Terms and Conditions

Proprietary Materials

All materials contained on this web site are Copyright ©2023 Goodwill Excel Center (GEC) or are licensed or otherwise published by GEC with the permission of the owner of the material. All rights in such materials are reserved to the respective owners.

The materials posted on this site may be retrieved and downloaded solely for not-for-profit or educational purposes (“Authorized Uses”), provided that such Authorized Uses do not include posting, publication, transmission, or dissemination of such materials in digital or electronic form by means of the World Wide Web, e-mail, online services or any other medium now existing or hereafter developed, or the making of more than thirty (30) printed copies. No materials contained on this web site may otherwise be copied, modified, published, broadcast, or otherwise distributed without the prior written permission of GEC. Any reproduction permitted under this User Agreement must contain the following notice: “Copyright ©2023 Goodwill Excel Center. All rights reserved.”

The information contained on this web site, or any other web site owned, operated, licensed, or controlled by GEC, as well as the design and layout of such web sites, contains elements protected by trade dress, copyright, or other laws, and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No text, logo, graphic, sound, or image from this web site may be copied, except in connection with the Authorized Uses described above, or retransmitted without the express written permission of GEC.

In exchange for your agreement to the terms and conditions herein, we are granting you a limited, nonexclusive, revocable license for you to view, share, print or download material from the GEC Site for your personal, non-for-profit or educational purposes (“Authorized Uses”). You are expressly not granted the right to license, distribute, assign, sublicense, transfer, sell, prepare derivative works of or utilize any materials found on the GEC Site for commercial purposes. You may not access or use the GEC Site in any way that could or is intended to damage or impair the GEC Site, or any server or network underlying the GEC Site, or interfere with anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You are also granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the Site and any content on the Site so long as the link does not portray GEC, or its products or services in a clearly false or misleading manner, or (for links that are not part of a consumer review) a derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner or imply a sponsorship or endorsement of your site, page or content by GEC.

Acceptable Uses of the Site

You may not engage in, encourage, promote, facilitate, instruct or encourage others to engage in any of the following activities:

1. in whole or in part, copy, photocopy, reproduce, translate, modify, adapt, create derivative works based on, or reverse engineer, derive source code from, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of, the Site, except to the extent required by applicable law;

2. remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, logo, or other proprietary notices in or on the Site;

3. intercept, “mine,” extract data from, or otherwise collect information from or through the Site, including without limitation by using any software, robot, scraper, or other data mining technology, unless authorized in writing by GEC in its sole discretion;

4. sell, rent, lease, sublicense, assign, transfer, or grant a security interest in your rights in the Site, or authorize all or any portion of the Site to be copied onto another user’s computer except as permitted hereunder;

5. intercept, emulate, or redirect the communication protocols used by the Site in any way, for any purpose, or engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Site or GEC’s or its vendors’s servers or other infrastructure;

6. facilitate, create, or maintain any unauthorized connection to the Site, including without limitation: (a) any connection to any unauthorized server that emulates, or attempts to emulate, GEC’s or its vendors’ servers; and (b) any connection using programs or tools not approved by GEC in its sole discretion;

7. frame, mask, extract data from, copy or distribute the Site’s content or proprietary materials, including without limitation by using any robot, scraper, or other data mining technology;

8. upload or transmit to the Site or any servers, computer or networks connected to or accessible via the Site, or use any device, software or routine that contains any malicious code, virus, Trojan horses, worm, time bombs, or other computer programming routines that may interfere, or attempt to interfere with, the normal operation of Site or any servers, computer or networks connected to or accessible via the Site;

9. corrupt, damage, steal, or access or use without authorization, any information stored, processed or transmitted by the Site or any servers, computer or networks connected to or accessible via the Site; or

10. use the Site for illegal purposes or to violate any laws, regulations or legal orders, or to engage in any fraudulent, unfair or deceptive practices or activities.

GEC RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DENY ACCESS TO THIS SITE TO ANYONE WITHOUT NOTICE AT ITS COMPLETE DISCRETION FOR ANY REASON NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, INCLUDING FOR VIOLATION OF ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, INCLUDING ANY USE RIGHTS.

Warranties

GEC MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS WEB SITE OR ANY LINKED SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH INFORMATION IS PROVIDED “AS IS.”

GEC MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND THAT THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY THIS WEB SITE OR ANY LINKED SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR FREE, OR THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER THAT HOSTS THE SITE ARE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER FORMS OF HARMFUL COMPUTER CODE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL GEC, ITS EMPLOYEES, ITS AGENTS, OR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THESE PAGES, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE OR ANY LINKED SITE.

