Terms and Conditions

(Updated: June 2021)

Welcome to the official website of Girl Scouts of North East Ohio, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Macedonia, Ohio. Girl Scouts of North East Ohio’s online properties are comprised of, but not limited to, all pages found under www.gsneo.org, and partner sites. Girl Scouts of North East Ohio’s privacy policy is incorporated by reference and available here. These terms apply to any Girl Scouts of North East Ohio’s sites that link to these terms. Girl Scouts of the USA and other Girl Scout council websites are separate and are subject to their own terms and conditions.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING ANY OF THE GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO WEBSITES. By using the pages on this site, you signify your agreement to these Terms and Conditions, and you represent and warrant that you have the legal right and ability to enter into such an agreement. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio sites. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of these sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Please note that specific web pages or promotions may be subject to additional and separate terms and conditions. We also may use third parties for certain services, including for example, for payment processing, and they may have separate terms that apply.

OWNERSHIP AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIALS
Unless otherwise noted, all materials, including images, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, video clips, and written and other materials contained on any Girl Scout site (collectively, the "Contents") are protected by copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, and/or other intellectual property owned, licensed or controlled by Girl Scouts of the USA.

The Contents of all Girl Scout owned sites are intended solely for personal, noncommercial (other than for the purchase of merchandise from our site) use by the users of our site. You may view, copy, and print the Contents displayed on this site subject to the following conditions:

(i) you use the material for noncommercial use only,
(ii) you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices,
(iii) you make no modifications to any materials,
(iv) you do not use the materials in a manner that suggests an association with any of our products, services, or brands, and
(v) you do not download quantities of materials to a database that can be used to avoid future downloads from the Girl Scout site.

For purposes of these terms, the use of any such material on any other website or computer environment is prohibited. No right, title, or interest in any downloaded Contents or software is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading or copying. You may not reproduce (except as noted above), publish, transmit, distribute, display, modify, create derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of, or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, any of the Contents, the site, or any related software. You may not attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any of the software used by Girl Scouts of North East Ohio as part of the websites.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOUNT SECURITY
Certain features of our websites provide you with the option of setting up an account for which you will receive a user ID and password. User IDs and passwords are confidential and proprietary and your user ID, password and access are only for your use. It is a violation of these Terms and Conditions for you to: (a) provide any false personal information on the site, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission, (b) create another account without our permission if we disable your account, (c) do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account; (d) share your user ID or password or account access, or (e) create more than one personal account. You are solely responsible for any unauthorized use of your user ID, password and access.

COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK INFORMATION
Girl Scouts has the sole and exclusive right by virtue of its Congressional Charter, 36 U.S.C. § 80301 et. seq., to have and use all service marks, trademarks, emblems, badges, descriptive or designating marks, and other words now or heretofore used in carrying out its program and is the owner of the GIRL SCOUTS name, service mark, and trademark, and of all other associated names, marks, slogans, insignias, logotypes and designs, including but not limited to the distinctive TREFOIL design mark, the GSUSA uniforms and other indicia, the names and marks "Girl Scouts of the United States of America", "Girl Scout Daisies", Girl Scout Brownies", "Girl Scout Juniors", "Girl Scout Cadettes", "Girl Scout Seniors", and "Girl Scout Ambassadors", and such trademarks and service marks as WHERE GIRLS GROW STRONG, FOR EVERY GIRL EVERYWHERE, GIRLSPORTS, and GIRL SCOUT COOKIES (hereinafter collectively identified as the "Intellectual Property").

All other trademarks displayed on this site or through links to other sites are the property of the respective trademark owners.

USER COMMENTS, FEEDBACK, SUBMISSIONS, AND POSTINGS
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio may allow you to communicate, submit, upload, transmit or otherwise make available text, images, audio, video, and other content through the site (collectively, the "Submission(s),” which may also be referred to as “User-Provided Content" when posted by a user to a Girl Scouts of North East Ohio site and which collectively are “Submission(s)) including in the form of comments, feedback, submissions, or other information. By transmitting Submissions on or through the site, you grant Girl Scouts of North East Ohio a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, assignable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, store, modify, display, distribute, prepare derivative works based on, and transmit such Submissions, and you waive any and all moral rights and publicity rights in such Submissions. Girl Scouts of North East Ohio will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, and will not be liable for any ideas for its business (including without limitation, product, or promotion ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future Girl Scout business. Girl Scouts of North East Ohio will be entitled to use the Submission for any noncommercial or other purpose whatsoever, without compensation to you or any other person sending the Submission. You acknowledge that you own whatever material you submit, and use of your Submission by Girl Scouts of North East Ohio will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

You may not make any Submissions that (i) are or may reasonably be considered to be, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, bigoted, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise offensive or objectionable, (ii) violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, intellectual property, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination, or false advertising), (iii) are known to you to be false, inaccurate, or misleading, (iv) you have received compensation to submit to the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio or to post to a Girl Scouts of North East Ohio website without have disclosed that compensation to the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio and publicly in any posting if applicable, (v) result in spam to other users, or (vi) that contain any harmful or malicious software.

