Terms and Privacy
Terms & Conditions
Welcome to the Sierra Safety Associates
web site, SierraSafetyRescue.com.
By using our site you agree to the following terms and conditions, and any
policies, guidelines or changes that may be presented to you from time to time
(collectively known as the "Terms of Service").
We may update the Terms of Service in the future, and you will be able to find
the most current version of this agreement on our website.
1. USE OF OUR WEBSITE
Sierra Safety Associates, its subsidiaries and affiliated companies offer use
of our site to you, provided that you are of legal age to form a binding
contract and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of
the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. In order to access certain
services, you may be required to provide current, accurate identification,
contact, and other information as part of the registration process and/or
continued use of SierraSafetyRescue.com. For your account password, you are
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality, and are responsible for any
and all activities occurring under your account.
If there is any unauthorized use of your password or account (if any) you agree
to immediately notify Sierra Safety Associates. This includes any other
possible breach of security of your account. Sierra Safety Associates cannot
and will not be liable for any loss or damage if you fail to keep your password
secure or provide us with accurate information.
2. YOUR REQUIRED CONDUCT
You understand that all data, text, information,
sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials
("Content") are the sole responsibility of the person from which such
Content originated. Sierra Safety Associates reserves the right, but shall have
no obligation, to pre-screen, refuse or move any Content available via SierraSafetyRescue.com.
You agree that you are responsible for your own conduct and any Content that
you create, transmit or display while using SierraSafetyRescue.com and for any
consequences thereof. You agree to use SierraSafetyRescue.com only for purposes
that are legal, proper and in accordance with the Terms of Service and any
applicable policies or guidelines. You agree that you will not engage in any
activity that interferes with or disrupts SierraSafetyRescue.com or servers or
networks connected to SierraSafetyRescue.com.
To report any activity or Content that may violate the Terms of Service, please
go to the contact page: http://www.SierraSafetyRescue.com/contact.php
In addition to this agreement, your use of some specific parts of SierraSafetyRescue.com
is governed by the policies or guidelines that are presented to you when you
sign up for or access the site, and which are specifically incorporated into
this Terms of Service.
Users outside of the United States agree to comply with their own local rules
regarding online conduct and acceptable content, including laws regulating the
export of data to and from the United States or your country of residence.
3. Sierra Safety Associates PRIVACY POLICY
For information about our data protection practices,
please see our Privacy Policy at http://www.SierraSafetyRescue.com/privacy.php.
By using Sierra Safety Associates website, you acknowledge and agree that Sierra
Safety Associates may access, preserve, and disclose your account information
and any Content associated with that account if required to do so by law or in
a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably
necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or
enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce this Terms of Service, including
investigation of potential violations hereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise
address fraud, security or technical issues (including, without limitation, the
filtering of spam), or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights,
property or safety of Sierra Safety Associates, its users or the public as
required or permitted by law.
You understand that the technical processing and transmission of SierraSafetyRescue.com,
including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks;
and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting
networks or devices.
4. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
Sierra Safety Associates Rights
You acknowledge and agree that SierraSafetyRescue.com and any necessary
software used in connection with Sierra Safety Associates
("Software") contain proprietary and confidential information that is
protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws and treaties. You
further acknowledge and agree that Content contained in sponsor advertisements
or presented to you through SierraSafetyRescue.com is protected by copyrights,
trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except
as expressly authorized by Sierra Safety Associates™ or other proper third
party rights holders, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell,
distribute or create derivative works based on SierraSafetyRescue.com, Content
or Software, in whole or in part.
Your Rights
SierraSafetyRescue.com claims no ownership or control over any Content
submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through SierraSafetyRescue.com. You
or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and
copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through SierraSafetyRescue.com
and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By
submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through SierraSafetyRescue.com
which are intended to be available to the general public, you grant Sierra
Safety Associates a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to
reproduce, adapt and publish such Content on SierraSafetyRescue.com solely for
the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting SierraSafetyRescue.com.
This license terminates when such Content is removed from the SierraSafetyRescue.com
to which you originally submitted. Sierra Safety Associates reserves the right
to syndicate Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through SierraSafetyRescue.com
and use that Content in connection with any of the services offered by Sierra
Safety Associates™. Sierra Safety Associates™ furthermore reserves the right to
refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any
Content in its sole discretion.
5. GENERAL PRACTICES OF USE
You agree that Sierra Safety Associates™ has no
responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content
and other communications maintained or transmitted by Sierra Safety Associates.
You acknowledge that Sierra Safety Associates has set no fixed upper limit on
the number of transmissions you may send or receive through Sierra Safety
Associates website; however, we retain the right, at our sole discretion, to
create limits at any time with or without notice.
6. NO RESALE/DISTROBUTION OF SERVICES/PRODUCTS ALLOWED
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for
any commercial purposes, any portion of SierraSafetyRescue.com, use of SierraSafetyRescue.com,
or access to SierraSafetyRescue.com.
