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(Last Updated: December 2017)

Welcome to the website of the Center for Ecozoic Studies (CES), a publicly supported 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. CES’s online properties include, but are not limited to, all pages found on this website www.ecozoicstudies.org.

When you use this website, you agree to these Terms of Use (sometimes referred to as these “terms”). We may change these terms of Use at any time. Please check these terms periodically. Your continued use of this website following the changes in these terms.

OWNERSHIP AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIALS

All materials, including images, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, video clips, and written and other materials contained on this website (collectively, the “Contents”) are protected by copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, and/or other intellectual property rights owned or controlled by CES.

Except as otherwise noted, we make these Contents available to you under the following license terms:

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

For a copy of the terms of this license, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Notices:

  • You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
  • No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

More restrictive terms apply to the Contents where indicated. For example, we may indicate that an author retains the copyright to a particular article or that we have obtained the right to republish the article from a licensor but it may not be further republished or distributed.

Further the use of our trademarks and service marks are excluded from the foregoing. The use of our trademarks and service marks are controlled by other applicable law.

CLAIMS REGARDING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS

Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), CES has implemented procedures for receiving written notification of claimed copyright infringement. We also have designated an agent to receive notices of claimed copyright infringement. If you believe in good faith that your copyright has been infringed, you may submit a notice to ecozoic.studies@gmail.com. To be effective, a notice must be a written communication provided to CES’s Copyright Agent and must contain:

  1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
  2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
  3. A description specifying the location of the material that you claim is infringing;
  4. Your telephone number and e-mail address;
  5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
  6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

Our designated copyright agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement appearing on the website is: CES, 2516 Winningham Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516, Attention: Intellectual Property Specialist, with an email address at: ecozoic.studies@gmail.com.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, CES DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OR MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CES DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIAL WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. CES DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

SITE CONTENTS

Information on this website is provided with the understanding that the CES is not rendering professional advice or recommendations. You should not rely on any information on this website to replace consultations with qualified professionals to meet your individual needs.

INACCURACY DISCLAIMER

The material in this site could include technical inaccuracies, typographical errors, or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update information at any time without prior notice.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall we be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use of this website or a site that is linked to this site, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall our total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort, including, but not limited to, negligence, or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOUNT SECURITY

Certain features of our websites may provide you with the option of setting up an account for which you will receive a user ID and password. User IDs and passwords are confidential and proprietary. It is a violation of these Terms of Use for you to: (a) provide any false personal information on the site, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission, (b) create another account without our permission if we disable your account, or (c) do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account. You are solely responsible for any unauthorized use of your user ID and password.

USER COMMENTS, FEEDBACK, SUBMISSIONS, AND POSTINGS

CES may allow you to communicate, submit, upload, transmit or otherwise make available text, images, audio, video, and other content through this website, including in the form of comments, feedback, submissions, or other information (individually and collectively, “Submissions”). By transmitting Submissions on or through the site, you grant CES a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, assignable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, store, modify, display, distribute, prepare derivative works based on, and transmit such Submissions, and you waive any and all moral rights and publicity rights in such Submissions. CES will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, and will not be liable for any ideas for its business (including without limitation, product, or promotion ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future CES business. CES will be entitled to use the Submission for any noncommercial or other purpose whatsoever, without compensation to you or any other person sending the Submission. You acknowledge that you own whatever material you submit, and use of your Submissions by CES will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

You may not make any Submissions that (i) are or may reasonably be considered to be, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, bigoted, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise offensive or objectionable, (ii) violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, intellectual property, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination, or false advertising), or (iii) are known to you to be false, inaccurate, or misleading.

CES has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor, screen, block, post, remove, modify, store and review Submissions or any other communications sent through this website, at any time and for any reason, including to ensure that Submissions conform to these terms, without prior notice to you. We are not responsible for, and do not endorse or guarantee, the opinions, views, advice or recommendations in any Submissions posted or sent by users.

REPORTING OF ABUSIVE OR UNLAWFUL SUBMISSIONS OR CONTENT

If you have knowledge of abusive, infringing or otherwise unlawful Submissions or other content on this website, we want to know. Please send an e-mail to ecozoic.studies@gmail.com describing the content or conduct in detail, including the website address where the content is found and the date and time viewed, and we will investigate removing this material from the website. For claims regarding alleged copyright infringement, see the contact information in that section above.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES

This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by CES. CES is not responsible for the content of those sites. Consequently, we cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, relevancy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in sites listed on or otherwise linked to this website. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by CES. CES makes no representations whatsoever about any other website which you may access through this one.

Please exercise discretion while browsing the Internet. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, solicit personal information, or contain information that you may find inappropriate or offensive. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online that information can be collected and used by people you don’t know. While CES strives to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online; you make such disclosures at your own risk.

We reserve the right to disable links from third-party sites to this website.

PRIVACY POLICY

CES has a Privacy Policy that describes how we collect information from you or about you, why we collect this information, how we will use or disclose this information. In addition, CES’s Privacy Policy sets forth our general policies on information security. See Privacy Policy.

USE BY CHILDREN

This website is intended for adults aged 18 and older. It is not intended for or directed at persons under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, you may not register or submit personally identifiable information to or through this website. CES does not collect personally identifiable information through this website from any person CES actually knows to be under the age of 18.

JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES

This publication is distributed internationally and may contain references to programs, products, and services that are not available in your country, state, or particular location. These references do not imply that the CES intends to announce or provide programs, products, or services in your country, state, or particular location.

Those who choose to access this website do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

These Terms of Use will be governed and be interpreted pursuant to the laws of the State of North Carolina, United States of America, excluding its conflicts of law rules. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use or your use of this site shall be filed only in state courts located in Orange County, North Carolina or federal courts having jurisdiction over such county. If any part of these Terms of Use is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. Possible evidence of use of this site for illegal purposes will be provided to law enforcement authorities. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of this site.

CES can revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this posting.

TERMINATION

These terms are effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate these terms at any time by discontinuing use of it and destroying all Contents obtained from any and all such sites and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise. Your access to this website may be terminated immediately without notice from us if in our sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of these terms. Upon termination, you must cease use of this website and destroy all Contents obtained from it and all copies thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise.

HOW TO CONTACT US

Please see contact information in the relevant sections above regarding reporting copyright infringement or other unlawful content. If you have any comments or questions regarding our Terms of Use generally, you may contact us at:

Center for Ecozoic Studies
2516 Winningham Road
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516
USA
Email: ecozoic.studies@gmail.com
Phone: +1-919-942-4358

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