The Cottage Sexual Assault Center and Children’s Advocacy Center® (“The Cottage”) maintains this site (the “Site”) for your personal entertainment, information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse the Site. You may download material displayed on the Site for non-commercial, personal use only (unless otherwise noted), provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including text, images, audio, and video, without The Cottage’s written permission.

Your access to and use of the Site is also subject to the following terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that any other agreements between you and The Cottage are superseded and of no force or effect.

Terms and Conditions 

1. You should assume that everything you see or read on the Site is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site without the written permission of The Cottage. The Cottage neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on the Site will not infringe the rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with The Cottage.
2. While The Cottage uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information in the Site, The Cottage makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. The Cottage assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Site.
3. Your use of and browsing on the Site are at your risk. Neither The Cottage nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties. The Cottage also assumes no responsibility for, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.
4. Any communication or material you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like, is and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you transmit or post may be used by The Cottage or its affiliates for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast, and posting. Furthermore, The Cottage is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, and marketing products and services using such information.

   When in doubt about whether you can use content on our site, please contact The Cottage.

5. Images of people or places displayed on the Site are either the property of or used with permission by The Cottage. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Site. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.

   When in doubt about whether you can use content on our site, please contact The Cottage.

6. The Cottage Sexual Assault Center and Children’s Advocacy Center® is a federally registered trademark of The Cottage Sexual Assault Center and Children’s Advocacy Center (U.S. Trademark Registration No. 4120943; Serial No. 85341765). The organization’s name, logo(s), and all related names, designs, slogans, and marks appearing on this website (collectively, the “Marks”) are owned by or licensed to The Cottage Sexual Assault Center and Children’s Advocacy Center and are protected by United States trademark and other intellectual property laws. No content on this website shall be construed as granting any license or right to use any of the Marks without the prior written consent of The Cottage Sexual Assault Center and Children’s Advocacy Center. Any unauthorized use of the Marks is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action.
7. The Cottage has not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Site and is not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. Your clicking on hyperlinks and visiting any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.
8. Although The Cottage may, from time to time, monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like on the Site, The Cottage is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting 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. The Cottage will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing The Cottage to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.
9. Software from this Site is further subject to United States Export Controls. No software from this Site may be downloaded or exported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other country to which the United States has embargoed goods; or (ii) anyone on the United States Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department’s Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using the software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list.
10. The Cottage may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should, therefore, periodically visit this page to review the then-current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound.

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