Girl Scouts of North East Ohio has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor, screen, block, post, remove, modify, store and review Submissions or any other communications sent through this website, at any time and for any reason, including to ensure that Submissions conform to these terms, without prior notice to you. We are not responsible for, do not endorse or guarantee, and are not responsible for errors, omissions, or the accuracy, integrity, or quality of, the opinions, views, advice or recommendations in any Submissions posted or sent by users.

USER PROHIBITED CONDUCT
You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the website, or any other systems or networks connected to the site or to any Girl Scouts of North East Ohio server, or to any of the services offered on or through the site, by hacking, password “mining” or any other illegitimate means.

You may not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the website or any network connected to the site, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the site or any network connected to the site. You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to the site, or any Girl Scouts of North East Ohio member or individual associated with the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio, including any Girl Scouts of North East Ohio account not owned by you, to its source, or exploit the site or any service or information made available or offered by or through the site, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by the site.

REPORTING OF ABUSIVE, UNLAWFUL SUBMISSIONS OR CONTENT, OR OTHER SUBMISSIONS, CONTENT OR ACTIVITY THAT VIOLATE THESE TERMS
If you have knowledge of abusive, infringing or otherwise unlawful Submissions or other content on this website, or other unlawful or abusive conduct associated this website, we want to know. Please send an e-mail to customercare@gsneo.org describing the content or conduct in detail, including the website address where the content is found and the date and time viewed, and we will investigate removing this material from the website. For claims regarding alleged copyright infringement, see the contact information in that section below.

CLAIMS REGARDING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS
Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), Girl Scouts of the USA has implemented procedures for receiving written notification of claimed copyright infringement for content, including content posted by users in interactive portions of any Girl Scouts of North East Ohio’s site (“Submissions” or User-Provided Content”) governed by these terms and conditions. We also have designated an agent to receive notices of claimed copyright infringement. If you believe in good faith that your copyright has been infringed, you may submit a notice to dmca@girlscouts.org. To be effective, a notice must be a written communication provided to Girl Scouts of the USA's Copyright Agent and must contain:

1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
   
3. A description specifying the location of the material that you claim is infringing;
   
4. Your telephone number and e-mail address;
   
5. 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; and
   
6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

You acknowledge that failure to meet the elements above will not be a valid notice, and Girl Scouts of USA may not consider your request.

If you believe that User-Provided Content that you posted to a Girl Scout of North East Ohio site was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the material in your User-Provided Content, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Copyright Agent:

1. Your physical or electronic signature;
   
2. Identification of the User-Provided Content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the Content appeared before it was removed or disabled;
   
3. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the User-Provided Content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the User-Provided Content; and
   
4. Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in New York, and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

If a counter-notice is received by the Copyright Agent, Girl Scouts of the USA may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that it may replace the removed User-Provided Content or cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the User-Provided Content provider, member or user, the removed User-Provided Content may be replaced, or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at Girl Scouts of the USA’s sole discretion.

Our designated copyright agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement appearing on the website is: Girl Scouts of the USA, 420 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10018, Attention: Intellectual Property Specialist, with an email address at: dmca@girlscouts.org.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OR MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIAL WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

SITE CONTENTS
Information on any Girl Scout website is provided with the understanding that the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio is not rendering professional advice or recommendations. You should not rely on any information on these pages to replace consultations with qualified professionals to meet your individual needs. Girl Scouts of North East Ohio also reserves the right to do any of the following, at any time, without notice: (1) to modify, suspend or terminate operation of or access to the site, or any portion of the site, for any reason; (2) to modify or change the site, or any portion of the site; and (3) to interrupt the operation of the site, or any portion of the site, as necessary to perform routine or non-routine maintenance, error correction, or other changes.

INACCURACY DISCLAIMER
The material in this site could include technical inaccuracies, typographical errors, or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update information at any time without prior notice.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall we be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, any Girl Scout site or a site that is linked to this site, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall our total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort [including, but not limited to, negligence], or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Girl Scouts of North East Ohio, our affiliates, subsidiaries, joint ventures, third-party service providers, and our respective employees, contractors, agents, officers, and directors harmless from all liabilities, claims, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) that arise out of or are related to any User-Provided Content you submit, post, transmit, or make available through the Site, your violation of these Terms and Conditions, your misuse of and Girl Scouts of North East Ohio’s sites that links to these terms, or your violation of any third-party rights.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES
This site may be linked to other sites and services that are not maintained by Girl Scouts of North East Ohio. Girl Scouts of North East Ohio is not responsible for the content of those sites. Consequently, we cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, relevancy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in sites listed on or otherwise linked to a Girl Scout site. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by Girl Scouts of North East Ohio. Girl Scouts of North East Ohio makes no representations whatsoever about any other website which you may access through this one.

