Terms of Use
Your use of AllChurches.com constitutes your acceptance and agreement with
these Terms of Use, which may be changed from time to time. Updated versions of
the Terms of Use will appear on this Website and are effective immediately. You
are responsible for regularly reviewing the Terms of Use. Continued use of the
Website after any such changes constitutes your consent to the changes.
The Website is made available by AllChurches.com and all content and
information provided on or through the Website may be used solely under the
following terms and conditions:
Use of the Website and Materials
The Website contains information, content or advertisements text,
photographs, designs, graphics, images, sound and video recordings, animation
and other materials and effects (collectively, the “Materials”) that are
protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade dress or other
intellectual or proprietary rights owned by AllChurches.com or other third
parties. All trademarks and copyrighted information contained on the Website are
the property of their respective owners. You may not remove from any electronic
or printed copy any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notice.
This Website and the Materials on this Website are provided for your
individual, non-commercial use. Any other use of the Website or the Materials is
strictly prohibited, including without limitation, modification, republication,
deletion, transmission, public performance, distribution, proxy caching,
uploading, posting, reproduction, redistribution or any other dissemination
without the express written permission of AllChurches.com or the applicable
rights holder. The Materials on the Website may not be used by third parties for
telemarketing, direct marketing, commercial mass email or by agents or
representatives or email spammers. You may not decompile, reverse engineer,
disassemble, rent, lease, loan, sell, sublicense, or create derivative works
from the Website or the Material. Nor may you use any network monitoring or
discovery software to determine the site architecture, or extract information
about usage or users.
Any permitted use of the Website does not extend to using the Website or
Materials for any illegal purpose, or to transmit to or through the Website or
to or through any service any illegal, harmful, threatening, defamatory,
obscene, hateful, pornographic or other objectionable material of any kind, or
to interfere with, abuse or otherwise violate the legal right of any third party
using the Website or Materials.
License
By virtue of your use of this Website you are granted a nonexclusive,
nontransferable, revocable, limited license to access and use the Website and
Materials in accordance with these Terms of Use. AllChurches.com may terminate
this license at any time for any reason. By using the Website, uploading content
to or submitting any materials for use on the Website, you grant (or warrant
that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) AllChurches.com a
perpetual, royalty-free irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use,
reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and
distribute such materials and/or information generated through use of the
Website or incorporate such materials and/or information generated through use
of the Website into any form, medium, or technology now know or later developed
throughout the universe.
Registration
Certain sections of this Website require you to register. If registration is
requested, you agree to provide accurate, complete registration information. It
is your responsibility to make any changes to that information. Each
registration is for a single person only, unless specifically designated
otherwise on the registration page. AllChurches.com does not permit any other
person using the registered sections under your name. You are responsible for
preventing such unauthorized use. If you believe there has been unauthorized
use, you should notify AllChurches.com immediately by emailing support@allchurches.com.
Automated Activity
The Website uses robot exclusion methods, which include robts.txt files and
HTML meta tags that expressly allow and/or exclude specified automated programs
from accessing certain portions of the Website. Much of the information on the
Website is updated on a real time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to
AllChurches.com by our users or third parties. You agree that you will not use
any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Website for
any purpose, including but not limited to performing “offline” searches and
mirroring, without our express written permission as indicated in the then
current robots.txt file or HTML meta tags on the Website.
Additionally, you agree that you will not:
Take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an
unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure
Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or any
activities conducted on the Website
Bypass our robot exclusion methods or other measures we may use to prevent or
restrict access to the Website.
Linking
You may provide links only to the homepage of this Website and to “permanent
links”, provided:
You do not remove or obscure, by framing or otherwise, any portion of the pages.
You discontinue providing links to this Website if requested by AllChurches.com.
If you provide links to a section within the Website, we would appreciate it if
you’d give us notice of such links by sending and email to links@allchurches.com
so we can notify you of any changes in our terms.
Disclaimer
AllChurches.com makes every effort to ensure the information presented in, on or
through its Website is accurate, however, because AllChurches.com communicates
information provided and created by churches, church members, advertisers,
software developers, publishers, marketing agents, resellers and other third
parties, AllChurches.com has no control over the accuracy of such information,
and makes no guarantee as to such information, and is not responsible for the
information, including its accuracy, currency, content, quality, copyright
compliance or legality, or any resulting loss or damage.
Reference herein to any products, services, processes, hypertext links to
third parties or other information by trade name, trademark, manufacturer,
supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, sponsorship
or recommendation by AllChurches.com. AllChurches.com had provided links to
certain other Internet sites solely for the convenience of users, and
AllChurches.com is not responsible for the content of other sites. Product and
service information are the sole responsibility of each vendor and/or Website
provider.
Consent to Monitoring and Disclosure
AllChurches.com is under no obligation to monitor the information residing on or
transmitted to this server, however, anyone using this server agrees that
AllChurches.com may monitor the server contents periodically to:
Comply with any necessary laws, regulations or other governmental requests.
Operate the server properly or to protect itself and its users.
AllChurches.com reserves the right but not the obligation, to modify, edit,
reject or eliminate any information residing or transmitted to its server that
it, in its sole discretion, believes is unacceptable or in violation of these
terms and conditions.
Warranty, Liability, Indemnification
AllChurches.com makes no representations regarding the availability and
performance of its website. You hereby acknowledge that any use of the Website
and reliance upon any Materials shall be at your sole risk and that
AllChurches.com shall not be liable for any loss of data, lost profits or any
other damages or losses resulting from such use.
THE WEBSITE AND THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED BY ALLCHURCHES.COM ON AN "AS IS"
BASIS AND AS AVAILABLE, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND,
WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. ALLCHURCHES.COM EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT, WITH RESPECT TO THE WEBSITE OR ANY MATERIALS.
IN NO EVENT SHALL ALLCHURCHES.COM BE LIABLE FOR ANY COMPENSATORY, DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, LOSS OF DATA, INCOME OR
PROFIT, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, OR ANY CLAIMS OF YOU OR OTHER THIRD
PARTIES WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE WEBSITE OR THE MATERIALS REGARDLESS OF
THE LEGAL THEORY ON WHICH THE CLAIM IS BASED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY
DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM ANY MISTAKE, OMISSION, VIRUS, DELAY OR INTERRUPTION IN
OPERATION OR SERVICE OR FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, WHETHER OR NOT RESULTING FROM AN
ACT OF GOD, COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE, THEFT OR OTHERWISE. ALLCHURCHES.COM SHALL
NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM ANY FAILURE OF
THE INTERNET. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability
of consequential or incidental damages, so the above exclusions may not apply to
all users; in such states liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted
by law.
AllChurches.com reserves the right to revise Materials on the Website and/or
to modify any features, specifications, or materials without notice.
Copyright Complaints
AllChurches.com does not make it its responsibility to monitor the use of
trademarks, copyrights or other rights of third parties. However,
AllChurches.com may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, remove,
suspend, terminate access or take other action against users, members, or other
third parties who infringe the copyrights of others.
If you seriously believe that content on AllChurches.com contains
unauthorized reproductions of your copyrighted work, or links to sites
containing unauthorized reproductions of your copyrighted work, we ask that you
notify AllChurches.com by providing the following information in accordance with
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512)
Governing Law
You agree that this Agreement will be governed and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of Missouri without giving effect to principles of
conflicts of law, and agree to submit to personal jurisdiction in Missouri and
further agree that any cause of action arising under this Agreement shall be
tried and litigated exclusively in the State of Missouri.
Miscellaneous
AllChurches.com reserves the right to investigate complaints or reported
violations of the Terms of Use and to take any action AllChurches.com deems
appropriate including but not limited to reporting any suspected unlawful
activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties and
disclosing any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities
relating to user profiles, email addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP
addresses and traffic information. AllChurches.com reserves the right to seek
all remedies available at law and in equity for violations of these Terms of
Use, including but not limited to the right to block access from a particular
Internet address to the AllChurches.com Website. These Terms of Use incorporate
by reference any notices contained on the Website and constitutes the entire
agreement with respect to access to and use of the Website. If any provisions of
these Terms of Use are unlawful, void or unenforceable then that provision shall
be deemed severable from the remaining provisions and shall not affect their
validity and enforceability.