Terms & Conditions
Welcome to the official Web site of Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Billings, Montana. Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming online properties are comprised of, but not limited to, all pages found under www.gsmw.org.
Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using the Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming website. By using the pages on this site, you signify your agreement to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use the Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of these sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
Ownership and restrictions on use of materials
Unless
otherwise noted, all materials, including images, illustrations,
designs, icons, photographs, video clips, and written and other
materials contained on any Girl Scout site (collectively, the
"contents") are protected by copyrights, trademarks, trade
dress, and/or other intellectual properties owned or controlled by
Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming.
The contents of the Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming site are intended solely for personal, noncommercial (other than for the purchase of merchandise from our site) use by the users of our site. You may view, copy, and print the contents displayed on this site subject to the following conditions:
(i) you use the material for noncommercial use only
(ii) you
keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices
(iii)
you make no modifications to any materials
(iv) you do not use
the materials in a manner that suggests an association with any of our
products, services, or brands, and
(v) you do not download
quantities of materials to a database that can be used to avoid future
downloads from the Girl Scout site
If unsure, please contact GSMW for permission at socialmedia@gsmw.org.
For purposes of these terms, the use of any such material on any other Web site or computer environment is prohibited. No right, title, or interest in any downloaded contents or software is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading or copying. You may not reproduce (except as noted above), publish, transmit, distribute, display, modify, create derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of, or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, any of the contents, the site, or any related software. You may not attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any of the software used by Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming as part of the web sites.
Registration and account security
Certain features of our websites 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 and Conditions 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.
Copyright and trademark information
Girl Scouts has the
sole and exclusive right by virtue of its Congressional Charter, 36
U.S.C. § 80301 et. Seq., to have and use all service marks,
trademarks, emblems, badges, descriptive or designating marks, and
other words now or heretofore used in carrying out its program and is
the owner of the GIRL SCOUTS name, service mark, and trademark, and of
all other associated names, marks, slogans, insignias, logotypes and
designs, including but not limited to the distinctive TREFOIL design
mark, the GSUSA uniforms and other indicia, the names and marks “Girl
Scouts of Montana and Wyoming”, "Girl Scouts of the United States
of America", "Girl Scout Daisies", Girl Scout
Brownies", "Girl Scout Juniors", "Girl Scout
Cadettes", "Girl Scout Seniors", and "Girl Scout
Ambassadors", and such trademarks and service marks as WHERE
GIRLS GROW STRONG, FOR EVERY GIRL EVERYWHERE, GIRLSPORTS, and GIRL
SCOUT COOKIES (hereinafter collectively identified as the
"Intellectual Property").
All other trademarks displayed on this site or through links to other sites are the property of the respective trademark owners.
Claims regarding copyright infringements
Pursuant to the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), Girl Scouts of
Montana and Wyoming 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 socialmedia@gsmw.org . To be
effective, a notice must be a written communication provided to Girl
Scouts of Montana and Wyoming 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. Our designated copyright agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement appearing on the Web site is: Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming, 2303 Grand Ave, Billings, Montana 59102 Attention: Online Communications Monitoring Team with an email address at: socialmedia@gsmw.org .
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, Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming disclaims all warranties or
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Girl Scouts of
Montana and Wyoming 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 of the server that makes it available are
free of viruses or other harmful components. Girl Scouts of Montana
and Wyoming does not warrant or make representations regarding the use
of, or make any representations regarding the use of, or the result of
any material in this site in terms of their correctness, accuracy,
reliability, or otherwise.
Site contents
Information on any Girl Scouts of Montana
and Wyoming Web site is provided with the understanding that the Girl
Scouts of Montana and Wyoming is not rendering professional advice or
recommendations. You should not rely on any information on these pages
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, any Girl Scout site
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.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold
Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming harmless from and against any and
all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including attorneys' fees,
arising from or related to your use of the site or the content you
post to the Web site.
User comments, feedback, submissions, and postings
Girl
Scouts of Montana and Wyoming may allow you to communicate, submit,
upload, transmit or otherwise make available text, images, audio,
video, and other content, including in the form of comments, feedback,
submissions, or other information. By transmitting submissions on or
through the site, you grant Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming a
perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, assignable,
sub-licensable 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. Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming 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
Girl Scout business. Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming 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 submission by Girl Scouts of Montana and
Wyoming 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.
Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming 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 Web site, 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 Web site, we want to know.
Please send an e-mail to describing the content or conduct in detail,
including the Web site address to socialmedia@gsmw.org please
include where the content is found and the date and time viewed, and
we will investigate removing this material from the Web site. For
claims regarding alleged copyright infringement, see the contact
information in that section above.
Links to other web sites and services
This site may be
linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by Girl
Scouts of Montana and Wyoming. Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming 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 a Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming site.
The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by
Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming. Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming
makes no representations whatsoever about any other Web site 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 Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming 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 any Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming site.
Jurisdictional issues
This publication is available
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 Girl Scouts of
Montana and Wyoming intends to announce or provide programs, products,
or services in your country, state, or particular location.
Unless otherwise specified, the contents on any Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming site are presented solely for these purposes of promoting programs, products, services, and other content available in the United States and its territories, possessions, and protectorates. Those who choose to access the Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming site 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 and Conditions will be
governed and be interpreted pursuant to the laws of the States of
Montana and Wyoming, 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 and
Conditions or your use of this site shall be filed only in the federal
courts located in Montana. If any part of these Terms and Conditions
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.
Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming can revise these Terms and Conditions 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 all Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming Web sites
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 any and
all Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming sites 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 the Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming site and
destroy all contents obtained from such site 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 and Conditions generally, you can contact us at:
Headquarters:
Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming/Communications
2303
Grand Ave, Billings, MT 59102
All locations use the same phone numbers:
Phone: (800)
736.5243 or (406) 252.0488
Fax: (406) 252-4063
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. MST
