Website Terms of Usage

LEGAL NOTICE AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

PRIVACY POLICY

This online privacy policy discloses Brevard Zoo’s online information gathering practices and describes the usage of the information gathered on this website.

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

The only personally identifiable information collected on this site is submitted to us freely and deliberately by site users. Brevard Zoo will not share e-mail addresses or contact information we collect through our website with any third parties. If you send us an e-mail message, we may keep that message, your e-mail address, and any other data submitted with the message. Brevard Zoo may, in some instances, use submitted materials for marketing purposes.

SERVER LOGS

Server logs capture certain non-personally identifying data, such as the time and date of a web visit, the browser and operating system being used, the IP address or domain name of the user’s ISP, and the web URL a user linked from. This information is used generally to help us plan system enhancements when necessary and to provide content which is compatible with our visitors’ web browsing systems.

HYPERLINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES

BREVARDZOO.ORG includes links to websites of other companies. We do not log visitors’ clicks from our site to other sites. Please note that we take no responsibility for the content of any external web site.

ACCEPTANCE OF BREVARDZOO.ORG’S ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

By using this site, you agree to Brevard Zoo’s online privacy policy and terms of use. If you do not agree to this policy or these terms, please do not use this site. We may change or modify this policy without notice, please check back periodically.

LEGAL NOTICES AND TERMS OF USE

This site is owned and operated by Brevard Zoo. By using this site, you accept the Legal Notices and Terms of Use set forth below, without limitation or qualification. We may revise these notices and terms at any time without notice to you. If you do not agree to these notices and terms, we advise you not to use the site. All trade names, trademarks, logos, and service marks on this site are the property of their respective owners.

PROPRIETARY RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE

The material on this site is the property of Brevard Zoo or others. Nothing contained on this site shall be construed as conferring by implication, or otherwise, any license or right to any copyright, patent, trademark or other proprietary right of Brevard Zoo or any third party. This site and the content provided on this site, including, but not limited to audio, video, html code, buttons, graphic images, and text, may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without the prior written consent of Brevard Zoo, except that you may view, download, copy and print one copy of material and graphics on one computer from this site for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you do not delete or change any copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights of Brevard Zoo. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

This site may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors and all of the information on this site is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement. In no event will Brevard Zoo be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, exemplary, or consequential damages, including but not limited to, lost revenues or lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or data, whether incurred by you or a third party, which may result from the use of this site or any other linked site, even if we are advised of the possibility of such damages. Information on this site and any products or services to which this site refers may be changed at any time without prior notice.

APPLICABLE LAWS

This web site, excluding linked sites, is controlled by Brevard Zoo. By accessing this web site, you and Brevard Zoo agree that the statutes and laws of Florida and United States of America apply to all matters relating to the use of this web site. If you choose to access this site from another location you do so on your own initiative and you are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction and you agree that you will not access or use the information on this site in violation of such laws.

SUBMISSIONS, UPLOADED CONTENT AND ONLINE CONDUCT

You retain all of your ownership rights in any content including but not limited to information, data, text, messages, articles, software, photos, video, graphics, music, sounds or any other original or creative material, or other information provided by you in the form of e-mail or submissions to Brevard Zoo, or postings on the Site or through another Brevard Zoo website or service. You hereby grant Brevard Zoo a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the content in connection with Site, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Brevard Zoo service (and derivative works thereof) in any media format and through any media channel. You also hereby grant each user of the Brevard Zoo service a non-exclusive license to access your content through the Site, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such content as permitted through the functionality of the Site or a Brevard Zoo service and under these Terms of Use. The submission of any content to Brevard Zoo irrevocably waives any and all “moral rights” in such content. You further agree that Brevard Zoo does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any content you submit.

Brevard Zoo does not endorse any content submitted to Brevard Zoo, nor any opinion, recommendation, nor advice expressed therein, and Brevard Zoo expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with such submissions.

You affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to publish content you submit; and you license to Brevard Zoo all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to such content for publication on or through the Site or a Brevard Zoo service pursuant to this Terms of Use.

You further agree that any content you submit to Brevard Zoo through this Site or any Brevard Zoo service will not contain third party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant Brevard Zoo all of the license rights granted herein.

In order to maintain an efficient and effective Site that addresses the needs and interests of our users, the following rules apply to the use of this Site:

1. You may not post or transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, or violates any other person’s copyrights, privacy rights, trademarks, trade secrets or any other intellectual property rights, or rights in any confidential information.
2. You may not post or transmit any content with the intent to threaten the safety of others and/or with the effect of causing a reasonable person to perceive a threat to his or her safety.
3. You may not change, modify, alter or tamper with the Site’s software, appearance or functionality.
4. You acknowledge and agree that Brevard Zoo may take appropriate action, at its discretion, in order to prevent the misuse of the Site to disseminate information, statements, or content that may be abusive, destructive, harmful or threatening to the safety of others or in order to comply with any law or regulation of any government entity; including deleting your posted content which violate these rules. Such action may include but is not limited to termination of your access to the Site for any reason, at any time, and without liability to you.
5. You may not interfere with others’ use of the Site or disrupt the normal flow or use of the Site, including but not limited by posting or transmitting any virus, infection, contamination or destructive file which causes the Site to become inaccessible, inoperable or contaminated.

The only personally identifiable information collected on this site is submitted to us freely and deliberately by site users. Brevard Zoo will not share e-mail addresses or contact information we collect through our website with any third parties. If you send us an e-mail message, we may keep that message, your e-mail address, and any other data submitted with the message. Brevard Zoo may, in some instances, use submitted materials for marketing purposes.

This site and the content provided on this site, including, but not limited to audio, video, html code, buttons, graphic images, and text, may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without the prior written consent of Brevard Zoo, except that you may view, download, copy and print one copy of material and graphics on one computer from this site for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you do not delete or change any copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights of Brevard Zoo. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.