ABPM - Terms And Conditions

Website Terms and Conditions

Except as otherwise indicated, this Web Site and its entire contents are owned by McCreery, Inc. (dba Association of Briefing Program Managers (ABPM)) and are protected by domestic and international copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You may use this Web Site for informational purposes only.

By using this Web Site, or downloading any portion of its information or other content, you agree to abide by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use this Web Site, or download any portion of its contents. You understand that ABPM may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of this Web Site, including the availability of any features, at any time. ABPM may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Web Site without notice or liability. ABPM reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change and modify these terms and conditions in whole or in part at any time, and your continued use of this Web Site after such changes are posted shall be deemed acceptance by you of such changes.

Limited License

Subject to these terms and conditions, ABPM grants to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access, use this Web Site and its contents. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of this Web Site in any way.

ABPM authorizes you to view its Web Site and download reasonable portions of its information and other contents (?Content?) only for your use. For purposes of these terms and conditions, Content shall include other communication media used with this Web Site, such as video and telephone augmentation. This authorization is not a transfer of title in the Content or copies thereof and is subject to the following restrictions:

You will retain on all copies of the downloaded Content, all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the Content.
You will not modify the Content in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose.
You will not transfer the Content to any other person.
You agree to abide by all additional restrictions displayed on this Web Site as it may be updated from time to time.

Except as expressly provided herein, ABPM does not grant any express or implied right to you under any patents, trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property rights.

Disclaimers

The functionality, information, and other content contained in this web site is provided ?as is.? The information in this web site and other content have been provided solely as a service, and in some instances, is provided by third parties. ABPM makes no representation, warranty or condition, express, implied or otherwise, of any kind, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for any particular purpose or regarding the use, accuracy, completeness, performance, reliability or non-infringement of any third party intellectual property rights relating to the information or other content or any products to which the content may refer. You should make your own determination regarding the suitability of the information or other content herein or any products described herein for your own purposes prior to use.

You acknowledge that any reliance on any opinion, advice, statement, memorandum, or information contained in the content shall be at your sole risk. ABPM reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to correct any errors or omissions, or to otherwise change, modify, add, or remove any portion of the contents, in whole or in part, on this web site at any time. ABPM may make any changes to the web site, the contents, and the products, programs, services or prices (if any) described in this web site at any time without notice. In no event is ABPM responsible for, and ABPM does not accept and hereby disclaims liability for, any damages whatsoever in connection with the use of or reliance on the information or other Content herein or by reason of any inaccuracies, errors or omissions in such information or other Content, or any delay, non-performance, interruption or termination of the transmission or display thereof, from any cause.

Third Party Links

Any link on this Web Site to third party web sites is being provided by ABPM to you as solely a service. Third party sites are not covered by ABPM?s Privacy Statement. ABPM makes no warranty or representation regarding the linked sites themselves or the contents thereon and ABPM is not in any way responsible for such information or content or for the privacy or security practices of such third party sites.

Information Provided By You

You agree that any information (including without limitation any ideas, concepts, technologies or know-how) that you send to us via this Web Site will not contain, and ABPM does not want to receive from you through this Web Site, any copyrighted, confidential or proprietary information of yourself or any third party and ABPM shall be free to use this information as it sees fit, except that personal data shall be governed by ABPM's privacy statement below. By sending ABPM any such information, you agree to transfer ownership, without further compensation, including any copyright therein. In addition, should you provide any personal data to ABPM in order to register with us or enquire about products, services, programs or employment opportunities, you consent to allow ABPM to store and transfer such personal data in accordance with its Privacy Policy (below).

Limitations of Damages

In no event shall ABPM be liable to any entity for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or other damages (including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, loss of information or programs or other data on your information handling system) that are related to the use of, or the inability to use, the content and functions of this web site or any linked website.

On-line Orders

No agreement to sell products or services shall be formed until an order is placed by you and then accepted by ABPM in the manner set forth in ABPM?s specific ordering instructions. The terms of such agreement shall be those of ABPM?s standard terms and conditions of sale.

The Association of Briefing Program Managers (ABPM) has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for its web site www.abpm.com

Use of IP Address and Cookies
Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart. Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart. We use cookies to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, and for other purposes such as maintaining a shopping cart across visits.

Personal Information
The association membership forms require users to give us contact information (like their name and email address) and financial information (like their account or credit card numbers) when registering for membership, a conference, or when purchasing a product. Visitor's contact information is used to contact the visitors when future event information is available. The ABPM does not rent, sell, or give away email addresses, telephone numbers, or fax numbers to any non-member parties. Only ABPM members have the ability to access the contact information of other members. It is against ABPM policy for ABPM members to share other member contact information with non-ABPM members. Blast emailing is against ABPM policy and may result in termination of membership. Individual customized emails are permitted. Personal and financial information collected for conference registration or for purchase of products and services will not be sold or rented in any form. Financial information that is collected is used solely to charge for conference registration, or to bill the user for products and services.

Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites. The ABPM is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Online access to membership records, including contact and program information, is available to ABPM members only, and is password-protected. Credit card and financial account information is never stored on the ABPM site, even briefly during transactions.

Last Updated January 9, 2008.