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Website Terms of Use

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

The following terms are a legal agreement between you ("you", "your") and Grayczyk Innovations (hereinafter, "Grayczyk Innovations" or "GI"). By accessing, browsing and/or using any part of the website(s) located at this domain or any other GI-owned domain name (hereinafter, "this Website"), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree to these terms, you are prohibited from using this Website.

If this Website is being accessed by a spider, robot, or other program, these terms shall apply to the entity that owns the program accessing this Website.

Scope

These Terms of Use govern your use of this Website and all applications, tools, services software and information available via this Website (collectively, "Website Service(s)"), with the exception of any services that are the subject of a separate agreement. Specific terms or agreements may apply to the use of certain Website Services, products and other items provided to you either directly or indirectly via this Website (“Service Agreement(s)”). Any such Service Agreements accompany or are listed in association with or through a hyperlink associated with the applicable Services.

Privacy Policy

The GI Privacy Policy governs the use of information collected by this Website or provided by you to this Website. This policy is maintained in a separate document, currently located at http://www.grayczyk.com/help/p_privacy.asp.

Availability

Although every effort is made to ensure the uptime and functionality of this Website and the Website Services, Grayczyk Innovations shall not be held liable for the Website's or any Website Service's lack of availability due to any foreseeable or unforeseeable circumstance. Maintenance may be performed on this Website or any Website Service at any time, with or without notice or warning.

License

Grayczyk Innovations grants you a personal, limited, nontransferable, nonsublicensable, and revokable license to view and use this Website only in a manner prescribed by Grayczyk Innovations (such manner is described herein). You may not reverse-engineer, modify, reproduce, republish, archive, translate, re-transmit, redistribute, sell, offer for sale, or make derivative works from this Website in whole or in part in any way without the express written consent from an authorized officer of Grayczyk Innovations (hereinafter, "an authorized officer of Grayczyk Innovations" shall be included in the previously defined terms of "Grayczyk Innovations" or "GI").

Intellectual Property

Except where otherwise indicated, this Website and all data contained herein is the sole intellectual property of Grayczyk Innovations, its partners, or affiliates. This Website is protected by United States and International copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, and other laws and treaties, and may not be imitated or copied in whole or in part for any purpose without the express written consent from an authorized officer of Grayczyk Innovations.

"Grayczyk", "Grayczyk Innovations", "why settle?", the Grayczyk Innovations logo, and the stylized "GI" logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Grayczyk Innovations and may only be used with the written permission of Grayczyk Innovations.

Restictions on Use

You agree that:
  • You will not disguise, or "spoof" the origin of any information transmitted to this website. This includes but is not limited to falsification of IP address(es).
  • When accessing this Website, you will not alter, falsify or disguise any data that is normally automatically transmitted when a user connects to a website. Such information includes, but is not limited to falsification of user-agent data.
  • You will not submit false or misleading information through this website.
  • You will not access this website by any means for the purpose of harvesting data such as contact information for marketing purposes of any kind.
  • You will not upload to this Website, or send or transmit to any email or physical address provided by this Website, any data which knowingly or unknowingly contains viruses, worms, Trojan horses, time-bombs, spyware, or any other computer program, script, or other routine that is intended to interfere with, damage, intercept, interrupt, or seize control of this Website or any computer system. You will scan any data that you intend to upload, send or transmit with up-to-date antivirus software to ensure that it is free of such harmful code.
  • You will not upload to this Website, or send or transmit to any email or physical address provided by this Website, any data that infringes upon the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of any other entity.
  • Certain areas of this Website are restricted, or are otherwise intended for certain users such as GI personnel, or GI customers. You agree that you will not access or attempt to access any portion of this Website that you know or suspect is not intended for you. Such areas may or may not be password protected. Furthermore, if you are a GI customer, employee, contractor, partner or affiliate with permission to access restricted portions of this Website, you agree that you will not attempt to access data that is intended for another GI customer, employee, contractor, partner or affiliate.
  • You shall not use or access this Website or any Website Services in any manner that, in the sole judgment of Grayczyk Innovations, adversely affects the performance of this Website, any Website Service or any other GI system, or has any negative impat on the ability of Grayczyk Innovations to conduct its regular business operations.
  • You may not access this Website, or cause this Website to be accessed within a frame, or in any other manner which causes this Website to be displayed with content that is not part of this Website within the same window, except where expressly permitted by Grayczyk Innovations. If you find yourself accessing this website enclosed within a frame of any kind, you are asked to inform GI through the General Contact Form on this Website.
  • You may not, without the express written and signed consent of Grayczyk Innovations, archive this Website in any way, in whole or in part, even if the reason is deemed to be for educational, historical, or cultural value.
  • You may not copy or republish any portion of this site in any medium, even if you state that the content was taken from this Website or is the property of Grayczyk Innovations.

Outbound Links

This Website may contain hyperlinks to third-party websites (hereinafter, "Linked Websites"). These links are provided solely for your convenience and do not necessarily constitute an endosement by Grayczyk Innovations of the content, products or services provided by such Linked Websites. If you choose to visit any Linked Website, you do so at your own risk. Grayczyk Innovations makes no representations or warranties regarding the quality of any information, content, product or service provided by or available through Linked Websites. Your use of any Linked Website may be subject to any applicable terms of use as provided by the Linked Website.

