Privacy Policy

Published April 1, 2018

Use Agreement
Your use of this site and the submission of any materials described herein are subject to the following Dr. Ramón Tallaj Foundation Terms and Conditions.

Acceptance of Terms:
By accessing this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions and all applicable laws and regulations and agree that you are responsible for compliance with these Terms and Conditions and all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions, please do not use or access this site. The materials contained in this website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.

Modications of Terms of Use:
Amendments to these Terms and Conditions may be made and eected by us at our discretion from time to time and will become eective immediately when posted to the site unless otherwise specied. The Terms and Conditions currently posted on the website reect the latest version, and you should carefully review the same before you use our site.

Use of the Site and Description of Service:
The goal of DrRamonTallajFoundation.org is to provide information about the Dr. Ramón Tallaj Foundation and the educational opportunities it supports and it will seek donations to support these endeavors. We will have information on ways the foundation will assist students with scholarships and may publish scholarship criteria and requirements. This site may also allow visitors to post comments in response to our posted content, news articles, commentaries and other materials, but comments are expected to meet standards described in the “Accepted standards of behavior” section (below). This website is not intended for use by persons under 14 years of age. You are solely responsible for all content that you post, communicate, or otherwise transmit via, or to, the website, including the submission of, or links to, text, photographs, graphics, video, audio, messages, ratings, forum postings, comments or other materials. You acknowledge that we shall have the right at any time to modify or remove from the site any user content, including yours, which in our sole opinion is inconsistent with the Accepted standards of behavior below or violates any applicable law. You acknowledge that we shall not be liable for any damages of any sort caused by user content provided by you or any other users. You understand that by using the site, you may be exposed to content that may include technical, typographical, scientic or photographic errors or that may be oensive, indecent or objectionable. You acknowledge if you nd any inaccurate, out-of-date or incomplete information or content on this website, or if you suspect that any content posted on this site is an infringement of another’s intellectual property rights or is otherwise unlawful, please let us know immediately by using the “Contact Us” page. We will take reasonable measures to review and investigate all inquiries, and we reserve the right to take any action (or to refrain from action) as we deem appropriate under the circumstances.

Intellectual Property Rights:
All content on this site is the property of the Dr. Ramón Tallaj Foundation or its aliates, licensors or third-party content providers, including our visitors. The Dr. Ramón Tallaj Foundation reserves all right and title to all original and copyrightable materials on the site of which we are the author or for which we have otherwise obtained title, including but not limited to the text, design, manuals, information, content, graphics, images, pictures, sound and other les, and the selection, compilation and arrangement thereof in its collective sense. You will not copy, modify, redistribute, broadcast, publish, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, commercially exploit, sell, license, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from any of our services, software, content or documentation, or create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product through use of or access to this site or any related site or proprietary information related thereto, without our prior written consent. Reprinting or any other public display of our original content without express written permission is prohibited. Furthermore, you may not remove or obscure the copyright notice or any other notices contained in the site or in anything retrieved or downloaded from it. The names, trademarks, service marks and design marks (including logos) used on this site are the property of the Dr. Ramón Tallaj Foundation or its aliates, licensors or third party content providers, and you will not use any such name or mark in any advertising or publicity or otherwise to indicate the sponsorship of or aliation with any product or service, without the prior written consent of the owner of any such name or mark.

Acknowledgment of User Rights:
The Web allows people throughout the world to share valuable information, ideas and creative works. To ensure continued open access to such materials, we all need to protect the rights of those who share their creations with us. You own the original content created or stored by you. However, by and through your use of the services and tools provided by this site, including making any posting to any part of this site, you hereby grant us permission to access, use, adapt, copy, distribute, store, transmit, reformat and publicly display your content as required for the purpose of providing our services and tools to you and other visitors to DrRamonTallajFoundation.org. Any such use of your content by us will be done in a limited manner, consistent with our privacy policy, described later in these Terms and Conditions. Please do not upload, post or submit material to this website for which you do not own the rights or have the permission of the rights holder.

Donation Policy
The Dr. Ramon Tallaj Foundation website provides the convenience of online donations. The Dr. Ramón Tallaj Foundation has engaged the services of PayPal, a payment services provider, to process all online donation transactions. In using our Donate page you agree that the Donation Policy of PayPal will bind you.

