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Updated: April 2, 2007

The following Website Terms and Conditions Agreement (the "Agreement") governs your use of the Website[s] accessible at www.sumterchamber.com. Your use of the Service constitutes your acceptance of the Agreement. Your acceptance of the Agreement provides you with a limited and temporary license and permission to use the software and other resources of the Service, which license and permission are freely revocable at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice, by the The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce, as described more fully below. Please print a copy of this document for your records. To retain an electronic copy of this Agreement, you may save it into any word processing program.

Copyright and Trade Mark Rights

All copyright/ trade mark rights in the text, images, photographs, graphics, user interface, and other content provided on the Service are owned by The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce (or their respective owners) to the full extent provided under the United States Copyright laws and all international copyright laws. Under applicable copyright laws, you are prohibited from copying, reproducing, modifying, distributing, displaying, performing or transmitting any of the contents of the Service for any purposes.

The Service and the information contained in reference herein are for informational purposes only. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution for commercial purposes of any materials or design elements of the Service is strictly prohibited, without the prior written consent of The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce. Systematic retrieval of data or other content from this Service to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without written permission from The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce is prohibited.

Modification of This Agreement

The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce reserves the right to amend this Agreement at any time. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then-current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound. Your use of the Service after the posting of modifications to this Agreement will constitute your acceptance of this Agreement, as modified. If, at any time, you do not wish to accept this Agreement, you may not use the Service.

Links

This Service may contain links to other services ("Linked Services"). The Linked Services are not under the control of The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce are not responsible for the contents of the Linked Services, including, without limitation, links contained on Linked Services, or any changes or updates to Linked Services. The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce provide any Linked Services to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any such Linked Services is not an endorsement by The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce in favor of any company offering Internet services, products or services on the Linked Services.

Other sites may link without prior permission to the home page of the Service only through a plain-text link or a Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce provided logo image.

Not withstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, we reserve the right to deny or rescind permission to link to the Service from any Website, and to require termination of any link to the Service, for any reason in our sole and absolute discretion.

Obligations

You are required to comply with all applicable law in connection with your use of the Service, and such further limitations as may be set forth in any written or on-screen notice from The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce. As a condition of your use of the Service, you represent and warrant that you will not use the Service for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by this Agreement.

Prohibited Uses Generally

Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to transmit, distribute, post, communicate or store information or other material on, to or through the Service that:

(a) is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or valid licensee to such materials;

(b) infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others;

(c) is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, slanderous or embarrassing to any other person or entity or in violation of applicable law as determined by The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce in their sole discretion;

(d) is sexually-explicit;

(e) contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information.

You further agree not to:

(a) use any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or other information for purposes of registering as a user of the Service, or for purposes of registering for any promotions offered through the Service;

(b) delete or revise any material or other information of any other user of the Service;

(c) harvest, collect, or send information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent;

(d) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Service’s infrastructure;

(e) use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service or any activity being conducted on this site;

(f) use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatar’s or intelligent agents) to navigate or search the Service to harvest or otherwise collect information from the Service to be used for any commercial purpose;

(g) attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Service.

You further agree not to violate or attempt to violate the security of the Service, including, without limitation:

(a) accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account that you are not authorized to access;

(b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;

(c) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, by way of submitting a virus to, or overloading, "flooding", "spamming", "mail bombing" or "crashing", the Service;

(d) sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; or

(e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or posting. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability.

The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce may investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.

Notice of Copyright Infringement

If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce with the following information:

(a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;

(b) identification of the allegedly infringing material on the Service that is requested to be removed;

(c) your name, address and daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address if available, so that The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce may contact you if necessary;

(d) a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

(e) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the signatory is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright right that is allegedly infringed; and

(f) an electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized on the owner’s behalf to assert infringement of copyright and to submit the statement.

The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce can be reached as follows:

The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce
32 East Calhoun St
Sumter , SC 29150

803-775-1231 or info@sumterchamber.com

Privacy Policy

The following are the types of information we may collect:

Site Usage Information
We may receive and store certain types of information whenever you visit the Site. For example, we may collect click-stream data and your IP address.

Cookies :
As with many Web sites, the Site uses standard technology called "cookies," which are small data files that are transferred to your computer when you allow your browser to accept cookies. By tracking how and when you use the Site, cookies help us determine which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the Site are based on data obtained from cookies. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you generally can opt out of providing this information by turning the cookies off in your browser

IP Addresses and Click-stream Data:
We may collect IP addresses and/or click-stream data for purposes of system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers and sponsors. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. Our computers identify your computer by its IP address. When you request Web pages from the Site, our computers log your IP address.

Click-stream data is information collected by our computers when you request Web pages from the Site. Click-stream data may include such information as the page served, the time, the source of the request, the type of browser making the request, the preceding page view and other such non-personal information. When analyzed, this data helps us analyze how visitors arrive at the Site, what type of content is most popular, what type of visitors in the aggregate are interested in particular kinds of content and advertising, and the like.

You by your use of the Service agree and consent to the terms of the Service Privacy Policy.

Access to the Service

In order to access the Service, you must have access to the World Wide Web, either directly or through devices that access web-based content, and pay any service fees associated with such access. In addition, you must use all equipment necessary to make such connection to the World Wide Web, including a computer and modem or other access device.

Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS." THE GREATER SUMTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ANY PART THEREOF, OR ANY WEB SITE OR OTHER CONTENT OR SERVICE THAT MAY BE ACCESSIBLE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THROUGH THE SERVICE.

Limitation of Liability

IN NO EVENT WILL THE GREATER SUMTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OR THEIR AFFILIATES, OR ANY PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DELIVERING THIS SERVICE, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO THIS SERVICE, BE LIABLE IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS, USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SERVICE OR ANY SITE LINKED TO THIS SERVICE, OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE OR SYSTEM FAILURE (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, TRADING LOSSES, AND DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM INACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION OR INCONVENIENCE, DELAY, OR LOSS OF THE USE OF THE SERVICE) EVEN IF THE GREATER SUMTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OR ANY THIRD PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSSES.

THE GREATER SUMTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ALTER THE CONTENT OF THIS SERVICE IN ANY WAY, AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY REASON, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTIFICATION.

No Professional Advice

Any information supplied by any employee or agent of The Great Sumter Chamber of Commerce, whether by telephone, e-mail, letter, facsimile or other form of communication, is intended solely as general guidance on the use of the Service, and does not constitute legal, tax, accounting or other professional advice. Individual situations and state laws vary and users are encouraged to obtain appropriate advice from qualified professionals in the applicable jurisdictions. The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce make no representations or warranties concerning any course of action taken by any person following or otherwise using the information offered or provided within or through the Service, and will not be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, special, exemplary or other damages that may result, including but not limited to economic loss, injury, illness or death.