Terms of Use

Overview

The following are terms of a legal agreement between you www.caninest.com (i.e. Caninest), a member of The Gallopbox Network. By accessing, browsing or using this or any website within The Gallopbox Network, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the Gallopbox Network websites

In the event of a conflict between these terms and conditions and more specific terms and conditions that apply to another Web site of The Gallopbox Network, the more specific terms and conditions of the two will be the governing terms of that site.

User Agreement

Caninest may revise or modify any portion of this Agreement at any time without notice to you. You must read this Agreement each time you visit our site or use any tool or service that we provide to you via this site or elsewhere. Any usage of this site or tools, functions or services that we provide you means that you have read the most current version of this Agreement and you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the latest version of this Agreement.

The user agrees to indemnify Caninest from any damages, losses, costs or expenses which Caninest, its affiliates, their respective employees and authorized representatives may incur as a result of content entered into these websites by the user.

Failure to Comply Notice

Failure by any user to comply with the terms, conditions and notices on the Caninest website will result in termination of any rights granted to that user, without any prior notice, and you will be required to destroy all copies of downloaded materials in your control or possession immediately. Aside from limited permission found below, Caninest does not grant any express or implied rights or licenses under any trademarks, patents, copyrights, or other proprietary or intellectual property rights. You are prohibited from mirroring any of the content found on this website on any other website or in any other media without written consent from Caninest.

Use of Site Content

All information provided by Caninest is owned by or licensed to Caninest and its affiliates (the “Caninest Information”). Caninest and its licensors retain all proprietary rights to said Information. Caninest has the right to use all content on this website (other than third-party material transmitted through private electronic mail) in any of the Caninest print or electronic publications. Except for making one hard copy print of limited portions of the Caninest Information on an ad hoc basis, or downloading as expressly authorized by Caninest, Caninest Information may not be reproduced, distributed or transmitted without written permission from Caninest.

The Caninest website is provided free of charge to users, and it and any information and analysis on or included in any email alert from us is provided ‘as is’ and ‘as available’. Material is intended for general reference only. Application of Material to any specific instance or for any particular purpose is a user’s sole responsibility. Caninest makes no guarantee or warranty that the Information contained within our websites will be accurate or complete or of the results to be obtained from accessing and using such Information. Caninest will not be held liable for any inaccuracy, omission or error, regardless of cause, in the Caninest Information or for any damages resulting from it’s use.

In addition, user may not:
1. Use the Caninest website for any purpose that is prohibited by any law or regulation, or to facilitate the violation of any law or regulation;
2. Use or attempt to use any type of automated device, program, software, tool, algorithm, process, methodology or manual process having similar processes or functionality, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of the Caninest website, including any data or content found on or accessed through these websites, or any other Caninest Information without the prior written consent of Caninest;
3. Obtain or attempt to obtain through any means any materials or information on the Caninest website that have not been intentionally made publicly available either by their public display on these Web pages or through their accessibility by a visible link on these Web pages;
4. Violate any measure employed to limit or prevent access to the Caninest website or its content;
5. Violate the security of the Caninest website or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, materials, data, information, computer systems or networks connected to any server of the Caninest website, through hacking, password mining or any other means;
6. Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Caninest website or any activities conducted on or through this website, including accessing any data, content or other information prior to the time that it is intended to be available to the public on these websites;
7. Take or attempt any action that, in the sole discretion of Caninest, imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load or burden on these websites or the infrastructure of these websites.

Intellectual Property Notices

You agree that you have been suitably noticed of any trademark, trade dress, service mark, copyright, patent or any other intellectual property rights or property rights of any nature and any violation by you of any such property rights is fairly deemed to be “willful” in nature.

Downloaded Materials

If you download software or materials from the Caninest website, the software/ materials, all files, images and date relating to the software/ material will be licensed to you by Caninest. You do not own the downloaded software/ materials, and Caninest does not transfer ownership of the software/ materials to you. Caninest retains full ownership of and title and all intellectual property rights related to downloaded software and materials. You may not sell, redistribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the software/ materials to a human-perceivable form. If you download software/ materials from the Caninest website, you represent and warrant to Caninest that you are not acting in violation of this agreement.

External Links

Certain sections of the Caninest website contain links to external third-party web sites maintained and operated by third parties. These links are provided solely for the convenience of our users, and the provision of such links does not imply any endorsement of or affiliation with such website.

Certain sections of Caninest website contain links to advertising affiliates or advertisers operated by third parties. These links will not always be labeled as advertising and are provided solely as a service to its users.Caninest is not responsible for any information on any such third party’s website. Users are urged to read the Terms of Use of any site they navigate to prior to using them.

You must remove and not reinstate any link to the Caninest website from any other website if we request you to do so. You may not create any link to or use any portion of the Caninest website in any manner that may create confusion either about the identity of the Caninest site (or about us as the source of origin of such portion of this site), or in any manner that may create a likelihood of confusion as to sponsorship of third party content by us, or as to an affiliation with this Site or with us.

Third-Party Information

Caninest may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, and other transmissions on this web site. However, Caninest is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such transmissions or for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, illegality or inaccuracy contained in any information transmitted to any such locations on this web site.

Users may not post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. Caninest will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Caninest to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials. Caninest may also disclose such information if it has a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Caninest, its customers or the public. Caninest retains the right to review, edit and/ or delete third party material which is found to be offensive, inappropriate or illegal.

Submissions

All comments, suggestions, graphics, ideas (including product and advertising ideas), and other information or materials you submit to Caninest through this web site will become and remain the exclusive property of Caninest, including any future rights associated with such submissions, even if these Terms of Use are later modified or terminated. This means that you disclaim any proprietary rights in such submissions, and you acknowledge Caninest’s unrestricted right to use them (or materials or ideas similar to them) in any medium, now and in the future, without notice, compensation or other obligation to you or any other person. It also means Caninest has no obligation to keep your submissions confidential.

Privacy

For information on the privacy practices of Caninest, please see our Privacy Policy.

Force Majeure

Caninest shall not be liable for any delay or failure in performance due to Force Majeure, which shall mean acts of God, earthquake, labor disputes, changes in law, regulation or government policy, riots, war, fire, flood, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, epidemics, acts or omissions of vendors or suppliers, transportation difficulties, unavailability of interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services (including DNS propagation), failure of third party software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed. We are not responsible for server downtime under any circumstances.

Contact Us

You can contact us anytime for more information, simply use our contact page.

Last updated: May 2010