TERMS OF USE AND SERVICE
Welcome to adelphiagateway.com. To ensure a safe, nonoffensive environment for all of our users, we have established our Terms of Use and Service. It spells out what you can expect from us and what we expect from you. By accessing any areas of adelphiagateway.com, users (Users) agree to be legally bound and to abide by the terms set forth below. adelphiagateway.com is owned and operated by Adelphia Gateway, LLC. Any references herein to adelphiagateway.com shall be deemed to refer to adelphiagateway.com and/or Adelphia Gateway, LLC, as applicable under the circumstances.
I. TRADEMARKS
adelphiagateway.com is a service mark of Adelphia Gateway, LLC or its affiliates. All rights reserved. These and other adelphiagateway.com graphics, logos and service marks and trademarks of Adelphia Gateway, LLC and its affiliates may not be used without prior written consent of Adelphia Gateway, LLC or its affiliates, as the case may be. All other trademarks, product names, and company names and logos appearing on adelphiagateway.com are the property of their respective owners.
II. DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
User expressly agrees that use of adelphiagateway.com is at User’s sole risk. Neither adelphiagateway.com nor its affiliates nor any of their officers, directors, or employees, agents, third-party content providers, merchants, sponsors, licensors (collectively, Providers), or the like, warrant that adelphiagateway.com will be uninterrupted or error free, nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of adelphiagateway.com, or as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information content, service, or merchandise provided through adelphiagateway.com.
THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY ADELPHIAGATEWAY.COM ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. ADELPHIAGATEWAY.COM MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SITE, THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS OR PRODUCTS, INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, ADELPHIAGATEWAY.COM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ADELPHIAGATEWAY.COM WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. NO ORAL ADVICE OR WRITTEN INFORMATION GIVEN BY ADELPHIAGATEWAY.COM NOR ITS AFFILIATES, NOR ANY OF THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PROVIDERS, OR THE LIKE, SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY; NOR SHALL USER RELY ON ANY SUCH INFORMATION OR ADVICE.
Under no circumstance shall adelphiagateway.com or any other party involved in creating, producing, or distributing adelphiagateway.com be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use adelphiagateway.com, including but not limited to reliance by User on any information obtained from adelphiagateway.com or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files or E-mail, errors, defects, viruses, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance, whether or not resulting from acts of God, communications failure, theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to adelphiagateway.com’s records, programs or services. User hereby acknowledges that this paragraph shall apply to all content, merchandise, and services available through adelphiagateway.com. Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.
III. CONTENT
A. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
User acknowledges that adelphiagateway.com contains information, data, software, photographs, graphs, videos, typefaces, graphics, music, sounds and other material (collectively, Content) that are protected by copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights, and that these rights are valid and protected in all forms, media and technologies existing now or hereinafter developed. All Content is copyrighted as a collective work under the U.S. copyright laws, and adelphiagateway.com owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of such Content. User may not modify, remove, delete, augment, add to, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part. If no specific restrictions are displayed, Users may make copies of select portions of the Content, provided that the copies are made only for User’s personal use and that User maintains any notices contained in the Content, such as all copyright notices, trademark legends, or other proprietary rights notices. Except as provided in the preceding sentence or as permitted by the fair use privilege under the U.S. copyright laws (see, e.g., 17 U.S.C.A. Section 107), User may not upload, post, reproduce, or distribute in any way Content protected by copyright, or other proprietary right, without obtaining permission of the owner of the copyright or other proprietary right. In addition to the foregoing, use of any software Content shall be governed by the software license agreement accompanying such software.
B. DISTRIBUTION/UPLOADING OF THIRD PARTY CONTENT
Except as set forth in Section III(A) above, User may upload to or otherwise distribute on adelphiagateway.com only Content that is not subject to any copyright or other proprietary rights protection (collectively, Public Content), or Content in which the author has given express authorization for distribution on the World Wide Web. Any copyrighted or other proprietary Content distributed with the consent of a copyright owner should contain a phase such as “Copyright, owned by [name of owner]; used by permission.” The unauthorized submission or distribution of copyrighted or other proprietary Content is illegal and could subject the User to criminal prosecution as well as personal liability for damages in a civil suit. User will be liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights or proprietary rights, or from any other harm arising from such submission. Neither adelphiagateway.com, nor its affiliates, nor any of their officers, directors, employees, agents, Providers, or the like, will be liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights or proprietary rights, or from any other harm arising from such User submission. By submitting Content to any Usersubmit areas, including without limitation any product reviews or participation in any chat rooms, user automatically grants, or warrants, that the owner of such Content has expressly granted adelphiagateway.com the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive right and license to use, reproduce, publish, translate, sublicense, copy and distribute the Content in whole or in part worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such Content. User also permits any other User to access, store, or reproduce the Content for that User’s personal use. Subject to this grant, the owner of Content placed on adelphiagateway.com retains all rights that may exist in such Content.
