Terms of Use

1. READ THIS:

This Terms of Use Agreement (“Agreement”) is made by and between Mid-America Bully Breed Rescue (“MABBR”) and you (“User”). This Agreement contains the terms and conditions that govern your use of this Web Site.

BY ACCESSING, VISITING, BROWSING, USING OR ATTEMPTING TO INTERACT WITH ANY PART OF THIS WEB SITE, OR OTHER MABBR MATERIAL, SERVICES, WEBSITES OR ANY OF MABBR’S LICENSES, SERVICES, OR MATERIAL (COLLECTIVELY “SERVICES”), YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE ANY PART OF THIS WEB SITE.

MABBR RESERVES THE RIGHT, FROM TIME TO TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE TO YOU, TO MAKE CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT IN MABBR’S SOLE DISCRETION. CONTINUED USE OF ANY PART OF THIS WEB SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH CHANGES. THE MOST CURRENT VERSION OF THIS AGREEMENT, WHICH SUPERCEDES ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS, CAN BE REVIEWED BY CLICKING ON THE “TERMS OF USE” HYPERLINK LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM OF EVERY PAGE ON THE MABBR WEBSITE.

2. ACCESS TO THIS SITE

To access this site or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of this site that all the information you provide on this site will be correct, current, and complete. If MABBR believes the information you provide is not correct, current, or complete, MABBR has the right to refuse you access to this site or any of its resources, and to terminate or suspend your access at any time.

This provision notes that users may need to register to access the website or to provide other information. It is included to allow the website owner to collect such information and if submitted information is inaccurate, to allow the website owner to limit or terminate that user’s access to the website.

3. RESTRICTIONS ON USE

You may use this site for purposes expressly permitted by this site. As a condition of your use of MABBR website(s), you warrant to MABBR that you will not use the website(s) for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. For example, you may not (and may not authorize any party to) (i) co-brand this site, or (ii) frame this site, or (iii) hyper-link to this site, without the express prior written permission of an authorized representative of MABBR. For purposes of these Terms of Use, “co-branding” means to display a name, logo, trademark, or other means of attribution or identification of any party in such a manner as is reasonably likely to give a user the impression that such other party has the right to display, publish, or distribute this site or content accessible within this site. You agree to cooperate with MABBR in causing any unauthorized co-branding, framing or hyper-linking immediately to cease. In addition, you may not use MABBR website in any manner which could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, content, or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the website.

4. PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION

The MABBR website is for your personal and non-commercial use, unless otherwise specified. You may not use this site for any other purpose, including any commercial purpose, without MABBR’s express prior written consent. You may not modify, copy, distribute, display, send, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, content, software, products or services obtained from or otherwise connected to MABBR websites.

5. PROPRIETARY INFORMATION

The material and content accessible from this site, and any other website owned, operated, licensed, or otherwise controlled by MABBR. The content (“Content”) is the proprietary information of MABBR or the party that provided or licensed the Content to MABBR, whereby such providing party retains all right, title, and interest in the Content. Accordingly, the Content may not be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted, or transmitted in any way without the prior written consent of MABBR, except that you may print out a copy of the Content solely for your personal use. In doing so, you may not remove or alter, or cause to be removed or altered, any copyright, trademark, trade name, service mark, or any other proprietary notice or legend appearing on any of the Content. Modification or use of the Content except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use violates MABBR’s intellectual property rights. Neither title nor intellectual property rights are transferred to you by access to this site.

6. HYPER-LINKS

This site may be hyper-linked to other sites which are not maintained by, or related to MABBR. Hyper-links to such sites are provided as a service to users and are not sponsored by or affiliated with this site or MABBR. MABBR has not reviewed any or all of such sites and is not responsible for the content of those sites. MABBR is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any hyper-linked site. Hyper-links are to be accessed at the user’s own risk, and MABBR makes no representations or warranties about the content, completeness or accuracy of these hyper-links or the sites hyper-linked to this site. MABBR may provide hyper-links as a convenience, and the inclusion of any hyper-link to a third-party site does not necessarily imply endorsement by MABBR of that site or any association with its operators.

