Invove America

Terms of Use

These Terms of Use apply to the Involve America website at the URL www.InvolveAmerica.com (“our Site”). By accessing or using this website in any way, you agree to both our Privacy Policy and the following Terms and Conditions. If you don’t agree to our Privacy Policy or to anything in these Terms and Conditions, please refrain from using our Site.

Involve America may, without prior notice, modify, or revise the Privacy Policy and these Terms and Conditions at any time, and your continued use of our Site indicates your acceptance of any changes in the Privacy Policy and these Terms and Conditions. In the event of any material change to the Privacy Policy or these Terms and Conditions, we will post a notice on our Site’s homepage.

We reserve the right to remove any and all content on our Site, regardless of who created it, at any time and without prior notice. We also reserve the right to deny access to any user at any time and without prior notice for violation of these Terms and Conditions.

Our Site is intended for use exclusively by persons 18 and older. By accessing or in any way using the Involve America Site, you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age, that you understand our Privacy Policy and these Terms of Use, and that you are fully able and competent to accept their terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties. You represent that you are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. And you agree to abide by and comply with these Terms and Conditions.

If you have any questions, contact involve@InvolveAmerica.com .

Specific Terms & Conditions

User Content and Interactive Areas
Our Site may include interactive areas or services (“Interactive Areas”), such as forums, blogs, chat rooms or message boards, or other areas or services in which you or other users may create, post, share or store content, messages, materials, data, information, text, graphics, audio, video, or other items or materials on our Site (“User Content”). You are solely responsible for your use of such Interactive Areas and use them at your own risk.

Content Submission
Any content submitted to our Site, including but not limited to comments, suggestions, ideas, or graphics, becomes and remains property of Involve America, even if this agreement is later terminated. Any and all such submitted content is subject to these Terms and Conditions.

Prohibited Uses
The following is a partial list of the types of content that are prohibited under our Terms of Use. By way of illustration, but not limitation, you may not take any action or upload, post, email, link or otherwise transmit or create any content that, within Involve America’s sole discretion:

  • infringes or violates anyone’s rights, including intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or publicity rights of others, including posting or providing links to unauthorized copies of another party’s copyrighted work;
  • promotes or encourages illegal or unlawful activity;
  • is defamatory, libelous or slanderous in nature;
  • advocates hate, violence, abuse, threats, or harm against any group, individual or entity;
  • harasses or encourage others to harass any group, individual or entity;
  • is vulgar, obscene, profane, pornographic, or otherwise offensive or objectionable;
  • solicits funds for or contributions to any entity of any kind; or
  • is commercial in nature.

When using our Site, you agree not to post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create, or otherwise publish through our Site any of the following:

  • User Content that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent, deceptive or misleading;
  • User Content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law.
  • User Content that may infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party.
  • User Content that impersonates any person or entity or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
  • Unsolicited promotions, political campaigning, advertising, or solicitations;
  • Private information of any third party, including, without limitation, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers;
  • Viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files; and
  • User Content that, in the sole judgment of Involve America, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying our Site, or which may expose Involve America or our users to any harm or liability of any type.

If, at any time, any portion of the content posted by any visitor is found by Involve America to be in violation of any website policy, including these Terms and Conditions, Involve America reserves the right to modify or remove such content or delete such submissions without prior notice.

Content Warranty and License
By submitting content to our Site or to Involve America, you represent and warrant that all submitted content complies with all applicable website policies, including these Terms and Conditions. Further, by submitting content, you represent and warrant that you own the copyright to all submitted content and have all necessary permissions from any persons or places depicted therein both to upload the content and to grant to Involve America an irrevocable and perpetual license to use the submitted content according to Involve America’s sole discretion, including, but not limited to, use in connection with third-party social networking or video websites.

You warrant that Involve America need not treat any such submitted content as confidential, and you agree that Involve America is free of any liability for using or republishing in any manner any content or ideas you submit.

By submitting content to our Site, you grant Involve America (and its successors, assigns, licensees, agents, and affiliates) an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer, and sell such content in any format either now known or hereafter created, and to use any information identifying the author provided in connection with that content, wholly in accordance with Involve America’s sole discretion and without compensation.

Submissions
You acknowledge and agree that any feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, or other information or materials regarding our Site or Involve America that are provided by you in the form of email or other submissions to our Site or Involve America, are non-confidential and shall become the sole property of Involve America. Involve America shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights, and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these materials for any purpose without acknowledgment or compensation to you.

Mobile Communications
If you request to receive updates or other information by mobile phone or text message, you consent to our communicating with you via your mobile device, and your mobile carrier’s normal messaging, data, and other fee may apply.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Other Third-Party Social Media
Involve America maintains an active presence on several social networks. Any information we collect from you on those Sites will be governed by the privacy policies of those social media outlets.

