Welcome to the website owned and operated by BBBS of Rockland County (“BBBS of RC”).  Your access and use of the website is subject to the following terms and conditions and all applicable laws.  By accessing or using any part of the website, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these terms and conditions.  If you do not agree with all of these terms and conditions, you may not use any portion of the website.

AUTHORIZED USE OF THE WEBSITE

The website is provided for your personal use and informational purposes only.  Any other use of the website requires our prior written consent.

As a condition of your use of this website, you warrant to BBBS of RC that you will not use the website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms and conditions.

INFORMATION AND PRIVACY

In order to use certain portions of the website, such as posting a comment to a blog, you will be required to provide specific information.  All information about you must be truthful, and you may not use any aliases or other means to mask your true identity.  To understand how we use information collected from you, please read our Privacy Policy.

NO WARRANTIES

THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE WEBSITE, IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER FOR THE CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE.  FURTHER, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE WEBSITE OR ANY MATERIALS OR CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.  WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE USE OF THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE CONTENT AND ANY ERRORS CONTAINED THEREIN PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTIES.  IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE UNDER ANY THEORY OF TORT, CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST OPPORTUNITIES, COSTS OF COVER, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, PERSONAL INJURY/WRONGFUL DEATH, EACH OF WHICH IS HEREBY EXCLUDED BY AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT EITHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us and our agents harmless from and against any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs or expenses, including attorney’s fees and costs, arising from, or related to, (i) any breach by you of any of these terms and conditions, (ii) the content of any posting you make to a blog or (iii) a violation by you of applicable law.

UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE WEBSITE

You may not use spiders, robots, data mining techniques or other automated devices or programs to catalog, download, store or otherwise reproduce, store or distribute content available on the website.  Further, you may not use any such automated means to manipulate the website or attempt to exceed the limited authorization and access granted to you under these terms and conditions.  You may not resell use of, or access to, the website to any third party.

SECURITY

E-mail communications between you and BBBS of RC may not be secure.  We suggest that you encrypt all e-mail to increase the security of your communications with us.

TRADEMARKS

“Big Brother Big Sister of Rockland County”, the Big Brother Big Sister of Rockland County logo, and all other Big Brother Big Sister of Rockland County trademarks and trade names appearing on this website are owned by Big Brother Big Sister of Rockland County. Unless otherwise indicated, all other trademarks appearing on this website are owned by third parties and are used by Big Brother Big Sister of RC under license.

COPYRIGHT

The content and the copyright in the content within this website is owned by BBBS of RC.  You may download information from the website for your personal, non-commercial viewing, but you may not otherwise copy, reproduce, republish, post, transmit, display, frame in another web page, perform, distribute, modify or create derivative works from the content without our prior written approval.

DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (“DMCA”) NOTICE

Materials may be made available via the website by third parties not within our control (such as through blogs). We are under no obligation to, and do not, scan content posted on the website for defects, viruses or the inclusion of illegal content.  However, we respect the copyright interests of others.  It is our policy not to permit materials known by us to infringe another party’s copyright to remain on the website.

If you believe any materials on the website infringe a copyright, you should provide us with written notice that at a minimum contains:

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;

Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;

Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;

A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

All DMCA notices should be sent to our designated agent as follows:

BBBS of Rockland County

65 North Main Street

New City, NY 10956

info@bbbsofrc.com

(845)634-2199

It is our policy to terminate relationships regarding content with third parties who repeatedly infringe the copyrights of others.

PRIVACY

Big Brother Big Sister of RC respects your personal privacy. You may use this website without providing any personal information about yourself to us.  If we ask you to provide us with any personal information, we will tell you the purposes for which we intend to use that information.  We will not collect, use, or disclose that information without your consent, and we will not use or disclose that information for any other purposes without your consent.  Please review our Privacy Policy for further details.

LINKING

The sites that are linked from this website are not under our control.  BBBS of RC does not assume any responsibility or liability for any communications or materials available at those linked sites.  All links are provided for your convenience only; they are not an endorsement or referral by BBBS of RC.  If you wish to provide a link to our website from your website, you may only link to our home page at https://www.bbbsofrc.com/.  You may not use any Big BBBS of RC icons or logos on your website without our express written consent, and you may not use the link to suggest that BBBS of RC sponsors, endorses, approves of, or is affiliated with, you or your website.

JURISDICTION

These terms and conditions are entered into in the State of New York and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, exclusive of its choice of law rules.  Each party to these terms and conditions submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state court sitting in the County of Rockland in the State of New York and the federal court of The Southern District of New York  and waives any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such courts.  In any action to enforce these terms and conditions, the prevailing party will be entitled to costs and attorney’s fees.  In the event that any of the terms and conditions are held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, those provisions shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that these terms and conditions shall otherwise remain in full force and effect.

OTHER AGREEMENTS

If there is any conflict between this agreement and any other agreement between you or your business and BBBS of RC, the latter agreements will prevail.

GENERAL

BBBS of RC may amend these terms and conditions at any time without notice. Accordingly, you should periodically re-visit these terms and conditions to review the then current terms and conditions governing your use of this website.  If any part of these terms and conditions is unlawful, void or unenforceable, then that part is severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.

QUESTIONS

Should you have any questions regarding these terms and conditions you may contact us at info@bbbsofrc.com.