7. MODIFICATIONS TO WEBSITE
Sierra Safety Associates™ reserves the right at any time and from time to time
to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, SierraSafetyRescue.com
(or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Sierra Safety
Associates shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any
modification, suspension or discontinuance of SierraSafetyRescue.com.
8. TERMINATION
You may discontinue your use of SierraSafetyRescue.com
at any time. You agree that Sierra Safety Associates may at any time and for
any reason, including a period of account inactivity, terminate your access to SierraSafetyRescue.com,
terminate the Terms of Service, or suspend or terminate your account (if any).
In the event of termination, your account will be disabled and you may not be
granted access to SierraSafetyRescue.com, your account or any files or other
content contained in your account.
9. LINKS
SierraSafetyRescue.com may provide, or third parties may provide, links to
other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because Sierra Safety Associates has
no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that Sierra
Safety Associates is not responsible for the availability of such external
sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for
any Content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from
such sites or resources.
You further acknowledge and agree that Sierra Safety Associates 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 use of or reliance on any such
Content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.
10. INDEMNITY
You agree to hold harmless and indemnify Sierra Safety Associates, and its
subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and employees, advertisers or
partners, from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way
related to your use of SierraSafetyRescue.com, violation of this Terms of
Service or any other actions connected with use of SierraSafetyRescue.com,
including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages
(actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys'
fees, of every kind and nature. In such a case, Sierra Safety Associates will
provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action.
11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
1.
YOUR USE OF SierraSafetyRescue.com IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
SierraSafetyRescue.com INFORMATION AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS
IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW, Sierra Safety Associates™ EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND
CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
2.
Sierra Safety Associates DOES NOT WARRANT THAT (i) SierraSafetyRescue.com
WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) SierraSafetyRescue.com WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED,
TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE,
(iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF SierraSafetyRescue.com
WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE,
(iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL
PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH SierraSafetyRescue.com WILL MEET YOUR
EXPECTATIONS
3.
ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF SierraSafetyRescue.com
IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE
FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT
RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
4.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM SierraSafetyRescue.com
OR THROUGH OR FROM SierraSafetyRescue.com SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT
EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE.
12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT Sierra Safety Associates SHALL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR
EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS,
GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF Sierra Safety
Associates HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) RESULTING FROM:
(i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE SierraSafetyRescue.com;
(ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM
ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES
RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM SierraSafetyRescue.com;
(iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv)
STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON SierraSafetyRescue.com; OR (v) ANY
OTHER MATTER RELATING TO SierraSafetyRescue.com.
13. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS
NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT IS INTENDED TO EXCLUDE OR LIMIT ANY CONDITION,
WARRANTY, RIGHT OR LIABILITY WHICH MAY NOT BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS
OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY
NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR BREACH OF IMPLIED TERMS, OR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, ONLY THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS IN SECTIONS 12
AND 15 WHICH ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL APPLY TO YOU AND OUR
LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW.
14. NOTICE
You agree that Sierra Safety Associates may provide
you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms of Service, by
email, regular mail, or postings on SierraSafetyRescue.com.
15. GENERAL INFORMATION
Entire Agreement. The Terms of Service (including any policies,
guidelines or amendments that may be presented to your form time to time)
constitute the entire agreement between you and Sierra Safety Associates and
govern your use of SierraSafetyRescue.com, superseding any prior agreements
between you and Sierra Safety Associates™ for the use of SierraSafetyRescue.com.
You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when
you use or purchase certain other Sierra Safety Associates services, affiliate
services, third-party content or third-party software.
Choice of Law and Forum. The Terms of Service and the
relationship between you and Sierra Safety Associates shall be governed by the
laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law
provisions. You and Sierra Safety Associates agree to submit to the personal
and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Shasta,
California.
Waiver and Severability of Terms. The failure of Sierra
Safety Associates to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of
Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any
provision of the Terms of Service is found by a court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to
give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the
other provisions of the Terms of Service remain in full force and effect.
Statute of Limitations. You agree that regardless of
any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of
or related to use of SierraSafetyRescue.com or the Terms of Service must be filed
within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever
barred.
The section headings in the Terms of Service are for convenience only and have
no legal or contractual effect.
Privacy Policy
We at SierraSafetyRescue.com would like
to thank you for visiting our website. We know many visitors have questions
regarding the privacy of their interactions with SierraSafetyRescue.com. We
hope this privacy policy statement will answer any questions you may have, but
if it does not, please feel free to contact us at the email address or postal
address shown below.
Information that is Collected from Visitors
In general, you can visit the SierraSafetyRescue.com website without telling us
who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself, such as your
name, phone number or postal or email address. Our web server collects IP
addresses to obtain certain aggregate information concerning the use of our
website.
