TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE OF Great American River Journeys WEB
SITE
1. Definitions.
"GARJ’s website" is an on-line service operated
by CQ River Cruises, LLC, DBA Great American River Journeys. ("GARJ")
on the World Wide Web of the Internet, consisting of information
services and content provided by GARJ, affiliates of GARJ, and/or
other third parties. "User" means each person who establishes
or accesses a connection ("Session") for access to and
use of GARJ’s website.
2. General.
(A) This Agreement, which incorporates by reference
other provisions applicable to use of GARJ’s website, governing
the use of certain specific material contained in GARJ’s website,
sets forth the terms and conditions that apply to use of GARJ’s
web site by User. By using GARJ’s website (other than to read
this Agreement for the first time), User agrees to comply with all
of the terms and conditions hereof. The right to use GARJ’s
website is personal to User and is not transferable to any other
person or entity. User is responsible for all use of User's Session
(under any screen name or password) and for ensuring that all use
of User's Session complies fully with the provisions of this Agreement.
User shall be responsible for protecting the confidentiality of
User's password(s), if any.
(B) GARJ shall have the right at any time to change
or discontinue any aspect or feature of GARJ’s website, including,
but not limited to, content, hours of availability, and equipment
needed for access or use.
3. Changed Terms.
GARJ shall have the right at any time to change or modify the terms
and conditions applicable to User's use of GARJ’s website,
or any part thereof, or to impose new conditions, including, but
not limited to, adding fees and charges for use. Such changes, modifications,
additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice
thereof, which may be given by means including, but not limited
to, posting on GARJ’s website, or by electronic or conventional
mail, or by any other means by which User obtains notice thereof.
Any use of GARJ’s website by User after such notice shall
be deemed to constitute acceptance by User of such changes, modifications
or additions.
4. User Conduct.
(A) User shall use GARJ’s website for lawful
purposes only. User shall not post or transmit through GARJ’s
website any material which violates or infringes in any way upon
the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory,
invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane
or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would
constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise
violate any law, or which, without GARJ's express prior approval,
contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products
or services. Any conduct by a User that in GARJ's discretion restricts
or inhibits any other User from using or enjoying GARJ’s website
will not be permitted. User shall not use GARJ’s website to
advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, but
not limited to, the solicitation of users to become Users of other
on-line information services competitive with GARJ’s web site.
(B) GARJ’s website contains copyrighted material,
trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not
limited to, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound,
and the entire contents of GARJ’s website are copyrighted
as a collective work under the United States copyright laws. GARJ
owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and
enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original
to it. User may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the
transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit,
any of the content, in whole or in part. User may download copyrighted
material for User's personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly
permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission,
publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will
be permitted without the express permission of GARJ and the copyright
owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or
publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of
author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be
made. User acknowledges that it does not acquire any ownership rights
by downloading copyrighted material.
(C) User shall not upload, post or otherwise make
available on GARJ’s website any material protected by copyright,
trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission
of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right
and the burden of determining that any material is not protected
by copyright rests with User. User shall be solely liable for any
damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary
rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting
material to any public area of GARJ’s website, User automatically
grants, or warrants that the owner of such material has expressly
granted GARJ the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive
right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate
and distribute such material (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or
to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology
now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright
that may exist in such material. User also permits any other User
to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that User's
personal use. User hereby grants GARJ the right to edit, copy, publish
and distribute any material made available on GARJ’s website
by User.
(D) The foregoing provisions of Section 4 are
for the benefit of GARJ, its subsidiaries, affiliates and its third
party content providers and licensors and each shall have the right
to assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own behalf.
5. Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability.
(A) USER EXPRESSLY AGREES THAT USE OF GARJ’S
WEBSITE IS AT USER'S SOLE RISK. NEITHER GARJ, ITS AFFILIATES NOR
ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS
OR LICENSORS WARRANT THAT GARJ’S WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED
OR ERROR FREE; NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT
MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF GARJ’S WEBSITE, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY,
RELIABILITY OR CONTENT OF ANY INFORMATION, SERVICE, OR MERCHANDISE
PROVIDED THROUGH GARJ’S WEBSITE.
(B) GARJ’S WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS
IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
OTHER THAN THOSE WARRANTIES WHICH ARE IMPLIED BY AND INCAPABLE OF
EXCLUSION, RESTRICTION OR MODIFICATION UNDER THE LAWS APPLICABLE
TO THIS AGREEMENT.
(C) THIS DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY APPLIES TO ANY
DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION,
INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION,
COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION
OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORD, WHETHER
FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER
ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION. USER SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT GARJ
IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF
OTHER USERS OR THIRD-PARTIES AND THAT THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE
FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH USER.
(D) IN NO EVENT WILL GARJ, OR ANY PERSON OR ENTITY
INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DISTRIBUTING GARJ’S WEBSITE
OR THE GARJ’S WEBSITE SOFTWARE, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY
TO USE GARJ’S WEBSITE. USER HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE PROVISIONS
OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO ALL CONTENT ON GARJ’S WEBSITE.
(E) IN ADDITION TO THE TERMS SET FORTH ABOVE NEITHER,
GARJ, NOR ITS AFFILIATES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR CONTENT PARTNERS
SHALL BE LIABLE REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OR DURATION, FOR ANY ERRORS,
INACCURACIES, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER DEFECTS IN, OR UNTIMELINESS OR
UNAUTHENTICITY OF, THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN GARJ’S
WEBSITE, OR FOR ANY DELAY OR INTERRUPTION IN THE TRANSMISSION THEREOF
TO THE USER, OR FOR ANY CLAIMS OR LOSSES ARISING THEREFROM OR OCCASIONED
THEREBY. NONE OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY
CLAIMS OR LOSSES OF ANY NATURE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOST
PROFITS, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. GARJ, ITS AFFILIATES,
INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR CONTENT PARTNERS SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY
FOR INVESTMENT DECISIONS BASED ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED. NEITHER,
GARJ, NOR ITS AFFILIATES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR CONTENT PARTNERS
WARRANT OR GUARANTEE THE TIMELINESS, SEQUENCE, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS
OF THIS INFORMATION. ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES AS TO
THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE INFORMATION.
6. Monitoring.
GARJ shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the
content of GARJ’s website, including chat rooms and forums,
to determine compliance with this Agreement and any operating rules
established by GARJ and to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized
government request. GARJ shall have the right in its sole discretion
to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted
on GARJ’s website. Without limiting the foregoing, GARJ shall
have the right to remove any material that GARJ, in its sole discretion,
finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable.
7. Indemnification.
User agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless GARJ, its affiliates
and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from
and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees,
arising out of the use of GARJ’s website by User or User's
Session.
8. Termination.
Either GARJ or User may terminate this Agreement at any time. Without
limiting the foregoing, GARJ shall have the right to immediately
terminate User's Session in the event of any conduct by User which
GARJ, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in
the event of any breach by User of this Agreement. All of the remaining
provisions listed under this agreement shall survive termination
of this Agreement.
9. Trademarks.
GARJ , GARJ’s website , Columbia Queen, and each of their
logos are trademarks of CQ River Cruises, DBA Great American River Journeys. All rights reserved. All other trademarks appearing on GARJ’s
website are the property of their respective owners.
10. Miscellaneous.
This Agreement and any operating rules for GARJ’s website
established by GARJ constitute the entire agreement of the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all previous
written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such
subject matter. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict
of laws rules. 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.
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