Terms of Service

Last updated: Dec 28, 2023 6:28 AM

Please read these Terms of Service ("Terms," "Terms of Service") carefully before using the https://ssmo.org website (the "Website") operated by Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon (SSMO) Ministries Corporation, an Oregon nonprofit corporation (“Ministries,” "us," "we," "our"), as these Terms of Service contain important information regarding limitations of our liability. Your access to and use of this Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to everyone, including but not limited to visitors, users, and others who wish to access and use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANY PART OF THE TERMS, THEN YOU DO NOT HAVE OUR PERMISSION TO ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE. This Website is offered and available to users who 18 years of age or older and reside in the United States or any of its territories. By using this Website, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with us and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the Website. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Ministries hereby grants you a limited, non-sublicensable, non-transferrable, revocable license to access the Website and the publicly available content on the Website, in accordance with these Terms.

Prohibited uses

You agree that you will use this Website in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and these Terms at all times. The following is a non-exhaustive list of prohibited uses of this Website. You agree that you will not perform any of the following prohibited uses: 1. Impersonating or attempting to impersonate Ministries, or its employees, representatives, subsidiaries, or divisions, or any third party; 2. Misrepresenting your identity or affiliation with any person or entity; 3. Sending or attempting to send any advertising or promotional material, including but not limited to spam, junk mail, chain mail, or any similar material; 4. Engaging in any conduct that restricts or inhibits any person’s use or enjoyment of the Website, or that, as determined in our sole discretion, may harm us or the users of this Website or expose us or other users to liability; 5. Using the Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the Website or interfere with another party’s use of the Website; 6. Using any robot, spider, or other similar automatic technology, process, or means to access or use the Website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on this Website; 7. Using any manual process or means to monitor or copy any of the material on this Website or for any other unauthorized purpose; 8. Using any device, software, means or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website, including but not limited to viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other such materials; 9. Attempting to gain unauthorized access to, interfering with, damaging, or disrupting any parts of the Website, the server(s) on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to the Website; 10. Attempting to attack or attacking the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack; 11. Otherwise attempting to interfere with the proper working of the Website; 12. Using the Website in any way that violates any applicable federal, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations.

No warranty on Website

You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that links or files accessible from the internet or the Website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of lost data. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, VIRUSES, OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA, OR OTHER PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE, OR TO YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON IT, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO IT. THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY ITEMS OR SERVICES OBTAINED ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE, IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY ITEMS OR SERVICES OBTAINED ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE, ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND WHETHER ARISING BY LAW, COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, USAGE OF TRADE, OR OTHERWISE ‎(INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, OR FITNESS ‎FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE)‎. NEITHER MINISTRIES NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH MINISTRIES MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE OR ITS CONTENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER MINISTRIES NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH MINISTRIES REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; THAT OUR WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; OR THAT THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, MINISTRIES HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF THE ACCURACY OR AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE OR ITS CONTENT, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

Availability, errors and inaccuracies

We assume no liability for the availability, errors, or inaccuracies of the information, products, or services provided on this Website. We may experience delays in updating information on this Website and in our advertising on other websites. The information, products, and services found on the Website may contain errors or inaccuracies or may not be complete or current. Products or services may be incorrectly priced or unavailable. We expressly reserve the right to correct any pricing errors on our Website. The inclusion or offering of any product or service on this Website does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of such product or service by us.

Damages and limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL MINISTRIES, ITS AFFILIATES, OR ITS RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF, RELATING TO, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR ACCESS TO, DISPLAY OF, OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, OR WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO ACCESS, DISPLAY, OR USE THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO YOUR RELIANCE UPON OPINIONS OR INFORMATION APPEARING ON THIS WEBSITE; ANY COMPUTER VIRUSES, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, LINKED WEBSITES OPERATED BY THIRD PARTIES, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON A THEORY OF NEGLIGENCE, CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, CONSUMER PROTECTION STATUTES, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF MINISTRIES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. INDEMNIFICATION BY YOU You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ministries or its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Service, or your use of the Website including, but not limited to, any use of the Website's content, services, and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Service, or your use of any information obtained from the Website.

Links to third party websites

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties and not by us. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. Further, it is your responsibility to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you click on or software that you download, whether from this Website or other websites or applications, is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.

Intellectual property and DMCA notice and procedure for intellectual property infringement claims

All contents of this Website are ©2008 - 2023 Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon (SSMO) Ministries Corporation or third parties. All rights reserved. Unless specified otherwise, this Website and all content and other materials on this Website including, but not limited to, all logos, designs, text, graphics, pictures, information, data, software, sound files, and arrangement thereof (collectively, “Content”) are the proprietary property of Ministries and are either protected intellectual property of Ministries or third parties in the United States and/or other countries, and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. If you are aware of a potential infringement of our intellectual property, please contact us at info@ssmo.org.

Governing law, severability, dispute resolution and venue

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Oregon, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. THESE TERMS SHALL NOT BE GOVERNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE SALE OF INTERNATIONAL GOODS, THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, NOR INCOTERMS. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of that right or provision. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding our Website, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have had with you regarding the Website. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms including but not limited to the interpretation or breach thereof shall be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction in Washington County, Oregon. YOU AND MINISTRIES AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.

Changes to Terms of Service

We reserve the right to make changes to these Terms of Service at any time. We will notify you of any material changes to these Terms of Service by posting the updated Terms of Service to this Website.

Questions

If you have any questions about our Terms of Service, please contact us at info@ssmo.org.