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TERMS OF USE

Hunt Scanlon Media LLC and its affiliates provides its content on huntscanlonmedia.com (the ‘Site’) subject to the following terms and conditions (the ‘Terms’). We may periodically change the Terms, so please check back from time to time. These Terms were last updated on June 1, 2014. By accessing and using this Site, you agree to these Terms. For an explanation of Hunt Scanlon Media’s practices and policies related to the collection, use, and storage of our users’ information, please read our privacy policy.

1. Copyrights
All content and functionality on the Site, including text, graphics, logos, icons, and images and the selection and arrangement thereof, is the exclusive property of Hunt Scanlon Media or its licensors and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

2. Trademarks
The trademarks, service marks, designs, and logos (collectively, the ‘Trademarks’) displayed on the Site are the registered and unregistered Trademarks of Hunt Scanlon Media and its licensors. You agree that you will not refer to or attribute any information to Hunt Scanlon Media or its licensors in any public medium (e.g., press release, websites) for advertising or promotion purposes, or for the purpose of informing or influencing any third party and that you will not use or reproduce any Trademark of, or imply any endorsement by or relationship with, Hunt Scanlon Media or its licensors.

3. Use of Site Content
Hunt Scanlon Media hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license for the term hereof to access and download, display, and print one copy of the content and functionality displayed on the Site (the ‘Site Content’) on any single computer solely for your internal business use, provided that you do not modify the Site Content in any way and that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices displayed on the Site Content. You may not otherwise reproduce, modify, distribute, transmit, post, or disclose the Site Content without Hunt Scanlon Media’s prior written consent.

4. User Postings
You acknowledge and agree that Hunt Scanlon Media shall own and have the unrestricted right to use, publish, and otherwise exploit any and all information that you post or otherwise publish on the Site in postings, survey responses, and otherwise, and you hereby waive any claims against Hunt Scanlon Media for any alleged or actual infringements of any rights of privacy or publicity, moral rights, or rights of attribution in connection with Hunt Scanlon Media’s use and publication of such submissions. You covenant that you shall not post or otherwise publish on the Site any materials that (a) are threatening, libelous, defamatory, or obscene; (b) would constitute, or that encourage conduct that would constitute, a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate law; (c) infringe the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of any third parties; (d) contain a computer virus or other destructive element; (e) contain advertising; or (f) constitute or contain false or misleading statements. Hunt Scanlon Media does not and cannot review all information posted to the Site by users and is not responsible for such information. However, Hunt Scanlon Media reserves the right to refuse to post and the right to remove any information, in whole or in part, for any reason or for no reason.

5. Notices of Infringement and Takedown by Hunt Scanlon Media
Hunt Scanlon Media prohibits the posting of any information that infringes or violates the copyright rights and/or other intellectual property rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of any person or entity. If you believe that your intellectual property right (or such a right that you are responsible for enforcing) is infringed by any content on the Site, please write to Hunt Scanlon Media at the address shown on this website, giving a written statement that contains: (a) identification of the copyrighted work and/or intellectual property right claimed to have been infringed; (b) identification of the allegedly infringing material on the Site that is requested to be removed; (c) your name, address, and daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address if available; (d) a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work and/or exercise of the intellectual property right is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law; (e) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that the signatory is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed; and (f) the signature of the intellectual property right owner or someone authorized on the owner’s behalf to assert infringement of the right. Hunt Scanlon Media will remove any posted submission that infringes the copyright or other intellectual property right of any person under U.S. law upon receipt of such a statement (or any statement in conformance with 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)). U.S. law provides significant penalties for submitting such a statement falsely. Under appropriate circumstances, persons who repeatedly submit infringing or unlawful material will be prohibited from posting further submissions. Hunt Scanlon Media’s contact for submission of notices under this Section 5 is: Scott A. Scanlon, Legal and Compliance Dept., Hunt Scanlon Media LLC, 19 Stanwich Lane, Greenwich, CT 06830 USA.

6. Disclaimers
THE CONTENT AND FUNCTIONALITY ON THE SITE IS PROVIDED WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT HUNT SCANLON MEDIA IS NOT HEREIN ENGAGED IN RENDERING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE AND SERVICES TO YOU. ALL CONTENT AND FUNCTIONALITY ON THE SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. HUNT SCANLON MEDIA AND ITS THIRD-PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OWNERSHIP, ACCURACY, OR ADEQUACY OF THE SITE CONTENT. HUNT SCANLON MEDIA SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY INFORMATION PUBLISHED ON LINKED WEBSITES, CONTAINED IN ANY USER SUBMISSIONS PUBLISHED ON THE SITE, OR PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTIES. NEITHER HUNT SCANLON MEDIA NOR ITS THIRD-PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR FOR LOST REVENUES OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSSES AND REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY.

7. Third-Party Websites
We may provide links to third-party websites, and some of the content appearing to be on this Site is in fact supplied by third parties, for example, in instances of framing of third-party websites or incorporation through framesets of content supplied by third-party servers. Hunt Scanlon Media has no responsibility for these third-party websites, which are governed by the Terms of Use and privacy policies, if any, of the applicable third-party content providers.

8. Consent / Privacy Policy
Hunt Scanlon Media understands that your privacy is important to you. Hunt Scanlon Media is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personally-identifiable information, being any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person, as you use this Site. By submitting personally-identifiable information, you consent to Hunt Scanlon Media’s use of such personally-identifiable information as described herein. Hunt Scanlon Media collects personally-identifiable information on certain areas of the Site when users register for huntscanlonmedia.com newsletters and alerts, sign up for conferences and events, and participate in user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys). The personally-identifiable information collected may consist of information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and background information. In addition, Hunt Scanlon Media collects certain information that you do not visibly enter, such as your IP address, browsing pattern on the Site, click stream data, HTTP protocol elements, and the status of cookies placed on your computer by Hunt Scanlon Media. Hunt Scanlon Media uses your personally-identifiable information to fulfill your requests for information, publish your letters to the editor or comments, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, and for such other purposes as you may initiate or request. We may keep any of your personally-identifiable information on file and use it to contact you. By registering for recurring Hunt Scanlon Media newsletters or alerts, you agree to receive on occasion other correspondence from Hunt Scanlon Media related to the subscribed newsletters and other Hunt Scanlon Media news and information that you consented to receive during registration. This type of information is shared externally only in anonymous, aggregated form for generalized user analysis or to enable third party agents to send e-mails to you on our behalf. You will be contacted by e-mail or otherwise only by Hunt Scanlon Media or it agents. We ask for your e-mail address at registration. We will send e-mails to this address to confirm your registration, to provide newsletters or alerts and to contact you for any other reason. In addition, we may contact you regarding your account status. If you sign up to receive any of our newsletters, alerts, or surveys, you may on occasion receive other correspondence from Hunt Scanlon Media. Your e-mail address will not be shared with any third party other than an agent who has agreed to send e-mails on our behalf. Hunt Scanlon Media may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by Hunt Scanlon Media of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and Hunt Scanlon Media shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites. The Site also includes a feature that enables Hunt Scanlon Media to send links to its content through e-mail at our users’ request. The e-mail address(es) that you supply in connection with this service will be used only to send the requested content. By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on June 1, 2014.

9. Governing Law / Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut without reference to the principles of conflicts of laws thereof.