S2N Technology Group: Terms & Conditions
GENERAL
Use of or access to the S2N Technology Group, LLC (S2N) web-site, products, or services, or the transmission of any information or material to or through S2N using the Internet or any S2N product or service, constitutes your agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions herein, and any applicable end-user agreements for specific products or services, including the payment of standard rates and charges for the use of S2N products and services, whether or not you have explicitly executed a written agreement with S2N.
DISCLAIMER
The S2N web-site contains information and press releases about the company While this information is believed to be accurate as of the date prepared, we disclaim any liability arising from its accuracy and any duty or obligation to update this information or any other content.
S2N makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the content, information, products, or services provided by S2N or through the web-site, except as provided directly to S2N customers through a written agreement. S2N makes no guarantee of the accuracy, correctness or completeness of any information or data on the web-site or transmitted to or through its products or services, and shall not be responsible for: (i) any errors or omissions arising from the use of such information or data; (ii) any failures, delays or interruptions in the delivery of any content, product, or service contained within the web-site; and (iii) any defamatory, libelous or unlawful material transmitted by third parties through the S2N web-site, products, or services.
S2N is not responsible nor liable for the content of any communications, postings, listings, dialogue, or other exchange of information or any other material whatsoever between any parties who use the S2N web site or its services. Furthermore, the use of the web-site in any way, does not create an employer/employee, contractor/subcontractor, or any other relationship with S2N.
Offsite hyperlinks that are found on the S2N web-site transfer you from the S2N web-site to other web-sites operated and controlled by parties other than S2N. S2N is not responsible or liable for the contents of any linked web-site, or any changes or updates to such web-sites Such links by the S2N web-site to sites maintained by third parties do not constitute an endorsement, guaranty, or warranty by S2N of any third party or its content, nor the existence of a partnership, joint venture, agency, or other relationship between S2N and any linked third party or their content. S2N does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, product, content and/or information of these and other third parties and/or their web-sites You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use.
Any conduct by you that, in S2N's sole discretion, restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the S2N web-site, products, or services, or adversely affects the S2N web-site, products, or services, is prohibited. You may only use the S2N web-site, products, or services for lawful purposes. You may not transmit through the S2N web-site, products, or services material of any kind that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, racially or ethnically inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable, including material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil or criminal liability, or otherwise violate applicable laws.
S2N may prohibit material, conduct, communication, transmission, or content that S2N, in its sold discretion, believes to be harmful or objectionable to users, S2N, or third parties, or any rights of S2N or third parties, or violate any applicable laws. Notwithstanding the foregoing, S2N cannot ensure prompt editing, removal, or prevention of harmful or objectionable material, conduct, communication, transmission, or content. Accordingly, neither S2N nor its officers, directors, employees, assigns, or other representatives assume any liability whatsoever for any action or inaction with respect to any such material, conduct, communication, transmission, or content.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The content, organization, graphics, design, compilation, magnetic translation, digital conversion, and other matters related to the S2N web-site, products, or services are protected under applicable copyrights, trademarks, intellectual property, and other proprietary rights (collectively, "Intellectual Property"), pursuant to international conventions and U.S. and other laws. The use of the S2N web-site, products, or services does not constitute the grant of a license or any other right to you or a third party to any Intellectual Property.
You do not acquire ownership rights to any content, document, or other materials viewed or accessed through the S2N web-site, products, or services. You will abide by any and all additional copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any agreement or associated with any S2N product or services. Any copying, republication, or redistribution of S2N' web-site content, or product or service information or specification, including by caching, framing, or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of S2N and/or the respective intellectual property rights holder identified in the subject content.
CONSENT TO MONITORING AND DISCLOSURE
S2N is under no obligation to monitor and does not regularly monitor the content and any other information residing on or transmitted to or through its web-site, products, or services by third parties. However, anyone using the S2N web-site, products, or services agrees that S2N may monitor the contents of transmissions periodically to (1) comply with any necessary laws, regulations or other governmental requests; or (2) to operate the web-site, products, and services properly or to protect itself and its users. S2N reserves the right to modify, reject, or remove any information residing on or transmitted to or through its web-site, products, or services that it, in its sole discretion, believes is unacceptable or in violation of these terms and conditions.
SUBMISSION OF IDEAS
We welcome your comments about our web-site, products, or services. The comments or ideas that you may submit shall in no way prevent the purchase, manufacture or use of similar products, services, plans and ideas by S2N for any purpose whatever. S2N makes no assurances that your comments or ideas will be treated as confidential or proprietary. Any comments or ideas submitted to S2N shall become the property of S2N, and S2N may freely copy, use, modify, disclose and distribute your comments or ideas without restriction for any purposes whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to you.
