ISS Web Site “Terms of Use”
Introduction
Welcome to the ISS Web
site! The Independent Statistical Service, Inc. (ISS) has created this Internet
Web site for your use and convenience. Please read the following Terms of Use.
By accessing the ISS Web site, you indicate that you acknowledge and accept the
Terms of Use.
Privacy
Protecting
the privacy of your personal information is very important to us. We may use
the personal information you provide us to reply to “Ask us” and other
inquiries, and for maintaining your registration profile. We do not share or
otherwise disclose your personal information. We also do not permit other
persons, companies, or other entities to access or collect your personal
information through our Web site. For more information regarding our security
for this site, please click the “Security Help” link on the Web site home page.
Copyright
All
Contents @ 2005-2010 Independent Statistical Service, Inc. All Rights
Reserved. The contents of all material available on this Internet site are
copyrighted by ISS unless otherwise indicated. However, we do not claim
copyright on any part of an original work prepared by an outside party.
Subscribers of ISS may download pages or other content for their own
non-commercial use. However, if you want to use any items for another purpose,
please contact us at 2600
South River Road, Des Plaines, Illinois 60018-3286.
License and Site Use
You may
create a hyperlink to the home page of our site so long as the link does not
portray ISS or its products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or
otherwise offensive manner. You may not use the ISS logo or any other
proprietary graphic as part of such link without our express written
permission.
Linked Internet Sites
At certain places on the
ISS Internet site, live "links" to other Internet addresses may be
accessed. Such external Internet addresses contain information created,
published, maintained, or otherwise posted by organizations independent of ISS.
We do not control these external Internet addresses and can not guarantee the
accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness, or correct sequencing of
information located at such addresses. Use of any information obtained from
such addresses is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after
an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness.
Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
While ISS makes every
effort to present accurate and reliable information on this Internet site, we cannot
guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness, or correct
sequencing of such information. Use of such information is voluntary on your
part. ISS (including its employees and agents) assumes no responsibility for
consequences resulting from the use of the information herein, or in any
respect for the content of such information. ISS is not responsible for, and we
expressly disclaim all liability for damages of any kind arising out of use,
reference to, or reliance on such information. No guarantees or warranties,
including (but not limited to) any express or implied warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular use or purpose, are made by ISS
with respect to such information.
Indemnity
You agree
to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless ISS, together with its respective
employees, agents, directors, officers, and shareholders, from and against all
the liabilities, claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorney's
fees and costs) arising out of your use of or inability to use our site or its
contents, or for other information provided through the site.
Changes to Conditions of Use
We reserve
the right to revise these Terms of Use at any time.
Access to Password-Secure Areas
We restrict certain secure
areas of our site to authorized users and permit access to these secure areas
only by the use of a confidential password. Unauthorized individuals attempting
to access such areas are in violation of these Terms of Use and may be subject
to prosecution and applicable damages.