TERMS AND CONDITIONS
DISCLAIMER AND PRIVACY POLICY
(General Website and Materials)
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND DISCLAIMER / PRIVACY POLICY (“TERMS AND CONDITIONS”) CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE AND/OR ANY OTHER PUBLICATIONS (“MATERIALS”). ANY USE OR RELIANCE ON OUR MATERIALS IS CONDITIONAL ON YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
1. For Information Purposes Only. All content and information contained on our website at www.vedantamidwest.org (“Website”) and elsewhere (including but not limited to any of our publications) (hereinafter “Materials”) are provided for information purposes only.
2. Disclaimer of Warranties / Limitation of Liabilities. These Materials are provided on an “AS IS” basis. Vedanta Institute of Midwest (“VIM”, “We”, “we”, “Us”, “us”, “Our” or “our”) disclaims any warranties, representations or claims of any kind whatsoever, including, without limitation, any warranties, representations or claims of any kinds concerning the accuracy or the timeliness of any content presented in these Materials. Your use of and reliance on these Materials is at your own risk. We shall not be responsible for any errors or omissions in the content of this Website and the Materials. Under no circumstances will VIM be liable to any person or business entity for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or other damages based on any use or reliance of this Website, website linked to this Website, or any Materials, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, or loss of programs or information, even if VIM has been specifically advised of the possibility of such damages.
3. General Information Disclaimer. Should you view this Website or any of our Materials and respond with information (excluding personally identifiable information, which is addressed under the Privacy Policy as provided in the following paragraph) including but not limited to questions, comments or suggestions regarding the content of the Website / Materials, such information shall be deemed to be non-confidential. VIM shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such information and shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the information to others without limitation. VIM shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, publishing and promoting products and services incorporating such information.
4. Privacy Policy. We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes our information gathering and dissemination practices for our Website.
A. Collection of Information. Individuals may visit our Website without disclosing any personally identifiable information. The only personally identifiable information that we may collect about you is the information that you elect to provide to us. Apart from that, for the purposes of analyzing trends, monitoring and improving functionality of our Website, we may automatically collect non-personally identifiable and aggregate information about the visitors on our Website. However, when used for these purposes, this data is aggregated and is not stored in any personally identifiable form. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers and administer our Website.
B. Use of Personally Identifiable Information. In the event that a visitor of our Website elects to provide us with their personally identifiable information (for instance, contacting us via email), their personally identifiable information will only be used to respond to their inquiries or comments. We do not share any personally identifiable information that we receive from a visitor through our Website with any third parties, unless the visitor expressly authorizes us to do so.
C. Deleting / Updating Personally Identifiable Information. You may send us a written request to delete or update your personally identifiable information by sending us an email or submitting a request by mail. Also, if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practice of, or your dealings with, our Website, you may contact us via email, mail or telephone. See Contact Us section for our contact information.
D. Data Security. We undertake adequate technological and procedural measures to protect the confidentiality and security of your personally identifiable information. For instance, such measures include but are not limited to employing firewalls, restricted access to personally identifiable information and secured storage of data.
E. Links to Other Sites. Our Website may contain links to other third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of such other sites, and the inclusion of links to such other sites on our Website does not imply that we recommend, endorse or approve such third-party websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of other websites that you may elect to visit which may be linked to our Website. This Privacy Policy applies only to our Website.
F. Opting-Out. Our Website may allow you to request information about us. We collect visitors’ contact information and unique identifiers. Contact information provided by you will be used to contact you to fulfill your request and provide information about us. Unique identifiers are collected from our Website to verify users’ identity. However, no information provided to us in connection with your request will be disclosed to any third party unless we are authorized do so by you or required to do so by applicable law. You may also opt-out of the opportunity of receiving future communications from us by having us remove your information from our database. Please contact us if you wish to Opt-out. See Contact Us section of Website.
5. Trademark Notice. VIM products, services, product names, service names, and logos referenced on these Materials are either trademarks or registered trademarks of VIM (and/or its associates). VIM (and its associates) reserve all rights to their trademarks. No trademark or servicemark or other license is granted to any party in connection with the Materials.
6. Copyright Notice. All Materials are copyrighted materials and intellectual property of VIM (and/or its associates). Any such Materials may not be distributed, modified or reproduced, in whole or in part, without prior written consent of VIM. However, you may use Materials published on this Website or otherwise made available to you for personal and non-commercial use only, provided that any copy of such Materials you use shall retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained herein. Except as expressly provided, nothing contained in this paragraph shall be construed as conferring any license or right under any copyright or other intellectual property of VIM (and its associates). No Materials made available on this Website or elsewhere may be stored, transmitted by any means (including but not limited to electronic, mechanical, scanning, photocopying or recording) without prior written permission of VIM.
7. Intellectual Property Disclaimer. Nothing contained in this Terms and Conditions shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any license to any patent, trademark or other intellectual property right of VIM or any third party. VIM makes no representations or warranties that any use of the information contained on the Materials will not infringe any such patent, trademark or other intellectual property right of VIM or any third party.
8. Applicable Law and Venue. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan (United States), without regard to conflict of law provisions. You agree that any action at law or equity arising out of or relating to your use or reliance of the Materials shall be brought only in the state courts located in Oakland County, Michigan and United States federal courts located in or near Oakland County, Michigan, and you hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts.
9. Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions. Your use of our Materials at any time indicates your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. We reserve the right to further change these Terms and Conditions from time to time, in which case such updated Terms and Conditions will be posted on our Website. If you do not agree with our Terms and Conditions, you should stop using our Website and other Materials.