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Terms of Use

Introduction

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website: by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full.   If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website. This website uses cookies.  By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to the Ferret Association of Connecticut’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of FACT’s privacy policy/cookies policy.
Definition: The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. is also known as FACT and the terms are used interchangeably within the terms of agreement.

License To Use Website

Unless otherwise stated, FACT and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.  Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

  • republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
  • sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
  • show any material from the website in public;
  • reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
  • edit or otherwise modify any material on the website unless specially authorized to do so for a listing owned by you; or
  • redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organization.

Acceptable Use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. (FACT’s) express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc.’s express written consent.

Restricted Access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at FACT’s discretion.

If the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. may disable your user ID and password in FACT’s sole discretion, without notice or explanation.

User Content (if any)

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.  You also grant to FACT the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or FACT or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on FACT’s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

Notwithstanding, the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc.’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, FACT does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

WEBSITE DISCLAIMER

No Warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied.  The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, FACT does not warrant that:

  • This website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
  • The information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.  If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

Limitations of Liability

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

  • To the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
  • For any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
  • For any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, Loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if FACT has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc.’s liability in respect of any:

  • Death or personal injury caused by FACT’s negligence;
  • Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of FACT; or
  • Matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for FACT to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other Parties

You accept that, as a limited liability, non-profit entity, the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees.  You agree that you will not bring any claim personally to FACTs officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.

Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect FACT’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as FACT.

Unenforceable Provisions

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. and undertake to keep FACT indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by FACT to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of FACT’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by FACT arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

Breaches of These Terms of Use

Without prejudice to the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, FACT may take such action as FACT deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time.  Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website.  Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with FACT’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc.  in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with United States laws, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Connecticut.

Authorisations

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. is supervised by the Board of Directors of the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc.

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. Details

The full name of the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. is the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc., also utilizes the acronym FACT.

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. is a US Internal Revenue Service registered 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation and is domiciled at 14 Sherbrooke Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106.

You can contact the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. by several means.

COOKIES POLICY

About Cookies

This website uses cookies.  By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Cookies are files sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers.

The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.  This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies.  Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

Cookies on Our Website

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. uses the following cookies on this website, for the following purposes:

  • To allow logging-on to administer the website;
  • Google Cookies – The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website.  Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers.  The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information.  Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. may, in the future, publish Google Adsense interest-based advertisements on this website.  These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests.  To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour across the web using cookies.  You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser using Google’s Ads Preference Manager, available at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.  You can opt-out of the Adsense partner network cookie at: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.  However, this opt-out mechanism uses a cookie, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in available at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.

Refusing Cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.

In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.

Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.

LINKING POLICY

Status of Linking Policy

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. welcomes links to this website made in accordance with the terms of this linking policy.

By using this website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this linking policy.

Links to This Website

Links pointing to this website should not be misleading.

Appropriate link text should be always be used.

From time to time the URL structure of this website may be updated, and unless the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. agrees in writing otherwise, all links should point to https://ferretassn.org.

You must not use the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. logo to link to this website (or otherwise) without FACT’s express written permission.

You must not link to this website using any inline linking technique.

You must not frame the content of this website or use any similar technology in relation to the content of this website.

Links from This Website

This website includes links to other websites owned and operated by third parties.  These links are not endorsements or recommendations.

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. has no control over the contents of third party websites, and accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Removal of Links

You agree that, should the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. request the deletion of a link to our website that is within your control, you will delete the link promptly.

If you would like FACT to remove a link to your website that is included on this website, please contact the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc using the contact details below.  Note that unless you have a legal right to demand removal, such removal will be at our discretion.

Changes to This Linking Policy

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. may amend this linking policy at any time by publishing a new version on this website.

Contact us

Should you have any questions about this linking policy, please contact us.

ANTI-SPAM POLICY

What is Spam?

In the context of electronic messaging, spam refers to unsolicited, bulk or indiscriminate messages, typically sent for a commercial purpose.

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. has a zero-tolerance spam policy.

Automated Spam Filtering

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. messaging systems automatically scan all incoming email [and other] messages, and filter-out messages that appear to be spam.

Problems With Spam Filtering

No message filtering system is 100% accurate, and from time to time legitimate messages will be filtered-out by the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. systems.

If you believe this has happened to a message you have sent, please advise the message recipient by another means.

You can reduce the risk of a message being caught by the spam filters by sending the message in plain text (i.e. no HTML), removing any attachments, and ensuring that your messages are scanned for malware before dispatch.

User Spam

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. may provide a facility that enables users to send [email messages / private messages] to others.  Users must not use this facility to send unsolicited, bulk or indiscriminate messages, whether or not for commercial purposes.  Full terms and conditions concerning the use of the facility are set out above.

Receipt of unwanted messages from the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc.

In the unlikely event that you receive any message from the Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. or sent using FACTs systems that may be considered to be spam, please contact FACT using the details below and the matter will be investigated.

Changes to This Anti-spam Policy

The Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc. may amend this anti-spam policy at any time by publishing a new version on this website.

Contact us

Should you have any questions about this anti-spam policy, please contactus.

Credit This document was created using Contractology templates available at http://www.freenetlaw.com.

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