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you're surfing the web. We do not link IP addresses to any personally
identifiable information. Therefore you can remain anonymous when you visit our
website.
Our web servers also collect information such as number of visits, average time
spent on the site, pages viewed, etc., but this information is not traceable
back to an individual user. SierraSafetyRescue.com uses this information to
analyze how people use our site and generate ideas on how the site might be
improved.
Some of our web pages utilize "cookies" so that we can better serve
you with tailored information when you return to our site. Cookies are
identifiers that a web site can send to your browser to keep on your computer
to facilitate your next visit to our site. It may do such things as store the
fact that you have registered for a seminar so that the next time you visit the
site we recognize you are a registrant.
You can, if you wish, set your browser to notify you when you are sent a
cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.
Occasionally you may be asked to give use more specific information about
yourself, such as when you download an E-book or article, register to receive a
newsletter, respond to a survey or enter a contest from our website. Supplying
such information to us is optional, but you may be unable to complete certain
transactions without giving such information.
Entities collecting personal information.
The information provided at this site is collected by Sierra Safety Associates,
4876 Foothill Blvd Oroville, CA. 95966. This website contains
links to websites owned and maintained by other companies.
Such websites may also collect personal information and such collection of
personal information will be subject to the privacy policies of the site and
company at which it is collected.
Information Collected via Marketing Activities
SierraSafetyRescue.com conducts many different marketing activities by which it
may collect your personal information.
For example, we collect contact information when we invite the public to
download free articles from our website in return for providing us contact
information, and we obtain addresses from publications that target the
industries from which we hope to attract customers.
The Use of Personal Information
SierraSafetyRescue.com may use the personal information you provide us for a
variety of purposes, including registration, authentication and marketing. We
may use the information to inform you of special offers, contests, upgrades and
other SierraSafetyRescue.com products that may be of interest to you.
When you are a customer of SierraSafetyRescue.com's
products, we may use your personal information to contact you for a wide array
of customer relation/customer service purposes, including special sales or
promotions.
SierraSafetyRescue.com values your privacy, and never shares your information
with third parties.
SierraSafetyRescue.com's products are not marketed to
children under the age of 13 and SierraSafetyRescue.com does not knowingly
collect personal information from children under the age of 13. SierraSafetyRescue.com
is committed to protecting the privacy of children and if SierraSafetyRescue.com
becomes aware that such information was collected, it will treat that
information as sensitive.
If you do not wish to receive information about additional SierraSafetyRescue.com's
products, please let us know (contact information below) and we will respect
your wishes. Emails we distribute describing offers we think may
be of interest to you will also contain instructions as to how you can
opt-out of future emails.
SierraSafetyRescue.com stores the personal data of web site visitors and
customers indefinitely and may maintain and process such information directly
or indirectly in one or more databases in the United States and elsewhere.
We may hire other companies to provide services on our behalf that may involve
the storage and use of your personal information, such as for delivering
mailings or emails. Any such company or third party is required to maintain the
confidentiality of that information and is prohibited from using that information
for any purpose other than as authorized by us.
If you provide personal information to SierraSafetyRescue.com, you agree and
consent to SierraSafetyRescue.com's storage and usage
of this information anywhere that SierraSafetyRescue.com maintains offices (around
the world), for a variety of purposes, including those described above.
SierraSafetyRescue.com may also disclose such personal information if required
by law or if SierraSafetyRescue.com believes in good faith that such disclosure
is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process (for example, a warrant or
subpoena or other court order) or protect the rights, property or personal
safety of SierraSafetyRescue.com, our customers or the public.
Updating Personal Information and "Opting Out"
SierraSafetyRescue.com wants to ensure that the information it collects is
accurate. You may notify us of any change to your address, phone number, email
address or other information by sending us an email message at service@SierraSafetyRescue.com
or by notifying us in writing at
Sierra Safety Associates
4876 Foothill Blvd Oroville, CA. 95966
Attn: Web Privacy Department
If at any time you wish to "opt out" of receiving information from SierraSafetyRescue.com,
please notify us by sending us an email or written message to the addresses
shown above or by emailing us at service@SierraSafetyRescue.com . Please note
that due to lead times on certain mailings and other contacts, you may continue
to receive contacts for a period following your "opt out"
notification.
Changes to this Policy
SierraSafetyRescue.com may change this policy from time to time. Any changes
will be posted to this site, so we encourage you to review our privacy policy
from time to time.
Third Party Sites
This website contains links to websites owned and
maintained by other companies. Such websites may also collect personal
information and such collection of personal information will be subject to the
privacy policies of the site and company at which it is collected. SierraSafetyRescue.com
is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any non-SierraSafetyRescue.com
website. Please review the privacy policy of such other sites before providing
them with your personal information.
We hope this policy statement helps you understand SierraSafetyRescue.com's
practices with respect to your personal and business information. If you have
any questions or concerns, please contact us as indicated above under the
heading "Updating Personal Information and "Opting Out".