The following terms and conditions govern all use of the EmeritusLiving.com website
and all content, services and products available at or through the website. The
Website is owned and operated by Omega IQ, Inc. (“Omega IQ”). The Website is offered
subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions
contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation,
EmeritusLiving’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time
to time on this Site by EmeritusLiving (collectively, the “Agreement”).
Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing
or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions
of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement,
then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions
are considered an offer by EmeritusLiving, acceptance is expressly limited to these
terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.
1. Disclaimer.
The contents of the EmeritusLiving site, including text, graphics, images, and other
material are for informational purposes only. Nothing contained in this site is
or should be considered or used as a substitute for professional medical or mental
health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Never disregard medical advice from your doctor or other qualified health care provider
or delay seeking it because of something you have read on the Internet, including
on the EmeritusLiving site. We urge you to seek the advice of your physician or
other qualified health professional with any questions you may have regarding a
medical or mental health condition. In case of emergency, please call your doctor
or 911 immediately.
The information contained on or provided through the EmeritusLiving site is provided
on an "as is" basis, without any warranty, express or implied. Any access to this
site is voluntary and at your own risk.
2. Outside Interests.
EmeritusLiving.com is a service provided solely by Omega IQ. There are no investors
or partners with a financial interest in the information being provided on the site.
3. Your EmeritusLiving.com Account and Site.
If you create a profile on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the
security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that
occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the website.
You must not describe or assign keywords to your profile in a misleading or unlawful
manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others,
and EmeritusLiving may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers
inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause EmeritusLiving liability.
You must immediately notify EmeritusLiving of any unauthorized uses of your account
or any other breaches of security. EmeritusLiving will not be liable for any acts
or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such
acts or omissions.
4. Responsibility of Contributors.
If you comment on an article, post material to the Website, post links on the Website,
or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means
of the Website (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for
the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless
of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or
computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
- the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary
rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret
rights, of any third party;
- if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either
(i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content,
including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a
waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
- you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and
have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required
terms;
- the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses
or other harmful or destructive content;
- the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain
unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party
sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful
acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such
as spoofing);
- the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence, and
does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
- your profile is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that
you are another person or company. For example, your profile name is not the name
of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and
- you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized
and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested
to do so by EmeritusLiving or otherwise.
By submitting Content to EmeritusLiving for inclusion on your Website, you grant
EmeritusLiving a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce,
modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing
and promoting your profile. If you delete Content, EmeritusLiving will use reasonable
efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references
to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.
Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, EmeritusLiving has
the right (though not the obligation) to, in EmeritusLiving’s sole discretion (i)
refuse or remove any content that, in EmeritusLiving’s reasonable opinion, violates
any EmeritusLiving policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate
or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason,
in EmeritusLiving’s sole discretion. EmeritusLiving will have no obligation to provide
a refund of any amounts previously paid.
5. Responsibility of Website Visitors.
EmeritusLiving has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including
computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for
that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, EmeritusLiving
does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that
it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible
for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems
from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The
Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable,
as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and
other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or
publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights,
of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional
terms and conditions, stated or unstated. EmeritusLiving disclaims any responsibility
for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading
by those visitors of content there posted.
6. Content Posted on Other Websites.
We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer
software, made available through the websites and webpages to which EmeritusLiving.com
links, and that link to EmeritusLiving.com. EmeritusLiving does not have any control
over those non-EmeritusLiving websites and webpages, and is not responsible for
their contents or their use. By linking to a non-EmeritusLiving website or webpage,
EmeritusLiving does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage.
You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and
your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive
content. EmeritusLiving disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from
your use of non-EmeritusLiving.com website and webpage.
7. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy.
As EmeritusLiving asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects
the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located
on or linked to by EmeritusLiving.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged
to notify EmeritusLiving immediately. EmeritusLiving will respond to all such notices,
including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling
all links to the infringing material. EmeritusLiving will terminate a visitor’s
access to and use of the Website if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor
is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property
rights of EmeritusLiving or others. In the case of such termination, EmeritusLiving
will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to EmeritusLiving.
8. Intellectual Property.
This Agreement does not transfer from EmeritusLiving to you any EmeritusLiving or
third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such
property will remain (as between the parties) solely with EmeritusLiving. EmeritusLiving,
EmeritusLiving, EmeritusLiving.com, the EmeritusLiving.com logo, and all other trademarks,
service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with EmeritusLiving.com, or
the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of EmeritusLiving or EmeritusLiving’s
licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection
with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website
grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any EmeritusLiving
or third-party trademarks.
9. Advertisements.
EmeritusLiving reserves the right to display advertisements on your profile or within
content contributed by users.
10. Changes.
EmeritusLiving reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace
any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically
for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting
of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. EmeritusLiving
may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website
(including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services
shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
11. Termination.
EmeritusLiving may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any
time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you
wish to terminate this Agreement or your EmeritusLiving account (if you have one),
you may simply discontinue using the Website. All provisions of this Agreement which
by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including,
without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations
of liability.
12. Disclaimer of Warranties.
The Website is provided “as is”. EmeritusLiving and its suppliers and licensors
hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without
limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose
and non-infringement. Neither EmeritusLiving nor its suppliers and licensors, makes
any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be
continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise
obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
13. Limitation of Liability.
In no event will EmeritusLiving, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect
to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability
or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential
damages; (ii) personal injury/wrongful death (iii) lost profits or the cost of procurement
for substitute products or services; (iv) for interruption of use or loss or corruption
of data; or (v) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to EmeritusLiving
under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action.
EmeritusLiving shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond
their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited
by applicable law.
14. General Representation and Warranty.
You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance
with the EmeritusLiving Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable
laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations
in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct
and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission
of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside)
and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual
property rights of any third party.
The EmeritusLiving site is presented for use by the general public without warranty
or guarantee. EmeritusLiving is not liable to any user or anyone else for any decision
made or action taken based on reliance upon the information contained on or provided
through the site.
We do not make any express or implied warranties, representations or endorsements
of any kind whatsoever (including without limitation, warranties of title or non-infringement
of third parties’ rights, or any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose) with regard to the service, or with respect to any information,
product, service, merchandise or other material provided on or through the service.
EmeritusLiving does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, completeness, correctness,
timeliness, or usefulness of any information, services, or other material provided
on or through the site. EmeritusLiving makes no warranty or guarantee that the website
will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free.
15. Indemnification.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless EmeritusLiving, its contractors, and its
licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and
against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out
of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this
Agreement.
16. Miscellaneous.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between EmeritusLiving and you concerning
the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment
signed by an authorized executive of EmeritusLiving, or by the posting by EmeritusLiving
of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise,
this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws
of the state of Illinois, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and
the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same
will be the state and federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois. Except for
claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property
rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond),
any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance
with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation
Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules.
The arbitration shall take place in Chicago, Illinois, in the English language and
the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any
action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’
fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part
will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions
will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition
of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such
term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under
this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms
and conditions; EmeritusLiving may assign its rights under this Agreement without
condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of
the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.
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