Copyright and Limited License
Unless otherwise indicated, our Site and all content and other materials on our Site, including, without limitation, the Involve America logo and all designs, text, graphics, pictures, information, data, software, tools, widgets, sound files, other files and the selection and arrangement thereof are the proprietary property of Involve America or its licensors or users and are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.

You are granted a limited, non-sub licensable license to access and use InvolveAmerica.com for your informational, non-commercial and personal use only. This license is revocable at any time. Such license is subject to these Terms of Use and does not include: (a) any resale or commercial use of our Site or the materials therein; (b) the reproduction, distribution, public performance or public display of our Site Materials, except as expressly permitted on our Site; (c) modifying or otherwise making any derivative uses of our Site or the materials therein, or any portion thereof; (d) use of any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods; (e) downloading (other than the page caching) of any portion of our Site or the materials or any information contained therein, except as expressly permitted on our Site; or (f) any use of our Site or the materials therein other than for its intended purpose. Any use of our Site or the materials therein other than as specifically authorized herein, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein. Such unauthorized use may also violate applicable laws including without limitation copyright and trademark laws and applicable communications regulations and statutes. Unless explicitly stated herein, nothing in these Terms of Use shall be construed as conferring any license to intellectual property rights.

DMCA INFORMATION
Involve America does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights, and Involve America will remove the infringing content if properly notified of infringement. As stated above, Involve America reserves the right to remove any and all content and user submissions in its sole discretion without prior notice.

Take-Down Notice: As required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 512(c)(2), if you believe that any material or content on our Site infringes your copyright, you must send a notice of claimed infringement to Involve America’s Designated Agent at:

Involve America
e-mail: involve@InvolveAmerica.com

When submitting a Take-Down Notice, you must provide Involve America with written notification that includes the following:

  • What You Are Concerned About: A description of the specific material claimed to have been infringed, including any relevant information about the infringing activity;
  • Where the Material Can Be Found on Our Site: A description of the location on our Site (or, if the infringing information is located on another website linked to through our Site, information about the location of the link on our Site) where the alleged infringement is occurring;
  • Your Contact Information: Your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
  • A Statement of Belief: A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  • Declaration of Accuracy and Authority: A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate and that you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner; and
  • Your Signature: Your physical or electronic signature.

Counter-Notice: If you believe that your submitted content does not infringe, 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 submission, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information to Involve America’s Designated Agent. Your Counter-Notice must be in writing and must include the following information:

  • Identify the Material: 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;
  • Statement of Belief: 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;
  • Your Contact Information: Your name, address, telephone number, and email address,
  • Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process: A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the state or federal courts in the state of Michigan, and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement; and
  • Your Signature: Your physical or electronic signature

If a counter-notice is received by the Involve America’s Designated Agent, Involve America may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that Involve America may restore the removed content or that Involve America will cease denying access to it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, the removed content may be restored, or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at Involve America’s sole discretion.

Links to Other Sites
Our Site may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by others. You agree that Involve America is not responsible for the content or operation of any and all such outside websites. A hyperlink from the Involve America Site to another website does not imply or mean that Involve America endorses the content on that website or the operator or operations of that site. You are solely responsible for determining the extent to which you may or should use any content located at any other website to which you might link from the Involve America Site. Additionally, any link to a third-party site submitted or posted by you must not in any way suggest or indicate the endorsement, sponsorship or support of Involve America or Involve America’s respective employees, agents, or directors.

Involve America makes no claim or representation regarding, and accepts no responsibility for, the quality, content, nature, or reliability of third party websites accessible by hyperlink from our Site, or any website linking to our Site. Such websites are not under the control of Involve America and Involve America is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any review, changes or updates to such websites. Involve America provides these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply affiliation, endorsement, or adoption by Involve America of any site or any information contained therein. When you leave our Site, you should be aware that our terms and policies no longer apply. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any site to which you navigate from our Site.

Third Party Content
We may, from time to time, make third party information and other content available on or through our Site (the “Third Party Content”) as a service to those interested in this information and we may provide information regarding or access to third party products or services available on or through our Site (“Third Party Products and Services”). Your business dealings or correspondence with such third parties, and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated therewith, are solely between you and such third party. Involve America does not control, endorse or adopt any Third Party Content or Third Party Products, and makes no representation or warranties of any kind regarding the Third Party Content, including without limitation regarding its accuracy or completeness. You acknowledge and agree that Involve America is not responsible or liable in any manner for any Third Party Content and undertakes no responsibility to update or review any Third Party Content. Users use such Third Party Content contained therein at their own risk.

