Terms and Conditions (http://www.alphabetlawyers.com/termsandconditions.asp)
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Welcome to AlphabetLawyers™.com (the "Site"). The Site is owned and operated by Alphabet Directories™, LLC ("Alphabet Directories" or "We"), a Colorado Limited Liability Company. Please read these Terms and Conditions ("Terms and Conditions" or the "Agreement") before accessing or using the Site, or submitting your Profile, as hereinafter defined, for publication on AlphabetLawyers™.com. By accessing and using the Site you agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions. We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time, and you agree, by virtue of your continued use of the Site, to be bound by any such changes. The most current version of these Terms and Conditions can be viewed at any time at: http://www.alphabetlawyers.com/termsandconditions.asp
Your privacy is important to us. The Alphabet Directories™ Privacy Policy is hereby incorporated into this Agreement by reference. Please read the Privacy Policy carefully for details relating to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information.
Proprietary Rights and Restrictions
(a) Proprietary Rights. The intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyright, design, trademark, patent, trade secret and database rights) in the Content, as hereinafter defined, and computer files on the Site are owned by or licensed to Alphabet Directories™ Nothing in this Agreement transfers any rights of ownership or constitutes a license in or to the Content other than to the extent expressly set out in these Terms and Conditions. You may copy any content on the Site, including all text, photographs, graphics, video and audio content, ("Content") for your own personal or internal business use only. You shall not modify, distribute or reproduce in the Content for any other use without the prior written consent of Alphabet Directories™.
(b) Restrictions. Alphabet Directories™ reserves all rights not expressly granted herein. Use of the Site in any way not expressly permitted by this Agreement is prohibited, and may be actionable under United States or international law. You may not duplicate, download, publish or distribute the Content published by Alphabet Directories™ on this Site for any commercial use, or in violation of these Terms and Conditions. You agree not to access the Site by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Alphabet Directories™. You further agree that you will not collect any information from or through the Site using any automated means, including without limitation any script, spider, "screen scraping," or "database scraping" application. You will not damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of it. You may not "mirror" or "frame" any Site Content on any other server without prior written permission from Alphabet Directories™. You may not remove any, trademarks, copyright notices or other notices from the Content or the Site or any copies you may have made for your own personal or internal business use. Any unauthorized use of any Content may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity and communications regulations and statutes and could subject you to civil and criminal penalties.
(c) Trademarks. Alphabet Lawyers™ and the Alphabet Directories™ logo are trademarks or service marks of Alphabet Directories™, LLC. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. You are not permitted to use any trademark or service mark displayed on this Site without the prior written consent of Alphabet Directories™ or the owner of such trademark or service mark.
Listings in the Alphabet Lawyers™ Directory ("Listings") are created by third parties and it is the sole responsibility of such third parties to ensure the accuracy and completeness of those Listings. Alphabet Directories™ does not endorse or guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the Listings or that the information will be up-to-date. Certain Listings may be required to comply with various licensing and certification requirements and We do not and cannot guarantee that each Listing complies with said requirements. You acknowledge and agree that Alphabet Directories™ does not verify, adopt, ratify, or sanction Listings, and that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, your use of Listings or your reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of Listings.
By registering on the Site and creating or updating your attorney profile ("Profile") you are granting Alphabet Directories™ and our affiliates, agents and third party contractors the right to publish, display and store your Profile on the Site and its affiliated websites and publications. Once you have registered for the Site, You shall be solely responsible for your Profile and shall ensure that it is updated when necessary. You affirm, represent and warrant that: (i) you have reviewed your profile, (ii) the information contained therein is complete and accurate; (iii) you are an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Colorado and/or any other jurisdiction that you have identified in your Profile; and (iv) you are not under any suspension and/or disbarment from any regulatory authority. You may remove your Profile from the Site at any time. If you remove your Profile, the license granted above will terminate. However you acknowledge and agree that Alphabet Directories™ may retain archived copies of your Profile. You further acknowledge that Alphabet Directories™ has no capacity to remove, from the World Wide Web, any portion of your Profile which has previously been published on the Internet and which may still be available on other sites or search engines, for an unlimited period of time. Alphabet Directories™ has no control over those websites or search engines.
While We may provide you with an opportunity to provide comments or ask questions regarding the Content posted on the Site, we do not want nor do we solicit confidential or proprietary information from you. Any unsolicited information you provide, including but not limited to feedback, suggestions, data, or plans or ideas for products or services, shall be deemed non-proprietary and non-confidential and We shall have no obligation to protect such information from further disclosure or distribution. By providing us with such information, you are granting us an unrestricted and irrevocable right to reproduce, use, publish, broadcast, disclose, display, perform, modify, transmit, distribute or otherwise use and exploit the information without restriction and without compensation.
