Your access and use of the website is subject to the following terms and conditions and all applicable laws. By accessing or using any part of the website, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with all of these terms and conditions, you may not use any portion of the website.

Authorized use of the Website

The Website is provided for your personal use and informational purposes only. Any other use of the Website requires our prior written consent.

Information and Privacy

In order to use certain portions of the Website, such as posting a comment to a blog, you will be required to provide specific information. All information about you must be truthful, and you may not use any aliases or other means to mask your true identity. To understand how we use information collected from you, please read our Privacy Policy.

Blogs – Acceptable Use Policy

This Website provides you with a forum to express your personal opinions regarding various topics in the Brodeur Blogs.

When using such blogs, you expressly agree that:

– you have the right to post all information and materials;
– all opinions expressed are genuinely held based upon your own analysis, experiences, beliefs or research;
– you will not post any content that is libelous, defamatory or invades any privacy or publicity rights of any third party; or is abusive, vulgar, hateful, obscene, scandalous, threatening, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable; or infringes any copyright, trademark, service mark, patent, trade secret or confidentiality obligation; and
– you will not use any profanity or masked profanity

You hereby grant us a perpetual license to use, redact, republish, copy and distribute your postings, and any ideas or suggestions in such postings, in any medium now known or hereinafter developed without payment of compensation to you and without seeking any further approval from you.

You agree to be solely liable for the content of all information posted by you. Brodeur Partners is not under any obligation to screen or monitor blog postings by other parties. By using the blogs, you acknowledge that you may be exposed to objectionable content and that you will not hold Brodeur Partners liable for such content.

Unauthorized Use of the Website

You may not use spiders, robots, data mining techniques or other automated devices or programs to catalog, download, store or otherwise reproduce, store or distribute content available on the Website. Further, you may not use any such automated means to manipulate the Website or attempt to exceed the limited authorization and access granted to you under these Terms and Conditions. You may not resell use of, or access to, the Website to any third party.

Proprietary Rights

We are the exclusive owner of the Website, including all copy, software, graphics, designs and all copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property or proprietary rights contained therein. However, materials on the Website posted by members may belong to such members or to third parties. By using the Website, you agree not to copy, distribute, modify or make derivative works of any materials without the prior written consent of the owner of such materials. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by Brodeur Partners.

No Warranties

THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE WEBSITE, IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER FOR THE CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE. [...]

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us and our agents harmless from and against any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs or expenses, including attorney’s fees and costs, arising from, or related to, (i) any breach by you of any of these Terms and Conditions, (ii) the content of any posting you make to a blog or (iii) a violation by you of applicable law.

International Access

Our Website is provided from the United States of America and all servers that make it available reside in the U.S.A. The laws of other countries may differ regarding the access and use of the Website. We make no representations regarding the legality of this Website in any other country and it is your responsibility to ensure that your use complies with all applicable laws outside of the U.S.A.

Governing Law

The laws of the State of Massachusetts shall govern these Terms and Conditions. YOU HEREBY EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE IN THE COURTS LOCATED IN MASSACHUSETTS [...]

Updates

We may change, suspend or terminate the Website, or your access to the Website, at any time without notice. In addition, these Terms and Conditions may be changed at any time without prior notice. We will make such changes by posting them on the Website, and you should check for such changes frequently. Your continued access of the Website after such changes conclusively demonstrates your acceptance of those changes.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Notice

Materials may be made available via the Website by third parties not within our control (such as through blogs). [...]

Questions

Should you have any questions regarding these Terms and Conditions you may contact us at tgobbi@brodeur.com.