Inbound Linking

You may link to this Website, provided that the following restrictions are met:
  • You may only link to this Website's home page, located at http://www.grayczyk.com (hereinafter, the "GI Homepage"). Linking to other web pages or files within this Website ("Deep Linking") is expressly prohibited.
    • Exception for Major Search Engines: Deep Linking is permitted to Major Search Engines, defined as websites with a Google PageRank[1] of 7 or higher, which use spiders to programmatically crawl the internet and index websites for the purpose of displaying relevant, high-quality search results to users. Such websites must also provide a link to the GI Homepage.
  • Links to this Website must not cause pop-up advertisements or any other advertisement for you or any other party to be displayed.
  • Your link(s) to this Website shall not cause this Website to be displayed within a frame or in any manner that causes content that is not part of this Website to be displayed within the same window as this Website. If your policy requires that users be informed that they are leaving your website, you may do so with a message on the page with the link to this Website that informs users that they will be leaving your website when they click the link. You may not use an exit page or click-through page that redirects to this Website.
  • Unless you have been expressly permitted to do otherwise by Grayczyk Innovations, links to this website must be a standard and direct text HTML hyperlink, written as follows:
    <a href="http://www.grayczyk.com" target="_blank" title="Grayczyk Innovations">Grayczyk Innovations</a>
  • If you wish to link to this Website using an image, the image must be approved of and provided by Grayczyk Innovations.
  • Links to this Website must, in the sole judgment of Grayczyk Innovations, accurately and positively represent Grayczyk Innovations and this Website.
  • Links to this website must not imply an endorsement by Grayczyk Innovations unless expressly permitted to do so by Grayczyk Innovations.
  • Any public mention of this Website, Grayczyk Innovations, or any GI product or service, where the public or your customers are referred to this Website, must be in the form of a direct mention of this Website and the GI Homepage URL, "www.grayczyk.com". Pointing users to your website, where they can find a link that will take them to this Website is strictly prohibited. You may also use the opportunity to promote your own site, but you must include a direct mention of this Website and the GI Homepage URL.

References

If you manually or programmatically publish online references to Grayczyk Innovations or to this Website in a manner that is indexable by search engines, you MUST provide a link to this Website, as described in the Inbound Linking section above. Such reference must not include the string "grayczyk.com" (in plain text, or URL-encoded) in the URL of that page making the reference. The contents of such reference is subject to the approval of Grayczyk Innovations and may not violate any provision of these terms unless expressly permitted to do so by Grayczyk Innovations.

Submissions

While Grayczyk Innovations appreciates feedback from users, Grayczyk Innovations cannot accept any ideas you may consider to be proprietary regarding designs, website ideas, products, technology, or other suggestions you may have developed. Therefore, any material you submit to or through this Website, or to an email or physical address associated with this Website that is not submitted as part of a service you have commissioned us to perform for you will hereby be deemed as a grant of a royalty-free, irrevokable, worldwide, nonexclusive, transferrable, and perpetual right and license to use, modify, reproduce, display, translate, and create derivative works from and distribute these materials in any medium known now or developed in the future, without restriction of any kind whatsoever. Additionally, you certify that all "moral-rights" have been waived.

Termination

You agree that Grayczyk Innovations may, in its sole discretion, terminate or temporarily suspend your use of this Website and any Website Services, at any time, with or without reason, even if continued access is allowed to others. If such termination occurs, you agree to 1) immediately discontinue your use of this Website; and 2) immediately destroy any and all data you may have that is associated with, obtained or derived from this website, including relevant data contained in your web browser cache. Failure or refusal to fulfill your obligations in the event of such a suspension or termination shall constitute an act of trespass. You agree that Grayczyk Innovations shall not be liable to you or any other party for any suspension or termination of your access to this Website or any Website service.

Modifications

You should periodically check these Terms of Use from time to time, as they may be updated or modified at any time without notice. Your continued use of this website shall signify your acceptance to any modifications to these Terms.

Jurisdiction and Governing Law

These Terms of Use and your agreement to be bound by them shall, to the maximum lawful extent, be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida without reference to principles of conflicts of laws. You agree that any proceeding arising from or relating to your use of this Website, or the Website Services shall take place in a court located in Pasco County, Florida, USA.

General

If any of the provisions of these Terms of Use are found by a court of competent juridsiction to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall not be affected and shall remain in full force and effect. Failure to enforce any provision of these Terms of Use shall not be construed as consent to or as a continuing waiver of these Terms of Use.

Complete Agreement

Except as provided in separate Service Agreement(s) between you and Grayczyk Innovations, this constitutes the entire agreement between you and Grayczyk Innovations with respect to your use of this Website and the Website Services.

Comments

Questions or comments regarding this Website may be directed to the Webmaster via the General Contact Form on this Website.
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[1] PageRank is a patented technology owned by Google, and is a trademark or registered trademark of Google. Google is not affiliated with Grayczyk Innovations.

[last updated: 11.24.2007]


 
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