PRIVACY POLICY
General
S2N is committed to protecting your personal privacy. In order to enhance your web, product, and service experience, essential information may be recorded. For the purpose of administration and security, information may be automatically collected and stored by S2N. S2N staff will use and share aggregate information only. S2N does not regularly collect or evaluate this information for individual IP addresses, nor does S2N make any attempt to correlate the IP information with a particular client or individual. Notwithstanding the foregoing, S2N will provide such information as necessary to authorized individuals and entities to comply with any laws or court orders, or to protect the integrity of its network. The types of information recorded include, but are not limited to the following:
Browser Data
Every computer connected to the Internet is given a unique set of numbers that serve as that computer's "Internet Protocol" address. When you request any page, this address is used to "route" the information back to your machine.
Along with the request, your web browser automatically sends a stream of information regarding the requesting machine's capabilities. These include the browser type, version, operating system, monitor resolution, and referring page, to name a few.
Other information collected includes the date/time the site was accessed, the pages visited, and from what site you accessed the S2N web-site.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small piece of data sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer. A cookie can neither read data from your hard drive nor manipulate that data. Cookies are restricted to less than a kilobyte in size and do not damage your system. Only the server that created the cookie can read it.
S2N uses cookies to identify logged-in users (otherwise, you would be prompted to log-in at every page). If your browser is configured to automatically accept cookies, you will not even notice this process. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at the S2N web-site and other web-sites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.
Registration Information
If you register for S2N's services through the web-site, information (such as name, alias, e-mail, mailing address, etc.) will be collected through an automated profile registration process. S2N maintains a strict "no spam" policy and will not sell, rent, or otherwise distribute this information to any third party, although by providing information to S2N, you explicitly agree that you have granted permission to S2N, until such permission is specifically revoked, to transmit unsolicited e-mails and faxes to you and place telephone calls to your residence informing you of S2N products and features, new developments, and other information that S2N believes would be of interest to S2N customers.
DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
THE USER OF THE S2N WEBSITE, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR THE USE OF THE S2N WEBSITE, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES AND THE INTERNET GENERALLY, EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN ANY WRITTEN AGREEMENT WITH S2N. S2N DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THE S2N WEBSITE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES, AND THE CONTENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE DOCUMENTATION AND RELATED GRAPHICS, ACCESSED FROM, OR VIA, THE S2N WEBSITE OR THE INTERNET, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. S2N DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY CONTENT, PRODUCT, OR SERVICE DISCLOSED ON THE WEBSITE OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THE WEBSITE. IN NO EVENT SHALL S2N 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 THE WEBSITE, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES, THE CONTENT THEREOF, OR THE INTERNET GENERALLY.
NO WARRANTIES
Any S2N material on the S2N web-site may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. S2N reserves the right to make changes and updates to any content, product, or services contained within the S2N web-site without prior notice. THE CONTENT, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES PROVIDED ON THIS SERVER IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO ADVICE OR CONTENT GIVEN BY S2N OR ITS AGENTS, EMPLOYEES OR ASSIGNS SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY. S2N DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES, OR THE INTERNET GENERALLY WILL BE UNINTERRUPTABLE OR ERROR FREE OR THAT ANY CONTENT, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THIS WEBSITE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
INDEMNIFICATION
You shall defend or settle at your sole expense any claim or suit, including without limitation any proceeding, investigation or claim by an individual, company, self-regulating organization, local, state or federal agency or commission, (collectively, an "Action") against S2N and its directors, officers, agents, employees, successors or assigns (collectively, the "Indemnities") to the fullest extent permitted by law arising out of or in connection with the use of the S2N web-site, products, or services, including but not limited to (1) an assertion that the information, content or other materials or services provided or made available by you or the use thereof may infringe any copyright or trademark rights of any individual or entity, or are a misappropriation of any individual or entity's trade secret, or contain any libelous, defamatory, disparaging, pornographic, or obscene materials; (2) any claims that information, content, or other materials or services accessed from or posted to the web site constitutes medical, legal, financial, psychiatric, or any other advice provided to you or a third party to whom such advice is relayed, directly or indirectly, by you and that such advice created an affirmative duty, obligation, or standard of care on the part of Indemnities; (3) any breach by you of your obligations under the terms and conditions hereunder or any written agreement with S2N; and (4) any content or information provided or transmitted by you on or through the S2N web-site, products, or services. You shall indemnify and hold harmless the Indemnities from and against any and all damages, costs, liabilities and attorneys' fees incurred in defending and/or resolving such Action.
NON-CONTRAVENTION
To the extent that there is a written agreement in full force and effect between you and S2N, the terms of the written agreement shall control the relationship of the parties; provided, however, that the terms and conditions herein shall apply to the extent that they do not contradict the terms of the parties' agreement.
GOVERNING LAW
Except for intellectual property matters governed by the federal laws of the United States, the foregoing provisions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of Maryland, without regard to the principles of conflict of law thereof.
