Acceptance of Terms Through Use
The Alexander S. Pissios Family Foundation (“Foundation”) maintains the Website (the “Website”) for your personal information, education, and communication. By using the Website, you signify your agreement to all terms, conditions, and notices contained or referenced herein (the “Terms of Use”) and to compliance with all applicable laws. If you disagree with these Terms of Use, please do not use the Website. We reserve the right, at our discretion and without any obligation, to update or revise the Website and these Terms of Use, including the right to make improvements to or correct any error or omissions in the Website and the right to terminate your access to all or part of the Site, with or without notice. Please check the Terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of any changes to the Terms of Use constitutes acceptance of those changes.
License to Use
You may print or download one copy of the information and content (collectively, the “Materials”) displayed and contained on the Website on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Systematic retrieval of data or other Materials from the Website to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from the Foundation is prohibited. You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the Website Materials for public or commercial purposes, including text, images, audio, and video, without the Foundation’s prior written permission.
Proprietary Rights
Assume that everything you see or read on the Website is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms of Use or in the text on the Website without the prior written permission of the Foundation. The Foundation neither warrants nor represents that the Materials or your use of the Materials will not infringe the rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with the Foundation.
The trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Website are registered and unregistered Trademarks of the Foundation and others. Nothing contained on the Website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Website without the prior written permission of the Foundation or such third party that may own the Trademarks displayed on the Website.
Images of people, buildings, jobs, or places displayed on the Website are either the property of or used with permission by the Foundation. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless expressly permitted by these Terms of Use or specific permission is provided by the Foundation or elsewhere on the Website.
User’s Grant of Limited License
Any communication or material you transmit to the Website by electronic mail or otherwise will be treated by the Foundation as non-confidential and non-proprietary. By posting or submitting content or e-mail messages to the Website or the Foundation, you (i) assign and grant the Foundation and its affiliates and licensees the right to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, distribute, have distributed, and promote your content and any ideas it may contain in any form, anywhere and for any purpose; and (ii) warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights and that public posting and use of your content by the Foundation will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.
Disclaimer of Endorsement
There may be links on the Alexander S. Pissios Family Foundation ( “ Foundation”) Website that allow you to visit third-party sites. The Foundation controls neither these sites nor their owners. Any reference to a hypertext link obtained from the Website to a specific customer, site, product, process, or service does not necessarily constitute or imply any license to use, ownership, sponsorship, endorsement arrangement, or any other relationship between the Foundation or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, and owner of anything found at such hypertext link, including but not limited to any organization, product, process, service or other information. The Foundation has not tested and makes no representations regarding the correctness, performance, or quality of any data or software found at these sites. The Foundation is willing to immediately remove any hypertext link upon written request by the site owner to which this link references. The views and opinions expressed in any referenced hypertext link do not necessarily reflect those of the Foundation. You should research and assess the risk involved in accessing and using any data or software on the Internet before downloading it.
Disclaimer of Liability and Warranties
Your use of and browsing on the Website are at your risk. The Foundation uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on the Website. However, the Foundation makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. Further, the Foundation assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the Materials. The Foundation does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the Materials or advertisements contained on, distributed through, linked to, downloaded from, or accessed by the Site. The Foundation also assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing of the Website or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Website.
Although the Foundation may, from time-to-time, monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like that may be on or linked to the Website, the Foundation is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the Materials and content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on or linked to the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. The Foundation will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Foundation to disclose the identity of anyone posting such information or materials.
THIS WEBSITE AND THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED BY THE FOUNDATION ON AN “AS IS” BASIS. THE FOUNDATION HEREBY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THIS WEBSITE AND THE MATERIALS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF USE OR DATA, INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS, OR FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, MULTIPLE, PUNITIVE ORCONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE, THE MATERIALS, AND THE PRODUCTS, WHETHER SUCH LIABILITY AND/OR DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE, AND STRICT LIABILITY), WARRANTY, GUARANTEE OR ANY OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE GROUNDS.
Indemnification
Upon a request by the Foundation, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Foundation and its subsidiary and other affiliated companies, and their employees, agents, contractors, officers, and directors from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorney’s fees, that arise from your use or misuse of the Website.
International Use
The Foundation makes no representation that materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United States. Those who access the Website from locations outside the United States do so on their initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
Choice of Law and Forum
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use or your use of the Website shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois. You further agree and submit to the exercise of personal jurisdiction of such courts to prosecute any such claim or action.
Severability and Integration
Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Foundation concerning the Website. It supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals (whether oral, written, or electronic) between you and the Foundation with respect to the Website. If any one or more of the provisions of these Terms of Use should be ruled wholly or partly invalid or unenforceable by a court or other government body of competent jurisdiction, then: (i) the validity and enforceability of all provisions of this Agreement not ruled to be invalid or unenforceable will be unaffected; (ii) the effect of the ruling will be limited to the jurisdiction of the court or other government body making the ruling; (iii) the provision(s) held wholly or partly invalid or unenforceable will be deemed amended, and the court or other government body is authorized to reform the provision(s) to the minimum extent necessary to render them valid and enforceable in conformity with our intent as manifested herein; and (iv) if the ruling and the controlling principle of law or equity leading to the ruling, is subsequently overruled, modified, or amended by legislative, judicial, or administrative action, then the provision(s) in question as originally set forth in these Terms of Use will be deemed valid and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by the new controlling principle of law or equity.