Please exercise discretion while browsing the Internet. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, solicit personal information, or contain information that you may find inappropriate or offensive. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While Girl Scouts of North East Ohio strives to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online; you make such disclosures at your own risk.

We reserve the right to disable links from third-party sites to any Girl Scout site.

JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES
This publication is distributed internationally and may contain references to programs, products, and services that are not available in your country, state, or particular location. These references do not imply that Girl Scouts of North East Ohio intends to announce or provide programs, products, or services in your country, state, or particular location.

Unless otherwise specified, the Contents on any Girl Scout site are presented solely for these purposes of promoting programs, products, services, and other content available in the United States and its territories, possessions, and protectorates. Those who choose to access a Girl Scout site do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

GENERAL PROVISIONS
These Terms and Conditions will be governed and be interpreted pursuant to the laws of the State of Ohio, United States of America, excluding its conflicts of law rules. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions or your use of this site shall be filed only in the federal courts located in Ohio. You agree to the personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and federal courts in Ohio, and waive any objection to such jurisdiction or venue. Any claim under these Terms and Conditions against Girl Scouts of North East Ohio must be brought within one (1) year after the cause of action arises, or such claim or cause of action is barred.

You acknowledge that any breach or threatened breach of these Terms and Conditions will result in irreparable harm for which damages would not be an adequate remedy, and, therefore, in addition to our rights and remedies otherwise available at law, we shall be entitled to seek immediate equitable relief, including injunctive relief, as appropriate. If we seek any equitable remedies, we shall not be precluded or prevented from seeking remedies at law, nor shall we be deemed to have made an election of remedies. These remedies are in addition to any other remedies Girl Scouts of North East Ohio may have at law or in equity. If Girl Scouts of North East Ohio does take any legal action against you as a result of your violation of these Terms and Conditions, Girl Scouts of North East Ohio will be entitled to recover from you, and you agree to pay, all reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of such action, in addition to any other relief granted to Girl Scouts of North East Ohio.

Other than for payment obligations, neither party will be liable for, or be considered to be in breach of, these Terms and Conditions on account of either party’s delay or failure to perform as required under these Terms and Conditions as a result of any causes or conditions that (a) are beyond the party’s reasonable control (including, but not limited to, acts of God, including storms and other natural occurrences; fires; explosions; telecommunications, Internet, or other network failures; results of vandalism or computer hacking; national emergencies, insurrections, acts of terrorism, riots, wars, strikes, or other labor difficulties; and (b) the party is unable to overcome through the exercise of commercially reasonable diligence (a “Force Majeure Event”). If any such Force Majeure Event occurs, the affected party will give the other party notice and will use commercially reasonable efforts to minimize the impact of any such event.

Any waiver by the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio of a breach of any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not operate as or be construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such provision or of any breach of any other provision of these Terms and Conditions. Any waiver must be in writing. Failure by us to insist upon strict adherence to any term of these Terms and Conditions on one or more occasions shall not be considered a waiver or deprive us of the right to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of these Terms and Conditions.

If any part of these Terms and Conditions is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions and such severable part shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary and replaced with a valid provision that best embodies the intent of these Terms of Use, so that these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.

Possible evidence of use of this site for illegal purposes will be provided to law enforcement authorities.

This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of this site.

Girl Scouts of North East Ohio can revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting.

TERMINATION
These terms are effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate these terms at any time by discontinuing use of all Girl Scout of North East Ohio websites and destroying all Contents obtained from any and all such sites and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise. Girl Scouts of North East Ohio may terminate at any time your access to any and all Girl Scout of North East Ohio websites without notice for any reason or no reason, including if in our sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of these Terms and Conditions. Upon termination, you must cease use of the Girl Scout site and destroy all Contents obtained from such site and all copies thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise. You agree that Girl Scouts of North East Ohio will not be liable to you or to any third party for termination of your access to the website as a result of any violation of these Terms and Conditions.

HOW TO CONTACT US
Please see contact information in the relevant sections above regarding reporting copyright infringement or other unlawful content. If you have any comments or questions regarding our Terms and Conditions generally, you can contact us at:

Girl Scouts of North East Ohio
1 Girl Scout Way
Macedonia, OH 44056
Phone: (800) 852-4474
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
E-mail: customercare@gsneo.org

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