Terms & Conditions/Copyright Notice

The San Diego Thomas Merton Society (SDTMS), a chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS), maintains a website at the domain sandiegomerton.org and sandiegomerton.com ("our website"), for your personal information, education, entertainment and communication. The following legal statement reviews our intellectual property rights and the terms and conditions by which you may use the information presented on our website.

Please note that this statement of terms and conditions applies only to the web pages maintained by SDTMS.

SDTMS Intellectual Property

You may download material displayed on our Web site for noncommercial, personal use only, provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the materials. You may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, repost or use the content of our Web site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio and video, without the written permission of SDTMS.

You should assume that everything you see or read on our Web site is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided here, without SDTMS's written permission. SDTMS neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on our Web site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with SDTMS.

The trademarks, logos and service marks ("trademarks") displayed on our Web site are registered and unregistered trademarks of (and used with permission of) ITMS, the Thomas Merton Legacy Trust, the University of San Diego, certain publishers whose works are featured on our Web site and others. Nothing contained on our Web site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark displayed on our Web site without the express permission of SDTMS (and/or the trademark holder). SDTMS will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.

Your Use of Our Website

While SDTMS uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information in our Web site, we make no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. SDTMS assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Site.

Your use of our Web site is at your risk. Neither SDTMS nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering our Web site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising from your use of our Web site.

Without limiting the foregoing, everything on our Web site is provided to you "as is," without warranty of any kind, either express 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.

Material Posted By Others and Links

Although SDTMS may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards and the like on our Web site, SDTMS 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 our Web site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting such material on our Web site, and SDTMS will fully cooperate with law enforcement authorities seeking the identity of anyone posting such material.

SDTMS has not reviewed all the sites linked to our Web site, and is not responsible for the content of any other sites linked to our Web site. Your linking to any off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.

Revisions

SDTMS may at any time revise these online policies by updating this page.
Last Revision Date: August 14, 2007
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