Complaints
Any complaints about donations may be sent to: Admin@DrRamonTallajFoundation.org or using the “Contact Us” page and we will make a reasonable eort to resolve the issue with PayPal.

Accepted Standards of Behavior:
We encourage visitors to contribute to this website, but to do so responsibly. You agree to abide by the following rules: Not to submit any profanity or obscenity, even if disguised with asterisks or other typography; Not to make any personal attack on any person, rm or company; Not to submit, or create any link to, any defamatory, obscene, indecent, lewd, pornographic, violent, abusive, oensive, insulting, threatening, menacing, unlawful or blasphemous material; Not to submit, or create any link to, any material that is an invasion of privacy, a breach of any data protection principle or legislation, a malicious falsehood or seditious libel, a contempt of court, or that is likely to incite or is capable of inciting violence, racial hatred, sadism or cruelty or that encourages any unlawful or illegal act or omission; Not to submit, or create any link to, any material that is intentionally false or that is misleading, or that causes annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety, or that is potentially damaging or harmful; Not to impersonate anyone else, whether a public gure, a member of our sta, a forum moderator, administrator or host, or other visitors of this site; Not to state or represent falsely that you are connected to, or aliated with, any individual or entity; Not to promote or advertise, or engage in any other form of marketing, including (without limitation) chain letters or selling, even if you are acting on behalf of a non-prot organization or a charity; Not to upload or post any form of spam, multiple submissions to forums or comments which are identical or other forms of promotion for other sites; Not knowingly to violate any law or regulation while using our website; Not to use our website to collect personal data about other individuals; Not to submit, or create a link to, any le that contains any virus, corrupted data, Trojan horse or anything else that might damage, destroy or render inaccessible any data or les on any computer; Not to use the website as a forwarding service to another website; Not to “stalk” or otherwise harass another person; and Not try to circumvent the security features of this website, or tamper with, hack into, or in any other way disrupt or disable any computer system, server, website, router or other device used to host this website or make it available.

Revisions and Errata; Non-Reliance; and Waiver of Liability:
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY OF THE MATERIALS ON OUR WEBSITE ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR CURRENT, OR THAT THE SITE WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR WITHOUT INTERRUPTION. WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THIS SITE, OR YOUR DISSEMINATION OF OR RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT CONTAINED ON THIS SITE, AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY CLAIM AGAINST US AND OUR EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND AGENTS REGARDING YOUR USE OF, DISSEMINATION OF OR RELIANCE ON THIS SITE. DrRamonTallajFoundation.org may make changes from time to time to the materials contained on its website at any time without notice. However, DrRamonTallajFoundation.org does not make any commitment to update the materials. You acknowledge and agree that we have no responsibility for the information, content, products, services, advertising, code or other materials which may or may not be provided by or through other websites that are linked to this site, even if they are owned or run by aliates or partners of ours. We have no control over their content or availability. Our sta has not reviewed all of the sites that may be linked to this website. The inclusion of any link on our site does not imply endorsement by the Dr. Ramón Tallaj Foundation of the linked site. Use of any such linked website is at the user’s own risk, and we recommend that you review the terms of use and privacy policies of those sites, as they may dier from those of this site. Any opinion, advice, statement, service, oer, or information or content provided or made by any third party on this website, or on any website to which this website is linked, is that of the author or provider, and not of the Dr. Ramón Tallaj Foundation. You should direct any concern about any other website to that site’s website administrator or webmaster.

Condentiality:
You agree not to disclose condential information you obtain from us and/or from our visitors. You agree not to reproduce, disseminate, sell, trade, distribute or commercially exploit any such proprietary or condential information in any manner without the owner’s prior written consent.

Privacy Policy:
Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy. Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected. Personal information will be collected from visitors who subscribe to announcements or take a survey in order to complete the subscription or survey process. We will collect and use personal information solely with the objective of fullling those purposes specied by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain additional consent for other uses of the information from of the individual concerned or as required by law. We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulllment of those purposes. Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up to date. We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modication. We will make information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information readily available to site visitors. We may or may not use “cookies” that automatically collect anonymous, non-personal information when visitors access the site. We may use anonymous, non-personal information to track the success of the site with its visitors and to better tailor the site to visitors’ needs. We do not share personal information about our visitors with third parties except with your permission or as otherwise required by law or legal process or as otherwise specied herein. We are committed to conducting our site in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the condentiality of personal information is protected and maintained. You will immediately notify us by using the “Contact Us” page if you learn that your information has been lost or stolen, or you learn of any unauthorized use of your information. We are not liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with our privacy policy.