You acknowledge that, depending on your wireless data plan, your wireless company may impose fees in connection with your wireless access or use of the Website, and you agree that you are solely responsible for such fees. Similarly, by using the "Send to Phone" feature, you may cause the recipient of your message to incur SMS and/or messaging fees, and you agree that you are solely responsible for such fees.
If you are a copyright owner or agent thereof and believe that any Content infringes upon your copyright, please submit notice, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) to our Copyright Agent with the following information: (I) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright; (II) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (III) the URL of the location containing the material that you claim is infringing; (IV) your address, telephone number, and email address; (V) 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 (VI) 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.
Alphabet Directories™, LLC/ Attn: Copyright Agent / 800 18th Street, Suite 300, Denver, CO 80202
By email: copyrightagent@alphabetdirectories.com.
You shall not use the Site or any services available via the Site to (i) submit material that is protected by the laws of copyright or 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 distribute the material and to grant Alphabet Directories™ all of the rights granted herein; (ii) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could cause damage to Alphabet Directories™ 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; (iv) post advertisements or solicitations of business.; (v) extract Content from the Site to be used for standalone commercial purposes; or (vi) impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
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You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Alphabet Directories™, LLC and its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, managers, employees, shareholders, agents, and licensors, from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from any violation by you of these Terms and Conditions or any breach by you of your representations and warranties hereunder. We reserve the right to take over the exclusive defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification. In such event, you shall provide us with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by us.
Alphabet Directories™ makes reasonable efforts to ensure that the Site is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You agree that from time to time the Site or portions thereof may be inoperable or inaccessible for any reason, including, without limitation, (i) equipment malfunctions; (ii) periodic maintenance procedures or repairs which Alphabet Directories™ may undertake from time to time; or (iii) causes beyond the control of Alphabet Directories™ or which are not reasonably foreseeable by Alphabet Directories™. Some Content on the Site may have been created in file formats which are not error-free and Alphabet Directories™ does not guarantee that the Site will not be affected by such errors. You are responsible for all costs and charges that you may incur in order to access and use the Site and the Content.
This Site, including all software, functions, Content, and information, is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Alphabet Directories™ disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of quiet enjoyment and non-infringement and implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, title, quiet enjoyment, system integration, and informational content. Alphabet Directories™ does not warrant or make any representations regarding the operation of this Site, the use, validity, accuracy or reliability of, or the results of the use of the Content on this Site or any other sites linked to this Site. The Content may be out of date, and Alphabet Directories™ makes no commitment to update the Content. Alphabet Directories™ does not and cannot guarantee or warrant that any files available for downloading from this Site will be free from infection, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. Alphabet Directories™ does not warrant that this Site, software, Content or services will be uninterrupted or error-free or that any defects in this Site, software, or Content will be corrected.
In no event will Alphabet Directories™, its licensors or other third parties mentioned at or in this Site be liable for any damages, including, without limitation direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, damages resulting from lost profits, lost data or business interruption arising out of relating to the use, inability to use, or resulting from the use of this Site, any Web sites linked to this Site, the Content, software or other information contained in any or all such sites, whether based on warranty, contracts, statutes, regulations, tort (including but not limited to, negligence) or any other legal theory and whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages. If your use of the Content or information from this Site results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment or data, you assume all costs thereof. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
Links to third party sites on this Site are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. Alphabet Directories™ has not reviewed such third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their policies, including, without limitation, privacy policies or lack thereof. Alphabet Directories™ does not endorse or make any representations about third party sites or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do so entirely at your own risk. You acknowledge and agree that Alphabet Directories™ shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by, or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such third party sites.
We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, our Site (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Alphabet Directories™ shall not be liable to you or any third party for any such modification, suspension or discontinuance of our Site. In addition, we reserve the right to terminate your access to our Site for any reason, and to take any other actions that We, in our sole discretion, believe to be in our best interest and that of our users.
If any provision(s) of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable then such provision(s) shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect. Alphabet Directories™ failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by Alphabet Directories™ in writing. Headings in this Agreement are solely used for the convenience of the parties and have no legal or contractual significance. This Agreement may be assigned in whole or in part by Alphabet Directories™. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado without regard to conflict of laws provisions. The appropriate courts located in the City and County of Denver, State of Colorado, shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction and venue over any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, and you hereby irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of said courts.
Last Updated: November 29, 2011