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Terms of Use

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the Germantown Community Coalition website and all content, services and products available at or through the website. The Website is owned and operated by Germantown Community Coalition, LLC, (“Germantown Community Coalition”). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Germantown Community Coalition Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Germantown Community Coalition (collectively, the “Agreement”).

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Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Germantown Community Coalition, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. 

  1. Responsibility of Contributors. If you contribute to the blog, comment on the blog, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

    • the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;

    • if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;

    • you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;

    • the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;

    • the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);

    • the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;

    • your blog is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;

    • your blog is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your blog’s URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and

    • you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Germantown Community Coalition or otherwise.

    By submitting Content to Germantown Community Coalition for inclusion on the Website, you grant Germantown Community Coalition a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Content. If you delete Content, Germantown Community Coalition will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

  2. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Germantown Community Coalition has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Germantown Community Coalition's sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Germantown Community Coalition's reasonable opinion, violates any Germantown Community Coalition policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Germantown Community Coalition’s sole discretion. Germantown Community Coalition will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

  3. Responsibility of Website Visitors. Germantown Community Coalition has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Germantown Community Coalition does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Germantown Community Coalition disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

  4. Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which GermantownCommunityCoalition.org links, and that link to GermantownCommunityCoalition.org. Germantown Community Coalition does not have any control over these websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Germantown Community Coalition website or webpage, Germantown Community Coalition does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Germantown Community Coalition disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Germantown Community Coalition websites and webpages.

  5. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As Germantown Community Coalition asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by GermantownCommunityCoalition.org violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Germantown Community Coalition. Germantown Community Coalition will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. 

  6. Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Germantown Community Coalition to you any Germantown Community Coalition or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Germantown Community Coalition. Germantown Community Coalition, GermantownCommunityCoalition.org, and the Germantown Community Coalition logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Germantown Community Coalition. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Germantown Community Coalition or third-party trademarks.

  7. Changes. Germantown Community Coalition reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Germantown Community Coalition may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new services and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 

  8. Termination. Germantown Community Coalition may terminate your access to all or any part of the membership at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your Germantown Community Coalition membership (if you have one), you may notify Germantown Community Coalition via email. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability. 

  9. Limitation of Liability. In no event will Germantown Community Coalition, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Germantown Community Coalition under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Germantown Community Coalition shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

  10. General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Germantown Community Coalition’s Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

  11. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Germantown Community Coalition, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.

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