Waiver:
Failure of DrRamonTallajFoundation.org to insist upon strict performance of any of the terms, conditions and covenants herein shall not be deemed a relinquishment or waiver of any rights or remedies that we may have, nor shall it be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach of the terms, conditions or covenants hereof, which terms, conditions and covenants shall remain in full force and eect.

Entire agreement:
These Terms and Conditions describe and encompass the entire agreement between you and DrRamonTallajFoundation.org and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements, representations, warranties and understandings with respect to the site, the contents and materials provided by or through the site, and the subject matter of these Terms and Conditions.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction:
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of New York State, without any reference to conict-of-laws principles. Any dispute, controversy or dierence which may arise between the parties out of, in relation to or in connection with these Terms and Conditions is hereby irrevocably submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New York State, to the exclusion of any other courts without giving eect to its conict of laws provisions or your actual state or country of residence. If any of these Terms and Conditions is (for any reason) held to be unenforceable, illegal or in some other way invalid, the unenforceable, illegal or invalid provision will not aect the remainder of these Terms and Conditions; and they will continue in full force and eect. No addition to or modication of any provision of these Terms and Conditions that you propose will be binding on us unless made in writing and signed by our duly authorized representative. “Writing” includes email.

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND YOU ASSUME ALL RISK. THE SERVICE AND ITS INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND USER CONTENT IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS AVAILABLE,” “AS IS” BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION AND ITS LICENSORS, IF ANY, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUALITY OF INFORMATION, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SERVICE. DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION DOES NOT ENDORSE, RECOMMEND, OR MAKE ANY WARRANTIES AS TO THE CONTENT, INFORMATION, MATERIALS, USER MATERIALS, FEATURES, SERVICES, PRODUCTS, OPINIONS, OR STATEMENTS AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE OR THROUGH LINKS ON THE SERVICE. DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION 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 YOU. OTHER DISCLAIMERS. CONTENT ON THE SERVICE IS NOT INTENDED TO SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OF ANY KIND. IN PARTICULAR, NOTHING CONTAINED ON THE SERVICE IS OR SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, OR USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR, MEDICAL ADVICE, DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER QUALIFIED HEALTH PROVIDER WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING PERSONAL HEALTH OR MEDICAL CONDITIONS. NEVER DISREGARD OR AVOID PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY IN SEEKING IT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ, HEARD OR SEEN ON THE SERVICE. DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT PRODUCT INFORMATION ON THE SERVICE OR ON ITS WEBSITE IS ACCURATE OR COMPLETE, AS INFORMATION MAY BE PROVIDED BY PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS, SUPPLIERS, OR OTHER PEOPLE OR COMPANIES, AND ON OCCASION MANUFACTURERS MAY MODIFY PRODUCTS AND UPDATE LABELS. WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT RELY SOLELY ON THE INFORMATION PRESENTED ON THIS WEBSITE AND THAT YOU CONSULT APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONALS DIRECTLY IF YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC CONCERN OR QUESTION ABOUT ANYTHING CONTAINED WITHIN THE WEBSITE. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION, ITS SUPPLIERS/LICENSORS, OR OTHERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR INDIRECT DAMAGES (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE), WHICH INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL INJURY, LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR ANY PRIVACY AND/OR SECURITY MATTER ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS WEBSITE, ITS SERVICE, ITS CONTENT OR PRODUCTS, OR ANY OF ITS THIRD PARTY CONTENT OR PRODUCTS AVAILABLE, PROVIDED, OR SOLD ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR ITS SERVICE, EVEN IF DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN ANY CASE, THE ENTIRE LIABILITY OF DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION, ITS SUPPLIERS/LICENSORS, OR OTHERS UNDER THESE TERMS OF USE FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE) IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESS AND USE OF THE SERVICE (Some states do not allow the exclusion of incidental or consequential damages, or the limitation on how long an implied warranty lasts, so some of the above may not apply to You).

