AVI-SPL Terms of Use

Your use of our site

When using our Site, you must comply with all applicable laws, including federal, state, and local laws, the laws of your jurisdiction, and laws regarding the transmission of technical data.

You also agree not to:

• Display, send, receive, or store obscene or inappropriate content.
• Threaten, harass, stalk, defame, or defraud any person or entity.
• Violate copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property laws.
• Advertise, promote, endorse, or market, directly or indirectly, any third party commercial products, services, solutions, or other technologies.
• Attempt to collect, store, or publish personally identifiable information (a) without the owner’s knowledge and consent or (b) of a minor under the age of thirteen (13) in any circumstance.
• Distribute unwanted, unsolicited, or harassing mass email or other messages, promotions, advertising, or solicitations (“spam”).
• Send deceptive or false source-identifying information, including “spoofing” or “phishing.”
• Access or use any application, system, service, tool, data, account, network, or content without authorization or for unintended purposes.
• Disable, disrupt, circumvent, interfere with, or otherwise violate the security of the Site.
• Attack, abuse, interfere with, intercept, disrupt, or exploit any users, systems, or services, regardless of how accomplished and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Terms, including but not limited to Denial of Service (DoS), monitoring, crawling, spamming, using bots or scripts, or distributing malware (such as viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, or adware).
• Engage in or promote any illegal or criminal activity such as child pornography, gambling, or piracy.
• Authorize, permit, enable, induce, or encourage any third party to do any of the above.

If you violate these Terms, your access to the Site may be terminated immediately and without notice.

• You are entitled to post the Comments on our Site and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
• The Comments do not infringe any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark, or other proprietary right of any third party;
• The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent or otherwise unlawful material or material which is an invasion of privacy
• The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom, or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.

Any Comments or other feedback you provide at this Site shall be deemed to be non-confidential. You hereby grant to AVI-SPL and its affiliates a non-exclusive royalty-free license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats or media.

Hyperlinking to our Content

Subject to the provisions of these Terms, the following organizations may link to our Site without prior written approval:

• Government agencies;
• Search engines;
• News organizations;
• Online directory distributors when they list us in the directory may link to our Site in the same manner as they hyperlink to the web sites of other listed businesses; and
• Systemwide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our Site.

The aforementioned organizations may link to our Site so long as the link: (a) is not in any way misleading; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.

We may consider and approve in our sole discretion other link requests from the following types of organizations:

• commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources such as Chambers of Commerce, American
  Automobile Association, AARP and Consumers Union;
• dot.com community sites;
• associations or other groups representing charities, including charity giving sites,
• online directory distributors;
• internet portals;
• accounting, law and consulting firms whose primary clients are businesses; and
• educational institutions and trade associations.

We will approve link requests from these organizations if we determine that: (a) the link would not reflect unfavorably on us or our accredited businesses (for example, trade associations or other organizations representing inherently suspect types of business, such as work-at-home opportunities, shall not be allowed to link); (b) the organization does not have an unsatisfactory record with us; (c) the benefit to us from the visibility associated with the hyperlink outweighs the absence of link is in the context of general resource information or is otherwise consistent with editorial content in a newsletter or similar product furthering the mission of the organization.

The aforementioned organizations may link to our Site so long as the link: (a) is not in any way misleading; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and it products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.

If you are among the organizations listed in paragraph 5 above and are interested in linking to our Site, you must notify us by sending an e-mail to webmaster@avispl.com. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information (such as a phone number and/or e-mail address) as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Web site, and a list of the URL(s) on our site to which you would like to link. Allow 2-3 weeks for a response.

Approved organizations may hyperlink to our Web site as follows:

• By use of our corporate name; or
• By use of the uniform resource locator (Web address) being linked to; or
• By use of any other description of our Web site or material being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party’s site

No use of AVI-SPL’s or any of its affiliates’ logos or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement.We reserve the right at any time and in its sole discretion to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our Site. You agree to immediately remove all links to our Site upon such request.

Removal of Links from our Site

If you find any link on our Site or any linked web site objectionable for any reason, you may contact us by sending an e-mail to webmaster@avispl.com. We will consider requests to remove links but will have no obligation to do so or to respond directly to you.

Links to Third Party Sites

Some links on AVI-SPL’s Site will let you leave AVI-SPL’s Site. The linked sites are not under the control of AVI-SPL and AVI-SPL 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. AVI-SPL is not responsible for webcasting, or any other form of transmission received from any linked site. AVI-SPL is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by AVI-SPL of the site.

Iframes

Without prior approval and express written permission, you may not create frames around our Site or use other techniques that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our Site.

Privacy

AVI-SPL’S Privacy Policy applies to use of this Site, and its terms are made a part of these Terms by this reference. To view AVI-SPL’s Privacy Policy, including AVI-SPL’s Cookie Policy, click here. Additionally, by using the Site, you acknowledge and agree that Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send to the Site may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notice that a particular transmission (for example, credit card information) is encrypted.