Visitor Agreement
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS.
The services that Richardson Group IT provides to you are subject to the
following Terms of Use ("TOU"). Richardson Group IT reserves the right to update
the TOU at any time without notice to you. The most current version of the TOU
can be reviewed.
NOTICE SPECIFIC TO DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
Accessed by clicking on the "Terms of Use" hypertext link located at the
bottom of our Web pages.
Permission to use Documents (such as white papers, press releases, datasheets
and FAQs) from the Services is granted, provided that (1) the below copyright
notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this
permission notice appear, (2) use of such Documents from the Services is for
informational use only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer
or broadcast in any media, and (3) no modifications of any Documents are made.
Accredited educational institutions, such as K-12, universities, private/public
colleges, and state community colleges, may download and reproduce the Documents
for distribution in the classroom. Distribution outside the classroom requires
express written permission. Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by
law, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be
prosecuted to the maximum extent possible.
Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the Richardson
Group IT.com Web site or any other Richardson Group IT owned, operated, licensed
or controlled site. Elements of Richardson Group IT Web sites are protected by
trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied
or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any
Richardson Group IT Web site may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly
permitted by Richardson Group IT.
RICHARDSON GROUP IT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS
ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED
GRAPHICS PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE SERVICES FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH DOCUMENTS
AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
RICHARDSON GROUP IT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL
WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, INCLUDING ALL
WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR
STATUTORY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO
EVENT SHALL RICHARDSON GROUP IT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
USE OR PERFORMANCE OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES.
THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THE SERVICES COULD INCLUDE
TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED
TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. RICHARDSON GROUP IT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS
MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S)
DESCRIBED HEREIN AT ANY TIME.
NOTICES REGARDING SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE
ON THIS WEB SITE.
IN NO EVENT SHALL RICHARDSON GROUP IT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
USE OR PERFORMANCE OF SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS, PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE
SERVICES, OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES.
MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY.
If any of the Services requires you to open an account, you must complete the
registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate
information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You also will
choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining
the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely
responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree
to notify Richardson Group IT immediately of any unauthorized use of your
account or any other breach of security. Richardson Group IT will not be liable
for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password
or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held
liable for losses incurred by Richardson Group IT or another party due to
someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's
account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.
NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE.
As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for
any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and
notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable,
overburden, or impair any Richardson Group IT server, or the network(s)
connected to any Richardson Group IT server, or interfere with any other party's
use and enjoyment of any Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized
access to any Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected
to any Richardson Group IT server or to any of the Services, through hacking,
password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any
materials or information through any means not intentionally made available
through the Services.
USE OF SERVICES
The Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services, chat areas,
news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, photo albums,
file cabinets and/or other message or communication facilities designed to
enable you to communicate with others (each a "Communication Service" and
collectively "Communication Services"). You agree to use the Communication
Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper
and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication Service. By way of
example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Communication
Services, you will not:
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Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid
schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited
messages (commercial or otherwise).
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Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights
(such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
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Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane,
defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
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Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs,
software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including,
by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by
rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or
have received all necessary consent to do the same.
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Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made
available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.
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Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots,
corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the
operation of another's computer or property of another.
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Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business
purpose, unless such Communication Services specifically allows such messages.
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Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you
know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed,
performed, and/or distributed in such manner.
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Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author
attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or
labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file
that is uploaded.
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Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication
Services.
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Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any
particular Communication Service.
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Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail
addresses.
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Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
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Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
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Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a
person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage
information or any portion thereof.
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Richardson Group IT has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services.
However, Richardson Group IT reserves the right to review materials posted to
the Communication Services and to remove any materials in its sole discretion.
Richardson Group IT reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of
the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason
whatsoever.
Richardson Group IT reserves the right at all times to disclose any information
as Richardson Group IT deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law,
regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or
to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Richardson Group
IT's sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about
yourself or your children in any Communication Services. Richardson Group IT
does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any
Communication Services and, therefore, Richardson Group IT specifically
disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any
actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Services.
Managers and hosts are not authorized Richardson Group IT spokespersons, and
their views do not necessarily reflect those of Richardson Group IT.