ONLINE PURCHASES AND/OR DONATIONS.
All product and service descriptions and depictions are approximate and are provided for convenience purposes only. The inclusion of any products or services on the website does not imply or warrant that such products or services will be available. In the event a product or service available on or through the website is listed at an incorrect price or with incorrect information, DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION will have the right to refuse or cancel any orders placed for the product or service listed at the incorrect price, whether due to a typographical error, an error in information received from DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION' suppliers or providers, or otherwise. Your receipt of an electronic or other form of order conrmation neither signies DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION’ acceptance of Your order, nor constitutes conrmation of DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION’ oer to sell. DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION reserves the right at any time after receipt of Your order to accept or decline Your order or donation for any reason. DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION may charge and withhold the applicable sales tax for orders, otherwise You maybe solely responsible for all sales or other taxes, on orders shipped to You. If You wish to purchase any product made available through the Website, You may be asked to supply certain information relevant to such transaction including, without limitation, Your credit card number, its expiration date and security code, the billing address, and any shipping information. YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO USE ANY CREDIT CARD(S) OR OTHER PAYMENT METHOD(S) UTILIZED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSACTION. By submitting such credit card or payment information, You grant to the DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION the right to provide such information to third parties for purposes of facilitating the completion of any transactions initiated by You or on Your behalf. Verication of information may be required prior to the acknowledgment or completion of any such transaction. It is Your responsibility to ascertain and obey all applicable local, state, federal, and international laws (including minimum age requirements) regarding the receipt, possession, use, donation, and sale of any product or service purchased from or thorough the Website. By placing an order and/or a donation, You represent that the products and services ordered and/or donated will be used only in a lawful manner pursuant to any additional terms that may accompany them. Except as otherwise set forth herein, the risk of loss for and title to products or services purchased on the Service or item passes to You upon electronic transmission to the recipient or delivery to the carrier, as applicable.

DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION
reserves the right to change its prices and related policies in its sole discretion and when that is done any such changes shall be posted here. It is Your responsibility to keep apprised of these Terms of Use.

DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (“DMCA”) NOTICE.
DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION is committed to complying with copyright and related laws and requires all users of the website to comply with these laws. Accordingly, You may not store any material or content or use or disseminate any material or content though the website in any manner that constitutes an infringement of third party intellectual property rights, including rights granted by copyright law. Owners of copyrighted works who believe that their rights under copyright law have been infringed may take advantage of certain provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”) to report alleged infringements. You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION to terminate use privileges of any user who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt of proper notication to DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION by the copyright owner or the copyright owner’s legal agent.

INTERNATIONAL USERS.
While all Services are controlled and operated within the United States, this publication may be distributed internationally and the DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION makes no representation that content, materials or products available on or through the website are appropriate or available for use outside of the United States. If You access or use the website from a location outside the United States, You are responsible for compliance with applicable laws, including local laws regarding online conduct and content and product use, local national DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION society rules and policies, and U.S. export laws and regulations.

INDEMNIFICATION.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION and its aliates and its and their respective governors, directors, ocers, employees, volunteers, and agents harmless from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, damages, costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) arising out of Your use of the website. I would add the following after the rst paragraph of Governing Law and Jurisdiction. These Terms of Use shall not be governed by the 1980 U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. These Terms of Use constitute the entire understanding and agreement between DRRAMONTALLAJFOUNDATION and You with respect to any item, service, donation, purchase, or use of the website in any fashion and any transactions contemplated in these Terms of Use, and supersede all prior or contemporaneous oral or written communications with respect to the subject matter and use of these Terms of Use, all of which are merged into these Terms of Use. You may not modify, amend or alter in any way these Terms of Use. The disclaimers and limitations of liability will survive any termination or expiration of these Terms of Use. IT IS EXPRESSLY UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED THAT IN THE EVENT ANY REMEDY HEREUNDER IS DETERMINED TO HAVE FAILED ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE, ALL LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND EXCLUSIONS OF DAMAGES WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT. Can we also add information on the the main page of the website letting people know of the dinner to be held on the 15th with a link to make reservations and pay for the dinner and also a link to the silent auction items up for sale and a link where people can either bid now or buy the item. Call me at 347-739-6075 if you have any questions.