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By now, it's a truism to say the Internet world changes rapidly. We expect to change with it. As we do so, we may from time to time change the terms of this agreement. If you continue to use the service after we post any such changes, that means you accept the agreement, as modified. If you want to keep up with the changes in this agreement, check it every now and then when you visit our site.
toledoblade.com® values and respects the privacy of our users. Please take a few minutes to review our Privacy Statement.
We welcome your comments, suggestions, questions, and criticisms about toledoblade.com®. Please send them, including a copy of any material you want to discuss, to our Director of Digital Media Operations. We'll take a look at your comments, and respond as appropriate. And if you find something on our site you think is not accurate, let us know, using the same address.
We're in the information business, so we sincerely respect intellectual-property rights, ours and others'. If you think your rights have been violated on our site by improper posting or distribution of your intellectual property, please let us know. You can do by sending a notice by U.S. Mail to The Toledo Blade Company, Director of Digital Media, 541 North Superior Street, Toledo, Ohio 43660, or by email to our Director of Digital Media Operations.
The material available on toledoblade.com® is for informational purposes only. We try to provide useful, accurate information, but errors may appear from time to time (as we said, if you think you find an error, please let us know). If you are going to act on information you've found on our site, confirm the facts for yourself. In addition to natural delays that may occur because of the nature of electronic communications, you should know that certain financial information, including stock and mutual-fund quotes, and related financial news stories may be delayed at least 20 minutes, as may be required by the stock exchanges and/or the financial information services.
The Toledo Blade Company is not responsible for, and does not guarantee, the performance of goods and services provided by our advertisers or others to whose sites we link. We provide certain links to other Web sites as a convenience to you and to enhance the utility of our Web site. But that doesn't mean that The Toledo Blade Company or its licensors endorses that site or any product, service or other material offered on that site. And if you visit those other sites, we encourage you to acquaint yourself with the user agreements and privacy statements for those sites.
CHAT ROOMS AND FORUMS
The Internet is tremendously exciting. It allows people throughout the world to exchange valuable information, ideas, and creative works. For this medium to thrive, we all need to respect the rights of those who share their creations with us. So it's important to set a few ground rules that we expect you to understand and follow.
GENERAL RULES
toledoblade.com® encourages a free and open exchange of information and ideas. But we cannot and do not review every posting made in chat rooms or public forums or other idea-marketplaces or public-posting areas we may provide. Remember: toledoblade.com® is providing the service, but individuals and organizations other than toledoblade.com® are providing the information and opinions posted in these areas. While we endorse the free exchange of information and ideas, that doesn't mean we endorse or guarantee the accuracy of any posting, no matter whom it's from. When you read postings, use your own good judgment about what your read. Be skeptical. Be thoughtful. Be careful.
You and you alone are responsible for what you post in the public-posting areas on toledoblade.com®, just as every other user is responsible for what that user posts. By using toledoblade.com® you agree not to post or transmit any defamatory, abusive, obscene, threatening, or illegal material, or any other material that infringes on the ability of others to enjoy toledoblade.com® or that infringes on the rights of others. We expect you to take that commitment seriously. We have the right to deny access to anyone who we believe has violated these or any other term of this agreement.
Although, as we said, toledoblade.com® cannot monitor all the postings in public-posting areas we provide, we reserve the right (but are not obligated) to delete, move, or edit any postings that come to our attention that we consider unacceptable or inappropriate, whether for legal or other reasons. We will not, in the ordinary course of business, review private electronic messages that are not addressed to toledoblade.com®. However, we will comply with legal requirements regarding disclosure of such messages to others, including law enforcement agencies.
toledoblade.com® expects that you will not use the service to violate anyone's intellectual-property rights, including copyright, trademark, and related rights. By submitting material to toledoblade.com®, you are representing that you have the right to do so, either as the owner of the material or with the express consent of the owner. Submitting material that is the property of another, without the consent of its owner, violates this agreement, and it may also violate other laws, including those relating to copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights.
All material you submit to any area of our site becomes the property of The Toledo Blade Company and may be reproduced, modified, and distributed as we see fit in any medium and for any purpose.
NO SOLICITING
You agree not to use toledoblade.com® to advertise or to solicit anyone to buy or sell products or services, or to make donations of any kind, without our express written approval.
NO SPAMMING
From time to time, users post their e-mail addresses in our chat rooms, forums, and other public posting areas. You agree not to gather these e-mail addresses for purposes of spamming.
