TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Terms and Conditions
In using this website you are deemed to have read and agreed to the following terms and conditions:
The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice. “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting the Company’s terms and conditions. The “Company,” “Our,” “Ourselves,” “We” and “Us,” refers to The New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore referring to same.
Privacy Statement
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We do not sell or disclose personal information about you to third parties.
Disclaimer
Exclusions and Limitations
This site provides general information only. This site does not provide legal or financial counseling advice. You can only obtain legal advice from a lawyer. In addition, your use of this site does not create an attorney-client relationship. While every effort was made to provide the most useful information for the end user, it may not represent a real world scenario. The information is provided “as is”without representations or warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, we and our officers, directors, employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertisers and agents disclaim all warranties, express, implied or statutory, including but not limited to warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or use, and all warranties relating to the adequacy, accuracy, timeliness or completeness of any information available through this website. You assume total responsibility and risk for your use of the information on this website and your reliance thereon. No opinion, advice or statement on the website shall create any warranty. Your use of the site, the content contained therein, and the materials provided through this site, are entirely at your own risk. We, our affiliates and agents will not be liable for any informational errors, incompleteness, delays or any actions taken in reliance on information contained on this site.
We Have All Rights In Our Site and Content; You Grant Us Certain Rights When You Submit Content to Us:
(a) Our site (including all text, photographs, graphics, video and audio content contained on our site) is protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under the copyright laws of the United States and other countries, and we (subject to the rights of our licensors and licensees under applicable agreements, understandings and arrangements) have all rights therein. All individual articles, blogs, videos, content and other elements comprising our site are also copyrighted works, and we (subject to the rights of our licensors and licensees under applicable agreements, understandings and arrangements) have all rights therein. You must abide by all additional copyright notices or restrictions contained on our site.
(b) By posting or submitting content on or to our site (regardless of the form or medium with respect to such content, whether text, videos, photographs, audio or otherwise), you are giving us, and our affiliates, agents and third party contractors the right to display or publish such content on our site and its affiliated publications (either in the form submitted or in the form of a derivative or adapted work), to store such content, and to distribute such content and use such content for promotional and marketing purposes. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, with respect to any submissions to us made by you from time to time, you understand and agree that (unless you and we agree otherwise) we may, or may permit users to, based solely on functionality provided and enabled by our website, compile, re-edit, adapt or modify your submission, or create derivative works therefrom, either on a stand-alone basis or in combination with other submissions, and (unless you and we agree otherwise) you shall have no rights with respect thereto and we or our licensees shall be free to display and publish the same (as so compiled, re-edited, adapted, modified or derived) for any period.
(c) You shall be solely responsible for your own submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with each of your submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (I) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize us to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all such submissions to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by us and these Terms and Conditions; and (II) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in such submissions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by us and these Terms and Conditions. In furtherance of the foregoing, you agree that you will not: (I) submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant us all of the rights granted herein; (II) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage us or any third party; (III) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; or (IV) post advertisements or solicitations of business. We reserve the right to remove or not publish submissions without prior notice.
You Have Rights if You Believe Your Copyright is Being Infringed:
We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask you to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information (see 17 U.S.C. 512 (c)(3) for further detail):
- An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
- Description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
- A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on www.nylag.com;
- Your address, telephone number, and email address;
- A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
Please send notice of claims of copyright infringement on www.nylag.org to info@nylag.org.
Your Use of Our Content is Restricted:
(a) Unless expressly permitted, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, enter into a database, display, perform, modify, create derivative works from, transmit or in any way exploit any part of our site or any content thereon, except as permitted under the last sentence of this Section 4(a) and except that you may make one print copy that is limited to occasional articles of personal interest only. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing (but subject to the last sentence of this Section 4(a)), you may not distribute any part of this site or any content thereon over any network, including, without limitation, a local area network, or sell or offer it for sale. In addition, these files may not be used to construct any kind of database. Just as we from time to time excerpt materials from other sources in order to support the various commentaries and writings contained herein, we respect the right of others to make “fair use” of the materials contained on our site; accordingly, you may from time to time excerpt and use materials set forth on this site consistent with the principles of “fair use”.
(b) We are concerned about the integrity of our site when it is viewed in a setting created by a third party that includes advertising or other materials that we have not authorized to be displayed with the content of our site. Neither you nor any third party shall make use of the contents of our site in any manner that constitutes an infringement of our rights, including copyright or that has not been authorized by us.
We are Not Responsible For and Do Not Necessarily Hold the Opinions Expressed by Our Content Contributors:
Opinions and other statements expressed by users and third parties (e.g., bloggers) are theirs alone, not opinions of the Company. Content created by third parties is the sole responsibility of the third parties and its accuracy and completeness are not endorsed or guaranteed. You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to view and distribute content through our site, the Company is not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to the content. The New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc. and its affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders do not undertake or assume any duty to monitor our site for inappropriate or unlawful content. The New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc. and its affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders assume no responsibility or liability which may arise from the content thereof, including, but not limited to, claims for defamation, libel, slander, infringement, invasion of privacy and publicity rights, obscenity, pornography, profanity, fraud, or misrepresentation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company reserves the right to block or remove communications, postings or materials at any time in our sole discretion.
Links to this website
You may not create a link to any page of this website without our prior written consent. If you do create a link to a page of this website you do so at your own risk and the exclusions and limitation set out above will apply to your use of this website by linking to it.
Links from this website
We do not monitor or review the content of third-party websites which are linked to or from this website, if any. Opinions expressed on or material appearing on such websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by us and we should not be regarded as the publisher of such opinions or material. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices, or content, of these sites. We encourage our users to be aware of when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of these sites. You should evaluate the security and trustworthiness of any other site connected to this site or accessed through this site yourself, before disclosing any personal information to them. This Company will not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage in whatever manner, howsoever caused, resulting from your disclosure to third parties of personal information.
Proprietary Rights
The information and content distributed through this website, is the property of The New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc., which owns the copyrights therein. You may access and use the content solely for your personal, noncommercial use. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by using the content and that you will not copy or distribute any copies of the content. You may not republish, upload, transmit or distribute content available on this site to online bulletin boards, message boards, newsgroups, chat rooms, or in any other manner, without our prior written permission. Modification of the content or use of the content for any purpose other than your own personal, noncommercial use is a violation of our copyright and other proprietary rights, and can subject you to legal liability.
General
The laws of the State of New York govern these terms and conditions. By accessing this website you consent to these Terms and Conditions and to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York in all disputes arising out of such access. If any of these terms are deemed invalid or unenforceable for any reason (including, but not limited to the exclusions and limitations set out above), then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be severed from these terms and the remaining terms will continue to apply. Failure of the Company to enforce any of the provisions set out in these Terms and Conditions shall not be construed as wavier of such provision and shall not affect the validity of these Terms and Conditions, or the right thereafter to enforce each and every provision.
Changes To The Terms and Conditions
The Company reserves the right at any time to: i) change these Terms and Conditions; and ii) change all or any portion of the content, eliminating or discontinuing any content or feature. Any changes we make to the Terms and Conditions will be effective immediately after we post the modified Terms and Conditions. In the event that you have the Terms and Conditions cached on your browser, the Terms and Conditions that applies to you is the most recent version of the Terms and Conditions that appears on a non-cached browser.
Your accessing of this website indicates your understanding, agreement to and acceptance, of the Disclaimer Notice and the full Terms and Conditions contained herein.