7. USE OF COMMUNICATION SERVICES

MABBR websites may contain forums, bulletin board services, chat areas, message boards, news groups, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to allow you to communicate with the Internet community or with a group (collectively, “Communications Services”). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and content that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.

Among other actions, when using a Communication Service, you agree that you will not post, send, submit, publish, or transmit in connection with this site any material that:

i) you do not have the right to post, including proprietary material of any third party, such as files containing software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity);

ii) advocates illegal activity or discusses an intent to commit an illegal act;

iii) is vulgar, obscene, pornographic, or indecent;

iv) does not pertain directly to this site;

v) threatens or abuses others, libels, defames, invades privacy, stalks, is obscene, pornographic, racist, abusive, harassing, threatening or offensive;

vi) seeks to exploit or harm children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise;

vii) harvests or otherwise collects information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent;

viii) violates any law or may be considered to violate any law;

ix) impersonates or misrepresents your connection to any other entity or person or otherwise manipulates headers or identifiers to disguise the origin of the content;

x) falsifies or deletes any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is permissible uploaded;

xi) advertises any commercial endeavor (e.g., offering for sale products or services) or otherwise engages in any commercial activity (e.g., conducting raffles or contests, displaying sponsorship banners, and/or soliciting goods or services) except as may be specifically authorized on this site;

xii) solicits funds, advertisers or sponsors;

xiii) includes programs that contain viruses, worms and/or Trojan horses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications;

xiv) disrupts the normal flow of dialogue, causes a screen to scroll faster than other users are able to type, or otherwise act in a way which affects the ability of other people to engage in real time activities via this site;

xv) includes MP3 format files;

xvi) amounts to a “pyramid” or other like scheme, including contests, chain letters, and surveys;

xvii) disobeys any policy or regulations including any code of conduct or other guidelines, established from time to time regarding use of this site or any networks connected to this site; or

xviii) contains hyper-links to other sites that contain content that falls within the descriptions set forth above.

MABBR reserves the right to monitor use of this site to determine compliance with these Terms of Use, as well as the right to remove or refuse any information for any reason. MABBR reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever. MABBR also reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in its sole discretion. Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limits on use, reproduction and/or dissemination and you are responsible for abiding by such limitations with respect to your submissions, including any downloaded materials.

This paragraph expresses the action that the website owner can take against a user that fails to comply with the terms of use agreement, particularly with respect to a user that posts the prohibited content. In all such paragraphs, it should also be noted that the website owner reserves the right to comply with legal requests with respect to information that is being posted on the website by users. Finally, website owners often retain the right to restrict the length of posts by individual users to maintain the high performance and speed of their servers.

Notwithstanding these rights, you remain solely responsible for the content of your submissions. You acknowledge and agree that neither MABBR nor any third party that provides Content to MABBR will assume or have any liability for any action or inaction by MABBR or such third party with respect to any submission. MABBR cautions you against giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. MABBR does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, consequently, MABBR specifically disclaims any liability with respect to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized MABBR spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of MABBR.

8. SUBMISSIONS

You hereby grant to MABBR the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display all content, remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information communicated to MABBR through this site (together, the “Submission”), and to incorporate any Submission in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. MABBR will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, and may use any Submission in its business (including without limitation, for products or advertising) without incurring any liability for royalties or any other consideration of any kind, and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future MABBR operations.

MABBR will treat any personal information that you submit through this site in accordance with its Privacy Policy.

9. DISCLAIMER

You understand that MABBR cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the Internet will be free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that may manifest contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to this site for any reconstruction of any lost data. MABBR does not assume any responsibility or risk for your use of the Internet.

The Content is not necessarily complete and up-to-date and should not be used to replace any written reports, statements, or notices provided by MABBR.

YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. MABBR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. MABBR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS OR CONTENT CONTAINED IN THIS SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. MABBR DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION REGARDING USE, OR THE RESULT OF USE, OF THE CONTENT IN TERMS OF ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. THE CONTENT MAY INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS, AND MABBR MAY MAKE CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS AT ANY TIME. YOU, AND NOT MABBR, ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION IN THE EVENT OF ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE OR ITS CONTENT. MABBR MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT YOUR USE OF THE CONTENT WILL NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN SUCH CONTENT.

All of the information in this site, whether historical in nature or forward-looking, speaks only as of the date the information is posted on this site, and MABBR does not undertake any obligation to update such information after it is posted or to remove such information from this site if it is not, or is no longer accurate or complete.

10. LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

MABBR, ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONTENT PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, AND DIRECTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF REVENUE OR INCOME, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, EVEN IF MABBR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL THE COLLECTIVE LIABILITY OF MABBR AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONTENT PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, AND DIRECTORS TO ANY PARTY (REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID TO MABBR FOR THE APPLICABLE CONTENT OR SERVICE OUT OF WHICH LIABILITY AROSE.

11. TERMINATION OR RESTRICTION OF ACCESS

MABBR reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to any or all of MABBR websites and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice.

This provision allows the website owner to terminate a user’s access in part or in its entirety to the website without cause or notice. Such a provision is necessary, particularly in light of the burden on a website owner to actually provide such notice to a website user prior to terminating such access.

12. INDEMNITY

You will indemnify and hold MABBR, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, content providers, service providers, employees, agents, officers, directors, and contractors (the “Indemnified Parties”) harmless from any breach of these Terms of Use by you, including any use of Content other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use. You agree that the Indemnified Parties will have no liability in connection with any such breach or unauthorized use, and you agree to indemnify any and all resulting loss, damages, judgments, awards, costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees of the Indemnified Parties in connection therewith. You will also indemnify and hold the Indemnified Parties harmless from and against any claims brought by third parties arising out of your use of the information accessed from this site.

13. TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS

Trademarks, service marks, logos, and copyrighted works appearing in this site are the property of MABBR or the party that provided the trademarks, services marks, logos, and copyrighted works to MABBR. MABBR and any party that provided trademarks, service marks, logos, and copyrighted works to MABBR retain all rights with respect to any of their respective trademarks, service marks, logos, and copyrighted works appearing in this site.

All contents of MABBR websites are: Copyright © 2010 Game Dog Guardian. All rights reserved.

Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to the Service Provider’s Designated Agent. ALL INQUIRIES NOT RELEVANT TO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE WILL RECEIVE NO RESPONSE.

14. SECURITY

Any passwords used for this site are for individual use only. You will be responsible for the security of your password (if any). MABBR will be entitled to monitor your password and, at its discretion, require you to change it. If you use a password that MABBR considers insecure, MABBR will be entitled to require the password to be changed and/or terminate your account.

You are prohibited from using any services or facilities provided in connection with this site to compromise security or tamper with system resources and/or accounts. The use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security (e.g., password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools) is strictly prohibited. If you become involved in any violation of system security, MABBR reserves the right to release your details to system administrators at other sites in order to assist them in resolving security incidents. MABBR reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of these Terms of Use.

MABBR reserves the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or direction MABBR to disclose the identity of anyone posting any e-mail messages, or publishing or otherwise making available any materials that are believed to violate these Terms of Use. BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS MABBR FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY MABBR DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND/OR FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER MABBR OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.

15. MISCELLANEOUS

These Terms of Use will be governed and interpreted pursuant to the laws of Kansas, United States of America, notwithstanding any principles of conflicts of law. You specifically consent to personal jurisdiction in Kansas in connection with any dispute between you and MABBR arising out of these Terms of Use or pertaining to the subject matter hereof. The parties to these Terms of Use each agree that the exclusive venue for any dispute between the parties arising out of these Terms of Use will be in the state and federal courts in Kansas City, Kansas.

If any part of these Terms of Use is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and MABBR as a result of this agreement or use of MABBR websites.