COPYRIGHT
Although we make toledoblade.com® freely accessible, this free access doesn't mean that we, or anyone else who participates, gives up rights to the materials that appear on the site. The materials available on our site are the property of The Toledo Blade Company or its licensors, and are protected by a variety of intellectual-property laws, including copyright, trademark, and other laws. You may display and print for your personal, non-commercial use information you receive through toledoblade.com®. And we invite you to encourage others to access the information themselves on toledoblade.com® and to tell them how to do that. But you may not reproduce or distribute (including by email or other electronic means) any of the materials, including code, software, information, or data, without the prior written consent of the owner. Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found on toledoblade.com® should be sent to Assistant Managing Editor - Administration, The Toledo Blade Company, 541 North Superior Street, Toledo, Ohio 43660, or email our Assistant Managing Editor - Administration.
The Associated Press provides some of the material on our site. No AP material may be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication, or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. No portion of these AP materials may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in these materials or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part of these materials or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing.
TRADEMARKS
We think it's important that everyone on the Web be able to know who provides the material you're seeing. We especially want you and everyone else to be able to know which materials and services are provided by toledoblade.com® and which are not. Therefore, we respect the trademarks of everyone else, and we expect you to respect our trademarks. You may not use any trademark or service mark appearing on toledoblade.com® without the prior written consent of the owner of the mark. "toledoblade.com® " and the toledoblade.com® logo are trademarks of The Toledo Blade Company . Requests for permission to use our trademark or service mark may be sent to Director of Digital Media Operations, The Toledo Blade Company, 541 North Superior Street, Toledo, Ohio 43660, or email our Director of Digital Media Operations.
LINKING
We welcome links to our service. You are free to establish a hypertext link to this site, but the link must not in any way suggest that either our site or The Toledo Blade Company sponsors or endorses your site.
NO FRAMING
You may not frame any of the content of toledoblade.com®, or incorporate into another Web site or other service any intellectual property of toledoblade.com®, The Toledo Blade Company, or any of their licensors unless before doing so you receive our express written permission. Requests for permission to frame our content may be sent to Director of Digital Media Operations, The Toledo Blade Company, 541 North Superior Street, Toledo, Ohio 43660, or email our Director of Digital Media Operations.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY
We think you'll find toledoblade.com® an interesting and useful site. We'll work hard to keep it that way. But we can't guarantee that you'll like everything you find here. We hope you understand, and we want to make sure you understand some of the basic limitations about our site and your use of it. Therefore, we want you to read this Disclaimer carefully before using toledoblade.com®.
YOUR USE OF THIS SERVICE IS SOLELY AT YOUR RISK. IF YOU RELY ON THIS SERVICE OR ANY MATERIAL AVAILABLE THROUGH IT, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED FROM OR OTHERWISE PROVIDED THROUGH TOLEDOBLADE.COM®.
THERE MAY BE DELAYS, OMISSIONS, INACCURACIES, OR OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THE INFORMATION YOU FIND ON OR THROUGH OUR SITE. THIS SERVICE IS PROVIDED TO YOU *AS IS*, *WITH ALL FAULTS*, AND *AS AVAILABLE*. TOLEDOBLADE.COM®, THE TOLEDO BLADE COMPANY AND THEIR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE. NOR DO THEY GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE ERROR-FREE, OR CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS TOLEDOBLADE.COM®, THE TOLEDO BLADE COMPANY, INC., OR THEIR AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR LICENSORS LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF TOLEDOBLADE.COM®, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. (BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, THE LIABILITY OF TOLEDOBLADE.COM®, THE TOLEDO BLADE COMPANY, INC., AND THEIR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY SUCH STATE LAW.) YOU AGREE THAT THE LIABILITY OF TOLEDOBLADE.COM®, THE TOLEDO BLADE COMPANY, AND THEIR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS, IF ANY, ARISING OUT OF ANY KIND OF LEGAL CLAIM IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO THE SERVICE FOR THE USE OF THE SERVICE.
MISCELLANEOUS
We work hard to ensure that information we post to this site is both timely and accurate. But news changes and evolves; reports that were accurate when posted may become outdated or may be superseded by follow-up reports. As this happens, we may continue to provide access to the original report in a news archive, or elsewhere. When we do so, we don't go back and change the original report to reflect new developments. We want the record to reflect how the news unfolded. But if you want the most recent information on a given subject, make sure you're looking at the most current report.
You may be given a chance to register with toledoblade.com in order to gain access to certain services on our site. We may ask you to select a user name and a password. During the registration process, you must supply accurate and complete information, and may not register under the name of, nor attempt to enter the service under the name of, another person. We reserve the right to reject or terminate any user name that, in our judgment, we deem inappropriate. You are responsible for preserving the confidentiality of your password and will notify the toledoblade.com® Director of Digital Media Operations of any known or suspected unauthorized use of your account.
This visitor agreement is made and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio. By using this service, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in Lucas County, in all disputes arising out of or relating to this agreement or this Web site.
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