External Links

Links to external web sites do not imply an endorsement of the materials disseminated at those web sites, nor does the existence of a link to another site imply that the organization or person publishing at that site endorses any of the materials at this site. Links to other web sites are provided by GEC as a convenience to its users. GEC is not responsible for the materials contained at any web site linked to this site.

Changes to the GEC Site and Terms of Use; Termination; Survival

GEC reserves the right to change, suspend, discontinue, add or modify any services, content, materials or information GEC provides or contributes to this Site, in whole or in part, at any time. Further GEC may at any time revise these Terms of Use by updating this page, and in such cases will update the modification date found at the bottom of this page. You agree that your continued use of the Site following any such modifications indicates your agreement and consent to be bound by such revisions and should therefore visit this page to review the current Terms of Use from time to time.

GEC also reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of this Agreement or any unlawful, fraudulent or suspicious activity, and any such violation or activity may be referred to law enforcement authorities. This Agreement is effective until terminated. You may end this legal agreement with GEC at any time for any reason by discontinuing your use of the Site and GEC’s services. GEC may terminate this Agreement at any time for any reason not prohibited by law, with or without notice to you. Upon termination for any reason, the license granted to you in Section 1 will immediately terminate. Excluding any grant of rights by You to GEC, the provisions of this Agreement will survive any termination.

GEC values the privacy of those who visit our Site and choose to provide information to us through the Site. The GEC Privacy Policy (linked below) governs our collection and use of your information on this website and provides details on what you may expect as to how we use and treat information collected or provided by you to GEC. Your authorized use of the Site is contingent on your acceptance in full of both these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Terms of Use by reference. Review our Privacy Policy.

Web Accessibility Policy

GEC seeks to keep its Site accessible to all visitors. The standards we currently implement in this area are detailed in our Web Accessibility Policy.

User Submissions, Comments, Feedback, Social Networking

We encourage your comment and feedback on the GEC Site, our services and operations. To foster this dialog with you we provide a form page and contact us information, and may, but are not obligated to, offer various discussion forums, blogging efforts, tie-ins to social media services (such as Twitter, Facebook etc.) and other such options for your submissions of Content (collectively “Interactive Services”). For purpose of this agreement any text, graphics, images, videos, photos or other information materials you publicly post, upload to the Site or cause to appear on the Interactive Services shall collectively be referred to as “Content”. You retain your rights to any Content you submit or post through the Interactive Services. By submitting or posting Content to our Site, Interactive Services or to us, you grant us a worldwide, unrestricted, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license to use, copy, distribute, perform, translate, host, store, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute all or a portion of such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).

You are responsible for your use of these Interactive Services, for any of your Content and any consequences resulting from your Content. Any of your Content may be accessible by other users of the Interactive Services. You should only provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others under these Terms. GEC does not endorse, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Content or communications posted on the Site or Interactive Services. You understand that by using the Site and Interactive Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases mislabeled. Under no circumstances will GEC be liable for any Content in any way or any loss or damages of any kind that result from your use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Site or Interactive Services.

Any suggestions, communications or comments you transmit or submit directly to GEC may be (a) treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary by GEC and (b) used without restriction by GEC licensees and affiliates without any obligation, compensation or other liability to you. Such uses may be for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, training, reproduction, publication, broadcast and posting in whole or in part, in any medium and in any manner, now known or later developed, on this Site or otherwise. And while GEC will in good faith attempt to respond to any of your questions we are under no obligation to respond to any such communications.

Any Content you submit, post or upload to the Site may be “mirrored,” that is copied and cross-posted, to GEC’s social media pages on Facebook, Twitter or other social networking outlets GEC elects to use in its sole discretion. The appearance of any of your Content that does appear on such third party social networking outlets, whether through such mirroring or your own actions on GEC’s social networking pages, are subject to the specific terms of use and privacy policies provided by such social networking sites. You should be aware of and review the policies and user agreements of these third party social networking sites.

GEC may also elect to utilize login authentication offered by such Third Party Sites (i.e., Facebook’s login authentication) to give you an easy method of identifying yourself in posts and Content. Many popular websites use these methods as a courtesy allowing you to avoid the need to create and remember another user account. In the event we do so and you correspondingly utilize it, the user name and password you provide are handled and controlled by the Third Party Site and its terms of use agreements and privacy policies.

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