General Description
Ownership and Copyright
Copyright Complaints
Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liabilities
Commenting, Posting, and Contributed Content
Indemnification
Privacy Policy
Modification of Terms of Use
No Waiver of Terms
Governing Law
Entire Agreement
Welcome to FirewallNOVA.com (“the Site”). The purpose of the Site is to provide news, information and a forum for reader interaction (“the Services”). By using the Services – which includes reading, quoting, creating links to or printing out any content contained on the Site; submitting posts, comments, images, or other communications of any type or in any format to the Site; or in any other way accessing the content on the Site – you agree to all of the following Terms of Use (“Terms”).
If you do not agree to the Terms, you are not permitted to use the Services.
The Site currently is owned and operated by FirewallNOVA, LLC (“the Operator”). All original content of the Site is copyrighted by FirewallNOVA, LLC.
If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on the Site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please follow these instructions for submitting notifications of possible copyright infringements.
Your notification should include: A) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are claimed to have been infringed, a representative list of such works; B) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the Operator to locate the material; C) information reasonably sufficient to permit the Operator to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address; D) the following statement: “I have a good faith belief that use of the material described above in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law”; E) the following statement: “The information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed”; and F) an electronic or digital signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Please send your notification to FirewallNOVA, LLC PO Box 193, Ashburn, VA 20146, or via the contact form at
http://firewallnova.com/contact-firewallnova/
Please note that you may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, if you materially misrepresent that material is infringing your, or another owner’s, copyright(s). If you are not sure whether material available on the Site infringes a copyright, we suggest that you contact an attorney.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITIES
The Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without any representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the Site’s operation or the information, content or materials included on the Site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, the Operator hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose, non-infringement, or otherwise. Without limitation, the Operator disclaims any and all warranties regarding the security, reliability, timeliness and performance of all of the Services associated with use of the Site.
You agree that, to the full extent permissible by applicable law, the Operator will not be liable for any errors or omissions, or any damages of any kind, arising from the use of or inability to use the Services, or as a result of any content posted on the Site, including but not limited to loss of profits, income or business opportunities, regardless of the nature of the claim or form of action arising out of or connected with the Services. You expressly agree that you use the Services and the Site solely at your own risk. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content on the Site, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.
You understand that the Operator does not and cannot review all material made available through Web sites linked from or linking to any part of the Site. You also understand that no such linking implies in any way that the Operator endorses or is affiliated with any third-party Web site. You agree that the Operator bears no responsibility or liability for any content accessed or harm caused from any third-party Web site.
COMMENTING, POSTING AND CONTRIBUTED CONTENT
The Operator will from time to time allow visitors to submit comments, posts, emails and other forms of communication (“Contributed Content”) which may be published. Contributed Content will be published at the sole discretion of the Operator.
Any content, including Contributed Content, which has been published on the Site, may be removed at any time, at the sole discretion of the Operator.
By contributing content through the Services, you are granting the Operator a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.
When the commenting and posting functions of the Services are available to you, you agree to use these functions in a responsible manner. By using the Services, you expressly agree that the Operator may remove any unacceptable Contributed Content, and may block access to any functions included in the Services for any user at any time.
Unacceptable Contributed Content includes, but is not limited to: statements or materials that cause unwanted administrative oversight by the Operator, as defined solely by the Operator; defamatory or knowingly false statements; and materials that violate the copyright, trademark, or trade secret rights of others that are not otherwise authorized by law, such as fair use.
By contributing content through the Services, you warrant and represent that you either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, and that the content you supply does not violate these Terms.
You acknowledge that the Operator does not pre-screen or regularly review published Contributed Content, but that it shall have the right to remove at its sole discretion any Contributed Content that we consider to violate these Terms.
The Operator will determine what is unacceptable Contributed Content on a case-by-case basis. The Operator reserves the right to change these standards at any time, and to remove links to third-party content at any time.
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold the Operator, FirewallNOVA.com and each of their respective members, operators, directors, officers, employees, shareholders, agents, affiliates and representatives harmless from all claims, liabilities, damages and expenses, including attorneys’ fees and court costs, arising out of or relating to: A) your use of the Services, including, without limitation, use of any function for contributing content; and B) any breach or alleged breach of the Terms.
The Site’s server automatically records non-personally identifiable information that your browser sends when you visit the Site. This may include the URL through which you reached the Site, your IP address or that of your router, browser type and language, the page that you request, and the date and time of your visit. This log file information may be used by the Operator to analyze traffic at the Site in a general sense, but will not be made available to any third party or used in any other manner, except in the circumstances described in the third paragraph of this section. When you use the Services to comment, submit a post, or engage in any other activity for which the CMS software requires registration, you may be required to provide voluntarily such personally identifiable information as your email address and a user name. This personal contact information is only used to provide you access to certain functions on the Site, and will not be made available to any third party or used by the Operator in any manner, except in the circumstances described in the third paragraph of this section.
In order to facilitate ease of use for visitors, we collect information that does not identify you personally, but rather identifies your computer or browser, through small files, called “cookies,” that the Services software can send to your browser for storage in your browsing device’s memory. They make your use of the Site easier by saving your status and preferences, and allow the software to recognize when you return to the Site. These cookies allow the software to keep track of your username and password so that you do not have to resubmit the information to log in. Most browsers are set to accept cookies, but you may be able to change the settings to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent.
Legal or governmental authorities may require the Operator to share your personal and/or non-personal information pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants or orders. If such a circumstance arises, the Operator will obey the law. In addition, notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to use and disclose your personal and non-personal information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of these Terms, or as otherwise required by law.
The Site contains links to third-party Web sites which may collect personal information: Unless expressly provided to the contrary, the collection and use of your personal information at any third-party site will be governed by the privacy policy applicable to that Web site. For example, the Site may contain advertisements generated by third-party Web sites that are tracking your activity through the use of their own cookies stored on your browsing device. This enables them to personalize the ads you may see on the Site. The Operator has no control over the presence or functions of these cookies placed by third-party Web sites.
For more information about the Site’s privacy practices, or if you believe that there has been a violation of this Privacy Policy, please contact FirewallNOVA, LLC at: FirewallNOVA, LLC, PO Box 193, Ashburn, VA 20146, or via the contact form at
http://firewallnova.com/contact-firewallnova/
If you are writing with respect to possible policy violations, please describe in as much detail as possible the ways which you believe the policy has been violated. We will then promptly investigate your complaint.
The Operator reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, these Terms. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.
Failure of the Operator to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision in that or any other instance.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to the rules of conflict of law that may cause the laws of another jurisdiction to apply. In the event of any dispute of any kind arising from or relating to the Site or Services, or your use or review of it, you agree to the sole and exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the federal or state courts serving Loudoun County in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of these Terms to be unenforceable, the remainder of the Terms will continue in full force and effect.