Restrictions on Use

This site is owned and operated by Hamilton County Educational Service Center (HCESC) and contains material which is derived in whole or in part from material supplied by HCESC and other sources, and is protected by international copyright and trademark laws. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way any material from this site including code and software. You may download material from this site for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.

License to HCESC

By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication through this service, you are granting HCESC a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to:  use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display any such communication and sublicense to third parties and the unrestricted right to exercise any of the foregoing rights granted with respect to the communication.
The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such communication, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, servicemark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction.

Disclaimer

HCESC has provided links and pointers to Internet sites maintained by third parties.  The materials in this site and the third-party sites are provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind either express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, HCESC disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. HCESC does not warrant that the functions contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site, including bulletin boards, or the server that makes it available, are free of viruses or other harmful components. HCESC does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials in this site or in third-party sites in terms of their correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or otherwise. You, and not HCESC, assume the entire cost of all necessary maintenance, repair or correction.

Interactive Functions and Features

This service may include features and functionality which allows feedback to HCESC and real-time interaction between users. HCESC does not control the messages, information or files delivered to these features. It is a condition of your use of these features and this Web site that you do not:
•  Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying these features.
•  Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law.
•  Post or transmit any information, software or other material which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder.
•  Post or transmit any information, software or other material which contains a virus or other harmful component.
•  Post, transmit or in any way exploit any information, software or other material for commercial purposes, or which contains advertising.

You understand that HCESC has no obligation to monitor these features. However, HCESC reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in HCESC’s sole discretion are objectionable or in violation of these terms and conditions.

Limitation of Liability

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall HCESC be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, HCESC materials. You specifically acknowledge and agree that HCESC is not liable for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any user. If you are dissatisfied with any HCESC material, or with any of HCESC’s terms and conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using HCESC.

Notices and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to HCESC, 11083 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45231.

Termination
This agreement is effective until terminated by HCESC, at any time without notice.

HCESC and Privacy

Because your privacy is important to us, HCESC operates by these principles:
This website ("Site") is maintained by HCESC, 11083 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45231.
We explicitly ask when we need information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information"). HCESC collects information online primarily to make it easier and more rewarding for you to use our services. Depending on the service you are accessing, you could be asked at various times to provide information such as your name, email address, or information about what you like and do not like. On other occasions such as when we provide online registration for events, we may request your credit card number to conclude the transaction, or your mailing address to ensure proper delivery. We request this information to provide our strongest value to you - a personalized online experience. We use your Personal Information to operate the HCESC website and we may occasionally inform you of new features, services, and products from HCESC.

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable the Site to relate your use of the Site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided to the Site.
If at any time you believe a Site has not adhered to these principles, please notify us and we will use all commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and correct the problem.

HCESC will not sell or rent your personal information to anyone.

Security

Your HCESC Personal Information is password-protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas HCESC may use industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Other

This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio without giving effect to any principles or conflicts of law. If any provision of this agreement shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Questions or Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions send an email to webmaster.