System for,
or to further, any illegal purposes.
Also, transmission of such material that
violates any federal, state, or local
law, is prohibited and is a breach of
this Agreement.
User shall not,
without the express written approval of
IRIS, upload to, distribute, broadcast
(by e-mail or otherwise), or otherwise
publish through IRIS System any content
containing any solicitation of funds,
advertising or solicitations for goods
or services, except that such
restriction shall not prevent User from
sending private e-mail in the ordinary
course of business.
IRIS does not
necessarily endorse e-mail postings,
conferences, and other communications by
other Users, and such communications
shall not be considered reviewed,
screened or approved by IRIS. IRIS
reserves the right for any reason to
remove without notice any contents of
the Forums in the IRIS System received
from Users, including without limitation
forum postings.
Disclaimers and
Use of Content
The names of IRIS
products and services profiled herein
are trademarks and service marks of
IRIS. Other service providers’ product
and service names referenced herein are
trademarks and service marks of their
respective companies.
The IRIS System may
contain hyperlinks to websites operated
by parties other than IRIS. Such
hyperlinks are provided for reference
only. IRIS may not control such
websites, and is not responsible for
their contents. IRIS's inclusion of
hyperlinks to such websites does not
necessarily imply any endorsement of the
material in such websites or any
association with their operators.
IRIS shall not be
liable for any special, indirect,
incidental, or consequential damages,
including without limitation, lost
revenues or lost profits, which may
arise from any person’s use of these
materials. IRIS may make changes to
these pages, or to the products
described by these materials, from time
to time, without notice. IRIS is not
obligated to update these materials.
IRIS and/or its
suppliers make no representations about
the suitability of the information,
software, products, and services
contained in the IRIS System for any
purpose. All such information, software,
products, and services are provided "as
is" without warranty of any kind.
IRIS is not obligated
to screen or edit messages or other
materials transmitted by Users before
they appear in the System, nor is IRIS
obligated to monitor usage or supervise
the conferences or private
conversations.
The information
contained on this site is necessarily
general and no Solicitor/Client
relationship is to be held as created.
Common sense will dictate that you
should not act upon the information
contained in these pages without
obtaining specific legal or other expert
advise before hand. These pages do not
provide any legal advice. You must
consult an attorney for legal advice.
You may download
material displayed on the website only
for non-commercial and personal use, as
long as you also retain all copyright
and other proprietary notices contained
on these materials.
This website may
include publications with technical
inaccuracies or typographical errors
that will be corrected as they are
discovered at IRIS's sole discretion.
Also, changes are periodically added to
the information contained herein. These
corrections and changes may be
incorporated into this website at a
later date.
The names, images,
logo’s and pictures identifying IRIS
products and services are trademarks of
IRIS and/or its subsidiaries,
affiliates, suppliers or licensors.
- IRIS may change or
discontinue any aspect of the IRIS
System at any time, including, but not
limited to, the availability of any IRIS
System feature, database or content.
- You may not use,
modify, distribute or transmit the
contents of the website, including the
text, images, audio, and video for
public or commercial purposes, without
written permission from IRIS.
- User may download or
copy content accessed through the IRIS
System for personal use, including
internal business use in the ordinary
course of User's business or profession,
provided that User maintains all
copyright and other notices contained in
such content. In no event may User,
directly or indirectly, sell or offer
for sale any content accessed through
the IRIS System or upload, distribute,
or otherwise publish such content in any
form or medium except for occasional
communications. User shall not store any
significant portion of any content owned
by, or licensed to, IRIS in any form,
whether archival files,
computer-readable files or any other
medium.
Monitoring
You, the User,
understand that IRIS has the right, but
not the obligation, to monitor the
content of the System to determine
compliance with this Agreement and any
other operating rules established by
IRIS. IRIS shall have the right in its
sole discretion to edit, refuse to post
or remove any material submitted to or
posted on the System.
- IRIS reserves the
right in its sole discretion to edit or
to delete any content displayed,
uploaded to, or distributed, or
otherwise published through IRIS System
(other than content in private e-mail
communications).
Terms about Terms
The law that applies
to these Terms and Conditions is the law
of the state of California. These Terms
and Conditions shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the law of
the State of California. Disputes
arising here from shall be exclusively
subject to the jurisdiction and venue of
the Courts of the State of California.
- In the event that any
portion of these Terms and Conditions is
held to be unenforceable, the
unenforceable portion shall be construed
in accordance with applicable law as
nearly as possible to reflect the
original intentions of the parties and
the remainder of the provisions shall
remain in full force and effect, and all
provisions of these Terms and Conditions
which operate to protect the rights of
IRIS, Inc. shall continue in force even
in the event of termination of these
Terms and Conditions on other grounds.
If provider's limited warranty or
limitation of liability set forth in
this agreement shall for any reason
whatsoever be held unenforceable or
inapplicable, User agrees that
provider's liability shall not exceed
$100.00.
- IRIS's failure to
insist upon or enforce strict
performance of these Terms and
Conditions shall not be construed as a
waiver of any provision of rights.
Neither the course of conduct between
parties nor trade practice shall act to
modify any provision of these Terms and
Conditions.
- If these Terms and
Conditions or any future changes are
unacceptable to you, you immediately
terminate your use and/or membership.
Use of IRIS System, your continued use
of IRIS System now, or following the
posting of notice of any changes in
these Terms and Conditions, will
constitute a binding acceptance by you
of such rules or changes.
- Each User agrees to
indemnify and hold IRIS harmless from
any dispute, which may arise from a
breach by such User of these Terms and
Conditions. User agrees to hold IRIS
harmless from any claims and expenses,
including reasonable attorney's fees and
court costs, related to User's violation
of these Terms and Conditions.
- IRIS may at any time
make modifications, improvements, and/or
changes to these Terms and Conditions,
of the information, names, images,
picture, logo’s, and icons described in
this publications or the products and
services referred to within, with or
without notice.
- Use of IRIS System by
you indicates your acceptance of such
terms, conditions and guidelines.
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