These Terms of Use are a binding contract between you and us regarding your use of this web site. By using the NationalSummary.com web site YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS CONDITIONS OF USE (explained below), LEGAL NOTICES, PRIVACY POLICY, and all disclaimers and terms and conditions that appear elsewhere on the NationalSummary.com web site.

This web site may also include materials owned by third parties and posted on the web site by virtue of a license, grant or some other form of agreement between the third party and NationalSummary.com.

Please read these Terms of Use carefully and save them. If you do not agree with the Terms of Use or if at any time you are dissatisfied with the NationalSummary.com web site, its content, or Legal Notices, you agree that your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the NationalSummary.com web site.

TERMS OF USE UPDATES
NationalSummary.com reserves the right to make any changes to the NationalSummary.com web site and its Terms of Use at any time without notice. And we reserve the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of this web site, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability, and anything else needed for access or use without notice. Such changes, modifications, restrictions, additions, or deletions shall be effective immediately. Each time you use the NationalSummary.com web site, you should visit and review the then current Terms of Use regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.

ACCESS
You are only authorized to access this web site or to use the materials contained in the web site (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to these Terms of Use which constitute an Agreement between you and NationalSummary.com.

THIRD PARTY SITES
NationalSummary.com is not responsible for the practices of third party web sites that may be linked to this web site. Your dealings or communications through this web site with any party other than us are solely between you and that third party.

NationalSummary.com takes no responsibility for third party advertisements, which are posted on this web site, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers.

Please review carefully a third party’s policies and practices and make sure you are comfortable with those policies and practices before you engage in any transaction. Any complaints, concerns or questions you may have relating to materials provided by third parties should be forwarded directly to the third party.

This web site may also be linked to other web sites operated by companies affiliated or connected with NationalSummary.com. When visiting other web sites, however, you should refer to each such web site's individual "Terms of Use" and not rely on this Agreement.

THIRD PARTY CONTENT
NationalSummary.com is not responsible for the content of third party web sites that may be linked to this web site. NationalSummary.com is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties.

Accordingly, NationalSummary.com has no more editorial control over such content than does a public library, bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers, or by anyone else, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of NationalSummary.com.

Neither NationalSummary.com nor any third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.

Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice, or other content.

YOUR FEEDBACK
You are welcome and encouraged to post, transmit or submit messages which include uploading files, inputting data or any other materials or engaging in any form of communication in connection with this web site to any public areas within, or in connection with this web site.

This web site has created several areas for you to provide an avenue to express your opinions and share your ideas and information. Given the nature of this web site and the volume of messages and postings, we use reasonable efforts to monitor the web site, yet cannot and does not monitor all of the material posted or transmitted by users and third party information providers. To protect your safety, please use your best judgment when using this web site. We particularly discourage divulging personal phone numbers and addresses or other information that can be used to identify or locate you. We reserve the right to delete, move or edit any communications at any time, for any reason or in its discretion, but have no obligation to review or remove any such content.

CONDUCT
You shall use NationalSummary.com for lawful purposes only. NationalSummary.com is a general audience web site and we reserve the right to restrict any activity or communication of any user.

By submitting messages or any form of communication, you represent to NationalSummary.com that you are the rightful owner of such material or that you have first obtained permission to submit the material from the rightful owner. We strictly prohibit posting or submitting communications of material that:

• Contains offensive, libelous, vulgar, pornographic, profane, false, indecent, abusive, hateful, defamatory, obscene, fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading statements or remarks;
• Violates a copyright or trademark, or any other intellectual property right of another;
• Violates the privacy rights of any third party;
• Violates any municipal, state or federal law, international law, rule, regulation or ordinance, or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense or gives rise to civil liability or attempts to encourage such violation;
• Improperly assume or claim the identity, characteristics or qualifications of another person;
• Are for purposes of spamming;
• Contain any virus or other harmful component, or;
• Are for commercial purposes or contain advertising or are intended to solicit a person to buy or sell services or to make donations.

This list is not exhaustive therefore we reserve the right to remove any content posted on the web site and/or terminate your access to this web site at any time for any reason.

In addition, children under the age of 13 are not authorized to post messages or participate in any public area on this web site. NationalSummary.com is intended for use by individuals 13 years of age or older. NationalSummary.com is not directed to use by children under the age of 13. Users under the age of 13 should get the assistance of a parent or guardian to use this web site.

LINKING
If you operate a web site and you are interested in creating hypertext links to this web site, you may link only to the home page of this web site and not to any other page or sub-domain of NationalSummary.com. In establishing hypertext links, you must not represent in any way, expressly or by implication, that you have received the endorsement, sponsorship or support of this web site, including its respective employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders.

