Fontana Law Firm: Terms of Use

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Fontana Law Firm, PLLC
Terms of Use
Updated: February 24, 2006

Also see our Legal Disclaimer.

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS.

The services that the Fontana Law Firm, PLLC (hereinafter Law Office) provides to you are subject to the
following Terms of Use ("TOU"). Law Office reserves the right to update the TOU at any time without notice to
you. The most current version of the TOU can be reviewed by clicking on the "Terms of Use" hypertext link
located at the bottom of our Web pages.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES.

Law Office provides you with access to a variety of resources, including download areas, chat rooms,
communication forums, and law firm information (collectively "Services"). The Services, including any updates,
enhancements, new features, and/or the addition of any new Web properties, are subject to the TOU.

PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION.

Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify,
copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or
sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services.

PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.

See the Privacy Statement disclosures relating to the collection and use of your information.

NOTICES REGARDING SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL LAW OFFICE AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL,
INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF
USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS
ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF SOFTWARE,
DOCUMENTS, PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM
THE SERVICES.

MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY.

If any of the Services requires you to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing
us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You also
will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your
password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your
account. You agree to notify Law Office immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach
of security. Law Office will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your
password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses
incurred by Law Office or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use
anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE.

As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or
prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could
damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Law Office server, or the network(s) connected to any Law Office
server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Services. You may not attempt to gain
unauthorized access to any Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any Law
Office server or to any of the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not
obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available
through the Services.

USE OF SERVICES

The Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums,
communities, personal web pages, calendars, photo albums, file cabinets and/or other message or
communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a "Communication Service"
and collectively "Communication Services"). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send
and receive messages and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular
Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the
Communication Services, you will not:

• Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk
email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise).

• Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and
publicity) of others.

• Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent or
unlawful topic, name, material or information.

• Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software or other material
protected by intellectual property laws, including, by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or
trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received
all necessary consent to do the same.

• Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made available through the
Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of
any party.

• Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other
similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another.

• Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication
Services specifically allows such messages.

• Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should
know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed, performed, and/or distributed in such manner.

• Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as 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 uploaded.

• Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.

• Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication
Service.

• Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.

• Violate any applicable laws or regulations.

• Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.

• Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of
users of the Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof.

Law Office has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Law Office reserves the right to
review materials posted to the Communication Services and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Law
Office reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time,
without notice, for any reason whatsoever.

Law Office reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as Law Office deems 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 Law Office's sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about yourself or your children in any
Communication Services. Law Office does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found
in any Communication Services and, therefore, Law Office specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the
Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Services.
Managers and hosts are not authorized Law Office spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect
those of Law Office.

Materials uploaded to the Communication Services may be subject to posted limitations on usage,
reproduction and/or dissemination; you are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the
materials.

MATERIALS PROVIDED TO LAW OFFICE OR POSTED AT ANY LAW OFFICE WEB SITE.

Law Office does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Law Office (including feedback and
suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the
general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively
"Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting ("Posting") your Submission
you are granting Law Office, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your
Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all Law
Office Services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display,
publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection
with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Law Office is
under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and Law Office may remove any
Submission at any time in its sole discretion.

By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your
Submission as described in these Terms of Use including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to
provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.

In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by Posting a Submission that contain images,
photographs, pictures or that are otherwise graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent
that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you
permission to use such Images or any content and/or images contained in such Images consistent with the
manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use and the Services, (b) you
have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms of Use, and (c) that
each person depicted in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in
these Terms of Use, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, the distribution, public display and
reproduction of such Images. By Posting Images, you are granting (a) to all members of your private community
(for each such Images available to members of such private community), and/or (b) to the general public (for
each such Images available anywhere on the Services, other than a private community), permission to use your
Images in connection with the use, as permitted by these Terms of Use, of any of the Services, (including, by
way of example, and not as a limitation, making prints and gift items which include such Images), and
including, without limitation, a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free license to: copy, distribute, transmit,
publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Images without having your name
attached to such Images, and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services. The licenses
granted in the preceding sentences for a Images will terminate at the time you completely remove such Images
from the Services, provided that, such termination shall not affect any licenses granted in connection with such
Images prior to the time you completely remove such Images. No compensation will be paid with respect to the
use of your Images.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES.

THE LINKS IN THIS AREA WILL LET YOU LEAVE LAW OFFICE'S SITE. THE LINKED SITES ARE NOT UNDER
THE CONTROL OF LAW OFFICE AND LAW OFFICE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS OF ANY
LINKED SITE OR ANY LINK CONTAINED IN A LINKED SITE, OR ANY CHANGES OR UPDATES TO SUCH
SITES. LAW OFFICE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF TRANSMISSION
RECEIVED FROM ANY LINKED SITE. LAW OFFICE IS PROVIDING THESE LINKS TO YOU ONLY AS A
CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY LAW OFFICE OF
THE SITE.

UNSOLICITED IDEA SUBMISSION POLICY.

LAW OFFICE OR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES DO NOT ACCEPT OR CONSIDER UNSOLICITED IDEAS,
INCLUDING IDEAS FOR NEW ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS, NEW PROMOTIONS, NEW PRODUCTS OR
TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES, MATERIALS, MARKETING PLANS OR NEW PRODUCT NAMES. PLEASE DO
NOT SEND ANY ORIGINAL CREATIVE ARTWORK, SAMPLES, DEMOS, OR OTHER WORKS. THE SOLE
PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY IS TO AVOID POTENTIAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS OR DISPUTES WHEN LAW
OFFICE'S PRODUCTS OR MARKETING STRATEGIES MIGHT SEEM SIMILAR TO IDEAS SUBMITTED TO LAW
OFFICE. SO, PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR UNSOLICITED IDEAS TO LAW OFFICE OR ANYONE AT LAW
OFFICE. IF, DESPITE OUR REQUEST THAT YOU NOT SEND US YOUR IDEAS AND MATERIALS, YOU STILL
SEND THEM, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT LAW OFFICE MAKES NO ASSURANCES THAT YOUR IDEAS AND
MATERIALS WILL BE TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL OR PROPRIETARY.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE.

Copyright © 2006 Fontana Law Firm, PLLC, Transportation Building, 225 Broadway - 38th Floor, New York,
NY 10007, U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

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admin@fontanafirm.com

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