Terms and Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE GOVENGINE.COM WEB SITE. By using the GovEngine.com Web site, you signify your assent to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use the site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of the GovEngine.com Web site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

PURPOSE. GovEngine, Inc. ("GovEngine.com") is a Florida non-profit organization dedicated to promoting e-Government initiatives and interconnectivity between the federal, state and local levels of government with the citizens of Our Great Nation. GovEngine's goal is to provide to the citizens of the United States of America an educational awareness and broadened understanding of online government accessibility and to emphasize the communication and cooperation between all branches and levels of government with the public. With over 17,000 federal, state, and local governmental links in our database, we take away the confusion and often labor intensive exercise of finding your official governmental portal, all in less than three clicks. Ever increasingly, many internet users are getting lost surfing the Web, we are proud to have our purpose be to provide our users online fitness for the mind that gravitates you back to Earth, not misdirecting you to sites that are on the outer reaches of Cyberspace. In the age of digital information, GovEngine recognizes that America's evolving e-Government is vital to better connecting, protecting and serving Our Citizenry successfully into the future. GovEngine.com does not accept advertising nor solicitations to advertise from online and/or offline entities of any kind whatsoever, nor does GovEngine.com use banner advertisements, advertising pop-ups, cookie implementation script, malicious HTML coding, or in-framing of off-site resources of any kind whatsoever.

RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIALS. Unless otherwise noted, no material from the GovEngine.com Web site may be copied, reproduced, framed, hyperlinked, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, provided, however, you may download, where specifically permitted, one copy of the materials on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.

Use of any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to copy our Web pages or the content contained herein is strictly forbidden.

Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of GovEngine, Inc.'s copyright and other proprietary rights. For purposes of these terms, the use of any such material on any other Web site or networked computer environment is prohibited.

USAGE BY CHILDREN UNDER 13. GovEngine.com cannot prohibit minors from visiting the GovEngine.com Web site. GovEngine.com must rely on parents, guardians and those responsible for supervising children under 13 to decide which materials are appropriate for such children to view.

PRIVACY. GovEngine.com respects and protects the privacy of the individuals that use GovEngine's Web site. Individually identifiable information about you is not collected through use of cookies or any other programming capture method.

TERMINATION. These terms are effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate these terms at any time by destroying all materials obtained from any and all GovEngine.com Web site(s) and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise. These terms will terminate immediately without notice from GovEngine.com if in GovEngine.com's sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of these terms. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from the GovEngine.com Web site and all copies thereof, whether made under the terms of these terms or otherwise. GovEngine.com may take such further action as GovEngine.com determines to be appropriate under the circumstances to eliminate or preclude repeat violations, and GovEngine.com shall not be liable for any damages of any nature suffered by any customer, user, or any third party resulting in whole or in part from GovEngine.com's exercise of its rights under these terms and conditions.

DISCLAIMER. THE MATERIALS IN THE GOVENGINE.COM WEB SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, GOVENGINE.COM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. GOVENGINE.COM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE GOVENGINE.COM WEB SITE OR THE SERVER(S) THAT MAKES THE GOVENGINE.COM WEB SITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. GOVENGINE.COM DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THE GOVENGINE.COM WEB SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU (AND NOT GOVENGINE.COM) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION. 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, SHALL GOVENGINE.COM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE MATERIALS IN THE GOVENGINE.COM WEB SITE, EVEN IF GOVENGINE.COM OR A GOVENGINE.COM AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT SHALL GOVENGINE.COM'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THE GOVENGINE.COM WEB SITE.

NOT LEGAL ADVICE. The information contained at the GovEngine.com Web site has been prepared by GovEngine.com as a non-commercial service to the Internet community and is not intended to constitute legal advice. GovEngine.com has used reasonable efforts in collecting, preparing and providing quality information and material, but does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, completeness, adequacy or currency of the information contained in or linked to the GovEngine.com Web site. Users of information from the GovEngine.com Web site or links do so at their own risk.

OTHER WEB SITES. Any reference made by the GovEngine.com Web site to any specific off-site Internet address by trade name, trademark, hyperlink, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply an endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by GovEngine.com.

LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES AND SERVICES. To the extent that the GovEngine.com Web site contains links to outside resources, GovEngine.com does not control the availability and content of those outside resources. Any concerns regarding any such resource, or any link thereto, should be directed to the particular resource.

OTHER. These terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida. You agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to these terms shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in Lee County and you hereby consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. If any provision of these terms shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. You agree that regardless of any law or statute to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to the GovEngine.com's non-commercial "not for profit" service, and these Terms of Service must be filed within one (1) year of the date the claim or cause of arose, or be barred as untimely. This is the entire agreement between us relating to the subject matter herein and shall not be modified except as provided herein or in writing, signed by GovEngine, Inc.

LAST UPDATED: July 4, 2004

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