C. THIRD-PARTY CONTENT
adelphiagateway.com is a distributor and not a publisher of Content supplied by third parties and Users. adelphiagateway.com has no more editorial control over such Content than does a public library or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information that constitutes part of Content expressed or made available by third parties, including Providers or any other User of adelphiagateway.com, are those of the respective authors or distributors and not of adelphiagateway.com or its affiliates or any of their officers, directors, employees or agents. Neither adelphiagateway.com nor its affiliates, nor any of their officers, directors, employees or agents, nor any third party, including any Provider, or any other User of adelphiagateway.com, guarantees the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any Content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. In many instances, the Content available through adelphiagateway.com represents the opinions and judgments of the respective Provider, or User not under contract with adelphiagateway.com. adelphiagateway.com neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made on adelphiagateway.com by anyone other than authorized adelphiagateway.com employees. Under no circumstances shall adelphiagateway.com, or its affiliates, or any of their officers, directors, employees or agents be liable for any loss, damage or harm caused by User’s reliance on information obtained through adelphiagateway.com. It is the responsibility of User to evaluate the information, opinion, advice, or other Content available through adelphiagateway.com.
D. EXPORT
The United States export control laws regulate the export and reexport of technology originating in the United States. This includes the electronic transmission of information and software to foreign countries and to certain foreign nationals. User agrees to abide by these laws and their regulations—including but not limited to the Export Administration Act and the Arms Export Control Act and not to transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, any Content derived from adelphiagateway.com to either a foreign national or a foreign destination in violation of such laws.
IV. ONLINE CONDUCT
User agrees to use adelphiagateway.com only for lawful purposes. User is prohibited from posting on or transmitting through adelphiagateway.com any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including but not limited to any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law.
If adelphiagateway.com is notified of allegedly infringing, defamatory, damaging, illegal or offensive content provided by User (e.g., through an online review or chat room), adelphiagateway.com may investigate the allegation and determine in its sole discretion whether to remove or request the removal of such Content from adelphiagateway.com. adelphiagateway.com may disclose any Content or electronic communication of any kind: (i) to satisfy any law, regulation or government request; (ii) if such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate adelphiagateway.com; or (iii) to protect the rights or property of adelphiagateway.com, its Users or Providers.
adelphiagateway.com reserves the right to prohibit conduct, communication, or Content that it deems in its sole discretion to be harmful to individual Users, adelphiagateway.com, the communities that make up adelphiagateway.com, or any rights of adelphiagateway.com or any third party, or to violate any applicable law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither adelphiagateway.com nor its Providers can ensure prompt removal of questionable Content after online posting. Accordingly, neither adelphiagateway.com, nor its affiliates, nor any of their officers, directors, employees or agents, nor Providers shall assume liability for any action or inaction with respect to conduct, communication, or Content on adelphiagateway.com.
V. PRIVACY POLICY
In accordance with the terms of adelphiagateway.com’s Privacy Policy, adelphiagateway.com respects the privacy of its Users.
VI. TERMINATION OF USAGE
adelphiagateway.com may terminate User’s access, or suspend User’s access to all or part of adelphiagateway.com, without notice, for any conduct that adelphiagateway.com, in its sole discretion, believes is in violation of any applicable law or is harmful to the interests of another User, a third party Provider, a service provider, or adelphiagateway.com.
VII. USAGE BY CHILDREN UNDER 13
adelphiagateway.com cannot prohibit minors from visiting this site. adelphiagateway.com must rely on parents, guardians and those responsible for supervising children under 13 to decide which materials are appropriate for such children to view.
VIII. APPLICABLE LAW
This site is created and controlled by adelphiagateway.com in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As such, the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will govern the disclaimers, terms and conditions, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. adelphiagateway.com reserves the right to make changes to its site and these disclaimers, terms and conditions at any time. User hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consents to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and of the United States of America located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for any litigation arising out of or relating to use of or purchase made through adelphiagateway.com (and agrees not to commence any litigation relating thereto except in such courts), waives any objection to the laying of venue of any such litigation in the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and agrees not to plead or claim in any court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that such litigation brought therein has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
IX. SEVERABILITY
The provisions of these Terms of Use and Service are intended to be severable. If for any reason any provision of these Terms of Use and Service shall be held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part in any jurisdiction, such provision shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability without in any manner affecting the validity or enforceability thereof in any other jurisdiction or the remaining provisions hereof in any jurisdiction.
X. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Terms of Use and Service, including all documents referenced herein, represents the entire understanding between you and adelphiagateway.com regarding your relationship with adelphiagateway.com and supersedes any prior statements or representations. YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF USE AND SERVICE by using the adelphiagateway.com Web site. The aforementioned Terms of Use and Service are subject to change.