By using the Association of Legal Administrators, New York City Chapter (the “Chapter”) website, you (Visitor/Member) agree to the terms below. the Chapter can revise these terms at any time. You indemnify the Chapter from any claim.

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
The Chapter provides its service, together with information, content, and products, subject to the following Terms of Service (“TOS”), which may be updated by the Chapter at any time.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
The Chapter website(s) currently provide you and other users with access to a rich collection of resources, including various communication tools, forums, file areas, and personalized content through its online interface (the “Service”). Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current Service shall be subject to the TOS.

REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS
To access and use certain features of the Service you may be required to provide, without limitation, personal information such as your name, company name, email address and login credentials, and/or payment information. You agree to provide current and complete information and you further consent and authorize us to verify information as required for the access of Services, as applicable.

ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY
Users will receive a username and password as part of the Service’s registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to (a) immediately notify the Chapter or its representatives of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from the account at the end of each session. the Chapter and its representatives will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this.

INTERACTIVE SERVICES
In connection with your use of the Services you may access forums, discussion groups, bulletin boards and other “Interactive Services.” You understand that all information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials (“Content”), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. You are responsible for Content you upload and you can be held legally liable for what you post. The Chapter and its representatives do not control the Content posted via the Service and as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. Additionally, you agree to release, hold harmless, indemnify and defend the Chapter and its representatives from any and all legal or civil actions and penalties and costs, including without limitation attorneys’ fees, arising from any Content you transmit. You agree to not use the Service to:

• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially or ethnically objectionable;
• harm minors in any way;
• impersonate any person or entity, including, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent its affiliation with a person or entity;
• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights (“Rights”) of any party;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” or “pyramid schemes,”;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
• intentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
• “stalk” or otherwise harass another; or 
• collect or store personal data about other users.

You acknowledge that the Chapter and its representatives do not pre-screen Content, but that the Chapter and its representatives shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to reclassify within the Service any Content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, the Chapter and its representatives shall have the right to remove any Content that violates the TOS.

SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE
You agree to comply with all applicable laws of the United States regarding online conduct and acceptable Content. Specifically, You agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.

INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold the Chapter and its representatives, their subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, due to or arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit or make available through the Service, or breach of the TOS.

NO RESALE OF SERVICE
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service.

DEALINGS WITH ADVERTISERS
Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that the ALA and its representatives shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service.

LINKS
The Chapter website may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other websites or resources. Because the Chapter and its representatives have no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that the Chapter and its representatives are not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that the Chapter and its representatives shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any third-party sites or resources, or any goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.

PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service (“Software”) contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and agree that Content contained in sponsor advertisements or information presented to you through the Service or advertisers may be protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by the Chapter and its representatives, or advertisers, You agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Service or the Software, in whole or in part. the Chapter grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and license to use the object code of its Software on their computer; provided that you do not (and does not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in the Software. You agree not to modify the Software in any manner or form, or to use modified versions of the Software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to the Service. You agree not to access the Service by any means other than through the interface that is provided by the Chapter and its representatives for use in accessing the Service.

NOTICE
Notices to you may be made via email. The Service may also provide notices of changes to the TOS or other matters by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on the Service. Any Notice that you are required or may desire to give to the Chapter and its representatives under or in conjunction with the TOS or any agreement between the parties shall be made via email to info@alanyc.org and shall be deemed to have been duly delivered based on the date that the electronic mail is received by the Chapter mail servers.

TRADEMARKS AND LOGOS
All trademarks, service marks, trade names or other words or symbols (“Marks”) identifying the Chapter and its representatives will remain such Party’s exclusive property. You agree to not take any action that jeopardizes the other Party’s proprietary rights or acquire any rights in the Marks. Except as specifically stated otherwise in an addendum or amendment hereto, no license to use any the Chapter logo, or the logos of their representatives is granted in this section.

COPYRIGHTS and COPYRIGHT AGENTS
The Chapter and its representatives respect the intellectual property of others, and requires you to do the same. If you believe that its work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or its intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide ALA the following information:

• an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
• a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
• a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
• Your address, telephone number, and email address;
• 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;
• a statement by you, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf. 

Upon receipt of such information, the Chapter and its representatives, at its sole discretion, may perform an investigation and may take appropriate action if it desires.

GENERAL INFORMATION
The TOS and any Subscription Agreement between you and the Chapter and its representatives constitute the entire agreement between you and the Chapter and its representatives and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and the Chapter and its representatives. The failure of the Chapter or its representatives to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOS is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the TOS remain in full force and effect.