No Liability
Involve America takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any User Content posted, stored or uploaded by you or any third party, or for any loss or damage thereto, nor is Involve America liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, or offensive or harmful material you may encounter. Your use of Interactive Areas is at your own risk. Enforcement of the user content or conduct rules set forth in these Terms of Use is solely at Involve America’s discretion, and failure to enforce such rules in some cases does not waive our right to enforce such rules in other situations. In addition, these rules do not create any private right of action on the part of any third party or any reasonable expectation that our Site will not contain any content that is prohibited by such rules. As a provider of interactive services, Involve America is not liable for any statements, representations, or User Content provided by its users in any public forum, blog or other Interactive Area. Although Involve America has no obligation to do so, it reserves the right, and has absolute discretion, to remove, screen or edit any User Content posted or stored on our Site at any time and for any reason without notice, and you are solely responsible for creating backup copies of and replacing any User Content you post or store on our Site at your sole cost and expense. Any use of the Interactive Areas or other portions of our Site in violation of these Site Terms and may result in, among other things, termination, or suspension of your rights to use the Interactive Areas and/or our Site.

Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Involve America, its independent contractors, service providers and consultants, and their respective directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to any User Content you post, store or otherwise transmit on or through our Site, your use of the Interactive Areas, or any act or omission relating to our Site or the User Content, including without limitation any actual or threatened suit, demand or claim made against Involve America and/or its independent contractors, service providers, employees, directors or consultants, arising out of or relating to the User Content, your conduct, your violation of these Site Terms or your violation of the rights of any third party.

Disclaimers
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED TO THE CONTRARY, OUR SITE AND THE MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN AND THE SERVICES PROVIDED ON OR IN CONNECTION THEREWITH (THE “SERVICES”) ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. INVOLVE AMERICA DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT AND ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, FORMS OR OTHER SITE MATERIALS ACCESSED THROUGH OUR SITE. INVOLVE AMERICA DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT OUR SITE, OUR SITE MATERIALS OR THE SERVICES ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, CURRENT OR ERROR-FREE. INVOLVE AMERICA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS OR OMISSIONS.

WHILE INVOLVE AMERICA ATTEMPTS TO MAKE YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF OUR SITE AND SERVICES SAFE, INVOLVE AMERICA CANNOT AND DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT OUR SITE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD USE ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE. INVOLVE AMERICA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE IN ANY MANNER FOR ANY THIRD PARTY ACTIVITIES OR EVENTS LISTED ON OUR SITE OR FOR THE CONDUCT OF ANY EVENT OR ACTIVITY ORGANIZERS OF OTHER USERS OF OUR SITE.

Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL INVOLVE AMERICA OR OUR EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR VOLUNTEERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE OUR SITE OR THAT RESULT FROM MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DELETION OF FILES OR EMAIL, ERRORS, DEFECTS, VIRUSES, DELAYS IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, WHETHER OR NOT RESULTING FROM ACTS OF INVOLVE AMERICA, COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO INVOLVE AMERICA ’S RECORDS, PROGRAMS OR SERVICES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF INVOLVE AMERICA, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, WHETHER ACTIVE, PASSIVE OR IMPUTED), PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE OUR SITE OR OUR SITE MATERIALS EXCEED ANY COMPENSATION YOU PAY, IF ANY, TO INVOLVE AMERICA FOR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SITE. CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OF LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. THEREFORE, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

Disclaimer of Warranties
You agree that your use of our Site shall be at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Involve America, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, trustees, and agents, disclaim all warranties, express or implied, in connection with the website and your use thereof. Involve America makes no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of our Site’s content or the content of any website linked to our Site and assumes no liability or responsibility for any:

  • Errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content;
  • Personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of the Involve America Site;
  • Any unauthorized access to or use of Involve America ’s secure servers and/or any and all personal information stored therein;
  • Any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Involve America Site;
  • Any bugs, viruses, Trojan horses, or the like which may be transmitted to or through the Involve America Site by any third party;
  • And/or 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 Involve America Site.

Miscellaneous
The Involve America Privacy Policy is expressly incorporated into these Terms and Conditions. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of the Involve America Site.

The Involve America Site is controlled and offered by Involve America from its facilities in the United States of America. Involve America makes no representations that our Site is appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who access or use the Involve America Site from other jurisdictions do so at their own risk, according to their own volition, and are responsible for compliance with local law.

The above Terms and Conditions will be governed by the law of the state of Michigan, U.S.A, excluding its conflicts of law rules. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions or your use of this site shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in the state of Michigan.

These Terms and Conditions, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by Involve America without restriction.

You and Involve America agree that any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to the website must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such claim or cause of action is permanently barred.

If any part of these Terms and Conditions is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. Possible evidence of use of this site for illegal purposes will be provided to law enforcement authorities.

Last Revised: August 15, 2011.

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