You may not frame or utilize framing techniques that involve any copyrighted material or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of any portion of the web site or suggest any relationship between our web site and you without our express written consent. In addition, you agree not to de-compile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through this web site, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of this website in any way that affects the user’s experience, and not to use any data mining, robots, cancelbots, spiders, Trojan horse, or any data gathering or extraction method in connection with your use of this web site.

If NationalSummary.com has provided links or pointers to other web sites, no inference or assumption should be made and no representation should be implied that NationalSummary.com is connected with, operates or controls these web sites.

YOUR REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
You represent, warrant and covenant (a) that no materials of any kind submitted by you contain any fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading or otherwise unlawful material. If you are providing information to this web site, you are at least thirteen (13) years old.

INDEMNIFICATION
By accessing this web site, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless NationalSummary.com, their respective affiliate companies, officers, directors, employees, shareholders, information providers, affiliates, licensors and licensees (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all liability and costs, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you or any user of your account of these Terms or as reasonably required in the defense of any such claim.

We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.

PROPRIETARY MATERIAL
All of the information, content, services and software displayed on, transmitted through, or used in connection with this web site, including for example directories, guides, news articles, opinions, reviews, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, html, source and object code, software, data, and the like (collectively, the "Content"), as well as its selection and arrangement, is owned by us, or its affiliated companies, licensors and suppliers. We actively protect our rights to the Content to the fullest extent of the law. You may not use such material except as provided in these Terms of Service.

All materials contained in this web site are proprietary material and must only be used solely for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may use the Content online and solely for your personal, non-commercial use, and you may download or print a single copy of any portion of the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright or other notice contained in such Content. No other use is permitted. You may not, for example, republish the Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the Content in any database, compilation, archive or cache. You may not distribute any of the Content to others, whether or not for payment or other consideration, and you may not modify, copy, frame, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display or otherwise use any portion of the Content without our written consent.

The reproduction, duplication, distribution (including by way of email, facsimile or other electronic means), publication, modification, copying or transmission of material from this web site is STRICTLY PROHIBITED unless you have obtained the prior written consent of NationalSummary.com or unless it is expressly permitted by this web site. The material covered by this prohibition includes, without limitation, any text, graphics, logos, photographs, audio or video material or stills from audiovisual material available on this web site. The use of materials from this web site on any other web site or networked computer environment is similarly prohibited.

You are also STRICTLY PROHIBITED from creating works or materials that derive from or are based on the materials contained in this Site including, without limitation, fonts, icons, link buttons, wallpaper, desktop themes, on-line postcards and greeting cards and unlicensed merchandise. This prohibition applies regardless of whether the derivative materials are sold, bartered or given away.

Requests to use the Content for any purpose other than as permitted in this section should be directed to:

CustomerService at NationalSummary.com

DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
While we use reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on this web site, we make no warranties or representations as to the accuracy of the Content and assume no liability or responsibility for any error or omission in the Content.

We do not represent or warrant that use of any Content, when authorized, will not infringe the rights of third parties. In addition, in some cases, Content available on the Site may be provided and/or hosted by third parties. We have not reviewed all of the web sites linked to this web site and are not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or links to or from any other web sites. While we encourage such third parties to abide by these Terms of Service, we have no responsibility for actions of third parties.

While NationalSummary.com does its best to ensure the optimal performance of this web site, you agree that you use this web site and rely on material contained in this web site at your own risk.

This web site, and all materials in this web site, are provided "as is" and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, are provided without warranties of any kind either express or implied. This means, without limitation, that NationalSummary.com does not warrant that:

• This web site is fit for any particular purpose;
• The functions contained in the materials in this web site will be uninterrupted;
• Defects will be corrected;
• This web site is free of viruses and other harmful components or
• The web site is accurate, error free or reliable.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NationalSummary.com AND THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS, THEIR PARENTS AND AFFILIATES TOGETHER WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND SHAREHOLDERS, ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DELAYS, INACCURACIES, FAILURES, ERRORS, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DELETIONS, DEFECTS, VIRUSES, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURES OR FOR THE THEFT, DESTRUCTION, DAMAGE OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR NETWORK.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NationalSummary.com IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OR MATERIAL FOUND IN CONNECTION WITH THIS WEB SITE, INCLUDING SUCH CONDUCT OR MATERIAL TRANSMITTED BY ANY MEANS BY ANY OTHER PERSON.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NationalSummary.com AND THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING FROM YOUR USE OR FROM YOUR INABILITY TO USE THE WEB SITE.

MISCELLANEOUS
These Terms of Service will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflicts of law provisions. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not be given any legal import.

Any opinions or views expressed herein belong solely to the author and does not represent any employer, organization, political party, governmental agency, or any other entity and do not necessarily reflect the views of the site owner or its participants.