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Terms
and Conditions for NORTH FORK IT SERVICES Web Site Usage
© NORTH FORK IT SERVICES. All rights reserved.
Web site Usage Agreement between the North Fork IT Services
and the User.
Use of this site constitutes agreement with the following
terms and conditions:
1. The NORTH FORK IT SERVICES wishes to enhance public
access to information about its activities, and it maintains
this Web site, and the information, documents and materials
presented herein (collectively, the "material"),
for informational purposes only. All contents on this
Web site are protected by copyright. The NORTH FORK
IT SERVICES is pleased to allow those who may choose
to access the site (the "User") to download
and copy the materials for their personal, non-commercial
use. No other use of the material is authorized without
prior written permission from the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES.
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Any copy made of the material must retain all copyright
and other proprietary legends and notices in the same
form and manner as on the original. Any use of textual
and multimedia information (sound, image, software,
etc.) in the Web site shall be accompanied by an acknowledgement
of the source, citing the uniform resource locator (URL)
of the page (Title of the material, © NORTH FORK
IT SERVICES, URL).
Disclaimers
2. INFORMATION ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS
IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. The NORTH
FORK IT SERVICES makes every effort to ensure, but does
not guarantee, the accuracy or completeness of the information
on its Web site. Our goal is to keep this information
timely and accurate. If errors are brought to our attention,
we will try to correct them.
3. The NORTH FORK IT SERVICES may add, change, improve,
or update the information of the Web site without notice.
The NORTH FORK IT SERVICES reserves its exclusive right
in its sole discretion to alter, limit or discontinue
part of this site. Under no circumstances shall the
NORTH FORK IT SERVICES be liable for any loss, damage,
liability or expense suffered which is claimed to result
from use of this site, including without limitation,
any fault, error, omission, interruption or delay. Use
of this site is at User's sole risk.
4. Information contained in this Web site does not imply
the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part
of the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES Personnel concerning the
legal status of any country or of its authorities.
5. The mention of specific companies or certain products
does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended
by the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES in preference to others
of a similar nature that are not mentioned.
6. We make every effort to minimize disruption caused
by technical errors. However some data or information
on our site may have been created or structured in files
or formats which are not error-free and we cannot guarantee
that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise
affected by such problems. The NORTH FORK IT SERVICES
accepts no responsibility with regards to such problems
(failure of performance, computer virus, communication
line failure, alteration of content, etc.) incurred
as a result of using this site or any link to external
sites.
7. If this site contains message or communication facilities,
the User shall not do any of the following:
•
Defame, abuse, harass, threaten or otherwise
violate the legal rights of others;
• Publish, post, distribute or disseminate
any defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent
or unlawful material;
• Upload or attach files that contain
software of other material protected by intellectual
property laws unless the User owns or controls
the rights thereto or have received all necessary
consents;
• Upload or attach files that contain
viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar
software or programs that may damage the operation
of another's computer;
• Upload, e-mail, transmit or otherwise
make available unsolicited advertising of any
goods or services, or conduct or forward surveys,
contests, "spam" or chain letters;
etc.
The User specifically acknowledges and agrees
that the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES is not liable
for any conduct of any other User, including,
but not limited to, the types of conduct listed
above.
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8.
This site may contain advice, opinions and statements
from external Web sites. Hyperlinks to non-NORTH FORK
IT SERVICES Internet sites do not imply any official
endorsement of or responsibility for the opinions, ideas,
data or products presented at these locations or guarantee
the validity of the information provided. The sole purpose
of links to other sites is to indicate further information
available on related topics.
9. The NORTH FORK IT SERVICES reserves the right to
deny at its sole discretion any User access to this
site or any portion thereof without notice.
10. For site security purpose and to ensure that this
Web site remains available to all users, this Web site
employs software programs to monitor network traffic
to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage and to detect
other possible security breaches.
Linking to the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES Web site(s)
11. In order to promote its work and because Internet
is about linking, the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES encourages
a User who maintains an external Web site to include
hyperlinks to the main NORTH FORK IT SERVICES Web site,
to any of its satellite Web site(s) or to any of their
pages (collectively "the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES
Web site(s)"), on that external site without having
to ask prior permission, except as limited by section
1 above and under certain conditions listed below.
These hyperlinks must not:
•
infringe NORTH FORK IT SERVICES's rights, in
particular relating to its logo, acronym and
intellectual property rights;
• be used for the promotion of an Organization
or company, or of any commercial products or
services.
As a consequence,
• any link to the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES
Web site(s) must appear clearly as such, i.e.
with the complete and obvious NORTH FORK IT
SERVICES URL;
• if you link to the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES
Web site(s), you must refrain from creating
frames, or using other visual altering tools,
around the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES pages;
• any "material" from the NORTH
FORK IT SERVICES Web site(s) exceeding 400 words
should not be uploaded on a Web site external
to the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES. Permission to
make a link to the said material can be granted,
on the condition the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES
URL appears clearly, as specified above;
• It is formally forbidden to make a direct
link to the .pdf itself of our publications.
Can only be granted a permission to make a link
to the presentation page for this publication
on the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES main Web site
(www.nfits.com) on the condition the NORTH FORK
IT SERVICES URL appears clearly, as specified
above;
• you are asked, as far as they exist,
to use the user-friendly URLs that you will
find soon under the Site Map to make a link
to the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES Web site(s);
• Once you have created a link the NORTH
FORK IT SERVICES Web site(s), please test it
to confirm it works and meet the above conditions
and then notify us.
For any question about linking to the NORTH
FORK IT SERVICES Web site, please feel free
to contact us, with all the necessary information,
by sending an e-mail to the Webmaster account:
customercare@nfits.com
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The
NORTH FORK IT SERVICES Logo
12. The NORTH FORK IT SERVICES logo should not be associated
to any event, product or link to the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES
Web site(s) without the prior consent of the NORTH FORK
IT SERVICES. Requests for permission to use the NORTH
FORK IT SERVICES logo must be sent to the Webmaster
account: customercare@nfits.com. To be accepted, the
request must be justified and be related to a specific
event or product the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES takes part
in (conference, co-editions etc.). The NORTH FORK IT
SERVICES logo may be also posted on another Web site,
besides a link to the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES Web site(s).
The permission is then granted only for this specific
event/product or for this specific linking purpose and
must not be used for any other purpose or any longer
than required for the allowed purpose. Rigorous respect
of the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES corporate identity (in
particular of the recommendations concerning color and
language) is required in the use of the logo. Only the
most recent version of the NORTH FORK IT SERVICES logo
should be used at all times.
Last
updated 12/16/2005.
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