Terms of Use
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THIS SITE CAREFULLY. By using this site, you are deemed to have agreed to these terms and conditions of use. We reserve the right to modify them at any time. You should check these terms and conditions periodically for changes. By using this site after we post any changes to these terms and conditions, you agree to accept those changes, whether or not you have reviewed them. If at any time you choose not to accept these terms and conditions of use, please do not use this site.
Scope of Terms and Conditions
These terms and conditions apply to your use of this site which is owned and operated by Oprah’s Angel Network (the “site”). These terms and conditions do not apply to your use of other sites to which this site links.
Please note that a different privacy policy applies to Oprah.com, a site to which this site links.
Restrictions on Use of Materials
The contents of this site are protected by copyright and trademark laws, and are the property of its owner. Unless we say otherwise, you may access the materials located within this site only for your personal use. This means you may download one copy of posted materials on a single computer for personal, noncommercial home use only, so long as you neither change nor delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice. When you download copyrighted material you do not obtain any ownership rights in that material.
You may not modify, copy, publish, display, transmit, adapt or in any way exploit the content of this site. Only if you obtain prior written consent from us—and from all other entities with an interest in the relevant intellectual property—may you publish, display or exploit in any way any material from this site.
You must abide by all additional copyright notices or other restrictions contained in this site.
Links
These terms and conditions apply only to this site, and not to the sites of any other companies or organizations, including those to which this site may link. We are not responsible for the availability of any other site to which this site links. We do not endorse or take responsibility for the contents or materials made available through any other site. Under no circumstances will we be held responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage that is caused or alleged to have been caused to you in connection with your use of, or reliance on, any content, goods or services available on any other site. You should direct any concerns to that site’s administrator or webmaster.
Other sites may link to this site only through a plain-text link. Permission must be granted by us for any other type of link to this site. To seek our permission, you may write to Oprah’s Angel Network, Attention: Online Unit, 110 N. Carpenter Street, Chicago, IL 60607. We reserve the right, however, to rescind any permission granted by us to link through a plain-text link or any other type of link, and to require termination of any such link to this site, at our discretion at any time.
Ownership of Information Collected on Site
Oprah’s Angel Network is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We welcome your comments about the site. Unless we state otherwise, if you send us any creative idea, suggestion or material (“submission”), it shall become our property. No submission will be subject to any obligation of confidence by us, and we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any submission. We will exclusively own all known or later-existing rights to the submission worldwide, and will be entitled to the unrestricted use of the submission for any purpose, without compensation to the provider of the submission.
Disclaimers
OPRAH’S ANGEL NETWORK REVIEWS GRANT RECIPIENTS AND DIRECT CHARITABLE PROJECT PARTNERS. HOWEVER, OPRAH’S ANGEL NETWORK DOES NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACTIONS OF RECIPIENTS RECEIVING GRANTS OR PARTNERS WITH WHOM IT PARTICIPATES IN DIRECT CHARITABLE PROJECTS.
THE MATERIALS ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
WE DO NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU (AND NOT WE) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION TO YOUR SYSTEM.
APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances, including but not limited to negligence, will Oprah’s Angel Network or any of its affiliates be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages as a result of the use of, or the inability to use, this site or any materials accessible on or through this site, even if Oprah’s Angel Network or an authorized representative of Oprah’s Angel Network shall have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
You acknowledge and agree that Oprah’s Angel Network and its affiliates are not liable for any loss of data or profit, or from any defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of any user of this site. If you are dissatisfied with any material accessible on or through this site, or with any of Oprah’s Angel Network terms and conditions, you should discontinue using this site. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.
Parental Permission
Some of the information available on this site may not be appropriate for children. Further, this Site is not directed to children under the age of 13 and we will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT PARENTS PARTICIPATE IN THEIR CHILDREN’S EXPLORATION OF THE INTERNET AND ANY ONLINE SERVICES AND USE THEIR BROWSER’S PARENTAL CONTROLS TO LIMIT THE AREAS OF THE INTERNET TO WHICH THEIR CHILDREN HAVE ACCESS.
We may, at our discretion, require users under 18 to obtain the consent of a parent or guardian to view certain content, and we may limit access to certain content to users above a specified age. You agree to abide by any such restrictions and not to help anyone avoid these restrictions.
Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting your privacy and security and have explained in detail the steps we take to do so. We urge you to read our privacy policy.
Jurisdictional Issues
We control and operate this site from our offices in the United States of America. We do not represent that materials on this site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Persons who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own initiative, and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
Miscellaneous
These terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to any principles of conflicts of law. You agree that any action at law or in equity that arises out of or relates to these terms will be subject to binding arbitration in accordance with the Illinois Arbitration Association and will be arbitrated in Illinois. If any of these terms and conditions are found unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be considered severable from the remaining terms and conditions, and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. This is the entire agreement between you and us relating to the subject matter it contains. This agreement may be modified only by our posting of changes to these terms and conditions, or by a writing signed by both parties.
Oprah’s Angel Network is a 501©(3) public charity incorporated in the state of Illinois. A copy of the organization’s 990 tax return may be obtained by e-mailing Oprah’s Angel Network or writing to 110 N. Carpenter Street, Chicago, IL 60607.
(Last modified on December 11, 2006.)
