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Terms of Use
The Regent College Web site consists of the material provided under the regent-college.edu
domain (e.g., http://www.regent-college.edu) and several subdomains (e.g.,
http://web.regent-college.edu) (hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Site").
All
material provided on the Site is intended for informational purposes only
and should not be used to replace either official documents (except where the
material on the Site is explicitly identified as comprising the official version
of a document), nor the advice of a qualified professional
Your access to and
use of the Site shall be governed by the following Terms of Use.
(a) Reserved Rights and Grant of Limited License
Copyright © 1999-2004 Regent College. All rights
reserved.
- Regent College owns the intellectual property rights,
including copyright, in and to this Site, or has acquired the necessary
licenses in the information.
- As a user of this Site, you are granted a limited license
to use (display or print) short extracts of the information for your
own personal, non-commercial use only, provided the information is not modified.
Any other use of the information is prohibited. None of the information
may be otherwise reproduced, republished or re-disseminated in any manner
of form without the prior written consent of Regent College. To obtain such
consent, please contact the webmaster.
(b) No Advice or Warranties
- You shall be fully responsible for any consequences
resulting from your use of the Site. The information on the Site is provided
for educational or information purposes only. It is not intended to be
a substitute for professional advice, whether medical, legal, or otherwise.
Do not rely on any of the information for diagnosis or treatment. It is recommended
that you visit a qualified professional for individual and personal attention.
- Regent
College does not guarantee the quality, accuracy, completeness or timelines
of the information on the Site. While every effort is generally made
to check the information, the site may contain typographical or other errors
and should not be assumed to be error free.
- Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Regent College
shall not be responsible for any direct, indirect, special, incidental
or consequential damage or any other damages whatsoever and howsoever caused,
arising out of or in connection with the use of the Site or in reliance
on the information available on the Site, including the loss of use, lost
data, lost business profits, business interruption, personal injury, or any
other personal or pecuniary loss, whether the action is in contract, tort
(including negligence) or other tortious action.
(c) No Endorsement
- The Site may contain links to other sites. These links are
provided as references to help you identify and locate other Internet
resources that may be of interest. Parties other than Regent College independently
developed these other sites. Therefore, Regent College does not
assume responsibility for the accuracy or appropriateness of the information
contained at such sites. In providing links to other sites, Regent
College is not acting as a publisher or disseminator of the material contained
on these other sites and does not seek to control the content of, or maintain
any type of editorial control over, such sites.
- A link to another site should
not be construed to mean that Regent College is associated with or is
legally authorized to use any trademark, trade name, logo or copyrighted
symbol that may be reflected in the link or the description of the link to
such other sites. In addition, the mention of another party or its product
or services on the Site should not be construed as an endorsement of that
party or its product or service.
(d ) Trade Marks
- Certain words, phrases, names, designs or logos used on the
Site may constitute trade marks, service marks or trade names of Regent College
or other entities. The display of any such marks or names on the Site does
not imply that Regent College or other entities have
granted a license or authorization of any kind to use such marks or names.
(e) Submissions
- All information submitted to Regent College via the Site
shall be deemed and remain the property of Regent College,
and Regent College shall be free to use, for any purpose,
any ideas, concepts, know-how or other techniques contained in information
provided to Regent College through the Site or sent through
e-mail, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by Regent College. Furthermore,
Regent College shall not be subject to any obligations of confidentiality
regarding any such information submitted to it unless otherwise agreed
to in writing by Regent College.
- Furthermore, the Internet is not a secure medium
and privacy cannot be ensured. Internet e-mail is vulnerable to interception
and forgery. Regent College will not be responsible for any damages you
or any third party may suffer as a result of the transmission of confidential
information that you make to Regent College through the Internet, or
that you expressly or implicitly authorize Regent College to
make, or for any errors or any changes made to any transmitted information.
(f) Computer Viruses
- While every effort is made to ensure that all information
provided on the Site does not contain computer viruses, you should take reasonable
and appropriate precautions to scan for computer viruses and should ensure
that you have a complete and current backup of the applicable items or information
contained on your computer system. You should pay specific attention to some
of the newer viruses that have been written to automatically execute when
an infected word processing document is loaded into certain word processing
programs.
(g) Choice of Law
- The laws of the Province of British Columbia and the laws
of Canada applicable therein shall govern as to the interpretation, validity
and effect of this document, notwithstanding any conflict of laws provisions
or your domicile, residence or physical location. You hereby consent and
submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of British
Columbia in any action or proceeding instituted under or related to your use
of the Site or this document.
(h) By using Regent College web services you agree not
to use this service to do any of the following:
- Harass, stalk, defame, abuse,
threaten or otherwise violate a person's legal rights including their
privacy rights.
- Mass collect information about others (harvest), including e-mail
addresses, mailing address and phone numbers.
- Create a false identity for
the purpose of misleading others.
- Impersonate someone else.
- Promote or Post any profane, harassing, threatening,
obscene, defamatory, unlawful, vulgar, hateful, or indecent material.
- Promote
or Post any files that contain images or software protected by intellectual
property laws, copyright or trademark laws without proper permission
from the owner.
- Upload files that contain viruses, worms, or any similar program
that may cause harm to another's computer or data.
- Use our web systems in
connection with junk email, pyramid schemes, chain letters, or spamming
- Prevent
another user from accessing the site or the tools therein.
- Attempt to hack
into, deny service to, or disrupt service to any Regent College web system.
- Promote,
Post, or Participate in any activity in violation of our Community Standards.
Regent College reserves the right to remove any information deemed
inappropriate or infraction of these terms of use at its sole discretion. Regent
College also reserves the right to terminate anyone's access to
our services without notice, at any time, for any reason.
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