Materials uploaded to the Communication Services may be subject to posted
limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination; you are responsible for
adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO RICHARDSON GROUP IT OR POSTED AT ANY
RICHARDSON GROUP IT WEB SITE.
Richardson Group IT does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to
Richardson Group IT (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input
or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general
public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a
"Submission" and collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading,
inputting, providing or submitting ("Posting") your Submission you are granting
Richardson Group IT, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees
permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their
Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all Richardson Group IT
Services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy,
distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit,
translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with
your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the
Services.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as
provided herein. Richardson Group IT is under no obligation to post or use any
Submission you may provide and Richardson Group IT may remove any Submission at
any time in its sole discretion.
By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise
control all of the rights to your Submission as described in these Terms of Use
including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide,
post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by Posting a
Submission that contain images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise
graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent that (a) you
are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such
Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any content and/or
images contained in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of your
use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use and the Services, (b) you
have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in
these Terms of Use, and (c) that each person depicted in such Images, if any,
has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms of
Use, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, the distribution,
public display and reproduction of such Images. By Posting Images, you are
granting (a) to all members of your private community (for each such Images
available to members of such private community), and/or (b) to the general
public (for each such Images available anywhere on the Services, other than a
private community), permission to use your Images in connection with the use, as
permitted by these Terms of Use, of any of the Services, (including, by way of
example, and not as a limitation, making prints and gift items which include
such Images), and including, without limitation, a non-exclusive, world-wide,
royalty-free license to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly
perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Images without having your
name attached to such Images, and the right to sublicense such rights to any
supplier of the Services. The licenses granted in the preceding sentences for a
Images will terminate at the time you completely remove such Images from the
Services, provided that, such termination shall not affect any licenses granted
in connection with such Images prior to the time you completely remove such
Images. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Images.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES.
THE LINKS IN THIS AREA WILL LET YOU LEAVE RICHARDSON GROUP IT'S SITE. THE LINKED
SITES ARE NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF RICHARDSON GROUP IT AND RICHARDSON GROUP IT
IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS OF ANY LINKED SITE OR ANY LINK CONTAINED IN
A LINKED SITE, OR ANY CHANGES OR UPDATES TO SUCH SITES. RICHARDSON GROUP IT IS
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF TRANSMISSION RECEIVED FROM
ANY LINKED SITE. RICHARDSON GROUP IT IS PROVIDING THESE LINKS TO YOU ONLY AS A
CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY
RICHARDSON GROUP IT OF THE SITE.
UNSOLICITED IDEA SUBMISSION POLICY.
RICHARDSON GROUP IT OR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES DO NOT ACCEPT OR CONSIDER
UNSOLICITED IDEAS, INCLUDING IDEAS FOR NEW ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS, NEW
PROMOTIONS, NEW PRODUCTS OR TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES, MATERIALS, MARKETING PLANS
OR NEW PRODUCT NAMES. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY ORIGINAL CREATIVE ARTWORK, SAMPLES,
DEMOS, OR OTHER WORKS. THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY IS TO AVOID POTENTIAL
MISUNDERSTANDINGS OR DISPUTES WHEN RICHARDSON GROUP IT'S PRODUCTS OR MARKETING
STRATEGIES MIGHT SEEM SIMILAR TO IDEAS SUBMITTED TO RICHARDSON GROUP IT. SO,
PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR UNSOLICITED IDEAS TO RICHARDSON GROUP IT OR ANYONE AT
RICHARDSON GROUP IT. IF, DESPITE OUR REQUEST THAT YOU NOT SEND US YOUR IDEAS AND
MATERIALS, YOU STILL SEND THEM, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT RICHARDSON GROUP IT MAKES
NO ASSURANCES THAT YOUR IDEAS AND MATERIALS WILL BE TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL OR
PROPRIETARY.
What if my stuff is on a Richardson Group IT website
without my permission?
If you believe that anything on a website hosted by Richardson Group IT
infringes your copyright, let us know. Just provide us with the information
requested here and we will see that your copyrighted works are taken down.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
Send your questions to the appropriate contact as listed below: